How Much Every Star Wars Movie Made Opening Weekend
With the final opening weekend box office numbers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker now in, we can compare its haul to how much the other movies in the Skywalker Saga debuted with.
Obviously, the earnings from previous decades should be looked at a bit differently and adjusted for inflation, but it's still interesting to see how each of the modern-era Star Wars films, including the Star Wars Stories, did when they premiered box office. It's notable that Rise of Skywalker is the first saga "trilogy-ender" to not out-perform the previous two episodes. Then again, its domestic take is in line with initial predictions (on the low end, though).
Hideo Kojima’s Top 10 Movies of 2019
With only a little more than a week left in the year (and the decade), it's natural for people to post their own personal Top 10 lists of movies and TV shows. That includes Hideo Kojima, who tweeted out his personal (semi) ranked favorite films of 2019.
Among Kojima's picks were IGN's Best Movie of 2019, Parasite, along with Joker, Netflix's Marriage Story and The Irishman, and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - which came out in 2018, but right at the end.
Technically, most of Kojima's favorites here came out in 2018, so it appears he's just counting them as 2019 films because he watched them this year.
Box Office: Rise of Skywalker Opens Weaker Than Force Awakens and Last Jedi
The shock here wouldn't be that Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was the number one movie this weekend, but in how much it made - a whopping (estimated) $176 million domestically.
While not on par with the openings of The Force Awakens ($248 million) or The Last Jedi ($220 million), The Rise of Skywalker is still one of the biggest box office debuts of the year and, per Variety, the third-best opening for a movie in December - behind the two aforementioned sequel trilogy movies.
Grabbing another $198 million internationally, Episode IX now stands at $374 million worldwide.
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SNL: Eddie Murphy Brings Back Mr. Robinson, Gumby, and Other Classic Characters
For the first time in over three decades, ex-cast member Eddie Murphy hosted Saturday Night Live. Expectations were high, considering all of Murphy's iconic SNL characters.
And Murphy gave us a lot. Mr. Robinson (his Mr. Rogers satire), Buckwheat (the Little Rascals character as a crooner), Gumby (as a cranky showbiz vet), and Velvet Jones (seller of get-rich-schemes) all made big appearances.
Decades later, Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood has undergone a significant amount of gentrification, with some of Robinson's neighbors now paying over a million dollars for an apartment in his building.
Check out the full sketch, from SNL's Twitter, below...
Change Your Disney World: Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge Lightsaber Color With This Easy Hack
If you've visited the new Star Wars theme park in Disney World or Disney Land, then you're likely familiar with the lightsaber experience which allows visitors to customize their own lightsaber. If you've been or are planning to go, a new hack has been discovered that will allow you to change the color of your Galaxy's Edge lightsaber without much technical experience.
Discovered by Riot Games' Gene Chorba and reported by Polygon, changing the color of your lightsaber is as simple as reprogramming the RFID code in your weapon.
Explaining the World of The Witcher
War. Death. Betrayal. Backstabbing. Subterfuge. Yes, those last three words mean basically the same thing, but the world of The Witcher has a lot of it, so it’s worth highlighting. Here’s a handy summary of places, politics and events you need to know when watching Netflix’s The Witcher.
Read on for the full cheat sheet on the world inhabited by Geralt of Rivia, Yennefer, Ciri and the rest...
The Continent
What is the Continent anyway? Well, it’s where most of the Witcher takes place - the landmass containing both Nilfgaard and the Northern Kingdoms. It’s also home to both the elves’ Brokilon Forest and the dwarfish mountain region of Mahakam. It’s part of the Northern hemisphere, with the southern being much less explored and populus. The planet this all takes place on, by the way, is generally just referred to as “Earth” or “The Globe,” despite our repeated suggestions to Netflix that they call it “Witcheros.”
Every Monster in Netflix’s The Witcher
SPOILERS AHEAD for Season 1 of Netflix’s The Witcher!
Netflix's The Witcher stars Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia, the famous monster hunter. Throughout the eight-episode first season, many monsters find a way to get in Geralt or another character's way. And we figured you might want some back story or explanation on who and what these various critters are...
From dragons to Djinns to Kikimoras, we've gathered all the monsters that appear in Geralt's journey!
Kikimora
The Kikimora is an insectoid monster species that can be found in swamps. We are introduced to the Kikimora in the opening moments of Netflix’s The Witcher as Geralt has to take one down, while making sure not to be drowned by its many legs.
Cats Movie Gets ‘Improved Visual Effects’ Rerelease Days After Hitting Theaters
Cats, the big-budget adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's smash hit '80s musical, has been getting reactions ranging from "ghastly" to "nightmarish."
Our own review called it a "lifeless disaster" with "Cat-astrophic special effects."
Per THR, those "Cat-astrophic" effects are about to get an upgrade, as Universal apparently sent notice to thousands of theaters that they will be receiving an updated version of director Tom Hooper's film with "some improved visual effects."
This Classic Star Wars Planet Was Actually in Rise of Skywalker
The first few minutes of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker stealthily snuck us onto a planet we've visited before in the Star Wars saga. A planet integral to the prequels, in fact.
As noted by EW, Pablo Hidalgo's Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary actually names the first planet we're on, as we watch Kylo Ren hack, slash, and rock bottom his way through enemies.
It's Mustafar, the planet from Episode III: Revenge of the Sith where Obi-Wan and Anakin clashed among volatile pools of lava. Mustafar was also briefly featured in Rogue One: A Star Wars story since it's where Anakin, as Darth Vader, built his menacing lair. Which is the exact castle Kylo is trying to infiltrate at the beginning of Rise of Skywalker.