Little did Disney expect that two viral horror sensations would derail one of their biggest films of the year. Backrooms and Obsession became the unlikely smash hits of 2026 in early summer, with the latter even becoming the highest-grossing original horror movie of this century and the fifth highest-grossing horror film of all time in a stunning theatrical run. Because of this, The Mandalorian and Grogu earned much less at the box office than most had predicted.
In total, the latest Star Warsmovie scored a global box office haul of $345 million against a budget of $165 million, which doesn’t account for likely huge marketing costs and points to a notable underperformance for a massive cinematic franchise. In fact, The Mandalorian and Grogu is the lowest-grossing live-action Star Wars movie ever made. This wasn’t helped by a mixed reception from critics, with Collider’s Aidan Kelley writing, “The Mandalorian and Grogu are neither great nor awful, and that’s what makes it one of the galaxy far, far away’s most frustrating.”
But a poor performance on the big screen doesn’t translate to the small screen, with The Mandalorian and Grogu continuing to prove popular almost two months after its streaming debut. At the time of writing, the latest Star Wars movie is one of the most-watched movies on Disney+ in the world. Directed by Jon Favreau, the film also features Sigourney Weaver, Jeremy Allen White, and, of course, the hugely popular Grogu, although even everyone’s favorite small sidekick couldn’t help boost the film’s box office fortunes.
Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which Star Wars Crew Should You Join? Falcon · Ghost · Skeleton Crew · Razor Crest
Eight honest questions about how you actually are: what your friends come to you for, how you handle a night that falls apart, what you want out of work, what keeps you going. Answer them and we will tell you which ship has your seat. Four crews are hiring: the smugglers, the rebels, the kids who got hopelessly lost, and the one man who works alone until he does not.
🚀Falcon(Original Trilogy)
👾Ghost(Star Wars Rebels)
🗺️Skeleton Crew(Skeleton Crew)
🪖Razor Crest(The Mandalorian)
01
What role do you play in your friend group? Everybody has one, whether they admit it or not.
02
How do you pack for a trip? This says more about people than it should.
03
Your plans collapse an hour before. What do you do? Everybody reacts to this differently.
04
What would you actually want out of a job? Be honest rather than impressive.
05
What do people come to you for? You already know which one it is.
06
How do you handle a disagreement with a friend? This is where people differ most.
07
What does a really good Saturday night look like? No wrong answers, but there are revealing ones.
08
What actually keeps you going? Eight questions in, this is the one that picks your crew.
Docking Clamps Released Your Crew Is…
Four ships, four completely different reasons to be up there at all.
Here is the one that has your seat, what flying with them would cost you, and what it would give
back.
Star Wars · Original Trilogy · Since 1977
Millennium Falcon
You belong on the fastest piece of junk in the galaxy, with a
crew that took the job for the payday and then quietly stopped caring about the payday.
Nothing on the Falcon has ever gone according to plan, and everybody aboard prefers it that
way.
You improvise better than you prepare, which is why you keep ending up in situations
that a careful person would have avoided.
The Falcon is the only ship on this list that is genuinely funny, and half of that comes
from it breaking at the worst possible moment.
You would pretend the whole thing is transactional right up until somebody you like is
in trouble, and then the pretending stops instantly.
This crew is the reason the rebellion had a chance at all, and not one of them would
ever admit to that out loud.
Star Wars Rebels · Disney XD · 2014 to 2018
The Ghost
You belong with the crew that turned a tiny cell of misfits into
an actual rebellion. The Ghost is a home before it is a ship, and everybody who boards it
arrived with something broken that the rest of them decided to look after.
Found family is the whole engine here, and Rebels earns it by making you watch these
people choose each other over and over again.
You are in it for the cause, but what actually keeps you going is the four people who
would notice immediately if you stopped showing up.
Hera is one of the best captains in the franchise, and the show is smart enough to make
her competence the quiet centre of everything.
This crew pays for its wins, which is exactly what makes the wins land the way they do.
Skeleton Crew · Disney+ · Since 2024
The Skeleton Crew
You belong with the four kids who found a buried ship, launched
it by accident and are now extremely lost in a galaxy that eats people like them. Nobody
here knows what they are doing, and that turns out to be the fun of it.
Your instinct is to open the door that says do not open, and you would do it again
tomorrow.
Skeleton Crew is the closest Star Wars has come to an eighties adventure movie, where
the stakes are real but the wonder never gets sanded off.
You make friends out of whoever is standing next to you when things go wrong, which is a
genuinely useful survival skill.
The pirates in this one are properly frightening, and that is precisely why the kids
being out of their depth works so well.
The Mandalorian · Disney+ · Since 2019
The Razor Crest
You belong in the quietest ship in the galaxy, with one small
passenger and a code you have never explained to anybody. You told yourself this was a job,
and then it stopped being a job somewhere around the second week.
You work alone by preference and by habit, which lasts exactly as long as it takes for
somebody small to need looking after.
The Mandalorian works because almost nothing gets said out loud, and the armour does the
acting that a face usually would.
Your loyalty is narrow and absolute, so there are very few people on your list and
nothing will move you off it.
The Mandalorian and Grogu took all of that to the big screen over Memorial Day 2026, the
first Star Wars film in seven years.
Pedro Pascal Returns in the Year’s Biggest Movie
On December 18, Pascal will reprise his role as Reed Richards following 2025’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps, as part of the enormous cast in Avengers: Doomsday. Pascal will rejoin the rest of his First Family, Sue Storm (Vanessa Kirby), Johnny Storm (Joseph Quinn), and Ben Grimm (Ebon Moss-Bachrach), in a film that promises to be an enormous box office sensation. Before that, on December 4, Pascal’s second film of the year, Behemoth!, will make its screen debut after earning rave reviews out of its festival premiere.
The Mandalorian and Grogu is a big hit on Disney+ right now. For all the latest streaming stories, stay tuned to Collider.
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