BREAKNG:  STAR WARS MOVIES TO GO ON HIATUS AFTER EPISODE IX

Credit: We first learned of this story via THIS POST form our friends at Jedi Temple Archives.

In an interview with Bloomberg, Disney Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger announced that the movie franchise will go on hiatus. According to Bloomberg:

Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger said he’s not at all concerned that consumers may be overexposed to the Star Wars brand, but the film franchise will go on “hiatus” after December’s big release.

“We have not announced any specific plans for movies thereafter,” Iger said in a Bloomberg Television interview Thursday. “There are movies in development, but we have not announced them.”

There have been rumblings that lagging merchandise sale has been weighing on Disney, and this tidbit seems to further that notion. Also according to Bloomber under a sub heading of "Sluggish Toy Sales":

Yet there’s a growing disturbance in the galaxy. Last year’s “Solo: A Star Wars Story” — a stand-alone film that wasn’t part of the saga — was the lowest-grossing film in the four-decade history of the franchise. Star Wars toy sales fell in 2018 for the second year in a row, according to NPD research.

You can read the full interview HERE.

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