‘Star Wars’ stays on top for fourth week

He shares co-star Daisy Ridley’s sentiments that The Force Awakens sequel will be brilliant. Titanic still remains in second place with $2.19 billion.

The braindead Tina Fey/Amy Poehler comedy ‘Sisters’ rounded out the Top 5 in its fourth week with $7.1 million. The revisionist Western from the Weinstein Company picked up $6.4 million, bringing its total to $41.5 million. It is the 1st movie ever to reach this milestone domestically. To match its $135 million production budget is going to take some work. But with the final trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens having a special release, where it was projected on the Great Wall with First Order stormtroopers lining the monument, the film will no doubt win over even more audiences oversees. The movie released in the US on December 18, 2015. But in a upset, The Revenant beat Force Awakens on Friday before the Star Wars blockbuster regained the box office lead Saturday. That’s just a few million short of Inarritu’s last Oscar-winning film Birdman, which made $42.3 million during its entire run. Its $38 million was still a strong opening for the month of January.

The Revenant stars Tom Hardy alongside Leonardo DiCaprio as a frontiersman named Hugh Glass on a fur trading expedition in the 1800s trying to survive after being mauled by a bear.

The top ten films grossed $140.6M which was up 34% from a year ago when Taken 3 debuted at number one with $39M; and up 25% from 2014 when Lone Survivor jumped into the top spot in its first weekend of wide release with $37.8M.

In the opening weekend, the movie crushed all box-office records with a massive collection of $517 million worldwide. “The Revenant“, $20.2 million. 3.

George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road is the top-grosser to date in the best picture drama category, followed by Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight ($28.6-M), Todd Haynes’ Carol and Lenny Abrahamson’s Room.

But internationally, it still has a long way to go to beat “Avatar”, James Cameron’s science-fiction movie with blue aliens. “Joy”, $4.5 million ($7.5 million international). 10. Both American Hustle and Silver Linings Playbook made over $130 million.

As for the huge box office returns for the movie?