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‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ becomes fastest movie to gross $1 billion

The Force Awakens also delivers a record-breaking year to Lucasfilm owner Disney as a whole, with the Christmas Day box office catapulting the Mouse House past $2 billion on the year for the first time in the studio’s history.

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“The Force Awakens” has posted an estimated US$545 million in ticket sales in the United States and US$546 million internationally, in the 12 days since first hitting screens worldwide, a statement said.


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Force handily surpasses the second-week take of Jurassic World ($106.6 million) in June for the biggest second weekend ever. “Jurassic World” also had the benefit of record grosses in China. “The Force Awakens” does not open on the planet’s second-largest movie market until January 9. Forbes figured that the collaborators are only shying away from potentially spoiling the movie for everyone so they opted against releasing a DLC for it in “Star Wars Battlefront”.


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It was a highly competitive weekend, with movies ranging from Jennifer Lawrence’s “Joy”, which opened at $17.5 million, to Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight”, taking on $4.5 million in 100 theaters.

The seventh film in the “Star Wars” saga has made $544.5 million in the U.S.

The UK took in $97.2 million; Germany with $54.3 million; France, $47.8 million; Australia, $35.7 million; and Japan, $31.3 million; according to The Hollywood Reporter. Abrams-directed reboot took in a spectacular $286 million worldwide this weekend, with $153 million coming from North America and $133 million from overseas.

On Sunday, the sales for Saturday will be released, as will the estimates for the full weekend.

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The company said the Star Wars film is bigger than ever and much bigger than what everyone there had thought. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.

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