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Box Office Top 5: 'Trolls', 'Fantastic Beast And Where To Find Them', 'Arrival', 'Almost Christmas', 'Doctor Strange' 
  
 In 1999, Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace was put on the defensive when it “only” made $64 million over its Fri-Sun debut (behind only The Lost World’s $74m Fri-Sun debut frame) and (a record) $105m over its Wed-Sun opening weekend. In 2002, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones was put on the defensive when it “only” made $80 million (the third-biggest ever at the time) in its Fri-Sun weekend and $110m over its Thurs-Sun debut weekend. 
  
 If you recall, this was just two weeks after Spider-Man became the first movie to snag a $100 million+ Fri-Sun debut. There was no such handwringing in May of 2005 when Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith became the first movie ever to snag $50 million in a single day as part of a $108m Fri-Sun debut (second only to Spider-Man’s $114m debut) and $158m Thurs-Sun debut. Fun fact: It’s $124m Thurs-Sat gross was the biggest three-day gross ever. 
  
 And, of course, last year Star Wars: The Force Awakens clobbered the opening weekend record books with a $247.1 million Fri-Sun debut. And now we have Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which posted an objectively huge $155 million debut weekend. It’s the 12th-biggest debut weekend of all time, the 17th if you want to play the “adjusted for inflation” game. It’s the third-biggest opening weekend of the year, behind Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ($166m) and Captain America: Civil War ($179m). 
  
 It sits right alongside the likes of The Hunger Games, Spider-Man 3 and Furious 7. But of course, those (and the various Twilight Saga sequels and the last two Dark Knight films that opened in the $138-$160 million range) went out as straight 2D releases. I don’t mean to sound like a grinch. This is a terrific debut weekend and will probably lead to an obscene domestic final. But it is a little… complicated to see the mighty Star Wars, even a stand-alone offering that was never meant to play like a straight “Episode,” exist as merely one among many top-tier blockbuster franchises. 
  
 To be fair, this is less about the movie and more about me having one of those “Tommy Lee Jones at the end of No Country for Old Men” moments. My fear when the new movies were announced, especially sans George Lucas's input, that the once mighty and special Star Wars would become just another big franchise. That's something we're all going to have to come to terms with. 
  
 The Walt Disney blockbuster, which is a prequel to the first Star Wars movie with only a few explicit connections to the previous films, pulled a 2.18x weekend multiplier. It earned “just” 18.7% of its weekend total via Thursday previews. The Force Awakens had a 2.08x multiplier and made 22.9%, or $57m, of its $247.9m debut weekend via Thursday shows. The similar multiplier shouldn’t be a surprise, both because of the size of the initial numbers and the fact that a lot of kids, including mine, are still in school this week. 
  
 The debut is (obviously) the second biggest opening ever in December, coming in 83% higher than the $84 million debut of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Heck, it almost topped The Desolation of Smaug’s whole debut weekend ($73m) in a single day. If you count it as a prequel to Star Wars, as opposed to a sequel to Revenge of the Sith, it’s the biggest debut ever for a prequel. The film scored straight A’s across the board from CinemaScore. It played 59% male, 
  
 74% adult, 37% 25-and-under, 49% 26-49, and 14% over 50. It played 62% 2D (5% PLF 2D), 12% IMAX, and 6% PLF 3D. 
  
 So yeah, so far, so good. 
  
 The film earned $290.5 million in its worldwide debut, opening in much of the world save for South Korea (Dec. 28, 2016) and China (Jan. 6, 2017). Yeah, that's 45% less than the $529m worldwide debut of The Force Awakens, but it's still huge. If it plays exactly like The Force Awakens from here on out, and this is just "fun with math" at the moment, we’re looking at $584m domestic and $1.135 billion worldwide, which would make it the biggest domestic grosser and second-biggest worldwide grosser (behind Captain America: Civil War's $1.15b) of the year. None of this accounts for overseas exchange rates. 
  
 There is a chance it will be more frontloaded in North America and/or a bigger deal in certain overseas territories compared to The Force Awakens, but we’ll know soon enough. The hope, because box office punditry is built on hope (!), is that the film will be at least as leggy as the Hobbit prequels (3.5x) in North America and a bigger deal overseas thanks to the exceptionally inclusive cast (Diego Luna, Donnie Yen, Riz Ahmed, Jiang Wen, etc.) and the fact that it’s more of a stand-alone story than the nostalgia-specific The Force Awakens. 
  
