Cheebs86

This just shows me out incredibly out of touch you are. I have been to galaxy's edge 4 times in the past 2 years....little kids especially little girls LOOOOOOVE Rey. They flock to her and dress as Rey all over the parks. Rey is *easily* the most cosplayed character at the last few Star Wars Celebrations too. Again, especially with younger girls. Adult nerds keep making the same mistake over and over thinking Star Wars is about them. But it's not. Rey is an very popular with the actual demographics that are the future of Star Wars fandom. Making Rey the lead of the post-TROS movie was the safest and most logical choice they could have made.

Why are you making stuff up? Jumanji: The Next Level came out: December 13, 2019

Star Wars was third fiddle behind Potter and LOTR during the prequel era. Being second fiddle to Marvel is a step up in comparison. Hell you could even say Star Wars was fourth fiddle during the prequel era behind Potter, LOTR, and Spider-Man.

Tracking says 40m opening for this and 205m opening for TROS though....

Dune is not meant to be light-hearted or pulpy like say the MCU or Star Wars. It's a pretty serious dramatic sci-fi story that is a parable for the Middle-East. There really is no humor to it at all. So his style fits the tone of Dun very well. If it was fully of quippy characters it wouldn't be Dune. This is meant to be a sweeping epic. Dune has more in common with Lawrence of Arabia than Guardians of the Galaxy.

Great if you think her having a racist meltdown about Disney "race bending" dogs by hiring Tess Thompson to voice Lady in Lady and the Tramp is great movie analysis I suppose. She has also gone on weird rants about how "SJWs" and "socialists" are ruining America. She is crazy, to put it mildly. She's the Fox News of movie criticism lol.

The only source is The Sun which has a history of making up fake Bond stories. The fact no one reputable reported her being in it (let alone quit) means this is almost certainly yet another of the countless made up junk about Bond the Sun reports for attention/clicks.

It helps Star Wars more than it hurts Star Wars if anything. Star Wars coming out afterwards with a free path for a few weeks is better than having Jumanji come out right after it.

I just checked, nothing seems moved.

They moved Jumanji from a week before TROS to Christmas?

Under X Men apocalypse OW.

Yes it is Ray Park

Yep. And Forrest Whitaker played the character in the animated series Rebels as well. Lucasfilm doesn't silo the movies from the shows like Marvel, because unlike Marvel they are all done by the same studio.

Well they do cross over shows and movies now :). Because Lucasfilm just went all in on Maul trusting the audience is aware of the backstory for how he survived from the tv media.

Solo pretty much proves they will keep to cartoon canon as they have Maul in it due to his appearance in the cartoon with the same voice actor as the cartoon. Not to mention Lucasfilm made it very clear that everything from 2014 on wards will be 100% canon. The Maul vs. Obi-Wan battle was in Rebels in 2016ish.

Not really comparable. Marvel Studios has no involvement in the television shows. Lucasfilm produces the Star Wars shows themselves. It's all done by the same production studio so things clearly cross over more and will continue to do so. George Lucas himself said The Clone Wars tv series in his view was equally as important as the 6 saga films for example.

We have had tons of Maul content since they brought him back from the dead, not like this appearance is really that weird or surprising given how much we have had him in the television series' so far. Lucasfilm treats the tv content on the same level as the films, this isn't new.

70 mil 3 day and 5 mil on memorial day?

Guys Maul can't appear in the Obi-Wan movie. Maul came back from "the dead" in The Clone Wars animated series. Maul and Obi-Wan had their duel in Rebels set roughly 2 years before ANH. Obi-Wan killed him in that episode. And it was made VERY clear they had not encountered one another since The Clone Wars. Anyone telling you Kenobi will face Maul in his film doesn't know what they are talking about.

Deadline says Disney's internal conservative estimate is 130-150.

What would better? Everyone agreeing a movie is "decent" or half thinking it is one of the best films in the franchise and the other half thinking its one of the worst? We are in the second example right now. People insist its one of the best while others insist it is one of the worst. Very little in between.

The thing that is really interesting is how large the gap is in the two sides on this film. It's either one of the best films in the franchsie or it is one of the worst. Almost no one in the middle.

They without question filled with many trolls. Critics, the ones who aren't bitter old men clinging to their precious nostalgia are near universal in their praise of this as one of the best films in the franchise. But that is beside the point. No one is going to agree here. Lets get back to the numbers.

Except Star Wars fans haaaaaaaaaaaaaated Empire Strikes Back when it first came out.

ESB pre-ROTJ was a movie that had very mixed reception. ROTJ retroactively made people like ESB.