Star Wars: The Force Awakens reigned supreme for its fourth straight week, but came close to second thanks to the impressive wide expansion of The Revenant.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens made $42.3 million (-53.1%) which makes for the second best fourth weekend of all time. Avatar sits strong in first with $50.3 million and The Avengers is a distant third with $36.6 million.
The Force Awakens' $812.7 million domestic gross is a 6.4% increase on the $760.5 million domestic gross by Avatar, and has accumulated an additional $921.1 million from foreign markets for a whopping $1.73 billion worldwide total. Jurassic World is now the fourth highest grossing movie worldwide with its still unbelievable $1.66 billion gross, while Titanic sits in second with $2.18 billion worldwide. Considering its ridiculous performance so far, I wouldn't be surprised if Star Wars can rack up another $453 million to top Titanic. It's definitely on track to gather up the $266.2 million needed to cross the $2 billion worldwide mark.
The Revenant added 3,371 theaters to its initial four and scored a $39.8 million (+8,793%) wide release opening. That's the fourth best January opening in history with Cloverfield not even $200k away in third and Taken 3 less than $600k behind in fifth. On Friday, The Revenant successfully took down Star Wars when it opened to $14.3 million, the first day the sci-fi sequel wasn't in first. Star Wars only made $10.7 million that day, but struck back on Saturday and Sunday to take back the first place crown.
In 17 days, The Revenant has a domestic total of $41.3 million which makes for director Alejandro G. Iñárritu's second highest grossing film domestically. Birdman barely sits in first with $42.3 million.
The Revenant still carries a hefty $135 million price tag. A B+ CinemaScore is good news - especially considering the amount of violence that some moviegoers weren't expecting - and the film surprised the biz on Sunday when it took home Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture - Drama and Best Director (Leo's win for Best Actor - Drama was widely expected). All of that buzz should help pull in a solid amount domestically. If not there's always the Oscar nominations on Thursday. Soon to reach many more foreign markets in the coming weeks (not including China), The Revenant has grossed $61.8 million worldwide.
Daddy's Home was finally moved from its second place slot since its release on Christmas. The Will Ferrell-Mark Wahlberg comedy grossed $15.3 million (-48.6%) in its third weekend. With an excellent $116.3 million domestic so far, the film will blow past the much more well-received Ferrell-Wahlberg comedy The Other Guys, which made $119.2 million domestically in the Summer of 2010. With a few more foreign markets left to come, Daddy's Home has a terrific $155 million worldwide.
The Forest debuted in fourth with $12.7 million. That's on the low-end on the list of "poorly received horror movies that open the first weekend of January." This trend started in 2005 when White Noise opened to $24.1 million, and has continued most of the years since. On the top of the list sits 2012's The Devil Inside ($33.7 million opening) while the bottom is taken by 2008's One Missed Call ($12.5 million opening). There's only a $10 million budget to cover for The Forest, so it's safe regardless of where it is on that list.
Sisters placed fifth with $7.1 million (-43.7%). The $30 million Tina Fey-Amy Poehler comedy has grossed $74.8 million domestically. An additional $8 million from foreign markets - some of which are still on the way - contributed to the film's $82.9 million worldwide total.
The Hateful Eight dropped to sixth with $6.4 million (-59.2%). That drop is even worse with the film adding an extra 464 theaters on Friday. The Revenant is the culprit of this whodunit, although Star Wars and the not very enthusiastic response to Tarantino's latest shouldn't go uncredited.
A few foreign markets - including the UK - gave The Hateful Eight a measly $17.4 million to work with. More are on the way for the $44 million western, which has a decent domestic total of $41.5 million. With tons of competition on the way, Harvey Weinstein is praying for a Best Picture nomination on Thursday to give the film an extra boost.
The Big Short remained in seventh with $6.1 million (-31.9%). 941 theaters were added to the very well-received Adam McKay comedy which has racked up $42.7 million domestically. Oscar nominations should give this one support through a fairly tough January, although it's all icing on the cake since the film only had a $28 million budget.
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip placed in eighth with $5.7 million (-52.8%). The $90 million film has accumulated $112.7 million worldwide and has many more foreign markets on the way to help out.
Joy fell to ninth with $4.4 million (-56.2%). The Jennifer Lawrence dramedy has grossed $46.5 million domestically and $23.6 million from a bunch of foreign markets. That's only $70.2 million against a $60 million budget. The foreign markets on the way will need to help this one quite a bit.
Concussion rounded out the top ten with $3 million (-61.4%). The $35 million Will Smith drama has only made $30.9 million domestically and $3.2 million from a handful of foreign markets. The film reaches many more territories soon, and they'll have to bring a decent amount of support.
Next weekend sees the release of Ride Along 2, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, and Norm of the North.
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