Star Wars: Rogue One – Cassian Andor #1
(W) Benjamin Percy (A) Luke Ross
CASSIAN ANDOR’S FINAL MISSION BEFORE HE MEETS HIS ULTIMATE HEROIC DESTINY! Before the heist that shook the galaxy, a lone Rebel operative walks into danger. Cassian Andor infiltrates the lawless maze of Kafrene, racing against troopers, bounty hunters and time itself in a tense espionage thriller.
Denuo Novo has revealed the Star Wars: Rogue One Death Trooper Helmet Accessory for pre-order.
Elite Imperial soldiers, Death Troopers are encased in specialized Stormtrooper armor with a dark, ominous gleam. These troops serve as bodyguards and enforcers for figureheads including Director Krennic, a highly placed officer within the Advanced Weapons Research division of the Empire, and later Moff Gideon and others.
This helmet accessory includes details recreated from the screen-used production assets from Star Wars: Rogue One.
Didn’t get what you wanted for Christmas? Never fear! Five new items just hit comic stores courtesy of Diamond Select Toys and Gentle Giant LTD, perfect for the people on your post-holiday shopping list, especially you! One is from Marvel, four are from Star Wars, and all five are awesome.
Marvel Animated X-Men Storm 1/7 Scale Mini-Bust
A Diamond Select Toys release! By the Goddess! The hit X-Men: The Animated Series line of mini-busts continues with the highly requested Storm! The weather-manipulating mutant wears her trademark white suit and holds a ball of lightning in her hand in this 1/7 scale, approximately 6-inch mini-bust. Limited to only 3000 pieces, it features detailed sculpting and cartoon-accurate paint applications, and comes packaged in a full-color box with a numbered certificate of authenticity. Designed by Barry Bradfield, sculpted by Paul Harding! (Item #NOV212077, SRP: $89.99)
Star Wars The Clone Wars Cad Bane 1/7 Scale Animated Mini-Bust
A Gentle Giant Ltd. release! The cowboy of the Star Wars Universe is ready for his close-up! This 1/6 scale resin mini-bust takes a realistic take on the Clone Wars character, showing him wielding both of his pistols as he peers out from under the wide brim of his hat. This 6-inch bust comes packaged in a full-color box, and is limited to an edition of 3000. It comes packaged with a numbered certificate of authenticity. (Item #APR222241, SRP: $120.00)
Star Wars A New Hope Tusken Raider Legends in 3D ½ Scale Bust
A Gentle Giant Ltd. release! They’re legends on Tatooine, and now a Tusken Raider is the next Legend in 3D! This approximately 10-inch, half-scale bust depicts one of the sand people in his traditional garb, with a rifle slung on his back, atop a base fashioned after a gaderfffii stick. Limited to only 1,000 pieces, each highly detailed bust is hand-painted and comes packaged in a full color box with a hand-numbered certificate of authenticity. (Item #MAR222294, SRP: $200.00)
Star Wars Rogue One Cassian Andor 1/6 Scale Mini-Bust
A Gentle Giant Ltd. release! Mission accomplished! The star of the Disney+ TV series Andor, Captain Cassian Andor helped deliver Death Star plans to the Rebellion, and now Gentle Giant Ltd. is delivering him, as an all-new mini-bust! Based on his appearance in Star Wars: Rogue One and measuring approximately 6 inches tall, this 1/6 scale bust features detailed sculpting and paint applications and sits atop a pedestal base. Limited to only 2000 pieces, it comes packaged in a full-color box with a numbered certificate of authenticity. (Item #JUN222434, SRP: $120.00)
Star Wars The Mandalorian Fennec Shand 1/6 Scale Mini-Bust
A Gentle Giant Ltd. release! Straight outta Tatooine, the chief enforcer for daimyo Boba Fett is now an all-new 7-inch mini-bust! Holding her powerful MK sniper rifle, this 1/6 scale Fennec comes with two interchangeable heads, so you can display her helmeted and unhelmeted, Limited to only 3000 pieces, it comes packaged with a numbered certificate of authenticity in a full-color box. (Item #MAY222197, SRP: $120.00)
Star Wars: Rogue One Adaptation #2
(W) Jody Houser (A) Emilio Laiso (CA) Phil Noto
Rated T
In Shops: May 03, 2017
SRP: $3.99
Jyn Erso continues her quest with Cassian Andor to help the Rebellion fight the sinister Galactic Empire. Following the trail to the ancient Jedha City to find Rebel extremist Saw Guerra, Jyn and Cassian get caught in a firefight with the Empire… only to then be taken prisoner by Saw’s followers! The Star Wars story continues!
