Mixed reviews could dent ticket sales on The Rise of Skywalker’s opening weekend
This weekend the final film in the current
Star Wars saga is expected to challenge
box office records as it goes head to head in the
UK with Cats, the adaptation of Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s long-running feline musical.
In the US, analysts have predicted that Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker could break the previews record of $61m (£46m) set in 2015 by The Force Awakens, which was Disney’s first Star Wars film since it bought Lucasfilm in 2013 for $4bn.