‘Star Wars,’ ‘The Revenant’ rule North American box office

The Revenant has come the closest to knocking Star Wars out of the top spot for the weekend.

Leading entertainment consultancy EntGroup said that by Monday afternoon the movie had earned just under 366 million yuan ($56 million) in the world’s second-largest movie market. The seventh film in the Star Wars saga brought in $41.6 million to claim #1 for a fourth week. 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.

“I’m very happy that these Star Wars books, especially those for children and teenagers, have been introduced to China, so our children will know about this fantastic genre of literature, about imagination and about human aspirations”, he said. In its 4th weekend (which would be 24 days), The Force Awakens racked up another $41.6M, according to estimates, raising its record to $812M.

Also in its third week in theaters, it made $15 million.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens leads for the fourth consecutive week with a $42.35 million weekend gross. China was the last market where the film had yet to open.

“The Revenant” outdrew another new wide release this weekend, “The Forest”, which took in $13.1 million in its debut, beating a forecast of $8.5 million from BoxOffice.com.

In the US the movie had the biggest-ever opening weekend and is now the highest-grossing film of all time, the Journal added. This is the third-highest single-day gross in Chinese history, behind Avengers: Age of Ultron ($33 million) and Furious 7 opening day total of $68 million.

In Canada and the US, the movie is now the biggest grossing ever and the first to surpass the $800 million mark with a current total of $812 million.

Globally, Star Wars (NYSE:DIS) is the #3 film of all time, and running. The comedy-drama about the housing bubble collapse was steady at #7 once again with $6.3 million, off just 30% from last week for the best hold in the top ten.

But how did the rest of the movies do at the weekend box office?

Rounding out the top ten were: The Hateful Eight ($6.3 million); The Big Short ($6.3 million); Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip ($5.5 million); Joy ($4.5 million); and, Concussion ($3.1 million).