So it was on track to become the highest grossing film in 2017 and, so far, has pulled $1.2billion worldwide, including nearly $600m in the US alone. And people are calling it a failure? Admittedly TFA made $2 billion worldwide, but to say TLJ is a failure is far from it. It's also sitting third in Disney's all time top grossing movies, only beaten by The Avengers and TFA. A failure it most certainly is not.