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Wkd BO 12•30•16-01•02•16 - New Year, same old 'One' as Sing continues back-up

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85% Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
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‘Rogue One' Rules Over New Year's Weekend, ‘Sing' Still Strong

New Year's kicked off with familiar favorites, ”Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" and ”Sing," dominating the domestic box office. Both films have emerged as the biggest hits of the holiday season.

The ”Star Wars" spinoff topped the box office, just as it has since opening three weeks ago. ”Rogue One" racked up $64.3 million for the four-day holiday weekend. That pushes its North American total to $439.7 million, putting it in second place among last year's highest-grossing domestic releases. Globally, ”Rogue One" has made $774.9 million through Sunday, with China, the world's second-largest film market, yet to open.

Disney, which released ”Rogue One" through its Lucasfilm banner, has four of the year's top five domestic earners, including ”Finding Dory," which was the highest-grossing stateside film with $486.3 million. The company had a lot riding on ”Rogue One." It invested roughly $4 billion to the rights to the ”Star Wars" canon, with a goal of creating a cinematic universe to rival Marvel's. ”Rogue One" is the first of several planned spinoff films that will exist outside of the main Skywalker family saga. Disney is also readying a film about Han Solo's origins, with Alden Ehrenreich poised to inherit Harrison Ford's blaster.

”Sing," an animated story about a talent competition involving animals, picked up $56.4 million, bringing the film's domestic total to $180 million. ”Sing" is the latest offering from Illumination and Universal. The partners have previously collaborated on ”Despicable Me" and last summer's hit, ”The Secret Life of Pets." What makes Illumination's accomplishments particularly impressive is that ”Sing" cost $75 million to make at a time when most major animated releases carry budgets in excess of $100 million. ”Sing" features vocal work from Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, and Taron Egerton, as well as music from the likes of Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, and Stevie Wonder.

In third place, ”Passengers," a science-fiction romance with Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence, earned $20.7 million over the four days, pushing its domestic gross to $66 million. ”Passengers" is being watched closely, because it is the first major greenlight of Tom Rothman's reign as studio chief at Sony. With a $110 million budget and millions more spent in promotion, ”Passengers" is banking on foreign crowds to lift it into the black. To that end, the film caught a break, scoring a release date in China on Jan. 13 — Chinese conglomerate Wanda, an investor on the film, will help with marketing in the Middle Kingdom.

Fox's ”Assassin's Creed" made $10.8 million over the holiday. The video game adaptation has earned a lackluster $41.9 million since opening over Christmas. With a hefty $125 million budget, it will need foreign audiences to turn out in force if it wants to avoid a write down.

Fox has had more success with ”Why Him?," a mid-budget comedy with Bryan Cranston and James Franco. The film centers on a generational clash between a father who hates his daughter's boyfriend. It earned $13 million over the four-day holiday and has made $37.5 million domestically.

The end of the year also played host to a slew of awards seekers. Paramount's ”Fences" has scored among the adult dramas flooding theaters. The August Wilson adaptation is generating Oscar buzz for star and director Denzel Washington, as well as for Viola Davis. Both actors appeared in an acclaimed 2010 Broadway revival of the play. The drama earned $12.7 million over the holiday and has made $32.4 million since debuting three weeks ago in limited release.

Paramount also fielded the religious drama ”Silence." It's a passion project for Martin Scorsese, who has been trying to bring the story of Jesuits in feudal Japan to the screen for decades. ”Silence" earned $110,000 in four locations over the weekend, bringing its total to $337,000. The movie, a cerebral examination of spirituality, will need to get Oscar attention if it wants to resonate with mainstream crowds.

Lionsgate's ”La La Land" is a hit with critics and audiences. The musical reunites Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, who previously appeared together memorably in ”Crazy Stupid Love" and less so in ”Gangster Squad." It earned $12.3 million over the four-day holiday, bringing its gross to $37 million. Along with ”Manchester by the Sea" and ”Moonlight," ”La La Land" is seen as a leading contender for a best picture statue at the upcoming Academy Awards.

