‘Rise of Skywalker’ Tops $900M Globally, ‘Frozen 2’ #1 Animated Release All-Time & ‘Grudge’ Debuts with $11.3M

Disney domination continues as Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker leads the way domestically for the third straight weekend, topping $450 million domestically and over $900 million worldwide while Frozen II has now become the highest grossing animated release of all time worldwide reaching $1.325 billion worldwide.

As for Sony’s new release of The Grudge, it topped expectations and rounded out the weekend’s top five, while nearly all of the weekend’s holdovers within the top ten dropped less than 40% compared to last weekend.Disney’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker brought in an estimated $33.7 million this weekend, dipping -53% to kick off its third week in release.

The performance pushes the film’s domestic cume over $450 million, doing so in just 17 days.

The film also added another $50.5 million internationally this weekend for an overseas cume that now stands at $468 million for a global total reaching $918.8 million as it will soon become Disney’s seventh

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