Rogue One Clears $500M Domestically to Become 2016’s Highest-Grossing Movie.

Current box office projections state that Rogue One will be set to clear the $500M mark in the United States by the end of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Next stop – the $1B mark for its worldwide gross, which it ought to reach by next weekend.

 

 

From Forbes:

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story earned another $3.244 million [on Friday] to bring its cume to $488.3m. That makes it the biggest domestic hit of 2016. It also sets the stage for a $12.3m Fri-Sun and $15.35m Fri-Mon holiday to get itself just over that $500m mark on the 32nd day of release. That will tie it with Avatar although it’s going to end up around $225m short domestically. I’m sure Walt Disney will find a way to cope as it makes a play for $1 billion worldwide.

 

As I’ve stated in previous articles, Disney’s 2016 has been the perfect storm when it comes to their returns. They were the first studio to have an annual domestic revenue of $3B. They released four movies that have (or soon will) managed to make $1B apiece in ticket sales alone. They released all of the top five highest-grossing movies of the year in the global market, something which hasn’t happened in a long time, if ever. They released the only film in 2016 that made over half a billion in the United States alone. And now, their last release of the year will either end up taking a strong second place with a $1B+ worldwide take, or it will narrowly manage to snatch the title from Captain America: Civil War.

 

On a less-than-positive note, The Hollywood Reporter is noting that the film’s performance has dropped rather sharply in China since its disappointing-but-far-from-awful $31M opening, a drop which is owed in part due to the wide release of Sony’s Passengers. It made only $9.8M on its second weekend, which when combined with the four weekdays brings the movie’s performance to $52.4M. Still, since Star Wars is a franchise that has primarily been popular in Western countries and it’s performing pretty well everywhere else, it’s not the kind of franchise where its performance in the Middle Kingdom determines whether or not the film is actually a success. Between what the movie ought to make for the remainder of this week in the United States and China alone, the film should easily cross the $1B mark without much hassle. Stay tuned a week from now for the next big update on Rogue One‘s box office take, which will likely be the last one for a while.

 

 

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Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

Grant Davis (Pomojema)

Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

35 thoughts on “Rogue One Clears $500M Domestically to Become 2016’s Highest-Grossing Movie.

  • January 16, 2017 at 8:13 pm
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    Domestic is Canada and US, not just the USA, US only is not tracked.

    • January 16, 2017 at 8:23 pm
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      Right, I know that, but I simply left that part out for the purpose of brevity.

      – Pomojema

      • January 16, 2017 at 8:26 pm
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        North America is just as brief 🙂

        • January 16, 2017 at 8:51 pm
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          Not being pedantic is even briefer 🙂

          • January 16, 2017 at 9:56 pm
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            Not being ironic is even briefer, Mr. “Disney isn’t Lucasfilm despite the fact they clearly have some say in the creative process”

            Pedantry isn’t very brief, but neither is hypocrisy.

          • January 16, 2017 at 11:10 pm
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            I think I speak for everyone… no, I’m 100% CERTAIN that I speak for everyone when I say that this discussion is probably not as brief as it could have been 🙂

          • January 16, 2017 at 11:10 pm
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            Agreed.

          • January 17, 2017 at 2:32 am
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            Same (mine was even briefer) ;0

            Hey, go check out one of my recent posts to Kent. Quite fun. You get a shout out!

          • January 17, 2017 at 3:20 am
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            YAY!

          • January 17, 2017 at 3:48 am
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            I know you agree, because I speak for everyone, remember? 🙂

          • January 17, 2017 at 4:37 am
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            I speak FOR everyone SO please LISTEN to MY opinion ABOUT darth VADER

          • January 17, 2017 at 4:58 am
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            Be careful you don’t choke on your Vader references, TUD… 🙂

          • January 17, 2017 at 6:32 am
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            Yeah, it’s Vader who I’m referencing. Definitely….

