Star Wars Hits The $1BN Mark

The Force Awakens Makes $1billion at the International Box Office

It didn’t take long but according to Deadline, Star Wars: The Force Awakens has just crossed the $1bn mark in international box office takings. After opening to the biggest global bow of all time last week at $529M, Star Wars: The Force Awakens has bested another Jurassic World record with the fastest climb ever to $1B in worldwide box office. The dinosaurs did it in 13 days this summer, the Resistance made it in 12. With $544.57M domestic and $546M international after its 2nd frame, SWTFA‘s global total is $1,090.573M. The weekend was worth $133.3m overseas where the film is already No. 6 for the year. Globally, it’s the No. 5 movie of 2015 and the No. 15 movie of all time.

With this sophomore session in IMAX, the Stormtroopers rendered another Jurassic World record extinct. The worldwide holiday weekend was good for $27.5M on 673 IMAX screens which brought the global cume to $106M. That hyper-sped the film past the $100M milestone in 12 days versus the 18 days it took Jurassic World to get there. The average per screen cume for IMAX theaters is $160K. The international portion this frame was $8.5M on 282 screens in 59 countries. Overall the offshore total is now $36.4M with IMAX reporting unprecedented results from Sweden to Brazil to Japan. China looms on January 9 for SWTFA and with it an additional 270 IMAX plays.

One JW record that couldn’t be persuaded to the Dark Side was the fastest ascent to $500M internationally. SW did it in 12 days, Jurassic World in 11. Also, Jurassic World saw a drop of 41% from its first to second sessions back in June with $163.4M becoming the all-time biggest sophomore weekend ever for a day-and-date release at the international box office. SW slipped 53%, although it’s important to recall that this happened during a holiday week that saw cinemas closed for all of Christmas Day in the film’s biggest ex-U.S. market.

Which brings us to the UK and the staggering results there. The crew of the Millennium Falcon is drawing moviegoers to cinemas like Jawas to droids. The estimated cume to date is $97.2M after just 10 days of release. On Saturday, it posted the top grossing Boxing Day holiday in industry history by far — after a Christmas Day tradition of cinemas shuttering around the country. JJ Abrams’ continuation of the epic saga is already the No. 9 film of all time in the market and has surpassed the entire individual runs of Jurassic World, the Hobbit and Lord Of The Rings trilogies, and the Dark Knight films.

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