‘Star Wars’ stays on top for fourth week

The film’s story picks up 30 years after events of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi where hero Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) has disappeared at a time where the evil empire has returned to take over the galaxy. Glass, during a trapping expedition with other trappers, survives an Indian attack, but gets mauled by a grizzly bear and ends up being left for dead by his trapper companions.

Addressing complaints his film is too reminiscent of the original trilogy, Abrams told The Hollywood Reporter: “It was obviously a wildly intentional thing that we go backwards, in some ways, to go forwards in the important ways”. ” Critics are saying that DiCaprio may get his first Oscar for his role as Hugh Glass”. In an era of diminishing star power, the picture confirms DiCaprio’s popular appeal, analysts say. So let’s kindly forget my thoughts from last week where I said it had a shot at hitting $100M, shall we? The Tina Fey feature has stayed in the top five ever since opening December 18, no small feat considering how many films were also in the market during Christmas week. Unless Star Wars has incredible holds internationally however, Avatar should remain the all-time champ internationally and worldwide.

Even before the week was out, it had overtaken “Avatar”, a sci-fi epic that has sold US$760.5 million in the North American market since its 2009 release, as the top-grossing film of all times there. “The Danish Girl”, $3.2 million. 19. “It’s what makes him a movie star”.

“The Force Awakens” grossed an estimated $53 million in two days, the biggest Saturday-Sunday debut ever in that country. Global sales through Thursday reached 1.6 billion Disney said.

That’s because the film finally debuted in China, where “Star Wars” isn’t the cultural powerhouse it is elsewhere around the globe.

“Daddy’s Home” follows at #3 with $15.0 million, while new release “The Forest” takes #4 with $13.1 million. Researcher Rentrak Corp. estimates “Furious 7” generated $391.4 million in the country in 2015 and “Monster Hunt”, a Chinese fantasy movie, grossed $393.2 million. The outcome is another big overall weekend at the box office, as the streak started by Star Wars continues.