Fox's ”Hidden Figures," a drama about a team of African-American scientists who calculated flight plans during the early days of the space program, earned an impressive $1.1 million for the four days from just 25 theaters. It goes into wide release next weekend. Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, and Taraji P. Henson star in the historical film.

”Patterson," Jim Jarmusch's look at a soulful bus driver, made $88,167 for the long weekend, bringing its gross to $119,657. It is being released by Amazon Studios and Bleecker Street, with Adam Driver starring.

”Live by Night," a Warner Bros. gangster picture with Ben Affleck, continued to struggle in limited release. The film picked up $50,000 from four theaters for a paltry per-screen average of $12,548. It opens in wide release on Jan. 13.

CBS Films and Lionsgate's ”Patriots Day" earned $200,000 from seven theaters to bring its total to $681,000. The story of the Boston Marathon bombing expands nationally in two weeks.

Roadside Attractions ended the year on a high note. The indie distributor behind ”Manchester by the Sea" and ”Hello, My Name is Doris" announced that it had its best year ever from a box office perspective with $75.7 million. Its previous highest-grossing year was in 2013 when it took in $44.8 million.
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Cheebo

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Rogue One is locked to do over 550 mil domestically. And finish anywhere between 550-600 and in the top 10 highest grossing movies domestically of all time ahead of The Dark Knight.

A fucking spin-off.
 
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KHlover

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Cheebo said:
Rogue One is locked to do over 550 mil domestically. And finish anywhere between 550-600 and in the top 10 highest grossing movies domestically of all time ahead of The Dark Knight.

A fucking spin-off.
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Helps that the Spin-Off can go toe to toe with the big boys, great addition to the series with insanely good word of mouth.
 
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zeemumu

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Cheebo said:
Rogue One is locked to do over 550 mil domestically. And finish anywhere between 550-600 and in the top 10 highest grossing movies domestically of all time ahead of The Dark Knight.

A fucking spin-off.
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Spinoff or not, it's Star Wars, it's theatrical, and it's canon.
 
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Kagari

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Cheebo said:
Rogue One is locked to do over 550 mil domestically. And finish anywhere between 550-600 and in the top 10 highest grossing movies domestically of all time ahead of The Dark Knight.

A fucking spin-off.
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A spin-off that happens to be better than TFA with a really positive word of mouth.
 
GraveRobberX

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Passengers might get to 100mil, thought it was faltering very bad

Also New Year, new record breaking stats for Disney's name to take place
 
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Abounder

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Rogue One is doing so much better than the last prequel spinoff, from $35m to half a billion dom (and goes to show how weak the Star Wars brand can be in the wrong hands) :

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Thank the maker for Kathleen Kennedy, she is the chosen one
 
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Sean C

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The Oscar contenders are making their presence known now. Now, if only La La Land and Fences would come to a theatre near me (the Christmas Day/New Year's offerings here were Why Him?, Assassin's Creed, Sing, and Passengers; sigh).

It's funny that ten years ago Disney seemed like a spent force as a studio, and then it just took over everything.
 
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Lifejumper

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Abounder said:
Rogue One is doing so much better than the last prequel spinoff, from $35m to half a billion dom (and goes to show how weak the Star Wars brand can be in the wrong hands) :




Thank the gods for Kathleen Kennedy, she is the chosen one
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Legendary pick by GL tbh.
 
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Ithil

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Abounder said:
Rogue One is doing so much better than the last prequel spinoff, from $35m to half a billion dom (and goes to show how weak the Star Wars brand can be in the wrong hands) :




Thank the gods for Kathleen Kennedy, she is the chosen one
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That should never have been in theaters, it was literally just the first few episodes of the show put together. Baffling idea by Lucas and I think it soured a lot of folks on the show for years, even though it ended up being very good.
 
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Cheebo

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DarkLordMalik said:
So which studio is going to drop at the bottom in 2017?
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Disney is in for a bad year.

Well outside of Beauty and the Beast....and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2...and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales....and Cars 3...and Thor: Ragnarok...and Coco...and Star Wars: Episode VIII.

