‘Star Wars The Force Awakens’ tops $300 million US with record Tuesday
Star Wars: The Force Awakens hauled the biggest Tuesday in history at the domestic box office with $37.3 million from 4,134 theaters, more than the previous record-holder The Amazing Spider-Man made on its opening day, the eve of the July Fourth holiday in 2012 ($35 million).
#StarWarsTheForceAwakens TUE: $37.3M dom (best TUE ever), $41.3M intl. Cume: $325.4M dom, $364M intl. Global: $689.4M.
— Gitesh Pandya (@giteshpandya) December 23, 2015
J.J. Abrams’ reboot/sequel crossed over $325 in the US, becoming the fastest film to cross $300 million, accomplished in five days of release – this summer’s Jurassic World, the previous record-holder, eight days.
Force Awakens has now earned over $689.4 million (through Tuesday) passing the global total of Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation ($682.3 million) to become the No. 7 title of the year.
Overseas, it took in $41.2 million Tuesday for a foreign total of $364 million. The U.K. leads with $68.2 million, followed by Germany ($36.1 million), France $31.6 million), Australia ($25.3 million) and Japan ($18.3 million).
Wednesday’s total will push totals over $350 in the US and well over $700 globally, with the one billion dollar mark just days away.
Comic book movie noted that: “The unprecedented box office dominance of J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens has analysts predicting that it could actually topple Avatar as the highest grossing movie of all time, and become the first to amass a whopping $3 billion. Obviously that remains to be seen, but with the return to the galaxy far, far away continuing to break records left right and center, I wouldn’t bet against it.”