‘The Revenant’ takes close second to ‘Star Wars’ at the box office

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Let’s get this out of the way now: MASSIVE Star Wars: The Force Awakens spoilers are below. It took in an estimated $6.35M this weekend bringing its total up to $41.5M. To match its $135 million production budget is going to take some work. “I’m learning things as you are, but I will say that it seems preposterous and wrong that the main character of the movie is not well represented in what is clearly a huge piece of the Star Wars world in terms of merchandising”. The movie released in the USA on December 18, 2015. The film has broken a lot of records, including becoming the highest-grossing film of all-time domestically. Finishing the top five: The Sound of Music, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial and Titanic. This past weekend it became the number 3 top grossing movie of all time.

“Star Wars” earned $42.4 million between Friday and Sunday to push its four-week gross to a staggering $812.7 million, according to Rentrak.

Furious 7 was China’s #1 grossing film previous year, pulling in $390.9 million. “You have a remarkable performance by Leonardo DiCaprio, and you combine it with bold, innovative filmmaking Alejandro G. Inarritu is known for, and the audience embraces it”.

This was the third week “The Revenant” has been in North American movie theaters, but only its first week in wide release.

Analysts correctly predicted Star Wars would be able to edge out The Revenant for first place.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens just barely managed to edge out its biggest competition this weekend: Golden Globes juggernaut The Revenant, which made its nationwide debut this weekend to the tune of $38 million.

In other box office news, Daddy’s Home sat pretty at No. 3 with $15 million, as the Will Ferrell/Mark Wahlberg’s Christmas comedy continues to do solid business even with the holidays over. The movie opens in US theaters on January 8, 2016. “The Forest”, $13.1 million ($450,000 international). 5.

Fifth on the list was “Sisters”, with Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, at US$7.2 million its fourth week out.

The Hateful Eight fell hard in its second weekend after expanding its theater count.

But internationally, it still has a long way to go to beat “Avatar”, James Cameron’s science-fiction movie with blue aliens. Despite the challenges wrought by global warming, the film exceeded projections, which had it opening to around $20 million.