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Well domestically the increase from ESB to RTJ was fairly small. AOTC to ROTS was higher but I think something that was feeding that was the belief at the time that it was going to be the last Star Wars movie, period. That's one thing IX will not have helping it along. Not only will it not be...

On the whole it isn't, I'd agree. But if you're limiting it to how well the sequels to massive cultural phenomenon films perform relative to their predecessors it works well enough. But even there I'd say the prequel trilogy is a more relevant comparison because in that case it was also the...

And that's more notable than the $700M difference in world gross how exactly?

Yes it is. But it seemed like he was suggesting a particular significance to that number. But overall a 35% decline from the trilogy opener is right in line with the drops of both ESB and AOTC from the first movies in those trilogies. Depending on how you define ANH's original theatrical run...

It was a serious question. I'm genuinely curious as to what he was seeing to make that a standout stat. TLJ will end up dropping about 35% from TFA globally, but at that point it's above that trend line in the domestic number.

What's notable about it?

Too high?

Well yes and no. Even if you low ball it's budget towards the low end of the estimates scale at $150M it probably did a little better than break even with it's box office run of almost $260M global. It's just a matter of for whom. By Alcon's own admission it needed to do around $400M for them...

Well least they haven't abandoned that completely. I doubt Solo is aiming for being a grand scale story but it does take place over a 6 year time span. Whatever problems it ends up having there's at least that.

Yeah, true.

Yeah the old school TV mini series from the 80's would sometimes have a single director. They were basically 5 hour movies broken up into hour long segments. He wouldn't have a problem filling one out if 2049 is any indication.

The only thing about a TV or streamed series for Villeneuve is in that world writers are the ones who steer the ship, not directors. He hasn't done a lot of writing and certainly nothing episodic.

Yeah when 2049 failed to deliver on the money end everyone started to surmise future problems for him getting anything with obvious big budget requirements made again. He might have to go through TV to demonstrate he can make something for which there is sufficient demand to justify the money...

Based on 2:04 ... we're gettin' some Mortis flavor. edit: Second half of the season air dates. Looks like the series finale is gonna be a 3-parter.

Replicants become a self-sustaining race with Wallace as their creator-god. Just need a diluvian style event to clean the slate for starting over.

Well Lucas did ask David Lynch to direct RotJ. I love Villeneuve's work but he's more likely to just piss off both Star Wars fans and Dune fans simultaneously with statements like that.

Yeah they had character title cards, like what you would see in Creed every time a new fighter was introduced to the story.

This was not the Star Wars movie you were looking for: The Last Jedi Already Pulled From Chinese Theaters This is gonna be a hard nut for them to crack. How to "update" the franchise to appeal more to the Chinese millennials who drive box office demand in China while not alienating it's...