![]() ![]() We hear that in regards to pre-sales for Rogue One, a majority were for opening weekend where as with Force Awakens a bulk of advance sales were for Christmas day. Force Awakens by comparison declined 40% for a $149.2M second weekend - the best Christmas haul ever for a movie, and the biggest Christmas weekend ever for all titles at $296.4M. In regards to Rogue One, the expectation is that its FSS will ease as much as -50% for $77.5M with five new releases coming into the market: Sony/Village Roadshow’s Passengers, 20th Century Fox’s Assassins Creed and Illumination/Universal’s Sing on Wednesday, Fox’s Why Him? on Friday and Paramount’s Fences on Sunday. Given that Christmas Eve is on a Saturday, the expectation is that business for all pics will be dented. ![]() By comparison, Titanic, the third-highest grossing movie of all-time at the U.S./Canada box office made $600.8M. Given the film’s momentum and outstanding word-of-mouth industry observers believe the pic has a shot at ending its run between $550M-$600m. 10TH Writethru, Monday - final actuals: Rogue One: A Star Wars Storycame in on target, meeting its weekend estimate with a $155M opening, the second-best ever for December and the franchise after last year’s all-time high set by Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($247.96M) and the 12th-biggest opening of all-time.Īll in this weekend, Rogue One’s $290M global debut pushed Walt Disney Studios past the $7 billion mark, setting a new industry high for a major studio.
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