Star Wars tops New Year's box office in North America
LOS ANGELES - Disney and LucasFilm's Star Wars: The Last Jedi has cleared the $1 billion milestone in worldwide grosses in less than three weeks.
The movie pulled in $120.4 million globally on the New Year's weekend, with $52.4 million at 4,232 domestic venues and $68 million internationally during the Friday-Sunday period.
The Last Jedi is now the eighth highest-grossing domestic movie of all time with $517.1 million - only $15 million behind last year's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story in the seventh spot. On the worldwide chart, it's now 24th with $1.04 billion, edging Universal-Illumination's Despicable Me 3. The tentpole's international total, currently at $523.2 million, will see a significant jolt when it opens on Friday in China, its final market.
