With that total, the sci-fi film has made an estimated $812 million in the USA – the only film in history to make more than $800 million domestically.
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“I will say that it seems preposterous and wrong that the main character of the movie is not well represented in what is clearly a huge piece of the Star Wars world in terms of merchandising”. With $38 million The Revenant launched its wide release higher than most expectations.
The surprising showing is sure to energize the whole “Will Leonardo DiCaprio get an Oscar?” debate, as if that needed any help. “Joy”, $4.5 million ($7.5 million international). 10. Next week’s estimates place it as declining in the 60% range and ultimately fading away in the mid-$20 millions.
Also in its third week in theaters, it made US$15 million.
Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg’s Daddy’s Home continued it’s impressive run with an estimated $15M in its third weekend, a drop of 48% from last weekend’s holiday infused grosses. The lone new release this weekend, horror flick The Forest, bowed in at fourth place with $13 million. The film centers on a young American woman who travels to Japan to find her sister.
“Since 2008 when the first book of the trilogy came out, only about 2 million books of the trilogy have been sold, which is not much compared with other Chinese novels like the Tomb Robbers Journal”, he said. The movie premiered on December 18th and took less than a month to become the highest grossing film in the movie history of North America. The seventh film in the Star Wars saga brought in $41.6 million to claim #1 for a fourth week.
“Fast & Furious 7”, China’s top-earning foreign movie, earned $182 million during its opening weekend in May a year ago.
It also coincides with a steep slide for Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight”, because apparently there’s only room for one gore-filled snowy Western at the box office. The comedy-drama about the housing bubble collapse was steady at #7 once again with $6.3 million, off just 30% from last week for the best hold in the top ten. “Quo Vado?” $11.5 million. 7.
“As fans leave the market, the momentum of Star Wars has entered the phase of an average Hollywood blockbuster”, Li said. “Point Break”, $6 million. 13. “Mojin: The Lost Legend”, $4.3 million. 16.
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‘Those simple tenets are by far the least important aspects of this movie, and they provide bones that were well-proven long before they were used in Star Wars’.
