With a fortnight still to go before its release, Rogue One is nonetheless set to be 2016’s highest-grossing film.
•Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is released on 15 December in Australia and the UK, and on 16 December in the US.
And although impressive, Rogue One’s presales pale in comparison to those for last December’s Star Wars: A Force Awakens, which went on to make $2.1bn.
Yet such is the strength of George Lucas’s space saga brand, acquired by Disney for $4.05bn in 2012, that earlier this week, Rogue One broke presale ticket records for the year.