THE LAST JEDI HITS $1 BILLION WORLDWIDE IN UNDER THREE WEEKS
This is an amazing achievement!
Disney-Lucasfilm’s “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” has cleared the $1,000,000,000 in worldwide box office grosses in less than three weeks. Truly amazing.
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” did $120.4 million world-wide on the New Year’s Eve weekend, plush $52.4 million on 4,232 domestic screens and $68 millionworld-wideduring the Friday-Sunday period.
“The Last Jedi” now becomes the eighth highest-grossing domestic movie of all time with $517.1 million. This is only $15 million behind last year’s “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” in the seventh spot. Worldwide it’s now 24th with $1.04 billion, dominating Universal-Illumination’s “Despicable Me 3.”
Fortune
reports:
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” has also topped Disney’s “Beauty and the
Beast,” which grossed $504 million in North America, for the top spot
among 2017 releases domestically. It’s the fourth 2017 title to go past
$1 billion worldwide, along with “Beauty and the Beast” at $1.26
billion, “The Fate of the Furious” at $1.24 billion and “Despicable Me
3” at $1.03 billion.
