‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ Has Second Highest First Day of Ticketing Pre-Sales

29 November 2016 1:21 PM, PST | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »

“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” is already a hot ticket. The space opera spin-off recorded the second highest first day of pre-sales in domestic box office history, Imax Entertainment CEO Greg Foster said at an investor conference on Tuesday.

The record-holder for first day pre-sales is “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” which debuted last year to nearly $248 million. “Rogue One” is on track to open to north of $130 million when it debuts on Dec. 16. Foster didn’t give specifics about how many tickets had been sold.

Fandango and MovieTickets.com, the country’s two leading digital ticketing services, both report that “Rogue One” was the biggest first day of pre-sales for the year.

Foster said that the Imax portion of those sales is “on the high end of the range of what the blockbuster biggest titles have done. »

- Brent Lang

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