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Week 5: “Last Jedi” Losing Almost Four Times as Many Theaters This Weekend as “Force Awakens”

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Disney and LucasFilm are about to cut bait on “The Last Jedi.”

This Friday– the beginning of Week 5–  they’ll cut the number of theaters for “The Last Jedi” by 1,100.

By contrast, in its fifth week, “The Force Awakens” lost only 300 locations.

Right now, after 26 days, “The Last Jedi” has $576 million in its US box office and another $651 million from around the world. In China, demand has been disappointing with just $28 million.

After day 26, “The Force Awakens” was at $826 million US.

But let’s face it, Disney and Lucas has done everything possible to make this film a monster hit. And it has been– just as not as big a monster as its predecessor. It’s likely nothing else will ever match that high mark. “The Last Jedi” currently ranks as the 6th biggest movie of all time, which is pretty pretty good.

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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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