          • January 17, 2017 at 1:27 am
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            Aw, is TUDsy WUDsy forming a new butthurt for Uncle Deadly?

            You’re starting to become Crankylite.

          • January 17, 2017 at 1:49 am
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            Nah, he just likes to get annoyed when I correct people on that very crucial fact. Since he goes out of his way to comment on it when I do, he is clearly the “butthurt” one.

          • January 17, 2017 at 1:44 am
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            There is a real difference here, though and that’s when people say Disney instead of LFL (and it depends on the context of what they are saying), they
            1. Show they don’t know what they are talking about and
            2. Disney has not been shown to have much creative input that we have seen at all. We all know it and assume it, but there has been no evidence that we have seen.
            3. No one says Disney when referring to Marvel or Pixar. They only do it when they want to complain about the direction of the franchise.

            regardless, feel free to not read my comments if they bother you so.

  • January 16, 2017 at 9:24 pm
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    impressive.

    • January 16, 2017 at 11:09 pm
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      most impressive 🙂

  • January 16, 2017 at 9:53 pm
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    More PROOF that Disney RUINED Star Wars. If they had included MORE VADER everyone in the AUDIENCE would have CRIED with JOY and this movie would have been less of a DISAPPOINTMENT. (And when I say “everyone” I mean me.)

    /s

  • January 16, 2017 at 11:43 pm
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    AMAZING to see that Rogue One has already beaten the poorly-performing Prequels 2 and 3 at the Box Office. After the BAD TASTE of Ep 1, audiences worldwide were “damaged” when it came to Star Wars. I’m happy to see those wounds healing with the new (and better) SW films.

    • January 17, 2017 at 1:05 am
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      “Poorly-performing”? Two of the three PT movies were the highest-grossing movies of the years, and the only one that didn’t – Attack Of The Clones – only lost the spot to the mega-hits Spider-Man and The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers. That’s also not mentioning that, following a re-release, The Phantom Menace became the first Star Wars movie to cross $1B at the box office when not adjusted for inflation. Speaking of inflation, you’re not accounting for over a decade of inflation for every single PT movie – and if you do, Rogue One won’t pass Revenge Of The Sith at the domestic box office for another few days.

      – Pomojema

      • January 17, 2017 at 2:12 am
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        Correct. You can say that the prequels were poor-performing critically, or that they could have made MORE at the box office, but they were all successes.

    • January 17, 2017 at 1:25 am
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      Dude, stop sounding like a Donald Trump tweet. Please.

      • January 17, 2017 at 2:17 am
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        Sad!

        – Pomojema

        • January 17, 2017 at 7:06 pm
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          I smiled.

    • January 17, 2017 at 1:34 am
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      I still think that kid looks more like Lando than Glover and would probably do a better job too.

      • January 17, 2017 at 2:28 am
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        Daaaaaammmmnn

    • January 17, 2017 at 8:19 pm
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      Millie would be PERFECT for a young Leia, problem is that by the time they got around to including her in a movie, she would be too old. Shame really.

      • January 17, 2017 at 8:36 pm
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        That and Finn looks like a young Adam Driver..if they ever needed a Kylo flashback they got the perfect person.

  • January 17, 2017 at 1:36 am
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    Proof that not all top grossing films of the year are crap. I’m just glad this means there will be more spinoffs in the future that they won’t be afraid to put money into.

  • January 17, 2017 at 4:44 am
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    we’re rich!!!! no… wait….

  • January 17, 2017 at 11:52 am
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    With studios averaging 50% of domestic and 30% of overseas (25% for China), and considering promotion costs, they got their money back and will make clear profit on the home video release. I’ll be buying, will be interesting to see if the film was finished at 2k or 4k. The last Star Trek film was finished in 2k, with the uhd being an upscale.

  • January 17, 2017 at 1:51 pm
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    All that money… crazy. Keep it up Disney. You know the second you slip up it’ll make a war of the stars look like a joke! 😛

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