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Streaming series ‘Andor’ has cost Disney more than any of its ‘Star Wars’ movies. Lucasfilm Disney has revealed today that it spent $60.5 million (£47.9 million) on the second season of Star Wars streaming series Andor in 2024 ahead of its debut in April this year giving the show a total cost of $705.5 million (£552.7 million) which was within the budget but still far higher than the spending on any of the movies in the sci-fi saga. Disney has had a mixed bag of results from its Star Wars shows and movies since it bought the creator of the series, Lucasfilm, for $4 billion in 2012. All the stars aligned for The Force Awakens, the first in Disney’s trilogy of sequels to the original films which kicked off in 1977. The Force Awakens grossed $2.1 billion and earned an impressive audience score of 84% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. However, its 2017 follow up, The Last Jedi, was only rated 41% and although the audience score shot back up to 86% for The Rise of Skywalker, the final film in the trilogy, it only grossed $1.1 billion at the box office. Star Wars hasn’t been seen on the silver screen since then and instead the Mouse has concentrated on streaming shows for its Disney+ platform but they too experienced a disturbance in the force. The first in the series was 2019’s The Mandalorian which followed the eponymous armor-clad bounty hunter tasked with protecting a pointy-eared green alien called Grogu. The cute critter took the world by storm and the first season scored a whopping 93% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes. A sequel was inevitable and that maintained the original’s high standards with a 91% audience score. However, it crashed to just 51% for the third season in 2023 and…

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