Okay okay maybe not. But 2018 they will fall!! Right? Oh wait there is...Black Panther, Untitled Wreck-It Ralph 2, Avengers: Infinity War, The Incredibles 2, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Mulan, Mary Poppins Returns, & Star Wars: Han Solo.

Okay okay but really 2019! It's 2019....Captain Marvel, Avengers 4, Toy Story 4, Indiana Jones 5, Star Wars: Episode IX...
 
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duckroll

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Cheebo said:
Rogue One is locked to do over 550 mil domestically. And finish anywhere between 550-600 and in the top 10 highest grossing movies domestically of all time ahead of The Dark Knight.

A fucking spin-off.
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TFA made $936 million. This is going to make about 60% of that. Sounds like right for a "spin-off"? Whatever that means.
 
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Nipo

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Finally saw LA LA land. One of the top three movies I've seen this year. If you liked whiplash go see it immediately.
 
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GhaleonEB

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Sing is going to make more than Moana, and by a good margin. Disney stays winning, but damn is Illumination on a hot streak, too.

I don't think Episode VIII is going to have the kind of drop off people expected after TFA, if a spin-off can do these numbers.
 
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duckroll

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Cheebo said:
Floor for Episode VIII has to be 750 mil domestic at this point.
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The more interesting "spin off" over-performance this year is actually Suicide Squad.

Batman v Superman - $330 million
Suicide Squad - $325 million

Lol.

Maybe we can compare both to Nolan's Batman films instead and consider them both spin-offs?!
 
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Cheebo

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duckroll said:
The more interesting "spin off" over-performance this year is actually Suicide Squad.

Batman v Superman - $330 million
Suicide Squad - $325 million

Lol.

Maybe we can compare both to Nolan's Batman films instead and consider them both spin-offs?!
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Well the Nolan films do show you the sort of numbers Batman films can do when the audience actually likes them. The fact the first Batman and Superman team-up movie did far worse than The Dark Knight Rises is not what WB had in mind when kickstarting the DCEU.
 
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duckroll

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Cheebo said:
Well the Nolan films do show you the sort of numbers Batman films can do when the audience actually likes them. The fact the first Batman and Superman team-up movie did far far far worse than The Dark Knight Rises is pretty crazy in retrospect.
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It didn't do far, far, far worse though. TDKR "only" made like $430 million. It was already $100 million down from TDK. So maybe it's natural decline and fatigue!
 
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Cheebo

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duckroll said:
It didn't do far, far, far worse though. TDKR "only" made like $430 million. It was already $100 million down from TDK. So maybe it's natural decline and fatigue!
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In theory being the first team up movie and first appearance of Wonder Woman should have been more like a Avengers style boost. This would be more like if The Avengers did worse than Iron Man 2. The Nolan films (and Batman '89 to be fair) show the potential of what Batman can do when the movie clicks with the audience.

Batman has the potential to be a boxoffice dominating force as Batman '89 and The Dark Knight show. More than any other super hero, that really shows the failings of the DCEU so far, the character has proven previously it can be the dominate super hero franchise. And for now kind lost in the middle of the pack.


And TDKR made just short of 450 mil, 448 total. TDKR took a hit from the mass shooting opening day, should have topped 475 at least.
 
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kswiston

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duckroll said:
It didn't do far, far, far worse though. TDKR "only" made like $430 million. It was already $100 million down from TDK. So maybe it's natural decline and fatigue!
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TDKR was a couple million shy of $450M domestic, not that that changes anything.

Rogue One dropped more than I thought it would this weekend.

The Great Wall is just shy of $150M in China. I wonder how it will do elsewhere.
 
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Hickbilly Deluxe

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Cheebo said:
Rogue One is locked to do over 550 mil domestically. And finish anywhere between 550-600 and in the top 10 highest grossing movies domestically of all time ahead of The Dark Knight.

A fucking spin-off.
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Imagine what the Han Solo film will do. 700+? I could seriously see it.
 
