Thanks to strong word-of-mouth and a dozen Oscar nominations (including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor), the Leonardo-DiCaprio-against-the-elements drama earned $29.5 million stateside and $31.5 million overseas, which is much-needed considering the film’s $135 million price tag. Nearly universally panned, the animated tale of a polar bear trying to save his home debuted at a paltry estimated $6.7 million; not good numbers for any animated film, even one released outside of a major studio. This lead to more fans making up theories as to how Star Wars 8 and Star Wars 9 will proceed such as Luke telling Rey that she is his daughter or Luke telling her that she’s an incarnation of his father, Darth Vader.
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One of the biggest questions fans were left with at the end of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is who are Rey’s parents?
After leading the weekend box office for each of the past four frames, Disney’s “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” fell to third place this weekend with an estimated three-day take of 25.1 million dollars, 41 percent down from last weekend.
The seventh installment to the legendary franchise is the highest-grossing movie in North American movie history after elevating its overall domestic total to $851 million.
Two other new releases, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi and Norm Of The North, placed fourth and sixth. That’s enough for it to reach #3 in worldwide all-time grosses; it now sits $317.3 million behind Titanic’s worldwide haul.
Remarkably, while “Avatar”‘s domestic gross was the product of a 310-day run, including a theatrical re-release, “The Force Awakens”achieved its milestone at a light speed pace of only 20 days”. The awards favorite has earned just under $9 million in Germany so far. “‘The Revenant” needs to do roughly $400 million worth of business globally if it wants to make a profit and earn back its production and promotion costs. That’s below the $10 million that most analysts predicted that the critically-reviled film (a awful 0% on RT) would likely fetch. “Creed”, $14.2 million. 5.
In total, there were around 1.8 million admissions over the weekend in Germany, accounting for a $17.4 million (€16 million) gross. The Hateful Eight followed right behind with $3.4 million.
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This kiddie cartoon actually crept up the box office charts against the final Star Wars prequel in 2005.
