I have nothing against Star Wars, and hope to see IX opening weekend, but...In the "Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker" is going to fail camp ..... (for those who find following the "naysayers" entertaining (like me)).
There was reports that pre-sales for episode IX were doing well and pre-sales in the first hour was outselling pre-sales of the first hour of Endgame.
So the negative nancies have YouTube video after YouTube video saying the numbers aren't "legit".
Now . .i will admit saying "first hour sales" are breaking records is probably is just marketing doing their job. You can cherry pick statitistics to get them to say what you want. FOMO is real and is a marketing strategy now.
I have never seen a more concentrated effort to try and destroy a franchise (that they supposedly love).
That being said .. I enjoyed the trailer and how it isn't giving away too much of the story .. and thanks to posters above mentioning the comic series .. I will have to check it out. The Marvel Star Wars comics are pretty hit and miss, but something that fills in the blanks between movies is nice.
My son and I read Star Wars Adventures (comic) together and they will be having some issues leading up to it.
Here is a list of other items:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_Star_Wars#The_Rise_of_Skywalker
1st hour numbers could absolutely be better.
Remember, AMC’s Internet servers (and possibly others) couldn’t handle Endgame’s volume and basically sold nothing for hours.
About 5 hours in AMC shut down their web ordering and only allowed Fandango purchases. AMC’s website wasn’t available until 12 hours after tickets became available.
2-3 hours after opening, my co-worker physically went to the AMC theater to buy his tickets because online was still down. (There only looked to be 1 or 2 groups that got tickets to our 1st IMAX before him.)