1. Rogue One - $135m / $135m / $500m
2. Moana - $10.5m / $161m / $200m
3. Office Christmas Party - $9m / $32.5m / $65m
**Collateral Beauty - $9m / $9m / $46m
5. Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them - $5.5m / $208.5m / $232m
6. Manchester by the Sea - $5m / $15m / $45m
7. La La Land - $4.5m $5.7m / $85m
8. Arrival - $3.5m / $87.5m / $100m
9. Doctor Strange - $2.5m / $226.5m / $238m
10. Allied - $2m / $39.5m / $46m
Rogue One arrives ready to dominate the end of the year box-office. The question is will it be enough to overthrow Finding Dory as the domestic champ. I think the late breaking reviews being so positive will help a lot. Collateral Beauty is the only other opener, and audiences wanting a tear-jerking drama over the Christmas holiday will have much (much) better reviewed options. Speaking of, Manchester by the Sea goes wide after killing it in limited for the past several weeks. I suspect its gross will fall in line with the past three Best Picture winners. As for Best Picture winners, La La Land will hit a couple hundred theaters. It had the highest PTA of the year last weekend. The plan is to take it wide Christmas Day which is very smart. I could see a scenario where it does $100m+ quite easily. It just seems like the perfect, feel good, crowdpleasing critical hit that will break out big time as this time of year. Everything's aligned perfectly, the only remainder is whether mainstream audiences will go for it or not.
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