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story repeated in first place for the fourth weekend in a row earning an estimated $21.97 million for the weekend. The film has earned $477.3 million domestically and now stands at $914.4 million worldwide. That has had the film move into fifth place for worldwide earnings for a film released in 2016.
In a close second was Hidden Figures which received its national release. The film earned $21.8 million for the weekend bringing its total to an estimated $24.8 million after three weeks. The film had a budget of $25 million so should do quite well especially after lots of buzz and positive word of mouth. The film’s success was driven by a diverse audience that was 64% female, 56% of the audience under the age of 35, and 43% of the audience Caucasian, 37% African-American, and 13% Hispanic.
In third place was Sing which added an estimated $19.6 million to bring its domestic total to $213.4 million and worldwide total to $356.9 million. The film is doing quite well, especially with a budget of just $75 million.
In fourth was Underworld: Blood Wars which earned an estimated $13.1 million. The film debuted with the lowest opening for an Underworld film and received a “B+” CinemaScore. It’s unknown what the international earnings are so far. With a budget of $35 million, the film will likely make a slight profit by the time things are done.
In fifth was La La Land which was boosted due to awards season. The film earned an estimated $10 million for a domestic gross of $51.7 million. With a budget of just $30 million, the film will do quite well in the long run and make a nice profit.
In comic book films, Doctor Strange was #19 earning $330,000 as the film begins to wrap up its domestic run. The film has earned $230.9 million domestically and $658.9 million worldwide. The film still needs to debut in Japan so it’s unknown how it’ll look when it’s completely over.
We’ll be back in an hour with an updated look at comic book movie adaptations released in 2016.
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On this special edition of Graphic Policy Radio, Elana is joined by two of the freshest nerd-savvy voices in film criticism for a look at what might be Star Wars’ most political film to date.
We discuss LGBTQ coded relationships and other issues of representation in the film, whether the film succeeds artistically and what made us misty-eyed.
Charles Pulliam-Moore is a blogger at Fusion where he writes about race, sexuality, and inclusion in nerd culture (including this piece on Rogue One) . Twitter is his social media drug of choice.
Shaun Lau is an Asian-American activist and host of the No, Totally Podcast about film and social issues. Listen at http://nototally.com/ and follow him on Twitter
On this special edition of Graphic Policy Radio, Elana is joined by two of the freshest nerd-savvy voices in film criticism for a look at what might be Star Wars’ most political film to date.
We’ll discuss LGBTQ coded relationships and other issues of representation in the film, whether the film succeeds artistically and what made us misty-eyed.
The show airs LIVE this Thursday at 8pm ET.
Charles Pulliam-Moore is a blogger at Fusion where he writes about race, sexuality, and inclusion in nerd culture (including this piece on Rogue One) . Twitter is his social media drug of choice.
Shaun Lau is an Asian-American activist and host of the No, Totally Podcast about film and social issues. Listen at http://nototally.com/ and follow him on Twitter
As expected, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was number one at the box office again this holiday weekend bringing in an estimated $49.5 million. The film has earned $424.9 million domestically after three weeks.
In second place, again as expected, was Sing which earned an additional $42.8 million domestically in its second week. That’s an improvement on the previous weekend where it earned $35.3 million. Domestically the film has earned $166.4 million after two weeks and with a budget of $75 million the film is doing quite well.
Passengers also improved upon last weekend’s $14.9 million. The film remained in third adding $16.2 million to its domestic total. The film sits at $61.5 million after two weeks and with a budget of $110 million it’ll have to fight to become profitable.
