JAN 1 UPDATE: Star Wars: The Force Awakens – already Disney’s biggest film in North America since Thursday – is on the cusp of being crowned the biggest release of 2015.

Star Wars The Force Awakens

Studio executives said on Friday the space opera added an estimated $22.9m in North America on Thursday to scale $652m.

Once actual numbers are confirmed they expect it to overtake the $652.3m established earlier this year by Jurassic Word and become the biggest release of the year.

The next target is Titanic’s $658.7m from 1997. When The Force Awakens overhauls that mark on Friday it will rank as second biggest release of all time in North America behind Avatar’s $760.5m from 2010.

The Force Awakens crossed $650m in a North American record 14 days and stands at $1.33bn worldwide as of Friday.

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS

  • Biggest Disney release of all time in North America
  • Biggest North American opening weekend and three-day gross $247.9m
  • Biggest Imax debut $30.1m
  • Biggest opening week $391.1m
  • Biggest Thursday preview $57m
  • Biggest Friday opening day and single day $119.1m
  • Biggest Sunday $60.5m
  • Biggest Monday $40.1m
  • Biggest Tuesday $37.3m
  • Biggest Christmas Day $49.3m
  • Biggest second weekend $149.2m

  • Fastest to cross $100m (one day)
  • Fastest to cross $150m (two days)
  • Fastest to cross $200m (three days)
  • Fastest to cross $250m (four days)
  • Fastest to cross $300m (five days)
  • Fastest to cross $350m (six days)
  • Fastest to cross $400m (eight days)
  • Fastest to cross $450m (nine days)
  • Fastest to cross $500m (ten days)
  • Fastest to cross $550m (11 days)
  • Fastest to cross $600m (12 days)
  • Fastest to cross $650m (14 days)

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