‘Star Wars’ Obliterates Single-Day Box Office Record With $120 Million

[Water Car Engineer]

It's well deserved..

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

'Star Wars' $1 Billion Christmas Present for Disney

“The Force Awakens” could pass that total at the worldwide box office as early as Friday after adding $76 million Wednesday

“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” was putting a bow on a $1 billion Christmas present for Disney on Thursday.

With another $76.5 million at the box office Wednesday –$38.1 million domestically and $38.4 million from overseas — the J.J. Abrams-directed seventh entry in the iconic space adventure franchise raised its worldwide box-office haul to $765 million.

That’s within striking range of $1 billion, and it’s possible “The Force Awakens” could pass the milestone on Friday. It will be close. Two more days like Wednesday would put its total around $915 million, but Friday is Christmas Day, traditionally one of the busiest of the year at the box office domestically and abroad.

 

[mike2000 is back]

Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) - Box Office Mojo

After 2 days
Domestic: $238,000,000
+ Foreign: $279,000,000
= Worldwide: $517,000,000

Mother of GOD. No wonder the U.S cultural/entertainment industry leads the world by such a margin. Just look at the amount of money they are making all over the world from just one movie. Wow, that's more than the budget of some small countries, plus almost $1 billion now is just for a week, cant wait to see the figures 2 weeks from now.

On another note we are not doing bad either: Adele to break sales record as new album '25' sells 2.3m copies in US | Daily Mail Online

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Mother of GOD. No wonder the U.S cultural/entertainment industry leads the world by such a margin. Just look at the amount of money they are making all over the world from just one movie. Wow, that's more than the budget of some small countries, plus almost $1 billion now is just for a week, cant wait to see the figures 2 weeks from now.

On another note we are not doing bad either: Adele to break sales record as new album '25' sells 2.3m copies in US | Daily Mail Online

Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) - Box Office Mojo

Approaching $1 Billion.

Domestic: $363,460,329 47.5%
+ Foreign: $402,400,000 52.5%
= Worldwide: $765,860,329

After less than a week.

Monster Hunt (2015)

Total Run
Domestic: $381,860,000
+ Foreign: $383,751,808
= Worldwide: $765,611,808

After a multi-month run the biggest film in China's history.
hahaha!!!

 

[mike2000 is back]

After a multi-month run the biggest film in China's history.
hahaha!!!

Well, to each his own. After all, the Chinese cultural/entertainment industry(due to past restrictive communist rule) is still fairly new in the game. So they need more time to mature before even starting to go global. So still a good start overall for them.

After less than a week.

LOL Well, keep cashing in people's love for this sci fi movie around the world. I ain't watching any star wars ever.(watched just 1 in my life. lol)

 

[oprih]

After less than a week.


After a multi-month run the biggest film in China's history.
hahaha!!!

$765 million for A Chinese film, that was unbelievably huge! Is it the highest grossing Chinese film ever?

 

[jhungary]

@Hamartia Antidote

You double counted Monster Hunt Foreign Box office. Movie Mojo counted China as Foreign only US as Domestic. So by counting Foreign Total, you double counted total of movie revenue. There are $0 in domestic (US) market, as there were never be a distributor on the movie in the US, so the Run should be

Domestic (US) - $0
Foreign (Including China, the origin of the movie) - $383,751,808

The run made $383,751,808, not 700 millions. (Backed up by figure from both Movie Mojo and The Number)

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

@Hamartia Antidote

You double counted Monster Hunt Foreign Box office. Movie Mojo counted China as Foreign only US as Domestic. So by counting Foreign Total, you double counted total of movie revenue. There are $0 in domestic (US) market, as there were never be a distributor on the movie in the US, so the Run should be

Domestic (US) - $0
Foreign (Including China, the origin of the movie) - $383,751,808

The run made $383,751,808, not 700 millions. (Backed up by figure from both Movie Mojo and The Number)

Oh crap you are correct. Foreign on that page is non-US. So I double counted "Monster Hunt". I guess a previous thread in the Far East forums had me thinking it was doing well outside China. So that's why I didn't think it was an odd number.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

$765 million for A Chinese film, that was unbelievably huge! Is it the highest grossing Chinese film ever?

Sorry...wrong figure for "Monster Hunt" it was only half that number. Sorry to dash your hopes. The actual number was only $383,751,808.

Here is the latest for "Force Awakens" after a week. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) - Box Office Mojo

Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $440,395,329
+ Foreign: $449,900,000
= Worldwide: $890,295,329

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $544,573,329 49.9%
+ Foreign: $546,000,000 50.1%
= Worldwide: $1,090,573,329
In Release: 10 days / 1.4 weeks

 

[xenon54 out]

Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $544,573,329 49.9%
+ Foreign: $546,000,000 50.1%
= Worldwide: $1,090,573,329

Ok now im gonna watch the first 3 episodes (not the old ones) and this one on Cinema, is it any good?

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Ok now im gonna watch the first 3 episodes (not the old ones) and this one on Cinema, is it any good?

I haven't seen it yet. Letting the little kids have a seat.

 

[Providence]

It's the fastest to reach $1 billion

 

[oprih]

Sorry...wrong figure for "Monster Hunt" it was only half that number. Sorry to dash your hopes. The actual number was only $383,751,808.

Here is the latest for "Force Awakens" after a week. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) - Box Office Mojo

Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $440,395,329
+ Foreign: $449,900,000
= Worldwide: $890,295,329

Unbelievable, $383 million is so huge for a non-english film, and it was mainly shown in just China and other mandarin-speaking countries. I expect that the highest grossing Chinese film next year will be at least $500 million. Chinese market consistently achieve staggering growth rate this past few years, no wonder hollywood film makers are flocking to China with hollywood movies that portray China in a good way.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Unbelievable, $383 million is so huge for a non-english film, and it was mainly shown in just China and other mandarin-speaking countries. I expect that the highest grossing Chinese film next year will be at least $500 million. Chinese market consistently achieve staggering growth rate this past few years, no wonder hollywood film makers are flocking to China with hollywood movies that portray China in a good way.

Well "Force Awakens" made $544M just in the USA in 10 days (the population here is only 318M ). "Monster Hunt" was the most successful movie in China. Considering China has a population of 1.4B you'd think "Monster Hunt" should have easily crossed the $1B mark and then matched it at $2.38B mark. $383M for the TOTAL run is surprisingly low.

Remember this is just the 10 day US total. It will go much higher. Avatar made $760M just in the USA.

So $500M for a total release in China is setting your goal extremely low.