Following an historic New Year's Day record haul of $88.3 million, Star Wars: The Force Awakens is wrapping up the holidays with $740.3 million in North America, an amount which guarantees that it will pass Avatar's record $760.8 million in a matter of days. It also has the biggest third weekend in history and is showing no signs of slowing down, going so far as to help the North American box office hit a record $11 billion in 2015. After becoming the fastest title to hit the $700 million mark in jut 16.5 days, J.J. Abrams' movie has decimated the record held by Avatar as it took that movie 72 days to get there. Overseas, Star Wars: The Force Awakens made $96.3 million over the weekend for a total of $770.5 million. It passed Avengers: Age of Ultron's worldwide cume yesterday and will sail past Furious 7 and The Avengers tomorrow. With the movie opening in China later this month, we'll have a better idea of how close it will come to Avatar's worldwide haul of $2.7 billion by the end of January, but analysts still belive it will top that movie. Do you guys think it will make it?
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