Via Forbes.com:
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is now available to own on VOD, DVD, and Blu-Ray. So, to celebrate this merry occasion, I wanted to do something of an audit of the film’s record-smashing domestic box office performance. So without further ado, here we go…
Star Wars: The Force Awakens opened on Thursday night on the 18th of December with a record-breaking $57 million in Thursday previews. It then followed that up with a record-high $119.1m Friday. Said “pure” Friday (the Friday gross minus the Thursday previews) placed second only to Jurassic World‘s $63.4m Friday figure ($81.9m – $18.5m). It then made a $68.294m on Saturday, which was the third-biggest Saturday ever (behind The Avengers‘s $69.5m and Jurassic World‘s $69.6m) and a record $60.5m. Its record-breaking opening weekend was $247.9m, or $39.1m higher than Jurassic World‘s $208.8m debut from six months prior.
The Walt Disney blockbuster than earned $40 million on its first Monday and eventually $31.3m on its second Monday, thus earning the top-two Monday grosses in its fourth and eleventh days of release. Its first Tuesday ($37m) was the top Tuesday of all time while its second Tuesday ($33m on day 12) was the third-best Tuesday save The Amazing Spider-Man which opened on a Tuesday with $35m back in July of 2012.
Because of the sheer number of Wednesday openers, The Force Awakens‘s $38m day six was merely the sixth best Wednesday of all time, while its second Wednesday (day 13) was the twelveth best Wednesday gross with $28m. In terms of Wednesday grosses that weren’t the first or second day of release, those two figures trumped any prior Wednesday performance. And again the surplus of Thursday opening days put the all-time record out of reach, with a $27.3m Thursday ranking at 6th place and that second ($22m) Thursday ranking at 11th place. In terms of Thursdays that weren’t day one or day two, the next biggest was Jurassic World‘s $17.822m day-7 gross.
And The Force Awakens ended its first week with $395m domestic, having notched the best “x-day total gross” throughout its first ten days of release. Speaking of which, that second weekend earned a whopping $149m, easily the best non-opening weekend of all time and a figure that would’ve been just above the $147m opening weekend of Furious 7 as the 13th biggest “opening weekend” had it been the debut frame.
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