{"id":140002,"date":"2017-12-18T03:18:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T08:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=140002"},"modified":"2017-12-18T03:18:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T08:18:22","slug":"star-wars-the-last-jedi-has-second-biggest-opening-weekend-of-all-time-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/18\/star-wars-the-last-jedi-has-second-biggest-opening-weekend-of-all-time-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Star Wars: The Last Jedi&#8217; has second biggest opening weekend of all time in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_122567\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122567\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Star-Wars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-122567\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Star-Wars.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: The company says the blockbuster brought in $17 million in the country in its first weekend (Photo: STAR WARS\/Twitter)\" width=\"810\" height=\"1199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Star-Wars.jpg 810w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Star-Wars-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Star-Wars-768x1137.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Star-Wars-692x1024.jpg 692w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-122567\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: The company says the blockbuster brought in $17 million in the country in its first weekend (Photo: STAR WARS\/Twitter)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO \u2014 A spokeswoman for Disney says \u2018\u2018Star Wars: The Last Jedi\u2019\u2018 has had the second-biggest opening weekend of all-time in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The company says the blockbuster brought in $17 million in the country in its first weekend<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s second only to its predecessor in the latest \u2018\u2018Star Wars\u2019\u2018 trilogy, \u2018\u2018The Force Awakens\u2019\u2018, which made $18.6 million in Canada over the same time span when it debuted in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The film also holds the number 2 spot in the North American box office, where it made $220 million in its opening weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The movie, directed by Rian Johnson, was released on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The third movie in the record-smashing trilogy is expected to be released in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Disney says the current ranking of the top five biggest opening weekends of all time in Canada are:<\/p>\n<p>Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($18.6 M)<\/p>\n<p>Star Wars: The Last Jedi (17.0 M)<\/p>\n<p>The Avengers ($15.6 M)<\/p>\n<p>Avengers: Age of Ultron ($13.8 M)<\/p>\n<p>Beauty and the Beast ($13.4 M)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2014 A spokeswoman for Disney says \u2018\u2018Star Wars: The Last Jedi\u2019\u2018 has had the second-biggest opening weekend of all-time &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":122567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[17914],"class_list":["post-140002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-star-wars-the-last-jedi","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}