Star Wars: Rogue One opens to huge box office success

It looks as though ‘Star Wars: Rogue One’ is a massive hit.

According to Box Office Mojo, ‘Star Wars: Rogue One’ has already blown away the box office with a Death Star sized opening… and could be in the top 15 openers of all time.

“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story delivered an estimated $71 million on Friday, including $29 million from Thursday night previews.”

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But will ‘Rogue One’ be an even bigger success than we thought?

“The question now is to wonder whether this one is going to play along the lines of a Twilight movie and settle in a little over $140 million for the weekend or a little like The Dark Knight Rises which also saw Thursday previews account for 40% of its Friday gross and ended up finishing the weekend at $160.8 million. At this point an opening just shy of $160 million seems a good bet.”

Of course, ‘Rogue One’ has already managed huge numbers so far.

It’s already recorded the highest US domestic Thursday preview of 2016, making that impressive $29 million across 4157 theatres. And this is just domestic – as of Friday, the film managed an impressive $33 million internationally, with a cool $5 million here in the UK.

What does this mean for the ‘Rogue One’ grand total?

Well, if everything goes according to plan, ‘Rogue One’ stands to make an additional $300 million as it opens internationally in markets such as China and South Korea… which could leave the ‘Star Wars’ spin-off with quite an impressive opening weekend.

Of course, that doesn’t quite live up to the colossal $529 million opening weekend of ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’. But it’s certainly close. And for a spin-off which was already not quite a part of the main ‘Star Wars’ series, that’s quite a feat.

‘Star Wars: Rogue One’ is in cinemas now.

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