You Could Buy A Castle, A Trip To Space & The Real Han Solo With Star Wars’ $517M Box Office Take
The Force Awakens brought in an absolute record-smashing $517 million in its opening weekend alone, according to tracking site Box Office Mojo. Granted, that’s the global tally, but it still brought in $238 million here in the United States — and when it comes to worldwide numbers, well, it doesn’t even hit China, one of the world’s biggest movie markets, until January.
The record-setter for domestic box-office takings is still 2009’s Avatar, which netted about $760 million here at home — and over $2.7 billion globally — before sliding out of theaters. But we could play the movie comparison game (which countries count? what about inflation? what about franchises?) all day and emerge none the wiser.
A better question is: what is $517 million actually worth? If you, like the Walt Disney company, had it pouring into your pockets right now, what could it buy you?
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