It’s official Disney Star Wars has achieved a historic milestone: The Force Awakens has overtaken ‘Avatar’ as the highest grossing domestic film of all time!
20th Century Fox’s Avatar at $760.6M, a box office tally that took 318 days to accomplish, reigned for six years but was dethroned by The Force Awakens in a just 20 days!
Many box office observers suggest the Star Wars reboot, already the most successful film of all time for Disney, will ultimately gross $2.2 billion-$2.4 billion worldwide, passing up Cameron’s Titanic ($2.19 billion) to become the No. 2 film of all time. Already, it’s the No. 4 title.
Here are the current box office numbers:
Domestic: $750,230,824 48.4%
+ Foreign: $799,100,000 51.6%
= Worldwide: $1,549,330,824