Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - makes history with $155m in estimated weekend ticket sales

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story makes history with $155m in estimated weekend ticket sales - the movie has scored the second-best December opening in history and is one of the top debuts in history. It is the latest installment of the intergalactic adventure and it opened at number one in all markets globally. It has yet to open in China and Korea.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 19 December 2016.

In the opinion of media experts, it will be really hard for any movie to catch up to this movie because this is only the second time a movie has opened this big in December. The record-setter was Star Wars: The Force Awakens. This was the space saga's seventh installment and it debuted to £199m in the US and Canada last December.
It is expected that like its predecessor The Force Awakens did in 2015, Rogue One could top the box office for the rest of the year.
Rogue One is set before the events of the original 1977 Star Wars and has Felicity Jones and Diego Luna as leaders of a rebel faction that steals plans for its imperial enemy's master weapon, the Death Star.


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