 But, let’s be honest for a second. Not only was this film never supposed to approach the $936 million domestic/$2.068 billion worldwide total of The Force Awakens, but it would also have been a smashing success making even 1/3 of that. The important thing was that the first Star Wars Story earned solid reviews and garnered strong audience buzz while standing apart from the official “episode” installments. Gareth Edwards’s war caper did all those things in spades, so it’s already a long-term winner for Walt Disney’s Star Wars franchise. ||||| Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE The final trailer for 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,' starring Felicity Jones, Diego Luna and Ben Mendelsohn. Lucasfilm 
  
 Felicity Jones stars as Jyn Erso in 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.' (Photo: Jonathan Olley) 
  
 The box office has gone galactic once again. 
  
 Following Star Wars: The Force Awakens' record-setting $248 million opening a year ago, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story obliterated the competition with a $155 million debut, according to studio estimates from comScore. The haul makes it the second-best December start in history, the 12th-largest opening of all time and the third biggest this year behind Captain America: Civil War ($179.1 million) and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ($166 million). 
  
 "If not for The Force Awakens, our minds would be absolutely blown by a $155 million opening in December," says comScore senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian, who notes that before last year's Star Wars film, no December movie had ever opened with more than $100 million. (The previous Christmastime champ was 2012's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey with $84.6 million.) 
  
 Rogue One, the first standalone Star Wars film, stars Felicity Jones and follows a scrappy Rebel Alliance unit stealing the plans for the Empire's Death Star — leading up to the events of George Lucas' original 1977 movie. Rogue got a boost from critical support (84% positive reviews at aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes) and played well with audiences (who gave it an A grade at CinemaScore). 
  
 Analysts wondered how well Rogue One would do, especially compared to The Force Awakens, but the film's quality proved it was more than marketing hype, Dergarabedian says. "You have a movie that really delivers, (and) it’s so much fun. They’ve turned virtually unknown characters into superstars literally overnight and that’s no small thing." 
  
 Disney also had the No. 2 movie with another strong outing for animated adventure Moana, which earned $11.7 million ($161.9 million to date). The T.J. Miller holiday comedy Office Christmas Party was third with $8.5 million. 
  
 The drama Collateral Beauty, which features Will Smith as an advertising executive visited by Love, Time and Death, was a bust, only mustering $7 million. While moviegoers approved (giving it an A-minus at CinemaScore), critics weren't as kind (just 14% liked it, according to Rotten Tomatoes), and it marks the worst wide-release opening in Smith's career. 
  
 Warner Bros. released the tearjerking Beauty as "total counterprogramming," Dergarabedian says, "but how do you rise above the positive noise (around) Star Wars? Everything else played second fiddle. You’ve got Rogue One looming like the Death Star over every movie." 
  
 The magical Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them rounded out the top five with $5 million ($207.7 million to date for the Harry Potter prequel). 
  
 Among awards season fare, the New England drama Manchester By the Sea went nationwide and pulled in $4.2 million ($14 million total since last month's limited release), and the musical La La Land racked up $4 million as it expanded to 200 locations, with an impressive $20,000 per-theater average. 
  
 "This is the calm before the storm," Dergarabedian says of La La Land's "brilliant" rollout. "There are so many people who still don’t have this movie available yet who can’t wait to see it." 
  
 After the movie opens nationally Christmas Day, "suddenly it’s going to become part of the culture and the conversation." 
  
 Final figures are expected Monday. 
  
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story soared to the top of the weekend box office as expected, reports the AP, scoring the second-best December opening ever with $155 million in estimated ticket sales. Globally, Rogue One notched $290.5 million, adds Forbes. The intergalactic adventure blasted into theaters with the biggest Thursday night debut of the year and flew past industry expectations for a $130 million weekend. Rogue One is set before the events of the original 1977 Star Wars. Star Wars: The Force Awakens holds the December record with its monster $247.9 million opening last year. Rounding out the top five, via USA Today: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story ($155 million) Moana ($11.7 million) Office Christmas Party ($8.5 million) Collateral Beauty ($7 million) Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them ($5 million) Mark Hamill tweet-reviewed Rogue One.