'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' Arrives With Sky-High Box Office Expectations

It’s been a year of unprecedented profit and countless box office records for Disney, but now it sends in its final and most scrutinized movie of 2019: Lucasfilm’s “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” the finale to the Skywalker Saga that began 42 years ago and formed one of the cornerstones for franchise filmmaking as we know it today. Disney — as it always does with the event releases it now puts out multiple times a year — is trying to keep expectations relatively low with studio p...