India, June 14 -- The Mandalorian and Grogu is struggling to maintain altitude at the global box office. After an $81.6 million domestic opening, Jon Favreau's transition of the beloved Disney+ series to the big screen has crawled to a worldwide gross of just under $300 million by mid-June 2026. Instead of dominating the summer slate, the long-awaited return of Star Wars to theaters is currently getting outpaced by sleeper indie horror hits.

I have tracked the franchise's theatrical returns for years, and these numbers paint a stark picture. This is not the billion-dollar dominance of the sequel trilogy era. Audiences showed up for the nostalgia and the Pedro Pascal appeal during the May 22 opening weekend, but terrible momentum and shif...