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The Phantom Menace Re-Release Nabs a $8.7M Box Office Haul Over Opening Weekend, A Result Surpassed Only by Avatar

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    The 25th Anniversary reissue of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is working - it's working! The return of Episode I brought with it a most impressive $8.723M Friday to Sunday haul, being one of the best re-releases for a movie in the past decade. The split is made up of a $2.43M Friday, a $4.593M Saturday, and a $1.7M Sunday, between 2,700 theaters across the United States and Canada. Included in the Friday numbers is also about $300K from the nine-movie Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga marathon that arrived to hype up the big May the Fourth fan holiday.



    In terms of comparisons in the past decade, only Avatar's $10.5M 2022 re-release ahead of its long-awaited sequel did better in its debut weekend, while The Phantom Menace re-release beat the likes of the $6.7M weekend haul of the 2023 re-release for Titanic, the $6.1M weekend haul for the 2019 re-release of Avengers: Endgame, the $5.4M weekend haul for the 2022 re-release of Spider-Man: No Way Home, and the $4.7M weekend haul for the 2023 re-release of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi.



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    International data also indicates that the movie has brought in an additional $6.4M overseas, which when combined with Monday's $531.49K (and change) total brings this run of The Phantom Menace up to a global haul of $15.654M so far, making the film the forty-fourth highest-grossing movies of all time (displacing Frozen II) and the twenty-second highest-grossing movie at the domestic box office (displacing Finding Dory, Despicable Me 3, and Jurassic Park) - with both numbers having a chance to climb as the film continues its run.



    Safe to say, it seems like Star Wars re-releases could be a regular annual (or semi-annual) fixture if things keep up. Next year marks the 20th Anniversary of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith and the 10th Anniversary of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, both of which would also potentially lend themselves to the idea of massive marathons.



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    Am I the only one who feels a bit sad thinking of the state poor Jake Lloyd is in these days and the flak Ahmed Best got?:(
     
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    Yes, but everything doesn't have to be a downer. The way certain people (I'm refusing to call them "fans") treated Jake, Ahmed, Hayden, even Natalie got some flak, that is unexcused and shameful.
    However, the root of this thread speaks volumes to the adoration and continuing popularly of this movie. That clearly defeats the hate and bile. Those people were wrong and they have been defeated. Think of all the new generations that are seeing these movies. My nieces and nephews know nothing of these things, they just see Young Anakin and his adventures, silly Jar Jar makes them laugh, Queen Amidala is strong, heroic and beautiful. What really matters endures and the BS falls away.
     
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