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Ridley327

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Schlorgan said:
Is The Space Between Us ever actually coming out? I could swear that I've seen trailers for that movie since Zootopia.
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I think it's coming out in February now.

January is kind of amazing this year, in that it starts with a new Underworld film and ends with a new Resident Evil film, with a new xXx film sandwiched in there.
 
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mreddie

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Schlorgan said:
Is The Space Between Us ever actually coming out? I could swear that I've seen trailers for that movie since Zootopia.
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In August 2015, STX Entertainment scheduled the film to be released on July 29, 2016.The release date was later switched with STX's other release, Bad Moms, and was scheduled to be released on August 19, 2016. In June 2016, other movies were crowded with Kubo and the Two Strings, Ben-Hur and War Dogs and the film was pushed again to December 21, 2016, allowing more time for work on the visual effects. The film's release was later moved up to December 16, 2016 before being pushed back to February 3, 2017.
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The first push worked out but fuck, that film has been pushed to almost January.

January is gonna be funny.
 
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ElBoxyBrown

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Abounder said:
Rogue One is doing so much better than the last prequel spinoff, from $35m to half a billion dom (and goes to show how weak the Star Wars brand can be in the wrong hands) :




Thank the maker for Kathleen Kennedy, she is the chosen one
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That was originally made to be a TV movie pilot despite the theatrical release.
 
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Rogue One is probably going to end up number 5 domestically. With a little luck, perhaps it will beat out Jurassic World for fourth. Not to shabby.
 
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Elandyll

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Cheebo said:
Disney is in for a bad year.

Well outside of Beauty and the Beast....and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2...and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales....and Cars 3...and Thor: Ragnarok...and Coco...and Star Wars: Episode VIII.

Okay okay maybe not. But 2018 they will fall!! Right? Oh wait there is...Black Panther, Untitled Wreck-It Ralph 2, Avengers: Infinity War, The Incredibles 2, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Mulan, Mary Poppins Returns, & Star Wars: Han Solo.

Okay okay but really 2019! It's 2019....Captain Marvel, Avengers 4, Toy Story 4, Indiana Jones 5, Star Wars: Episode IX...
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2017 is going to be a monster of a year for theaters and studios in general (Transformers 5, Lego Batman, 50 shades (ugh), Alien, Logan, Kong, Spider-Man, WW, Furious 8, XXX, Justice League...)
But yeah, particularly for Disney for sure.

2018 will still be great for sure, but I could certainly see it be down from 2017.
 
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mreddie

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Elandyll said:
2017 is going to be a monster of a year for theaters and studios in general (Transformers 5, Lego Batman, 50 shades (ugh), Alien, Logan, Kong, Spider-Man, WW, Furious 8, XXX, Justice League...)
But yeah, particularly for Disney for sure.

2018 will still be great for sure, but I could certainly see it be down from 2017.
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XXX 3? You're bullshitting me right?
 
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Saucycarpdog

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Elandyll said:
2017 is going to be a monster of a year for theaters and studios in general (Transformers 5, Lego Batman, 50 shades (ugh), Alien, Logan, Kong, Spider-Man, WW, Furious 8, XXX, Justice League...)
But yeah, particularly for Disney for sure.

2018 will still be great for sure, but I could certainly see it be down from 2017.
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You never know. Audiences could reject some of those films like they did with many in 2016.

June is going to be a bloodbath especially.
 
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Shalashaska

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Abounder said:
Rogue One is doing so much better than the last prequel spinoff, from $35m to half a billion dom (and goes to show how weak the Star Wars brand can be in the wrong hands) :
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To be fair, they basically packaged 4 TV episodes together and released it in the theatres for that one
 
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PeakPointMatrix

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Cheebo said:
Rogue One is locked to do over 550 mil domestically. And finish anywhere between 550-600 and in the top 10 highest grossing movies domestically of all time ahead of The Dark Knight.

A fucking spin-off.
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Well it helps that it cracks the top three Star Wars films for a lot of people, myself included. I wish TFA was this good.
 
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