Rise of Skywalker

The final installment of the Skywalker storyline will begin streaming two months early on Disney+ in conjunction with “Star Wars Day,” the company announced Monday, according to NBC News.

The 2019 U.S. box office is headed toward the second-best annual haul in cinematic history. As of Sunday, the movies released this year garnered $11.26 billion domestically. Current estimates have the year’s final tally as high as $11.4 billion, but likely to fall between $11.36 billion and $11.39 billion, according to data from Comscore. In 2018, the U.S. box office…

“Star Wars” was still rising in the last weekend of the year, while “Little Women” broke big at the box office. “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” brought in $72 million over the weekend to remain the top-earning film in North America by light-years, according to studio estimates Sunday. In 10 days of release it has brought in $362.8 million…

The actress was the first woman of color to be cast in a significant role in the franchise, in 2017’s “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.” But in “Skywalker,” she appears in just over one minute of the 2-hour-and-22-minute film, which was released last week.