Star Wars: The Force Awakens Crosses $1 Billion, Stays in First
The records keep falling to Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The film broke even more records this past weekend. The film cross the $1 billion mark worldwide in record time. The film earned an estimated $153.5 million this past weekend, the highest second weekend of all time. It beat the previous record holder, Jurassic World, by $46.9 million. The film has earned $544 million domestically and $546 million internationally for a total of $1.09 billion.
In just two weekends, the film is now the second highest grossing domestic release in 2015 and the fifth worldwide. Avatar holds the domestic record of $760.5 million, and it’s not a question “if” Star Wars will top that, but more likely “when” will it top that. The film is currently fifteenth in the all-time non-adjusted grosses. It would have to over double its earnings, and has yet to open in some key markets like China.
A whole bunch of other films opened up this weekend as well.
Daddy’s Home opened in second place earning an estimated $38.8 million, better than expectations. Joy opened in third with $17.5 million. Concussion, which takes on the NFL and football, opened in sixth with $11 million. The Point Break remake came in eighth earning an estimated $10.2 million. The Hateful Eight opened in limited released coming in eleventh and earning $4.5 million. Also opening in limited release, The Revenant earned an estimated $471,000 and came in 21st; Mr. Six earned $286,847 for 24th place; and 45 Years earned $69,300 for 29th place.
Here’s this year’s top earners so far:
Domestic
- Jurassic World – $652.27 million
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens – $544.57 million
- Avengers: Age of Ultron – $459.01 million
- Inside Out – $356.46 million
- Furious 7 – $353.01 million
Worldwide
- Jurassic World – $1.6690 billion
- Furious 7 – $1.5150 billion
- Avengers: Age of Ultron – $1.4050 billion
- Minions – $1.1573 billion
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens – $1.0906 billion
Comic Adaptations Domestic
- Avengers: Age of Ultron – $459.01 million
- Ant-Man – $180.20 million
- Kingsman: The Secret Service – $128.26 million
- The Peanuts Movie – $127.60 million
- Fantastic Four – $56.12 million
- Diary of a Teenage Girl – $1.48 million
Comic Adaptations Worldwide
- Avengers: Age of Ultron – $1.4050 billion
- Ant-Man – $518.63 million
- Kingsman: The Secret Service – $414.35 million
- The Peanuts Movie – $172.74 million
- Fantastic Four – $167.98 million
- Diary of a Teenage Girl – $1.48 million
The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials won this past weekend’s box-office, earning an estimated $30.3 million. That’s really close to the first film’s opening weekend. This film earned a “B+” CinemaScore, while the first film earned an “A-“.