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After nearly three weeks of release in theaters worldwide, the first Star Wars movie in seven years, The Mandalorian and Grogu, continues to struggle commercially. The movie delivered the lowest opening weekend haul of any Star Wars installment of the Disney era, and things have only gone downhill from there. In fairness, nobody at the Mouse House would have seen the one-two punch of Obsession and Backrooms coming. But the two horror sensations have been outperforming The Mandalorian and Grogu ever since their release; at this point, the Star Wars film is barely holding on to a spot on the domestic top-five list. It did, however, recently pass a major box-office milestone and, in doing so, overtook a sci-fi franchise film released a decade ago.
This past weekend, The Mandalorian and Grogu grossed just under $10 million domestically as it crawled past the $150 million milestone. The movie continues to trail the franchise’s sole box-office bomb, Solo: A Star Wars Story, which grossed more than $210 million stateside in 2018. That movie was plagued with a difficult production that saw its budget balloon to nearly $300 million. By all accounts, The Mandalorian and Grogu had a far smoother production and cost significantly less. Directed by Jon Favreau, who also created the Disney+ series for which it serves as a spin-off, The Mandalorian and Grogu comes with a reported price tag of $165 million. Including the $100-odd million that Disney likely spent on marketing, and accounting for the typically even split between studios and exhibitors, the movie’s break-even point was estimated to be around $500 million worldwide.
Collider Exclusive · Star Wars Quiz Which Force User Are You? Light Side · Dark Side · Or Somewhere Between
The Force is not a binary. It is a spectrum — from the serene halls of the Jedi Temple to the shadowed corridors of Sith space. Ten questions will reveal where you truly fall. The Force has always known. Now you will too.
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Padawan
Sith Lord
Inquisitor
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What is the Force to you? Your relationship with the Force defines everything else.
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When you feel strong emotions — anger, grief, love — what do you do? The Jedi suppress. The Sith feed. Others choose differently.
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The Jedi Council gives you an order you disagree with. You: How you handle authority reveals your alignment.
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You are offered forbidden knowledge that could give you enormous power. The cost is crossing a moral line. You: The dark side’s pull is never more than a choice away.
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Your approach to training and learning is: A student’s habits become a master’s character.
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In a duel, your lightsaber fighting style reflects: Combat is the purest expression of a Force user’s philosophy.
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A defeated enemy lies at your feet, powerless. You: Mercy — or its absence — is the truest test of alignment.
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The Jedi Code forbids attachment. Your honest view on love and bonds: The source of the greatest falls in the galaxy.
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Why do you use the Force at all? What’s the point? Purpose is the difference between a knight and a weapon.
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At the final moment — light side or dark side pulling at you — what wins? In the end, every Force user faces this moment. What does yours look like?
Your Alignment Has Been Determined Your Place in the Force
The scores below reveal how the Force sees you. Your highest number is your true alignment. Read on to understand what that means — and what it will cost you.
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Padawan
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Grey Jedi
Disciplined, compassionate, and deeply attuned to the living Force, you have walked the path long enough to understand its demands — and accept them. You lead not through authority alone, but through example. You have felt the pull of the dark side and chosen otherwise, every time. That is not certainty. That is courage.
You are earnest, powerful, and brimming with potential — and you know it, which is both your greatest asset and your most dangerous flaw. You act before you think, trust your gut over your training, and sometimes confuse impatience for bravery. The Masters see something in you, though. The question isn’t whether you have what it takes — it’s whether you’ll be patient enough to find out.
You are not simply dangerous — you are certain, and that is worse. You have decided what the galaxy needs, and you have decided you are the one to deliver it. Your power is genuine and formidable, earned through sacrifice that would have broken lesser beings. But examine your victories carefully. Every Sith believed their cause was righteous. The dark side’s cruelest trick is that it agrees with you.
You were forged in fire and reshaped by those who found you at your lowest. You serve, because service gave you structure when you had none. Your allegiance is not to an ideology — it is to survival and to the master who gave you purpose. But there is something buried beneath the conditioning. The Jedi you hunt? You recognize them. Because you remember what it felt like before the choice was taken from you.
You have looked at the Jedi Code and the Sith Code and found both of them incomplete. You walk the line not out of indecision but out of conviction — you genuinely believe both extremes miss something essential. The Jedi don’t fully trust you. The Sith think you’re wasting your potential. They’re both partially right. But so are you.
Here’s How Much ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ Has Grossed at the Box Office
The Mandalorian and Grogu hasn’t yet passed the $300 million mark, but will do so this weekend. Whether it’s able to squeeze more out of its box-office run remains doubtful, especially with Disclosure Day eating into (at least some of) its audience this week. However, the Star Wars film’s $158 million domestic haul puts it ahead of Star Trek Beyond‘slifetime run from 2016. Incidentally, that film was a sequel to the two Star Trek reboot movies directed by J.J. Abrams, who also rebooted the Star Wars franchise for the Disney era with Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Unlike Abrams’ first Star Wars movie, Favreau’s The Mandalorian and Grogu wasn’t critically acclaimed. And that’s one of the reasons behind its steep drops in revenue.
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