LOS ANGELES: Disney-Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi has cleared the US$1 billion milestone in worldwide grosses in less than three weeks. “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” pulled in US$120.4 million globally on the New Year’s Eve weekend with US$52.4 million at 4,232 domestic venues and US$68 million internationally during the Friday-Sunday period. “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” has also topped Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast,” which grossed US$504 million in North America, for the top spot among 2017 releases domestically. The action-comedy should wind up with an 11-day domestic total of US$186.3 million by the end of Monday. Disney-Pixar’s seventh weekend of “Coco” finished sixth with a projected US$8.8 million at 2,845 sites for a domestic total of US$181.1 million and US$539 million worldwide.

Source: New Strait Times January 01, 2018 00:56 UTC