Star Wars The Force Awakens UK box-office: The seventh film in the saga is now the fourth highest grossing film of all time in the UK.
The Star Wars The Force Awakens box-office now stands at an impressive £83.5 million just two weeks after its December 17th release.
After just 13 days of business in the UK Star Wars: The Force Awakens has now overtaken Titanic to become the 4th biggest release of all time in the UK. The current box office total of £83.5million in the UK makes Star Wars: The Force Awakens the fastest to make £80million beating the previous record held by Skyfall which took 23 days to hit the same number.
The film has been enjoying a record breaking Christmas at the box office which included the biggest ever Boxing Day at £3.9million. Globally the film has currently made over £1.2billion and this week the US reached $600million in a record amount of time.
In less than two weeks the release has now forced its way past the entire lifetime box office of Disney.Pixar’s Toy Story 3 making Star Wars: The Force Awakens the biggest ever title for The Walt Disney Company in the UK. Likewise in the US the film has now overtaken Marvel’s Avengers Assemble to become the US’ biggest ever release for the company.
With over £8.2million of the total UK box office, the film has also broken all IMAX records overtaking the previous UK record set by Spectre. For Star Wars: The Force Awakens the IMAX screen at the BFI, London is now the biggest grossing IMAX cinema in the world.
The film is now officially the fourth highest grossing film of all-time in the United States, where it expected to continue on its glorious run over the first weekend of the new year. Will it topple Avatar as the biggest grossing film of all time? We’ll see in the coming few weeks.
