The Force Isn’t With ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ as Its Box Office Freefall Gets Harder to Spin

When ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu‘ arrived in theaters over Memorial Day weekend, Lucasfilm had every reason to feel cautiously optimistic. The film opened to $98 million domestically over the four-day holiday frame, recouping its entire reported $165 million production budget in a single weekend. For the first theatrical ‘Star Wars’ release since 2019, that felt...