‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Reaches Unprecedented Height At Domestic B.O. With $900M, $2B Worldwide

The highest grossing film in domestic box office history, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, will click past $900M after 50 days in release. In addition, the Disney pic is crossing the $2 billion worldwide mark tomorrow in its 53rd day of global release, still the third-highest on a worldwide basis after James Cameron’s Avatar ($2.78B) and Titanic ($2.19B).

By comparison, former all-time champ Avatar stood at $612.7M at the same point in time in its domestic run; it hadn’t even beat Titanic yet Avatar would ultimately final its stateside B.O. at $760.5M; the final B.O. for Titanic was $658.7M. Through 50 days, Titanic stood at $320M, while last summer’s Jurassic World had $628.8M at the same time period.

As Deadline previously reported, Force Awakens will unlikely surpass Avatar’s global all- time record. 

As Force Awakens heads into its eight weekend, it remains booked at 2,000-plus theaters, a level that Jurassic World and Avengers: Age of Ultron dipped below during the same juncture. It will be interesting to see how long Force Awakens holds this amount of theater bookings. 2008’s Dark Knight stayed above 2,000 theaters for nine weeks, while American Sniper did for 12 weeks.

Since posting a record stateside debut of $247.97M, Force Awakens has generated a total cume that’s a 3.6 multiple of that opening. That’s the average factor associated with a title earning an A Cinema Score, which was Force Awakens’ grade.

While there’s a notion that Star Wars: Force Awakens got to this point due to Disney’s strict stronghold on screens, those restrictions have eased. Exhibition sources tell Deadline that Disney’s demands weren’t unusual in the first place. While case by case deals were made, essentially if Star Wars was at a 15-plex, then it had to be shown in two of their biggest auditoriums for the first 17 days. For any theater owner that has a title like Star Wars that’s making money hand over fist, well, that’s naturally where they’re going to play that title. So it wasn’t like Disney was setting any artificial chokeholds in the marketplace. Thanks to Force Awakens, 2015 set a never-before-record of $11B in annual ticket sales.

Source: Deadline Hollywood