While confirmed as the top film in North American for 2017, The Last Jedi continues to slam on the box office air brakes as the film takes second place in China behind local film The Ex-File: The Return of the Exes.
After 20 days on release the film has now taken $544,613,735 in North America, comfortably taking the top position for 2017, outpacing Disney’s own Beauty and the Beast and dropping it into 6th position on the all-time list. Now it begins a long $79 million journey to catch the 5th biggest hit, The Avengers on $623,357,910, a figure it still has a good chance of catching. At this point, closing the $118m gap to Jurassic World in 4th position seems less likely.
Internationally the film now sits on $573,500,000 placing it at 47th on the all-time list, making it the second highest grossing Star Wars film at the international box office but leaves it trailing far behind The Force Awakens, which topped out at $1,131.6bn.
So far, the total worldwide haul for The Last Jedi is $1,118,113,735, and with the film now out in all territories a final global tally north of $1.5 billion is looking somewhat optimistic. That said, the film is 18th on the all-time global list, just behind The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and looks set to leap up a number of places this weekend. Expect it to step into 13th position by Monday, usurping Minions and then traversing the gap to Iron Man 3 in 12th.
A top ten all-time worldwide finish still looks possible, most probably unseating Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 in 8th before ending it’s run on $1.35 – $1.4bn.
