Star Wars The Force Awakens is Now the HighestGrossing Domestic Film Ever
Star Wars The Force Awakens broke a new record Wednesday. The seventh installment in the space saga became the highest-grossing film in North America, shooting past Avatar's 760.5 million lifetime domestic haul in just 20 days. Since its Dec. 18 debut in the U.S. and Canada, the movie crushed a series of records, according to a Disney press release. It was the fastest film to reach 100 million, doing so in 21 hours. It also pulled in the biggest opening week at 391 million. But one title still eludes The Force Awakens the highest-grossing film of all time. Its current 1.5 billion global haul is short of Avatar's record-setting 2.8 billion, according to Variety. But those rankings might change after Jan. 9 when the new Star Wars film opens in China, the world's second largest movie market. And Disney has more in store for the franchise it bought from Lucasfilm for 4 billion in 2012. The studio plans to release one movie a year for the next five years.