Box Office Week: For four-day weekend Rogue One is #1 again with $64.3 mil, making it the 2nd highest grossing film domestically of the year and 13th highest of all time in just 3 weeks. This helped Disney become the first studio to make $3 bil domestic and $7 bil worldwide in a single year.

Rank	Title	Domestic Gross (Weekend)	Worldwide Gross (Cume)	Week #
1	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story	$64,336,000	$789,714,705	3
2	Sing	$56,400,000	$277,801,490	2
3	Passengers	$20,700,000	$126,000,201	2
4	Moana	$14,301,000	$402,460,039	6
5	Why Him?	$13,000,000	$51,903,894	2

Notable Box Office Stories:

• Once again Rogue One: A Star Wars Story performed like both a summer and holiday movie, barely moving an inch ending the weekend at #1 with $49.5 mil for the three-day and $64.3 mil for the four-day. That three day weekend represents a drop of just 22.6%. In comparison The Force Awakens dropped 39.5% for its third weekend, so clearly the legs on Rogue One aren't just remarkable because it's in the holiday season. Because of these very gradual drops Rogue One has now had three phenomenal weekends, giving it the #2 spot on the best domestic grossing films of the year and #13 spot on all time domestic (passing E.T. The Extra Terrestrial) with $439.7 mil domestic so far. The film should easily pass Finding Dory's $486.2 mil lifetime domestic gross in the coming week or two and will pass $500 mil in the process. Internationally the film is still doing incredibly well, despite still not being released in China until next week. The best performing country right now is the UK where Rogue One passed Bridget Jones's Baby to be the highest grossing film of the year in that country, making £50.7 mil so far. Rogue One has made $789.7 total so far, passing Suicide Squad to be the #7 highest grossing film of the year. While even the worst reviewed films out right now have benefited from the holiday (Collateral Beauty for instance only dropped 3% this weekend), Disney has clearly show that A) Star Wars is a brand more powerful than its individual parts (Han Solo, Skywalker, Chewbacca, etc.) and B) their darker Star Wars film still will bring in the families and repeat viewings that made The Force Awakens a runaway success. Now it's just a matter of watching if January will keep Rogue One churning for that #2 all time domestic spot above Avatar or if it will finally begin slowing down.

• With the year coming to a close and Rogue One continuing to rake in the cash it's clear that Disney stands above the rest as the kings of the 2016 box office. This week the success of Rogue One clinched Disney two first time records: the first time a studio has made $3 bil in one year domestic and the first time a studio has made $7 bil in one year worldwide. The company, which once was thought to be nearing financial ruin, has clearly found itself in this place through extremely wise subsidiary collection. Lucasfilm, Marvel, and Pixar could rival Disney's brand as separate companies but combined they complete an unbeatable trifecta, with all three this year (likely) delivering films that have grossed over $1 bil. This isn't to say in-house Disney hasn't been very strong this year with Zootopia and The Jungle Book but we also saw the second biggest flop of the year Alice Through the Looking Glass coming straight from them and being a massive flop in terms of lost merchandise and franchise potential. Disney has created an unbelievable buffer for themselves where flops like The BFG matter almost not at all. Compare that to Warner Bros, a company that has basically not had a major flop this year yet made $1 bil less domestically than Disney. With no sense of audience fatigue with Star Wars and Marvel and the clear success sequels bring to Pixar it's safe to say Disney has shielded itself better than any studio in history and will continue to profit from their acquisitions for a very long time.

• Yup it's Oscar roundup time again! Highest grossing of the crop this week again was Fences coming in #6 with $10 mil for the three-day and $12.7 mil for the four-day. This pushes the film past its $24 mil budget with a total domestic haul of $32.4 mil as it continues to play incredibly well to a mostly black audience. However still right on its heels is La La Land which only added 16 theaters but still managed to jump up an incredible 65% from last weekend, making $9.5 mil for three-day and $12.3 mil for the four-day. The film's per theater average still hasn't dropped below $10,000, despite being the fourth week of release for the film. Right now the film has grossed $64.8 mil worldwide, led by incredible domestic earnings before wide release and a strong international showing mostly in South Korea. Next week finally sees the film opening in wide release, perfect timing for it to be seen in time for the Golden Globes on Sunday and then for it to profit hard from its almost certain Best Musical/Comedy win from that awards show. The winner of best per theater average this week though was Hidden Figures, which road a surprise Best Ensemble nomination at the Screen Actors Guild Awards to make $1.1 mil for the four day, a per theater average of $45,800. The film opens wide next week but will have to compete with A Monster Calls and La La Land opening wide as well as the usual culprits. In new releases there were two major ones. First is 20th Century Women the latest from Mike Mills (Beginners, Thumbsucker) that opened in 4 theaters to $213,681, a per theater average of $45,800. Finally this week saw the release of Paterson the latest film from Jim Jarmusch that opened to $119,657, a per theater average of $17,334. With both films hoping to get best acting noms for its leads but seemingly unlikely to, they may compete with the splashier awards films out right now.

Films Reddit Wants to Follow

This is a segment where we keep a weekly tally of currently showing films that aren't in the Top 5 that fellow redditors want updates on. If you'd like me to add a film to this chart, make a comment in this thread.

Title	Domestic Gross (Cume)	Worldwide Gross (Cume)	Budget	Week #
Your Name	N/A	$288,803,434	Unk	18
Moonlight	$12,705,101	$12,705,101	$5 mil	11
Doctor Strange	$230,293,310	$657,813,341	$165 mil	9
Arrival	$92,632,332	$152,121,073	$47 mil	8
Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them	$225,420,251	$776,820,251	$180 mil	7

Notable Film Closings

Title	Domestic Gross (Cume)	Worldwide Gross (Cume)	Budget
Keeping Up with the Joneses	$14,904,426	$28,945,557	$40 mil

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Submitted January 03, 2017 at 09:40PM by mi-16evil http://ift.tt/2iEcsqy