Rogue One made box seat office story on its opening weekend , bringing around$155 millionin North America and another $ 135.5 million overseas , making it thetop pic globallyand the second highest grossing December opening in North America on criminal record . It seems the right - wingers ’ # DumpStarWars movement — a boycott of Rogue One , which prominent conservative conspiracy theorizer Mark Dice called “ feminist propaganda ” in anow - cancel tweet — didn’t solve out too large .
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Alt - right mouthpiece Mike Cernovich toldWiredthat the boycott was triggered by Trump supporters feeling attacked by the film . How so ? In November , the official Star Wars Twitter explanation sent out a tweet ask “ Are you with her ? ” and its screenwriter Chris Weitz has alsospoken outin support of Clinton andagainst white supremacy .
Are you with her?#RogueOnepic.twitter.com / isWQPhq1hz
— Star Wars ( @starwars)November 4 , 2016
While supporting Hillary Clinton is for sure not the same thing as assail Trump or his supporters , Cernovich nevertheless tell Wired , “ Giving money to people who attack them is pathetic . I ’m going to organize more boycotts . ” In answer , Wired ruminate , “ if our maths is good … their boycott [ is ] a protest against loose speech . ”
Although # DumpStarWars was an overall failure , Cernovich is lay claim victory because the movie made less money than Force Awakens .
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Jack Posobiec , a Trump supporter instrumental in the # DumpStarWars drive , retweeted a messagepointing out that Rogue One brought in a piffling under $ 100 million less than last twelvemonth ’s Force Awakens . Posobiecalso tweeted , “ Funny how the corporate media did n’t start attacking me until I exposed Star Wars for the vile seditious agendum they have turned it into . ”
CNNpoints outthat “ with Rogue One being Disney ’s first Star Wars spinoff , the premiere is a great start to what should be a successful theatrical run into January . ”
Well , it seems $ 290 million is about the full kind of failure you could hope for .
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