Moana improves moving to fourth from sixth and earning an estimated $10.97 million after six weeks. The film has earned $210 million domestically.
Rounding out the top five is Why Him? which added $10.6 to its domestic total. With $34.6 million earned and a $38 million budget, the film should make a small profit.
Assassin’s Creed dropped to eighth in its second week earning an estimated $8.6 million. With $39.6 million in so far the film needs a miracle.
For comics Doctor Strange was #18 earning $665,000 domestically. The film has earned $230.1 million domestically so far after nine weeks and will soon be wrapping up its domestic run.
We’ll update this as more info comes in and come back in an hour as we look at where the comic films ended up for the year.
Even with some big name competition Rogue One: A Star Wars Story topped the box office with an estimated $64.4 million over the weekend. That’s a drop of 58.5% from the previous weekend and with another estimated $31.7 million on Monday the film sits at $318 million domestically. With $237.4 million in foreign box offices the film has earned $555.5 million so far.
Rogue One sits at fourth in domestic earnings for Star Wars films, eighth when that’s adjusted for inflation, and sixth for worldwide earnings.
The film was followed by a bunch of new film openings. Sing was in second place earning $35.3 million over the three-day weekend and $55.9 million domestically since its opening earlier in the week. With a budget of just $75 million the film should do quite well especially with families over the holiday season especially with an “A” CinemaScore and 72% rating on RottenTomatoes.
In third was Passengers which opened with $14.9 million over the three days and $22.2 since it opened on Wednesday. At a $110 million budget and bad reviews, the film is on shaky ground. It’ll probably need the power of its stars to drive earnings in foreign box offices to come out at the other end doing well.
Why Him? opened in fourth at an estimated $11.1 million over the three days. With a budget of just $38 million the “R” rated film should do fine and make back it’s money.
Finally, in what can only be seen as a disappointment, Assassin’s Creed earned an estimated $10.3 million of the three days and $17.8 million since its open on Wednesday. The film has earned another $14.2 million in foreign box offices and with a budget of $125 million it can only be seen as a flop continuing the video game movie curse. With a 19% on RottenTomatoes and B+ CinemaScore, the film is doomed for game over.
In comic films, Doctor Strange added an estimated $634,000 to its total to drop to 16th from the previous week’s 9th. The film is at $228.3 million domestically and $656.1 million worldwide.
We’ll have more analysis of comic film adaptations in an hour!
It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone, but Rogue One: A Star Wars Story ruled the weekend box office earning an estimated $155 million. That’s the fourth largest December three-day weekend ever, the third largest opening of 2016, and second December opener to debut over $100 million. The other film to do that was Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It’ll be interesting to see how the film does over the month as it’s going against some other high-profile openings and Oscar bait. It received an “A” CinemaScore, but was pretty male with 66% of the audience. 38% were under the age of 25. So far the film has an 84% on RottenTomatoes.
Internationally the film earned an estimated $135.5 million which brings its worldwide total to $290.5 million. These numbers will probably shift a little once the official tallies come in.
In second place was Moana giving Disney a one-two punch. That film added $11.7 million to its domestic total bringing it to $161.9 million. In third was Office Christmas Party which added $8.5 million to its domestic total to bring that to $31.5 million after two weeks.
In fourth place was Collateral Beauty which earned a disappointing $7 million. With a budget of $36 million that isn’t a disaster, but it shows how far Will Smith’s star power has dropped. It’ll be a tough road for the film as the audience that would go for it will mostly be focusing on the slate of Oscar films opening up over the month.
Rounding out the top five was Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them which added $5 million to its total to bring its domestic earnings to $207.7 million.
Speaking of Oscar films… Fences opened up in 4 theaters earning $128,000 giving it the second best per-theater average for the weekend.
When it comes to comic adaptations, Doctor Strange added $2 million to its domestic total bringing it to $226.1 million and worldwide it sits at $652.9 million.
This weekend sees a whole bunch of films opening (or going wider) including Passengers, Assassin’s Creed, Why Him?, Sing, and the previously mentioned Fences.
We’ll be back in an hour where we’ll dive into the 2016 comic adaptations even deeper.
