Success, Star Wars: The Force Awakens is, hmmm? The blockbuster flick blew up the box office like it was a cut-rate Death Star (again), plunking another estimated $88.3 million into the Millennium Falcon’s smuggling chambers while doing so. And most prognosticators say that Disney’s estimates are again on the low side: Box Office Mojo thinks that The Force Awakens could actually have somewhere in the neighborhood of $91 million when the receipts are officially tallied. Sometimes, the movie might amaze even itself.
With its weekend tally in pocket, The Force Awakens officially became the highest-grossing movie released in 2015, sprinting past Jurassic World like a Tatooine womp rat. It’s officially earned $740.3 million in North America (to Jurassic World’s $652.3 million) and is just about $20 million behind Avatar for the all-time record—a record it should break by, what, today or tomorrow? Oh, and get this: The Force Awakens crested the $700 million mark in just 16 days. That’s like making the Kessel Run in, like, five parsecs, given that it took Avatar—the only other flick to reach that lofty figure—72 days to do it.
Daddy’s Home continued to play Salacious B. Crumb to The Force Awakens‘ Jabba the Hutt, collecting a tidy $29 million in route to another distant second-place finish. Those aren’t Star Wars numbers, of course, but it was plenty to stave off Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, which rolled wide this weekend. The Hateful Eight robbed moviegoers of 16.2 million dislikable dollars to finish third.
The Hateful Eight has technically been out for two weeks now, but it was the nearest facsimile the top of the box office has to a new release. Everything in blasting distance was a holdover of some sort: Sisters finished fourth with $12.6 million, while Alvin and the Chipmunks The Road Chip skittered into fifth with $11.8 mil. Really, from the top of the box office, you’d need to have the power of a Starkiller base to reach the closest newcomer—Anomalisa, all the way down at No. 27. And with just two wide releases on the docket for release next week (the horror flick The Forest and the Christian film The Masked Saint), it looks like The Force Awakens may have the fours—that is, four box office weekend wins—with it.
Final figures update: 1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens, $90.2 million; 2. Daddy’s Home, $29.2 million; 3. The Hateful Eight, $15.7 million; 4. Sisters, $12.8 million; 5. Alvin and the Chipmunks The Road Chip, $11.8 million.
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