Published Jun 7, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT
Rohan Naahar is a News Writer for Collider. From Francois Ozon to David Fincher, he’ll watch anything once. He has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars. He also writes obsessively about the box office, charting the many hits and misses that are released weekly, and how their commercial performance shapes public perception. In his time at Collider, he has also helped drive diversity by writing stories about the multiple Indian film industries, with a goal of introducing audiences to a whole new world of cinema.
There was no respite for The Mandalorian and Grogu in its third weekend of release at the domestic box office, after a cataclysmic second-weekend drop that greatly decreased its chances of catching up with Solo: A Star Wars Story. The franchise’s first theatrical release in seven years had a solid opening, but was eviscerated by the one-two punch of Obsession and Backrooms. Both horror movies overperformed to the point of making history, which is something that Disney would surely not have seen coming. Directed by Jon Favreau, The Mandalorian and Grogu always had an uphill climb ahead of it prior to release. The public didn’t fully recognize it as a theatrical release, and instead saw it as simply a continuation of the popular streaming series.
The film was hit with another blow when the reviews came out. The Mandalorian and Grogu seems to have settled at a 62% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, “Bountiful in action but threadbare in narrative thrust with its episodic structure, this Star Wars is more of a skirmish that coasts on the charm of its central dynamic duo.” The film has been widely criticized as a narratively slack** combination of stories presumably meant for the unreleased fourth season of The Mandalorian.** Pedro Pascal, who “plays” the titular character, appears only in one scene; to the movie’s credit, his body double and stunt double both receive prominent billing.
The scores below reveal how the Force sees you. Your highest number is your true alignment. Read on to understand what that means — and what it will cost you.
Disciplined, compassionate, and deeply attuned to the living Force, you have walked the path long enough to understand its demands — and accept them. You lead not through authority alone, but through example. You have felt the pull of the dark side and chosen otherwise, every time. That is not certainty. That is courage.
You are earnest, powerful, and brimming with potential — and you know it, which is both your greatest asset and your most dangerous flaw. You act before you think, trust your gut over your training, and sometimes confuse impatience for bravery. The Masters see something in you, though. The question isn’t whether you have what it takes — it’s whether you’ll be patient enough to find out.
You are not simply dangerous — you are certain, and that is worse. You have decided what the galaxy needs, and you have decided you are the one to deliver it. Your power is genuine and formidable, earned through sacrifice that would have broken lesser beings. But examine your victories carefully. Every Sith believed their cause was righteous. The dark side’s cruelest trick is that it agrees with you.
You were forged in fire and reshaped by those who found you at your lowest. You serve, because service gave you structure when you had none. Your allegiance is not to an ideology — it is to survival and to the master who gave you purpose. But there is something buried beneath the conditioning. The Jedi you hunt? You recognize them. Because you remember what it felt like before the choice was taken from you.
You have looked at the Jedi Code and the Sith Code and found both of them incomplete. You walk the line not out of indecision but out of conviction — you genuinely believe both extremes miss something essential. The Jedi don’t fully trust you. The Sith think you’re wasting your potential. They’re both partially right. But so are you.
With $155 million domestically after two full weeks, the movie continues to trail the $213 million lifetime haul of Solo, which is widely regarded as the only live-action bomb in the franchise’s history. But that film cost a reported $275 million to produce, while The Mandalorian and Grogu is said to have cost $165 million. This weekend, the movie managed to surpass the $154 million domestic haul of perhaps the greatest sci-fi Western ever made — Mad Max: Fury Road, starring Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy. This goes to show just how huge the Star Wars brand is; even its weakest performer has outperformed a stone-cold classic that is still remembered fondly today. It remains to be seen if The Mandalorian and Grogu will find its audience on streaming, but as things stand, the path to its projected $500 million break-even point is uncertain. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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The Mandalorian & Grogu follows Din Djarin (The Mandalorian) and his adopted son, Grogu, as they embark on a new adventure. After settling on the planet Nevarro at the end of Season 3, their peaceful life is disrupted, leading them back into the galaxy’s conflicts.