'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Made $1 Billion Faster Than Any Movie Ever
After rustling up the biggest debut weekend of all time with its $238 million opener, Star Wars: The Force Awakens kept crushing records over Christmas weekend. The film, the first in the series since 2005's Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, has gone on to pass the $1 billion mark faster than any movie in history. It only took 12 days, edging in just past Jurassic World's 13-day record from June 2015.
Sitting at precisely $1.09 billion, Episode VII has also earned the biggest second domestic weekend of all time ($153.5 million)—passing, again, Jurassic World—and the slot for 15th highest-grossing movie of all time globally. (No. 1 and No. 2, Avatar and Titanic, sit far above all others with $2.79 billion and $2.19 billion respectively.) The Force Awakens also had the biggest Christmas Day performance of all time with $49.3 million, doubling Sherlock Holmes' 2009 record.
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