How Much Money Will Star Wars Episode VII Make?

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2.8 billion. Its far above other blockbusters, The Avengers grossed 1.5 billion by comparison and that a major success. Star Wars 7 will probably gross more than that but surpassing 2.8 billion will be difficult. Well, on its opening weekend Star Wars already grossed 3 times as much as Avatar did and both movies were released in december. When its harder to gross much compared to summer.

Opening on Christmas Break is the new summer.

Well you can say it broke 100 billion records already: fastest movie to gross 100 million, fastest movie to gross 100 million and 1 cent, 100 million and 2 cents, ..., 1.1 billion.

Now you can do that for each country and US state and you can end up with trillions of new records.

The movie industry manufactures records. Adjusted for inflation the new movie is far behind many others and it will take a lot of tickets for it to surpass The Phantom Menace's domestic gross adjusted for inflation alone.

I can't see this movie beating Avatar, or Titanic.

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TItanic made 1.8 billion on it's first run (then it was released again in 3D and grosses several hundred million more). Star Wars 7 already grossed 1.15 billion by the time I am writing this and it has been only 11 days since official release.

Yep, SW7 is hammering records.


Predictions are that the $4b Disney spent buying LucasFilm will be covered by SW7 alone.


It's just become the fastest movie to hit $1b too. In fact, 1.6b in only 10.5 days.

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Its Avatar all over again for me. This movie isnt better then the original Star Wars and just because its making big cash does it make it better then the movie is. Avatar broke records too but i have not heard anything about the movie like The Titanic was so well received . Force Awakens is a fine movie but do i think it should beat the Titanic not really.

Funny you should say that... it's set to beat Avatar by Monday if the tickets sales keep going... and Titanic's record is also on the cards as well.


Star Wars 7, is the biggest selling movie ever.

Addition... the film hasn't opened in China yet... so be prepared for the numbers to jump massively.


The film has been out for 2 weeks and is already in 8th place of the Top 10 biggest sellers and that's without the China release.

This makes it harder on Rian and Episode 8 this massive hall. Would it be a failure if it only made 350 million after the star wars mad rush ended. I think any version of Episode 7 would have done this cause when get a star wars break over 10 years but also its a sequel too Jedi your gonna rake in the doe. Its where i am surprised yes but then again the Title has Star Wars with harrison ford as Han Solo on the poster.

Usually movies make the most money in the first 2 weeks. Avatar and Titanic were different and managed to make money for a couple of months, that was what made them special in box office terms.

Star Wars 7 is now 2nd place in the US box office all time, however, when correcting for inflation is not at the top 15 yet. It will probably not surpass the original Star Wars which made 1.5 billion corrected for ticket price inflation, while Star Wars 7 looks like it will make about 1 billion in the US box office. Problem is that outside of the US it's popularity is not that big, in Japan it has not made that much money in proportion and the same applies to France and Germany. So I still find it hard for it to surpass Avatar's 2.8 billion worldwide. But I am rooting for it because it's such a superior movie anyway.

Star Wars isn't popular outside the US?

Inflation adjusted top 50

* Adjusted to the estimated 2016 average ticket price of $8.61. Inflation-adjustment is mostly done by multiplying estimated admissions by the latest average ticket price. Where admissions are unavailable, adjustment is based on the average ticket price for when each movie was released (taking in to account re-releases where applicable).

^ Indicates documented multiple theatrical releases. Most of the pre-1980 movies listed on this chart had multiple undocumentented releases over the years. The year shown is the first year of release.

Most pre-1980 pictures achieved their totals through multiple releases, especially Disney animated features which made much of their totals in the past few decades belying their original release dates in terms of adjustment. For example, Snow White has made $118,328,683 of its unadjusted $184,925,486 total since 1983.


