Star Wars: The Force Awakens Sets Christmas Record

Star Wars: The Force Awakens easily held onto it's second weekend with a record breaking $153.5 million.... Yes, just to add more records to it's name, The Force Awakens has now:

Biggest Second weekend for a movie: $153.5 million (previously held by Jurassic World's $106 million)
Fastest movie to $1 Billion: 12 Days (Also previously held by Jurassic World... 13 days).
And a bunch of other records.

It's also safe to say that Avatar's $760.5 domestic total is in jeopardy, but it's worldwide take of $2.788 Billion is still somewhat safe.

In other movie news (there were other movies out this weekend) the Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrel comedy Daddy's Home ($38.8 million) performed better than expected.  The Jennifer Lawrence vehicle directed by David O'Russell, Joy ($17.5 million), had a strong debut. Meanwhile, the Will Smith NFL drama Concussion ($11 million) underwhelmed. And... Point Break ($10.2 million), the remake with a reported $100 million budget, fell short. Speaking of short...The star studded, The Big Short, made a decent $10.5 million to movie a notch above Point Break... Wow, that was a handful.

Wait...

Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight debuted in only 100 theaters and grossed $4.5 million, landing just outside the top 10.

Phew...


Weekend Estimates

Movie	Weekend Gross	Total Gross	Budget
1) Star Wars: The Force Awakens  2) Daddy's Home 3) Joy 4) Sisters 5) The Chipmunks: The Road Chip  6) Concussion 7) The Big Short 8) Point Break 9) HG: Mockingjay - Part 2 10) Creed	$153.5 million $38.8 million $17.5 million $13.9 million $12.7 million $11 million $10.5 million $10.2 million $5.3 million $4.6 million	$544.6 million $38.8 million $17.5 million $37.1 million $39.4 million $11 million $16 million $10.2 million $264.6 million $96.3 million	$200 million $50 million $60 million $30 million $90 million $35 million $28 million $100 million $160 million $35 million