It was as inevitable as eating too much turkey on Christmas
Day, and now ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ has passed the $1 billion mark.
It took the J.J. Abrams film just 12 days to do so, beating
the previous record - set by this year’s ‘Jurassic World’ - to become the
fastest ever film to take a billion at the box office. It only beat the dino
adventure by one day, mind.
While it’s hard to compare the popularity of the ‘Star Wars’
franchise to that of ‘Jurassic Park’s’ it’s perhaps more impressive that the
space adventure has done it without having been released in China - a boost
that aided ‘Jurassic World’s’ huge, quick success.
Along the way, ‘The Force Awakens’ is smashing records left,
right and centre, setting new UK opening weekend totals, and can now boast to
be the biggest US Christmas Day box office earner in history with $49.3
million.
The current worldwide total, as it stands, is at
$1,090,573,329, with that number rising by the day.
It wouldn’t surprise anyone if the film goes on to challenge
James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ as the highest-grossing movie of all time, but it’s
still got some way to go to match it.
‘Avatar’s’ incredible $2.8 billion haul was due to the
longevity of its cinema run as well as a re-release, which ‘The Force Awakens’
could conceivably do. Some are suggesting a Director’s Cut could emerge next
year, with around 20 minutes believed to have been cut from what we’ve seen at
the cinema available.
Can J.J. Abrams and co. actually do the impossible and topple
James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’? Only time will tell.
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