Star Wars: The Force Awakens Sets Target on $700 Million and Avatar Record at Domestic Box Office

Star Wars: The Force Awakens $700 million

Another day, another record for Disney and Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens as the seventh installment in the space saga tallied an estimated $34.46 million on New Year’s Day, the most any film has ever made on a year’s first day.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens zoomed right past James Cameron’s Titanic and Universal’s monster hit Jurassic World on the all-time domestic box office leaders list yesterday. The only film ahead of it is James Cameron’s Avatar, and that film’s days of sitting on top of the world are numbered.


Currently Star Wars: The Force Awakens sits at $686.4 million domestically. Avatar’s record is $760.5 million. At its current pace, The Force Awakens will overtake Avatar sometime in the middle of next week.

Looking ahead, Star Wars: The Force Awakens looks like a surefire bet to reach $900 million domestically. Whether it reaches $1 billion will be determined by the impact of other entries at the box office like Kung Fu Panda 3 that start stealing its IMAX and 3D screens, as well as the repeat-viewing phenomena that remains strong over two weeks after its debut.

I’ve personally seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens twice and look forward to a third trip to a galaxy far, far away.

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