Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith returned to theaters this weekend, 20 years after it was first launched. As we first reported on SFFGazette.com, the ultimate chapter of George Lucas’ divisive prequel trilogy proved its lasting viewers enchantment by taking in an estimated $42.2 million on the worldwide field workplace.
Episode III, which was re-released to have fun its twentieth anniversary on Friday, made an estimated $25.2 million domestically, serving to it beat The Accountant 2 to #2 in North America (Sinners remained #1 with a incredible weekend of its personal).
Exterior of the U.S., it additionally performed in choose theaters inside many markets, together with Germany (the place it opened #1), France, Spain, the UK, Australia, Brazil, and Mexico, on its strategy to an estimated $17 million internationally.
This is likely one of the top-grossing re-release weekends in home business historical past, enjoying behind Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ($36 million from the January 1997 Particular Version launch) and The Lion King ($30 million from the September 2011 3D launch).
Final yr, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace proved it was nonetheless a field workplace Force by making $14.5 million on the world field workplace for its twenty fifth anniversary re-release, with $8.1 million coming domestically. Earlier than this weekend, Revenge of the Sith had already earned $850 million globally.
What does the success of this re-release imply for Star Wars shifting ahead? If nothing else, audiences have made it clear to Lucasfilm that they’ve an affinity for this period of storytelling in a Galaxy Far, Far Away and, specifically, Hayden Christensen (who has reprised the position in recent times in Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ahsoka).
With that, we could also be one step nearer to a long-overdue film or TV sequence revolving round Darth Vader…
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith takes place years after the onset of the Clone Wars, when the noble Jedi Knights lead an enormous clone military right into a galaxy-wide battle in opposition to the Separatists. When the sinister Sith unveil a thousand-year-old plot to rule the galaxy, the Republic crumbles and from its ashes rises the evil Galactic Empire.
Jedi Hero Anakin Skywalker is seduced by the darkish aspect of the Force to grow to be the Emperor’s new apprentice – Darth Vader. The Jedi are decimated, as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Jedi Grasp Yoda are pressured into hiding.
The movie stars Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Ian McDiarmid, Frank Oz as Yoda, Jimmy Smits, Peter Mayhew, Ahmed Greatest, Oliver Ford Davies, Temuera Morrison, Anthony Daniels, Silas Carson, Kenny Baker, with Samuel L. Jackson as Mace Windu and Christopher Lee as Rely Dooku. George Lucas wrote and directed the movie.
Did you watch Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith on the large display screen this weekend?
