The film series’ newest additions rank among the most talked about movies on social media, and a huge portion of U.S. Over forty years after the release of the first film, the series remains an important aspect of pop culture. Fans of the franchise rank ‘Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back’ as their favorite film. Over the years the franchise has grown to include a wide range of movies, TV shows, video games, toys and books.
The series has produced some of science fiction’s most recognizable characters, songs and quotes, not to mention some of the highest grossing films ever made. Star Wars is one of the most successful film franchises in the world. One of the newest additions the franchise, ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’, ranks among the most expensive films of all time, with production costs in the hundreds of millions. dollars, achieving worldwide box office revenues of around 775 million U.S. Released in 1977, ‘A New Hope’ was the first film in the Star Wars franchise and had a production cost of 11 million U.S.
