Star Wars: The Force Awakens set a new all -
time domestic debut record this weekend with an estimated $ 248 million — and with a five - day international debut of $ 281 million, the film has taken in a whopping $ 529 million globally!
Not exact matches
That was big news at the
time because it was the second - highest
debut and second - highest
domestic total ever for a baseball movie.
The move follows the extraordinary success of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which was the first Star Wars movie to premiere outside the traditional summer blockbuster window and smashed numerous records, including biggest
domestic and global
debuts of all
time as well as the biggest
domestic second and third weekends, en route to becoming the highest grossing
domestic release of all
time with over $ 861.3 million and the third biggest global release ever with $ 1,886.7 billion.
There may be no more successful actor working today than Chadwick Boseman — literally, given that Black Panther is the third - highest - grossing
domestic film of all
time ($ 690 million and counting) and that Avengers: Infinity War just
debuted with the most lucrative U.S. opening weekend in movie history.
Although Deadpool 2 ($ 125 million
domestic) was able to inch ahead of Stephen King's IT ($ 123.4 million
domestic) and score the second - largest
domestic opening of all
time for an R - rated film, it still came up short compared to the original Deadpool's record - setting $ 132.4 million
domestic debut, which got executives all over Hollywood buzzing about the possibilities for R - rated superheroes back in the spring of 2016.
Avengers: Infinity War secured both the best
domestic box office opening of all
time with $ 250 million — surpassing Star Wars: The Force Awakens when adjusted for inflation — and the best worldwide
debut at $ 630 million, passing The Fate of the Furious» $ 541.9 million by a considerable margin.