Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is now halfway through its fourth week in theaters, and after adding $4.3 million on Monday, the final chapter in the "Skywalker Saga" has a worldwide total of $996.5 million. That means it will pass $1 billion by today at the latest, but it's definitely taken a while to get there!
Right now,
The Rise of Skywalker is roughly $60 million shy of passing
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story's total haul, but it will NOT pass the $1.33 billion made by 2017's
Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
As a result, this finale looks set to be the lowest grossing instalment in the sequel trilogy to date, a surprise considering the fact it's the end of a nine chapter story. It definitely appears as if negative reviews hurt
The Rise of Skywalker to an extent, and repeat viewings must have been down after fans rejected this conclusion and many of the creative decisions that were made.
While
The Last Jedi was divisive, it seems the attempts to make hardcore fans happy with this finale backfired, while the lack of answers (many of which have since been addressed in the movie's "Visual Dictionary") also proved to be frustrating.
How many times did you guys end up watching
The Rise of Skywalker?
UPDATE: The numbers are in, and
The Rise of Skywalker has officially joined the $1 billion club!]