{"id":4513,"date":"2017-12-18T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T15:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/?p=4513"},"modified":"2017-12-18T10:00:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T15:00:32","slug":"star-wars-the-last-jedi-delivers-second-largest-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/2017\/12\/star-wars-the-last-jedi-delivers-second-largest-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars: The Last Jedi Delivers Second Largest Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4514 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SWLastJedi-691x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"691\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SWLastJedi-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SWLastJedi-101x150.jpg 101w, https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SWLastJedi-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SWLastJedi-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SWLastJedi.jpg 1382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Force is strong in the Star Wars franchise with\u00a0<b>Star Wars: The Last Jedi<\/b> delivering on expectations and debuting with the second largest opening weekend of all-time.<\/p>\n<p>With an estimated <b>$220 million<\/b>, <b>Star Wars: The Last Jedi<\/b> delivered the second largest opening weekend everbehind only <b>Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/b>, which debuted with $247.9 million back in 2015. <b>Last Jedi<\/b> got off to a strong start on Thursday night with the second largest preview gross ever of $45 million and became only the second film to ever gross over $100 million on opening day resulting in the second largest opening day ever, second largest single day, second largest Friday and joins <b>Force Awakens<\/b> as the fastest films to reach $100 million.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, the film brought in \u00a0$450, 047, 000 in its debut weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Opening day demographics show the film played to an audience that was 58% male vs. 43% female and of that audience 37% was 25 years old or under. Opening day audiences gave the film an &#8220;A&#8221; CinemaScore, matching the score for <b>Force Awakens<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also worth noting, <b>Last Jedi<\/b>&#8216;s opening helped push Disney over the $2 billion mark domestically, joining Warner Bros. as the only two studios to reach that mark in 2017. This is the third consecutive year Disney has reached $2 billion domestically, becoming the first and only studio to have achieved this and given their upcoming slate and pending Fox acquisition it would seem the streak may never end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Force is strong in the Star Wars franchise with\u00a0Star Wars: The Last Jedi delivering on expectations and debuting with the second largest opening weekend of all-time. With an estimated $220 million, Star Wars: The Last Jedi delivered the second largest opening weekend everbehind only Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which debuted with $247.9 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-articles","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4516,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions\/4516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}