It may not be surprising news to hear that a Star Wars movie has made a planet-sized amount of cash, but even so, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has reached an impressive box-office milestone. The first Star Wars anthology film earned $801.9 million in its first 18 days of release.
In the US, Gareth Edwards' spin-off took $440m, while here in the UK the film took £50.7m – stealing the crown of 2016's biggest film from Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them in the dying hours of the year.
Though it is unlikely to come close to the $2 billion tally of last year's The Force Awakens', it will easily pass the billion-dollar mark – an impressive take for a relatively risky movie outside of the main episodic series.
It caps off a record-breaking year for Disney, who became the first studio to bank $7 billion in a single year. Five of the biggest films of 2016 come from the Mouse House, and the top four – Captain America: Civil War, Finding Dory, Zootopia/Zootropolis, and The Jungle Book – are all Disney properties. The top three grossed over $1 billion each.