After three seasons of the "Mandalorian", Jonon Javre's upcoming film "Mandalorian and Groogo" has a difficult task ahead: making the general audience understand that it is a movie. The first trailer for a hanger It doesn't fully say: "This time it's a movie!" But it is trying to convey that information by displaying some of the more expensive footage of VFX and boasting that it is "forged for IMAX". However, even with those clues, ordinary fans of "warwid warwar war" can come out with the impression that this is a TV movie teaser, intended for directly to-dysna+.

To be clear, it's not. "Mandalorian and Grogogo" will premiere at the cinema on 22.05.2026, with a high -pressure summer poplar slot. Creating even greater pressure is the fact that this is the first edition of the big screen "War of Starwells" from the very malicious "rise of Skywalker" in 2019. It even features perhaps the only element of "raising Skywalker" that people loved universally: A mechanic with a squat azelan, Babu Frick. And the film will also feature the first look of a large screen, live on Zeb Orelios!

If your answer is "Who the hell is Zeb Orelios?", Well, it brings us back to the problem of "Mandalorian and Grog" to be so strongly tied to the TV side of the "War of Starval" universe. Already, newcomers who want to know who the characters are in the title will need to be leveled for three seasons of Mandalorian (plus a few episodes of Boba Fet's book, as that show lost interest in Boba Fett halfway and solving a great "mandalorian". Adding a character from the animated series "Starwells War" will not turn the stairs to anyone who has not seen that show and fans who have Seeing that show will probably watch this movie anyway.

Even the press release that accompanied the hanger seems to be ashamed of this, referring to the character like "Mandalorian Zeb Orelios", not "Starwives in the" Zeb Orelios ".

The direct extension of TV shows (as opposed to restarting as "Mission: Impossible" or "21st Street") do not come very often in cinemas, and there is a good reason for this: such films have A. scary Box office record. From the "Dusk Zone: The Movie", which not only bombed, but also killed several of its teams during the production, to the beloved-but-the-cap "Firefly" consequence ", history proved that a convincing audience to make the jump from a pleasant watch on the night night.

There are exceptions to the rule, with anime being a noticeable example. Recently, "Democrat Slejer: Infinite Castle" packs audiences in cinemas all over the worldEnjoying a huge open weekend of $ 70 million in North America alone. "Downton Opatija" in 2019, a continuation of the drama of the TV period of the same name, was also a hit (though "Downton Opatija: New Era" saw a reduction in return) in 2022.

However, for the most part, the TV-to-screen move is a cube that is not worth the risk. AMC supports plans for trilogy films featuring the protagonist "The Walking Dead" Rick Grims, instead of cutting them to the spin-off of TV miniser, "those living". The crime drama "Peaky Blinders" is rounded out of film, "Immortal Man", but as a issue of Netflix, his time in cinemas will probably be perfunctive, with the priority of the streaming audience.

And there lies the biggest problem for Mandalorian and Groogo: it is so strongly tied to the Disney brand+ that separation will not be easy.

When Disney joined the "wars in streaming" and launched Disney+ on November 12, 2019, Mandalorian was one of the big ticket items available at the launch: an original, exclusive series featuring the coolest armor in the Starwell War Universe. Then, the first episode made the Internet explode by ending with the discovery of a mysterious, cute baby Yoda. By the end of his first full service day, Disney+ had already signed 10 million subscribers, with Mandalorian being a major moving factor. By the mid -2024, it was still the most watched series of Disney+ original.

Like other Disney theater films, "Mandalorian and Groogo" is invoiced to end up on Disney+ in the end, and subscribers know it. It seems inevitable that many fans who are accustomed to seeing the adventures of Dean Jarin and Grogo on the small canvas will simply wait a few months to watch the film in the comfort of their home, and in the original home of Disney+duo. Indeed, one of the attractive things for "Mandalorian" was that it felt designed for the experience of the small screen, with refreshing stories with low stakes (for example) Transport to an upset lady from the frog and her eggsinstead of an epic saga for preserving the galaxy.

This is not Disney's first attempt to watch Disney TVs+ with big screen movies and previous attempts have not done well. "Marveli", monitoring both Ms Marvel and Vandavision, was a catastrophic boxing bomb. "Captain America: A brave new world", followed by "Falcon and the Winter Soldier", does better, but still failed to break even. The lesson seems clear: the fans of these shows do not want to follow them in cinemas, and people who have not watched the shows are still not ready to do homework just to watch a movie.

However, for better or worse, "Mandalorian and Groogo" issued them in theaters on 22.05.2026.