Of this weekend’s overall gross for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, IMAX grosses made up an estimated US$19mil.
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The New England Patriots took care of business at Gillette Stadium Sunday afternoon with a 33-16 win over the Tennessee Titans. The quarterback said that his right knee was twisted during a sack by linebacker Jamie Collins. “That’s all I have to say”.
Walt Disney said The Force Awakens crossed the billion-dollar mark today, accomplishing the feat in just 12 days.
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The River Ouse is around 5.1m above its normal summer levels but the Environment Agency (EA) said its level has now peaked. Electricity North West said some properties may be without power until Monday due to the severity of the flooding.
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” has reached $1 billion at the box office, achieving the milestone with record-setting hyper speed. Unfortunately, it’s ridiculously hard to differentiate between fantastical “Star Wars” story lines and Florida’s news headlines, even for “Star Wars” actors.
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January 9, 2016 – “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” opens in China, world’s second biggest movie market. The film has also the fastest to cross the $100, $200, $300, $400, and $500 million marks domestically, and is now $100 million shy of beating “Jurassic World” as the biggest movie of 2015 at home.
The film also set a new record for the highest Christmas Day gross with $49.3 million. The US$60 million film reunites the “Silver Linings Playbook” team of Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, and Bradley Cooper with director David O Russell. Abrams-directed reboot took in a spectacular $286 million worldwide this weekend, with $153 million coming from North America and $133 million from overseas.
$57,568 – The film’s per theater average on opening weekend.
The skyrocketing success of the latest “Star Wars” has stoked United States film industry hopes that struggling theaters can thrive in the face of a growing shift to online video streaming.
According to TheWrap, second place in the crowded weekend at the box office went to “Daddy’s Home”, the Will Ferrell/Mark Wahlberg team-up whose $38.8 million would be normally have been near to a record.
A couple of holdovers rounded out the top five with Universal’s Sisters dropping nearly nothing from last weekend to an estimated $13.8M this weekend, bringing its cume to $37.1M.
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The Hunger Games and Creed both managed to stay in the top 10 according to estimates with $5.3 and $4.6 million. It could be the expensive remake of Point Break, which bombed into 8th place with a gross of $10.2 million.
