As if there was any doubt, Disney has conquered the holiday movie season for the second year in a row. It was the Force Awakens that broke box office records last year, and it seems Rogue One is certainly no slouch with audiences either. In its third weekend, Rogue One earned a total of $64,336,000, boosting the film’s worldwide cumulative gross to $789,714,705. It’s clear that fans of the Star Wars series have not failed to show their love and support for the film as the movie has seen a successful couple of weeks. Also, with this weekend, Rogue One had plenty of valiant contenders.
Sing came in a very close second at the box office with a $56,400,000 weekend take, boosting its total to $277 million (not quite Minions-level financial success, but a success regardless). Passengers came in third with $20.7 million intake in its second weekend, with Moana (another Disney movie? OF COURSE) and Why Him rounding out the top 5 with $14.3 and $13 million respectively.
On the side of films who are more of the Oscar-contender variety, there was a bit of a heated competition between Denzel Washington’s Fences and La-La Land, with Fences achieving victory with a $10 million dollar weekend total. La-La Land concluded its weekend with a $9.5 million haul.
As always, the lesson to take away with this week’s box office totals is that Disney has a particular business model that has kept them in the top 5 of the box office seemingly every weekend (as long as Disney has a movie out, you know it’ll be near the top). With Episode VIII set to release during the 2017 holiday season, it’s a pretty easy guess to assume that Disney has no plans to slow down anytime soon.
Recommended Movie of the Week: If you’re a fan of the movie Whiplash or musicals or jazz or movies that make you feel all of the emotions, then La-La Land is an easy recommendation to you. Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone are electric together, with Stone giving a career-best performance. All of this accompanied with top-notch (and extremely catch) musical numbers and Damien Chazelle’s exceptional directing, it’s a movie that deserves to be rewarded for the amount of work put into it.
Did you see Rogue One during the holiday season? What was your favorite movie of this season? Let us know in the comments below!
