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Box Office: Gap Between “Last Jedi” and “Force Awakens” Nearing $200 Mil as Day-to-Days Sales Slow

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Yes, yes, The Last Jedi is a big big hit.

But it’s never going to be as big a hit as “The Force Awakens.”

And even though Disney can now see its surpassed earnings of $4 billion with LucasFilms since buying it from George Lucas for $4 billion…

“Last Jedi” is now running $187 million day to day behind “The Force Awakens.”

The Christmas holiday week has helped but not enough to make up the huge disparity between the two films.

By its 14th day, “Force Awakens” had made $652 million. “Jedi” has earned $464.5 million domestically. That’s a difference of about $187 million, up — or down 10 million– from last week. The $200 million mark is nearing. You could make a damn good “Star Wars” movie for $200 million. Maybe that one will be called “The Return of the Profit.”

And now, with the three principle stars of “Star Wars” gone, the new chapters may behave more like “Rogue One,” which only had $375 million socked away on its 14th day.

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Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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