Liu Cuiping, vice director of research for EntGroup, said she still expected “The Force Awakens”, which opened in China on Saturday, to pull in around $230 million in the country.
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Its global total now stands at $1.73bn (£1.19bn), according to producers Walt Disney, which means it has overtaken Jurassic World, which made $1.67bn (£1.15bn).
Disney said the China numbers put the film’s global total over $1.73 billion, behind only Avatar ($2.79 billion) and Titanic ($2.19 billion), both by filmmaker James Cameron.
Meanwhile, Leonardo DiCaprio proved that he still has a lot of box office power in bringing The Revenant to a very strong #2 with $38 million.
Conor Langford, Ireland country manager of Visa Europe, said: “Cinemas in particularly benefited from the release of the latest Star Wars blockbuster, which recorded over three million euro in sales in five days alone”. It’s also the biggest film of all time at the US box office, having now earned $812 million here alone. Unless it holds incredibly strong into next weekend it’s not likely to go much further than $900 million.
But the new film was not stingy with all the records as its performance helped push the overall box office in the United States over the Christmas weekend to the best one over the period with $296, 4 million, for all films that weekend. “The Forest”, $13.1 million ($450,000 international). 5. Sisters, $US7.2 million ($US3.4 million) 6. The movie came out in China on January 9. 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 Revenant however, did have a significantly better opening than The Hateful Eight had when it expanded last weekend.
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip was down three spots to #8 in its fourth weekend, bringing in $5.5 million. In the U.S., 70% of the audience polled Friday night by CinemaScore said they turned out because of Mr. DiCaprio in the staring role.
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Picture books of Star Wars triology. Its $6.35 million was barely ahead of The Big Short’s $6.3 million. Against a $10 million production budget the movie is already a financial success.
