Star Wars: The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams says it’s “preposterous and wrong” that star female newcomer Rey has been largely ignored in the film’s official merchandise. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”, $104.3 million. 2. Sometime on Saturday it is expected to extend its lead in the history books, becoming the first pic to ever cross the $800 million mark domestically.
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Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight grossed a paltry $6.4-M in 2,938 theaters for a domestic take of $41.5-M for The Weinstein Co’s box office bomb.
It beat The Revenant to second place with US$38 million in its wide release debut.
The Revenant stars Tom Hardy alongside Leonardo DiCaprio as a frontiersman named Hugh Glass on a fur trading expedition in the 1800s trying to survive after being mauled by a bear. This was enough to push the film past $900 million internationally.
It has become the first to make more than $800m (£550m), having taken $812m (£558m) so far. It has made since debuting over Christmas.
Fifth on the list was “Sisters”, with Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, which made $7.2 million in its fourth week out. It went on to gross $390.9 million in China, just over a quarter of the movie’s total earnings. The $221,000 weekend brought its domestic total up to $490,532 – but “Anomalisa” also has some work to do to make back its $8 million production budget. Variety is reporting that the film earned a record-breaking $53 million for the weekend. Next week’s estimates place it as declining in the 60% range and ultimately fading away in the mid-$20 millions.
The Forest was not as frontloaded as most horror movies, bringing in $13 million for the weekend. “The Big Short”, $6.3 million ($4.6 million international). 8. “It’s great. Much darker, but we’re very excited”.
Even before the week was out, it had overtaken Avatar, a sci-fi epic that has sold $760.5 million in the North American market since its 2009 release, as the top-grossing film of all times there. Where available, the latest worldwide numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included.
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Will Smith’s Concussion was down two spots to #10 in its third week with $3.1 million. The film seems likely to end with less than $50 million in the United States at this point.
