Latest Star Wars rakes in $33m in China debut

It’s also the biggest opening day in history for the studio, as well as the second-biggest single-day gross of all time behind Furious 7 ($54.4 million), which debuted on a Sunday.

“Star Wars” is still on top at the box office, but it saw its first real taste of competition with the debut of “The Revenant”.

One film that did not quite make the top five was Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, which dropped 60 percent from last week (even though it added 464 theaters over the weekend). Age of Ultron finished with 240.1 million from China, being a large portion of the total oversees amount, $946 million. But in a upset, The Revenant beat Force Awakens on Friday before the Star Wars blockbuster regained the box office lead Saturday.

The record-breaking “Star Wars” opened Saturday in China, where it is far from certain to draw in enough movie-goers to knock off “Avatar” as the world’s all-time biggest grossing movie.

It became the highest-grossing film of all time in both countries over the past week, and passed $800m in the U.S. and Canada this weekend, the first movie ever to do so. The movie premiered on December 18th and took less than a month to become the highest grossing film in the movie history of North America. The film moved from four theaters to 3,371 over the weekend, and it brought in much more than expected: $38 million. Globally, the film has earned an impressive $1.73 billion, passing up Jurassic World ($1.67 billion).

As of 2 p.m. Monday in China, “Star Wars” had raked in a total of 365.8 million yuan ($55.6 million) in sales, according to the Chinese entertainment-data provider Entgroup.

As for the huge box office returns for the movie?

But you don’t always need to spend a lot to make a lot: Straight Outta Compton made more than $287 million on a $40 million budget.

Domestically, Force Awakens grossed $41.6-M from 4,134 theaters for a total $812-M it’s the 1st movie to ever cross $800-M in the USA.

And finally, “Daddy’s Home” brought in an estimated $15 million, showing goofy comedies can have staying power, too.

Weekend sales for the top 10 films rose 34 percent to $140.6 million from a year earlier, Rentrak said.

At IMDB, a global film fan website based in the United States, the film was given an 8.5 rating out of 10.