In 2025, the first star Wars broadcast show, The Mandalorian, crossed a billion hours, and on May 4, star Wars Today, it was the busiest day of the year for Disney+. Those statistics would lead you to believe that star Wars it dominates broadcasting, and therefore, the world. But not immediately.
This week, Disney released a number of self-congratulatory statistics about its streaming services. Among those who stand out are these two Star Warrelated s mentioned above. But also, Bluey it was the most watched series of the year with 26.5 million rewatches. Mowana 2 was the biggest movie of the year, with more than 80 million views, too Alien: Earth was FX’s first major broadcast, garnering more than 100 million hours of total viewing.
But let’s focus star Wars because, at least six years ago, star Wars was the only broadcast franchise.
The Mandalorian was one of the biggest name shows or movies to reach a billion hours of streaming this year (The Golden Girls, Encanto, Malcolm in the Middle, Law and Order: SVU, Family Guy, again Futurama just a few others). However, it is the only one star Wars show there. Is that because it has so many episodes and has been around for so long? That’s right. But, you can imagine that the franchise is as big as star Wars can have more representation. They did Boba Fett shows. They did Obi-Wan Kenobi shows. But nothing touches the real thing.
You would like to especially think there will be billions of hours star Wars who broadcast because star Wars The day, May 4, was Disney+’s biggest streaming day of the year. Disney didn’t release details of what, exactly, aired that day (it used Andor as art, anyway), but it’s safe to assume that most of it was Star Wars. It certainly means that star Wars shows, movies, cartoons, everything, it’s all bundled together. Which may be the main reason why, a few years ago, Disney announced the following star Wars movie based on content: The Mandalorian and the Grogu.
So, let’s take a look The Mandalorian and the Grogu. The film opens on May 22, 2026, and released its first trailer in September. Since then, the officer star Wars The YouTube version of the trailer has 10 million views. Which sounds impressive until you look at something recent, like last week Supergirl trailer. That’s only been out for a week and it’s gone more than 20 million views.
Is DC twice as popular as Star Wars? Apparently not. But the fans this combination was not found two times more excited to see a new, big-screen DC adventure than a movie based on a TV show they’ve already watched, a billion hours.
Basically, what we mean is, star Wars it needs improvement, even if some of its statistics are impressive. It will be so The Mandalorian and the Grogu? Will we have to wait for 2027 and the new one star Wars movie, and a remake of the original film? We don’t know. But maybe as fans are waiting for something new star Wars content, they will go back to the things they missed. Things, we think, are actually pretty good. Shows like Acolyte, Skeleton Crew, or Star Wars Ideas.
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