Star Wars: The Force Awakens did the impossible and the film did it in just 20 days. Not only did it knock James Cameron’s movie Titanic out of the second place, it also knocked his other movie Avatar out of first place in the United States. That means for the first time since 1998, a James Cameron movie is no longer the #1 movie domestically. I wonder how he is handling the news? Has anyone seen him?
Here are all of the other Box Office records the film has broken in less that 3 weeks:
· Fastest film to reach $100M (21 hours), $200M (3 days), $300M (5 days), $400M (8 days), $500M (10 days), $600M (12 days), and $700M (16 days)
· Biggest all-time debut and biggest December debut ($247.966M), propelling the industry to the biggest overall moviegoing weekend of all time ($313.3M for all films, Dec. 18-20)
· Biggest second weekend of all time ($149.2M), propelling the industry to the biggest overall Christmas weekend of all time ($296.4M for all films, Dec. 25-27)
· Biggest third weekend of all time ($90.2M)
· Biggest Thursday preview gross ($57M)
· Biggest Friday, opening, and single day ($119.1M)
· Biggest Sunday ($60.55M), Monday ($40.1M), and Tuesday ($37.3M)
· Biggest Christmas Day ($49.3M) and New Year’s Day ($34.39M)
· Highest per-theater average for a wide debut ($59,982)
· Biggest opening week ($390.85M)
· Biggest IMAX debut ($30.1M)
Globally, the film posted the highest global opening weekend of all time ($528.967M) and surpassed $1B in a record 12 days. It also had the biggest global IMAX debut ($48M) and surpassed $152M in IMAX in a record 19 days. It was the highest international debut in December history with $281M, and it remains #1 in many territories after posting the biggest opening weekend in at least 18 major markets.
If that is not enough to show you how powerful this movie is, so far it has made $758.2M domestically and $799.1M for a global total of $1,557.3M. With that dough, it can buy its own planet, like Jupiter.
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The force is so strong with Star Wars: The Force Awakens that it was able to sink Titanic’s status as the #2 Grossing Movie in the United States in just 2 weeks according to Box Office Mojo. That’s right, in just 14 days, the latest movie in the Star Wars franchise made $686,425,583. That is almost $30 million more than the 1997 Oscar winner made in it’s entire run.
How much money does it have to make to take down Avatar and become to the #1 Grossing Movie Domestically of all-time? It needs to make another $74,082,042 to do that. In others words, by next week it will have that title. And somewhere James Cameron is in a corner crying trying to figure out how he can make Avatar 2 earn more money than Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I think that ship has sailed.
Carrie Fisher is like everyone else in the world, as in she ages. Well some Star Wars “fans” called her out for it and not in a nice way. So Princess Leia responded to them in a way that Yoda proud would be. She Tweeted, “Please stop debating about whetherOR not👁aged well.unfortunately it hurts all3 of my feelings.My BODY hasnt aged as well as I have.Blow us👌🏼” Followed by, “My body is my brain bag, it hauls me around to those places & in front of faces where theres something to say or see.” Then she concluded her rant with, “Youth&BeautyR/NOT ACCOMPLISHMENTS,theyre theTEMPORARY happy/BiProducts/of Time&/or DNA/Dont Hold yourBreath4either/ifUmust holdAir/takeGarys.” Gotta love her because she doesn’t take sh!t from anybody. Nor should she!
Star Wars: The Force Awakens broke so many records in its first few days, and it looks like it will be breaking a whole lot more before it ends its theatrical run. You could say the latest movie in the franchise is staying alive. Jimmy Fallon and The Tonight Show believe it so much that he mashed up the cast from the first 6 movies so it sounds like that they are singing the Bee Gees’ classic. It is crazy how well it works, and that could be because the first three movies came out in the Disco era! Ah Ah Ah Ah!
Before Harrison Ford was punching people as Indiana Jones, he punched Jack Lemmon in Luv. How much did you luv the 24 year old actor in that 1967 movie?
