‘Star Wars’ Box Office Surpasses ‘Titanic,’ ‘Jurassic World’

“Star Wars: The Force
Awakens” has marched confidently into the new year, raking in an
additional $88.3 million and topping the box office for a third week,
according to studio estimates Sunday.

In the
first weekend of 2016, the record-busting film blew past the domestic
grosses of both “Jurassic World” and “Titanic” to become the
second-highest earner of all time with $740.3 million in just 19 days of
release. The top domestic film is still “Avatar” with a $760.5 million
lifetime domestic gross.

The Mark Wahlberg and
Will Ferrell comedy “Daddy’s Home” came in second with an estimated $29
million, bringing its total to $93.7 million. Quentin Tarantino’s
bloody Western “The Hateful Eight” took third with $16.2 million in its
first weekend in wide release.