Over the Christmas weekend, Star Wars: The Force Awakens took in $153.5 million in North America and $133.3 million overseas, bringing the worldwide total to $1.09 billion, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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The film also set a new record for the highest Christmas Day gross with $49.3 million.
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The film also achieved a record-setting second-weekend take – with an estimated 150 million dollars (£100.6 million).
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This weekend, in what should come as no surprise to anyone, The Force was ridiculously strong at the box office again this weekend while a number of other films opened from extremely well to really poor over the Christmas weekend.
“Nothing will stand in our way”, Kylo Ren said in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”. The Will Smith drama Concussion opened at #6 with an estimated gross of $11 million, which makes it the lowest wide release opening of Smith’s career.
The seventh instalment of the Star Wars series reached the $1.09bn mark after only two weekends, EW reported.
This photo provided by Paramount Pictures shows Mark Wahlberg, left, as Dusty Mayron and Will Ferrell as Brad Whitaker, in the film, “Daddys Home”, from Paramount Pictures and Red Granite Pictures. The hype for the next installment went on when new “Star Wars” cast Daisy Ridley opened up to Variety her experiences in filming the “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and even shared some details on what fans should expect in the upcoming sequel.
In third with $17.5 million was another premiere, “Joy”, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper. The sci-fi blockbuster landed the biggest opening weekend with $238 million (£158.7 million) following its release on 18 December (15). It takes #7 on the strength of its $10.5 million in weekend receipts.
On the limited release front, newcomer Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight”, from the Weinstein Co., fared best with a 10th-place finish of $4.5 million.
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“It’s great for the audiences, great for studios and theater owners in particular who can point to this and say the movie theater industry is as viable and relevant as it’s ever been”, he said. (Final numbers are due Monday.) * The film dipped only 38-percent in its second weekend.
