The newest chapter in the Star Wars movie saga has failed to impress in its debut on the Chinese mainland. Episode eight, the Last Jedi, topped the US market last year.

It debuted in Chinese theaters Friday, earning a disappointing 28-point-7 million US dollars on its opening weekend. The seventh instalment, The Force Awakens, earned 52 million US dollars in its opening days. In the first day of its release, attendance for the film was at 15 percent, making it the worst showing on the opening day of a Star Wars movie in China. The country seems to have gotten tired of the story from a galaxy far, far away.

Star Wars was first permitted in China in the 1990s, more than a decade after the first film in the series. Episode three, which was the sixth Star Wars movie, was released in China in 2005. Another decade would pass before The Force Awakens was screened in 2016.