Welcome to 2017.You’ll be pleased to know that Rogue One still stands tall at the top of the box office tree with $441 million in US grosses and $706,054,705 million worldwide, topping Civil Wars $408 million and well on its way to catching Finding Dory‘s $486.2 million.
After the unprecedented success of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Lucasfilm stepped away from the traditional Skywalker family saga to tell the spinoff/prequel story Rogue One, the first anthology film in the series. While it was expected the standalone would do very well at the box office, there was some question as to how high it would go since it was not part of the main narrative and featured an ensemble of largely new characters. Opening to $155 million in the States, Rogue One has dominated the marketplace over the past few weeks, and it has now surpassed the third Captain America film to become the second highest-grossing movie of 2016.
Per the latest numbers (hat tip Comic Book), Rogue One is expected to have a U.S. total of $441 million by Monday, just its eighteenth day of release. That figure is 10 percent higher than 2008’s The Dark Knight and 13 percent behind Jurassic World at the same point in those tentpoles’ respective runs. By the time the latest Star Wars film winds down in theaters, it should easily make more than $500 million domestically, meaning for the second year in a row, the biggest movie takes place in a galaxy far, far away. Analysts do not believe it will top $600 million, but this is still a terrific haul for what Disney proclaimed to be an experiment in the months prior to its premiere.
