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Toy Fair 2016: New Star Wars including Rey, Sabine, Inquisitor, and Darth Revan

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At Toy Fair 2016 Hasbro showed off lots of new Star Wars figures including some based on Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Wars: Rebels, and some other Expanded Universe figures.

A new multipack featuring Finn, Rey, and Maz Katana was showed off. Figures for Sabine, Inquisitor, Kanan Jarrus in Stormtrooper Disguise were displayed as well as Darth Raven Red Avenger, Rip N Go BB-8, InteracTech Stormtrooper, Episode V Snowtrooper, and Bladebuilders.

Check out the figures below.

Kung Fu Panda 3 Stays on Top of the Box Office

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Kung Fu Panda 3Kung Fu Panda 3 was the top of the box office for the second weekend in a row beating three new films that opened up. The film earned an estimated $21 million to bring its domestic total to $69.1 million. The film has earned $198.1 million worldwide so far after about two weeks.

Three new films didn’t light up the box office. Hail, Caeser! came in second with an estimated $11.4 million. The film has earned mixed reviews, but there’s a fan base for Coen brothers films so it should get above its budget of $22 million. The Choice debuted in fifth earning an estimated $6.1 million, and just behind that in sixth was Pride and Prejudice and Zombies which earned an estimated $5.2 million.

The Revenant dropped to third place from last weekend’s second. It earned $7.1 million to bring its domestic total to $149.7 million. In fourth was Star Wars: The Force Awakens which earned $6.89 million.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens currently has earned $905.96 million domestically and $1.1 billion in foreign markets. Its total stands at $2.008 billion. The film still sits in third in worldwide grosses and is about $178 million short of passing Titanic to move in to second. It has a long way to go to top Avatar to move in first. It’d need $780 million to get to that spot.

Kung Fu Panda 3 Debuts on Top, Crushing the Competition

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Kung Fu Panda 3Kung Fu Panda 3 debuted in first place this weekend earning an estimated $41 million. That’s the largest January opening of all-time. Other debuts this weekend didn’t fair nearly as well. The Finest Hours came in fourth place earning an estimated $10.3 million, Fifty Shades of Black opened in ninth and earned $6.2 million, Jane Got a Gun opened in 17th with $803,000, 2016 Oscar Nominated Short Films earned $505,000 for 21st, and Rabin, the Last Day was 40 with $7,854.

Overall, the box office was up compared to last year with holdover films not dropping much from the previous week. In second place was The Revenant which earned an estimated $12.4 million and in third was Star Wars: The Force Awakens which added $10.78 million to its total. Rounding out the top five was Ride Along 2 which earned an estimated $8.3 million.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens continues to rake in the cash with it crossing the $900 million mark domestically in the next week as well as crossing the $2 billion mark globally in that same time frame. The film is sitting in third in worldwide earnings (not adjusted) and is about $200 million from moving in to second and $800 million from toppling Avatar from the top spot. There’s a good chance it’ll move in to second, but first is quite a march with some tougher competition coming down the road.

The Revenant Comes Out on Top While Star Wars Moves up to Second

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revenant-leoThe Revenant topped the box office this past weekend earning an estimated $16 million. The previous week it came in second. Star Wars: The Force Awakens moved up to second earning an estimated $14.257 million, and last week’s champ Ride Along 2 dropped to third earning an estimated $12.96 million. Three new entries filled fourth, fifth, and sixth place. Dirty Grandpa debuted with $11.525 million, The Boy earned $11.26 million, and The 5th Wave was sixth with $10.7 million.

The box office was down compared to the same weekend last year, and that may have been due to the blizzard hitting a lot of the East Coast.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens is nearing $900 million domestically. After this weekend it has earned $879.3 million, and in foreign markets its earned $1.06 billion for a grand total of $1.94 billion.

While the film is the top domestic grosser (not adjusted) of all time, it still has a while to go to take that title worldwide. It currently sits at third and is about $247 million shy of moving in to second place. It’d need $849 million more to move in the top spot.

Star Wars Drops to Third as Ride Along 2 Drives by to First

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ride_along_2_0_1439549002It’d eventually happen, and this was the first weekend it was most likely to happen. Ride Along 2 was the top of the box office earning an estimated $34 million. That wasn’t close to the first film’s $41.5 million during the same weekend two years ago for the first film in the series. It was still enough to be in first place.

In second place was The Revenant which earned an estimated $29.5 million in its fourth week. It looks like the film has gotten a boost after it’s award wins and nominations.

Those two films bumped Star Wars: The Force Awakens to third. The film still brought in $25.12 million in its fifth week. The film has earned $856.94 million domestically, $1.012 billion internationally, for a total of $1.87 billion worldwide. It currently is fifth in international grosses, but it will quickly move in to fourth, and should easily move in to third. The film is currently third in all time grosses worldwide, about $320 million shy of Titanic, and $920 million shy of Avatar. There’s a good chance the film will slide in to second place, but it’d need a hell of a second wind to topple the top earner.

The propaganda film (take your pick for who) 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi debuted in fourth earning an estimated $16 million. Daddy’s Home was fifth adding $9.3 million to its total. Norm of the North, which also debuted this week, earned an estimated $6.68 million.

Star Wars: Poe Dameron in April

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With Star Wars: The Force Awakens tearing up the box office, comics based on the film have been absent, despite Marvel’s consistently strong performing comic line based in that world. The four issue miniseries Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Shattered Empire helped bridge the gap between Episode VI and Episode VII, but no comics have featured the brand new characters of the hit film (unless you count Poe Dameron as a child).

Since it was Poe Dameron’s parents that were the focus of Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Shattered Empire, it should be no surprise that Poe will get the first spotlight comic treatment in Star Wars: Poe Dameron being written by Charles Soule and drawn by Phil Noto.

The comic will dig in to Poe’s status as the top X-Wing pilot. A new nemesis from the First Order is introduced as the evil organization continues to look for Luke Skywalker. Soule has said that the fact Poe grew up within the Rebel Alliance will be explored in the series and that we’ll meet new X-Wing pilots as the world of Episode VII is explored more.

Not to be left alone, another star of The Force Awakens will be joining Poe, BB-8.

Now, where’s that Rey comic?

Star Wars Poe Dameron

Star Wars Continues to Hold on to First. Revenant Comes on Strong

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star-wars-force-awakens-official-posterStar Wars: The Force Awakens continued to hold first place, fighting off The Revenant which beat expectations. Star Wars added $41.63 million to its total while The Revenant earned $38 million after expanding its theater count.

That’s the fourth week in first place for Star Wars. It’s the top domestic earner and first film to cross the $800 million mark domestically. It now stands $812 million. The film also debuted in China earning $53 million which is reported as the largest Saturday/Sunday opening, but it’s also the only film to have opened on a Saturday. It also has the biggest Saturday of all time. The film currently sits at $1.733 billion. It needs another $400 million to move in to second and about $1 billion to move in to first.

For other movies, Daddy’s Home was third with $15 million, The Forest debuted in fourth with $13.1 million and Sisters was fifth at $7.2 million.

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