1 Gone with the Wind MGM $1,739,604,200 $198,676,459 1939^
2 Star Wars Fox $1,533,609,700 $460,998,007 1977^
3 The Sound of Music Fox $1,226,196,400 $158,671,368 1965
4 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial Uni. $1,221,365,800 $435,110,554 1982^
5 Titanic Par. $1,166,435,200 $658,672,302 1997^
6 The Ten Commandments Par. $1,127,910,000 $65,500,000 1956
7 Jaws Uni. $1,102,758,600 $260,000,000 1975
8 Doctor Zhivago MGM $1,068,806,300 $111,721,910 1965
9 The Exorcist WB $952,258,800 $232,906,145 1973^
10 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Dis. $938,490,000 $184,925,486 1937^
11 101 Dalmatians Dis. $860,287,500 $144,880,014 1961^
12 The Empire Strikes Back Fox $845,335,300 $290,475,067 1980^
13 Ben-Hur MGM $843,780,000 $74,000,000 1959
14 Avatar Fox $837,367,900 $760,507,625 2009^
15 Return of the Jedi Fox $809,851,500 $309,306,177 1983^
16 Jurassic Park Uni. $791,448,000 $402,453,882 1993^
17 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace Fox $777,587,000 $474,544,677 1999^
18 The Lion King BV $767,550,700 $422,783,777 1994^
19 The Sting Uni. $767,520,000 $156,000,000 1973
20 Raiders of the Lost Ark Par. $762,215,600 $248,159,971 1981^
21 The Graduate AVCO $736,815,800 $104,945,305 1967^
22 Fantasia Dis. $715,004,300 $76,408,097 1941^
23 Jurassic World Uni. $680,636,600 $652,270,625 2015
24 The Godfather Par. $679,523,300 $134,966,411 1972^
25 Forrest Gump Par. $676,854,200 $330,252,182 1994^
26 Mary Poppins Dis. $673,145,500 $102,272,727 1964^
27 Grease Par. $662,704,800 $188,755,690 1978^
28 Marvel's The Avengers BV $661,947,300 $623,357,910 2012
29 Thunderball UA $644,028,000 $63,595,658 1965
30 The Dark Knight WB $641,060,600 $534,858,444 2008^
31 The Jungle Book Dis. $634,384,100 $141,843,612 1967^
32 Sleeping Beauty Dis. $625,740,800 $51,600,000 1959^
33 Ghostbusters Col. $612,805,800 $242,212,467 1984^
34 Shrek 2 DW $611,748,500 $441,226,247 2004
35 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Fox $607,503,100 $102,308,889 1969
36 Love Story Par. $602,684,000 $106,397,186 1970
37 Spider-Man Sony $598,263,700 $403,706,375 2002
38 Independence Day Fox $596,405,000 $306,169,268 1996^
39 Home Alone Fox $583,191,400 $285,761,243 1990
40 Pinocchio Dis. $580,342,700 $84,254,167 1940^
41 Cleopatra (1963) Fox $578,449,600 $57,777,778 1963
42 Beverly Hills Cop Par. $578,161,700 $234,760,478 1984
43 Goldfinger UA $570,843,000 $51,081,062 1964
44 Airport Uni. $569,218,200 $100,489,151 1970
45 American Graffiti Uni. $565,800,000 $115,000,000 1973
46 The Robe Fox $563,563,600 $36,000,000 1953
47 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest BV $556,450,200 $423,315,812 2006
48 Around the World in 80 Days UA $556,338,500 $42,000,000 1956
49 Bambi RKO $548,564,200 $102,247,150 1942^
50 Blazing Saddles WB $544,493,200 $119,601,481 1974^

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Yeah ! I agree.
The Brits hate it.
This movie will break all money records.
I paid 10 bucks for a sofa seat with two prostitutes and I felt privileged.

Not really. Most Asian countries weren't accepting American films at the time of the original trilogy, so there's no sentiments value in that. Phantom Menace has the second highest % of its money made in America among all billion dollar movies, meaning that not a ton of people in foreign countries saw it, and those that did (probably) disliked their first taste of Star Wars. It's going to make money overseas, but it's not making Furious 7 money in Asia.

Which I dont get why those Garbage movies do so well.

I hope Star Wars 7 overtakes Avatar.

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I don't....but it will.

I would much rather an original film (debate all you want) be the top money maker than something that has a built in fan base almost 40 years strong.

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That's just it, I would prefer it to be a movie that appeals to the nostalgia of classic movies, than one that manages to be remembered mainly by turning actors into CG blue cat people.