Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith Secures One of the Top-Grossing Re-Release Weekends in Cinema History

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith’s re-release successful theaters was a monolithic success, earning $25.2 cardinal successful 2,775 theatres successful North America alone.

That was capable to debut successful 2nd spot successful this week’s home container bureau chart, down lone Sinners’ awesome $45 cardinal 2nd week haul.

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith’s container bureau past week was capable to marque it 1 of the top-grossing re-release weekends successful history, down Star Wars - A New Hope’s $36 cardinal from the 1997 Special variation release, and The Lion King’s $30 cardinal from its 2011 3D release.

Adding successful $17 cardinal taken internationally, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith’s re-release brought successful a immense $42.2 cardinal astatine the planetary container office, intelligibly demonstrating the request for Star Wars movie re-releases.

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith is the last section successful George Lucas' epic saga, and reveals however Anakin Skywalker became Darth Vader. It primitively earned $850 cardinal astatine the planetary container office.

The re-release bushed The Accountant 2’s home container bureau debut of $24,492,743 and Until Dawn’s $8.015 million. Ryan Coogler’s vampire flick Sinners, meanwhile, is present up to $161.626 cardinal astatine the planetary container bureau aft 2 weekends. A Minecraft Movie continues its march towards $1 billion; it's present connected $816.567 million.

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