{"id":42301,"date":"2017-12-17T15:11:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T20:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=42301"},"modified":"2018-11-18T23:26:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T04:26:53","slug":"last-jedi-rockets-450-million-opening-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2017\/12\/17\/last-jedi-rockets-450-million-opening-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"THE LAST JEDI Rockets To $450 Million Opening Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/last-jedi-group.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-42302\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/last-jedi-group-678x381.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/last-jedi-group.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/last-jedi-group-339x191.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Star Wars: The Last Jedi<\/strong> packed theaters around the world, pulling in $450 million at the box office its&#8217; opening weekend this weekend. Nearly half of that take, $220 million, was from ticket sales domestically. That domestic take makes <strong>The Last Jedi<\/strong> the biggest opener of all of 2017 and the second highest opening weekend of all time after the franchise&#8217;s initial returning installment, <strong>The Force Awakens<\/strong>, which earned $247.9 million when it debuted you in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Despite vocal negative online feedback from some sections of <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> fandom, <strong>The Last Jedi<\/strong> earned an A from CinemaScore in a poll of moviegoers exiting screenings of the film on Friday evening. A string rating like this suggests that the film will have legs at the box office, though the fact that it is a <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> film will probably have a lot to do with it as well.<\/p>\n<p>Coming in at a distant second place was 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios\u2019 animated children&#8217;s film <strong>Ferdinand<\/strong> with $13.3 million. Disney&#8217;s <strong>Coco<\/strong> dropped from second to third this weekend taking in $10 million, giving it a total of $150.8 million domestically after four weeks of release.<\/p>\n<p>Lionsgate&#8217;s <strong>Wonder<\/strong> placed fourth at the box office with $5.4 million, bringing its total to $109.3 million domestically. The superhero team-up <strong>Justice League<\/strong> rounded out the top five taking in $4.2 million, upping its domestic box office total to $219.5 million after five weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The second installment of the rebooted franchise didn&#8217;t quite clear the high mark set by its predecessor. <\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2017\/12\/17\/last-jedi-rockets-450-million-opening-weekend\/\" title=\"THE LAST JEDI Rockets To $450 Million Opening Weekend\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[8753],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-star-wars-the-last-jedi"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42301"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=42301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}