The premiere of the film "Star Wars: Episode IX" will be released on May 24, 2019, the director of the film will be Colin Trevorow, said the company Walt Disney Company and Lucasfilm.

As reported on the official site of the movie, this film will be the final in the third trilogy of "Star Wars".

The premiere of the eighth episode of the movie Star Wars is scheduled for December 15, 2017. The action of the episode will unfold immediately after the events shown in the previous episode - "Star Wars. Awakening Force ", which was released in 2015.

In 2012, the Disney studio bought for $ 4 billion movie studio Lucasfilm, which has the rights to shoot "Star Wars". Disney planned to shoot three films directly related to the previous parts of the movie, and several spin-offs.

In December 2015, the screen came out the film "Star Wars: Awakening Force".

January 6, the film broke the record for fees in North America, which belonged to the "Avatar".

On December 27, it was reported that the film set a record for box office speed: during the first 12 days of rental, JJ Abrams' picture raised a billion dollars. The previous achievement belonged to the "Jurassic World", which earned such a sum for 13 days of hire. Later, the film's box office overcame a mark of two billion dollars.

In the first weekend in Ukraine, "Star Wars" collected 26 and a half million hryvnia, and watched a film of 326 thousand spectators.