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Disney and Lucasfilms' 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' begins opening in select foreign markets mid-week before blasting off in North America and other major territories on Friday, and it's getting ready to strike the global box office once again.

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00:00I've seen Ms. Ross strength only once before.

00:03The force is getting ready to strike the global box office once again.

00:07Disney and Lucasfilm's Star Wars The Last Jedi will start opening in select foreign markets

00:12midweek before hitting North America and other major territories on Friday.

00:16The sequel to J.J. Abrams' The Force Awakens should gross over $425 million by Sunday

00:22to secure one of the five best worldwide openings of all time.

00:25That includes a North American take in the $200 million range, the best opening of the year

00:30so far and a feat few movies have achieved. Hollywood is counting on writer-director

00:35Rian Johnson's film to narrow the year-over gap in domestic revenue, which is currently

00:39running roughly 4 percent behind last year's record, $11.4 billion.

00:44A major challenge for Disney is managing expectations so they can avoid the inevitable

00:48comparisons to Force Awakens, which brought in $247.9 million in December 2016,

00:55the top domestic opening of all time, on its way to becoming the number one film of all time

00:59domestically with $936.7 million.

01:03Disney points out that Force Awakens had the distinction of being the first Star Wars film

01:07in a decade.

01:08Overseas, Force Awakens debuted to $281 million for a total of $529 million,

01:14the second biggest global opening of all time behind this year's The Fate of the Furious,

01:19which brought in $541.9 million.

01:22Last year's spinoff Rogue One, a Star Wars story, opened to $290.1 million globally,

01:28including $155.1 million domestically and $135 million internationally.

01:34Last Jedi, otherwise known as Episode VIII, reunites many of the new Star Wars actors

01:39introduced in Force Awakens, including Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, John Boyega,

01:43Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Lupita Nyong'o, along with original stars Mark Hamill and the late

01:49Carrie Fisher, to whom the movie is dedicated.

01:51Franchise newcomers include Kelly Marie Tran, Laura Dern and Benicio Del Toro.

01:56The story picks up immediately after the events of Force Awakens, with Rey seeking out Luke

02:01to help the resistance led by Leia and its fight against the villainous Kylo Ren and the First Order.

02:06The only film going up against The Last Jedi at this weekend's box office is Ferdinand,

02:10an animated family film from 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios.

02:14Tracking suggests it will open in the mid-teens to $20 million range.

02:18To read more on the box office predictions for Star Wars The Last Jedi, head to THR.com and tell us,

02:23will you be heading to the theater this weekend to see if Kylo behaves himself back away from your mother,

02:28young man? Oh wait, better question, how many times do you plan on seeing the movie?

02:33And where do you predict it will rank among all the saga films? Let us know in the comments.

02:38For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.

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