david tweets, i ve been having issues with his sbeinterpretati of the constitution of late in a small area but he said something more disturbing yesterday. he tweeted that he was predicting that solo he said solo greater than the last jedi. he s crossed the line. i m sick and tired of people kicking around the last jedi. it s the red line for joe scarborough. i m very excited for that movie and i think he ll be correct. it will be a better movie than t last jedi. i ve had mika watching movies lately. i m not watching that. we saw three billboards. great movie. such great performances. lady bird. loved it. parochial school. i tanya amazing. and yesterday we get mika watching all about eve. ratner, what are your favorites? great movie, one of my favorites. you weren t watching the golf
against harassment. 300 prominent women in the industry, including reese witherspoon, shonda rhimes, launched this, time s up, an initiative aimed at protecting women in the work force from sexual harassment. it includes a legal defense fund to help working class women protect themselves from harassment. the highly anticipated star wars sequel, the last jedi, was the film of 2017. the movie got $517 million domestically in the last month alone. you have to figure franchise owner disney has to be happy with that, considering second place goes to this year s remake of beauty and the beast, also a disney movie, grossing $500 million domestically. another highly anticipated event, recreational marijuana legal in california. you have pot shops opening today. regulators working through the weekend to issue more licenses.
those films weren t enough to turn around the decline in people going to the movies. we are outside a theater in los angeles where you re in line for the last jedi. i plan to see it. the numbers are in and hollywood is saying a big hooray for the last jedi. it saw fewer people come out to movie theaters like this one in westwood. early estimates from the studio chiefs say that revenues are down about 2.5% to just over $11 billion. attendance is down around 4% to 1.26 billion people. that may sound like a lot but the lowest level since 1995. blame it on increased competition, bad movies and in some cases bad timing. the latest star wars film opened with $220 million, 17 times as much as fox s animated
clumsy, crazy bull. it s endearing, sweet, funny. if you want to stay home and netflix and chill, see mud bound. it s on netflix and it s a great movie. one of my favorites of the year. if you want a date night out, go see lady bird. they were really, really great. we haven t even mentioned the last jedi yet. this is going to fill up theaters for several more weeks at least. i think it s remarkable. it s not just a kids movie. i was talking to my nephews, it s got a big audience among adults, as well. it s really, truly a family film in terms of the four quadrants. there s another one, right? one in may and not until december 2019. another in may, quick turn around for the series. disney is getting every dollar out of the series.
moonlight, you won best picture. at this year s oscars there was a huge blunder when warren beatty and fay dunaway announced the wrong best picture winner giving it to la la la land instead of moon light. contrary to what most people may think after 220-million-dollar opening of star wars the last jedi the ninth didn t make this top five movies of 2017 but these did. disney s live action remake of beauty and the beast topped all by making $504 million. wonder woman came in second powered by 412 million. no surprise number 3 guardian of the galaxy volume 2 with 38 million and spider homecoming. rounding out the top that 5 is the who arer film it scarinscaring. concert tragedy struck twice when suicide bomber targeted