Chelsea and Barcelona draw 1-1 in the Women's Champions League, Bayern beats last-place PSG

LONDON (AP) — Chelsea and Barcelona traded first-half goals in a 1-1 draw Thursday as both teams stayed unbeaten in the Women's Champions League.

Chelsea thought it had a go-ahead goal in the 83rd minute on substitute Catarina Macario's header, but she was ruled offside and Sonia Bompastor’s team ended the night in sixth place with eight points from four matches.

Ellie Carpenter scored in the 16th minute at Stamford Bridge, but Chelsea's lead was short-lived. Ewa Pajor equalized for the visitors eight minutes later.

Barcelona leads the 18-team standings, level on points (10) with OL Lyonnes. The draw halted Barcelona's three-game winning streak in Europe's elite club competition.

The top four enter the quarterfinals and teams placed fifth to 12th join the knockout playoffs, while the bottom six are eliminated.

Also Thursday, Bayern Munich beat Paris Saint-Germain 3-1 in the French capital. PSG is in last place and has lost all four of its Champions League games. Bayern moved up to fifth.

In Belgium, Roma earned its first league-phase point in a 1-1 draw with OH Leuven. Atletico Madrid beat Twente 4-0 in the Netherlands.

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PSG's Tara Elimbi Gilbert, left, and Bayern's Klara Buhl foght for the ball during a women¥s Champions League soccer match between Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern in Paris, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025.((AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Bayern's Jovana Damnjanovic, left, and PSG's Isabela Chagas fight for the ball during a women¥s Champions League soccer match between Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern in Paris, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025.((AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Barcelona's Aitana Bonmati, right, and her teammates leave the pitch at the the end of the women's Champions League opening phase soccer match between Chelsea FC and FC Barcelona, in London, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Barcelona's Alexia Putellas runs with the ball away from Chelsea's Wieke Kaptein and Lucy Bronze, right, during the women's Champions League opening phase soccer match between Chelsea FC and FC Barcelona, in London, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Chelsea's Ellie Carpenter, 2nd right, celebrates after scoring the opening goal during the women's Champions League opening phase soccer match between Chelsea FC and FC Barcelona, in London, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

After nearly seven years away from the big screen, a new Star Wars movie drew healthy but not record-breaking crowds to global theaters this weekend. According to studio estimates on Sunday, “Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu” made $82 million in ticket sales from 4,300 theaters in the U.S. and Canada. By the end of Monday’s Memorial Day holiday, it’s expected to have earned $102 million domestically and $165 million globally.

It exceeded opening weekend expectations for the movie, a continuation of Disney+ spinoff series “The Mandalorian,” but it’s also on the low end of Disney-era Star Wars releases, closer to “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” which made $103 million over the four-day Memorial Day frame in 2018. While “Solo” was considered a disaster, the metrics around “The Mandalorian and Grogu” are a little different.

The production budget for “Solo” was in the $300 million range, while “The Mandalorian and Grogu” was made for significantly less — a reported $165 million, not accounting for marketing and promotion costs. It makes the journey to profitability more likely, especially when factoring in positive audience scores. Although critics were mixed to negative on the movie (it currently carries a 63% on Rotten Tomatoes), ticket buyers overall gave it an A- CinemaScore. Boys under the age of 13 are especially high on the movie: They gave it an A CinemaScore and a perfect five on PostTrak. Parents also gave it a five out of five.

The Jon Favreau-directed movie stars Pedro Pascal as the titular bounty hunter and puts him and his tiny green companion on a mission to save Jabba’s son Rotta the Hutt, who is voiced by Jeremy Allen White.

“Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu” could also be graded on a bit of a curve because of the streaming component, both that it started as a series, and that it will eventually end up as a value add on Disney+, which was only about a month old when the last Star Wars movie, “The Rise of Skywalker,” debuted in December 2019.

Star Wars as a brand is in a time of transition under its new leadership team of Dave Filoni and Lynwen Brennan; Earlier this year it was announced that Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, who produced “Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu,” was stepping down after 13 years. The question for the industry is whether audience interest in Star Wars on the big screen might have cooled slightly, and if next year’s “Star Wars: Starfighter,” starring Ryan Gosling, will provide a definitive answer. Until then, the hope is that strong audience and exit scores will propel word-of-mouth generated enthusiasm in the coming weeks.

Word-of-mouth certainly helped Curry Barker’s relationship horror movie “Obsession” defy the standard box office trajectory and do better business in its second weekend. The Focus Features had an astonishing 30% uptick in ticket sales, earning $22.4 million from 2,655 theaters. The studio, which acquired the microbudget movie for some $15 million, is projecting that it will have made $28.2 million by the end of Monday, bringing its running total to $58.5 million. It snagged the second-place spot, while “Michael” landed in third place with $20 million for the three-day weekend. The Michael Jackson biopic has now earned $782.4 million.

“Obsession” also did better than the new horror movie “Passenger,” a Paramount Pictures release with Melissa Leo, which grossed an estimated $8.7 million from 2,534 locations. It’s expected to earn $10.5 million over its first four days. The movie received poor reviews from both critics (44% on Rotten Tomatoes) and audiences (B- Cinema Score).

The mix of movies this year didn’t hold a candle to last year’s record Memorial Day weekend, which was led by Disney’s live-action “Lilo & Stitch” and “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning.” The overall four-day frame this year will net out around $211 million, down about 36% from last year’s $330 million. It’s also far from the disastrous 2024 Memorial Day weekend box office, a 30-year low, when “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” opened.

Jon Favreau arrives at the premiere of "Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu" on Thursday, May 14, 2026, at TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

The character Grogu arrives at the premiere of "Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu" on Thursday, May 14, 2026, at TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)