{"id":100079,"date":"2019-12-23T17:07:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T01:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/force-is-still-with-star-wars-which-has-a-big-north-america-opening"},"modified":"2019-12-23T17:07:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T01:07:06","slug":"force-is-still-with-star-wars-which-has-a-big-north-america-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/force-is-still-with-star-wars-which-has-a-big-north-america-opening","title":{"rendered":"Force is still with \u2018Star Wars,\u2019 which has a big North America opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/force-is-still-with-star-wars-which-has-a-big-north-america-opening.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still with the galactic good guys, as \u201cStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker\u201d opened with a massive estimated take of $175.5 million in North America, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Disney film scored the third biggest December debut ever, behind only the two earlier chapters in the \u201cStar Wars\u201d sequel trilogy, \u201cThe Force Awakens\u201d and \u201cThe Last Jedi,\u201d according to Variety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRise of Skywalker,\u201d directed by J.J. Abrams and starring Adam Driver, Mark Hamill, Daisy Ridley and Oscar Isaac, blew away the weekend\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still with the galactic good guys, as \u201cStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker\u201d opened with a massive estimated take of $175.5 million in North America, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported Sunday. The Disney film scored the third biggest December debut ever, behind only the two earlier chapters in the \u201cStar Wars\u201d sequel trilogy, \u201cThe Force [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}