‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Soars to $ 745 m worldwide

Los Angeles (Variety.com): Disney-Lucasfilm’s ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ is showing plenty of force at mulitplexes worldwide with $ 745.4 million globally as of Sunday.

The North American take has hit $ 365 million in its first 10 days as of Sunday with the studio projecting another $ 32 million on Christmas Day on Monday - making it the third highest domestic release in 2017 following ‘Beauty and the Beast’ with $ 504 million and ‘Wonder Woman’ at $ 412 million.

‘Stars Wars: The Last Jedi’ took in $ 75.1 million in 55 markets for the weekend and has totalled $ 380.3 million in international box office. It is already the top grossing film of 2017 in both Denmark and Sweden and this fourth highest grosser in the overall European market. The UK is the top market with $ 67.4 million, followed by Germany with $ 40 million, France with $ 29.3 million and Australia with $ 26.9 million.

‘The Last Jedi’, which picks up following the events of 2015’s ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’, is so far the 87th highest worldwide grosser of all time, trailing 2016’s ‘Suicide Squad’ by $ 1.4 million. Rian Johnson directed with Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Lupita Nyong’o and Domhnall Gleeson reprising their roles. It’s the final screen role for Fisher, who died a year ago.

‘The Last Jedi’ has lifted 2017’s overall domestic box office to $10.6 billion as of Sunday, 2.6% behind 2016 at the same point, according to comScore. That gap has been as high as 6.1% at the end of August as this year’s box office was pulled down by the slowest summer in a decade.

Sony’s ‘Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle’ and Universal’s ‘Pitch Perfect 3’ have also opened solidly while Fox’s ‘The Greatest Showman’ is drawing respectably at the domestic box office. Fox also saw an impressive platform debut for awards contender ‘The Post’. But moviegoers are showing little interest in Paramount’s ‘Downsizing’ and Warner Bros.-Alcon’s ‘Father Figures’.