It may have lost top spot at the North American box office this weekend to Hidden Figures, but Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has now pushed U.S. gross to $488.3 million, making it the highest-grossing domestic release of 2016.
Rogue One has dethroned fellow Disney release Finding Dory, which now sits in second place with $486.3 million, followed by another Disney offering, Captain America: Civil War, in third with $408.1 million. The Anthology movie is expected to break the $500 million mark on home soil this Monday.
Globally, Rogue One now sits on $980 million, making it the third-biggest movie of the Star Wars franchise after Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($2.068 billion) and Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace ($1.027 billion).
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From Lucasfilm comes the first of the Star Wars standalone films, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, an all-new epic adventure. In a time of conflict, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire’s ultimate weapon of destruction. This key event in the Star Wars timeline brings together ordinary people who choose to do extraordinary things, and in doing so, become part of something greater than themselves.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story sees Gareth Edwards (Monsters) directing a cast that includes Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything), Diego Luna (Milk), Ben Mendelsohn (The Dark Knight Rises), Donnie Yen (Ip Man), Jiang Wen (Let the Bullets Fly), Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland), Alan Tudyk (Con Man), Riz Ahmed (Nightcrawler), Genevieve O’Reilly (Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith), Jimmy Smits (Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones), James Earl Jones (Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope), Valene Kane (The Fall), Alistair Petrie (The Night Manager), Warwick Davis (Star Wars: Episode IV – Return of the Jedi), Ian McElhinney (Game of Thrones) and Jonathan Aris (Sherlock).
