Star Wars the Force Awakens has had an amazing start during its premiere opening on December. Now the box office hit has hit third place over-taking Jurrasic World.
What made Star Wars bump off Jurrasic World? After its debut in China, it currently pushed its global box office receipt sales totalling to $1.73 billion.
Disney released an announcment to celebrate the move saying that the seventh episode of the Star Wars franchise garnered an estimated $145.9 million during the weekend. The bulk of the amount coming from China totalling $53 million.
Thanks to China, the beloved franchise made the top three list of highest weekend opening of all time. China, being the second largest industry after United States, bumped Star Wars to third place behind Avatar valued at $2.19 billion and Titanic valued at $2.19 billion. Jurassic World fell to fourth place at $1.79 billion after Star Wars took third place.
In North America, Star Wars dominated four weekend openings. In the area alone, it became the top grossing film with $812 million in cumulative sales.
This is a big win for Disney that somewhat overshadows Revenant's second placement at $38 million. Third place went to Daddy's Home by Will Ferrell at $15 million. Fourth place goes to Taylor Kinney's The Forest at $13 million. The rest of the top ten films grossing the weekend by industry tracker Exhibitor Relations, below:
- "Sisters" with Amy Poehler and Tina Fey ($7.2 million)
- "The Hateful Eight" ($6.3 million)
- "The Big Short" ($6.3 million)
- "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip" ($5.5 million)
- "Joy" ($4.5 million)
- "Concussion" ($3.1 million)
While all this number crunching sounds interesting, someone is probably thinking - what movie can topple Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet's 1997 tragic romance movie Titanic, directed by James Cameron, off the number one spot?
