{"id":1336,"date":"2016-01-08T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T06:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2016-01-30T03:19:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T09:19:05","slug":"star-wars-becomes-highest-grossing-u-s-domestic-movie-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/08\/star-wars-becomes-highest-grossing-u-s-domestic-movie-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Star Wars&#8217; becomes highest grossing U.S. domestic movie ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/b1bf90cae86aa3008c0f6a706700ed47.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/b1bf90cae86aa3008c0f6a706700ed47.jpg\" alt=\"Harrison Ford\" width=\"959\" height=\"401\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1448\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/b1bf90cae86aa3008c0f6a706700ed47.jpg 959w, http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/b1bf90cae86aa3008c0f6a706700ed47-300x125.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 959px) 100vw, 959px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/l3.yimg.com\/bt\/api\/res\/1.2\/JpEwMzZKv_7oojMdDsK7Lg--\/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3NfbGVnbztmaT1maWxsO2g9NDAyO2lsPXBsYW5lO3B5b2ZmPTA7cT03NTt3PTk2MA--\/http:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en_us\/News\/ap_webfeeds\/a0dc8906e86aa3008c0f6a706700032e.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Move over, \u201cAvatar,\u201d there\u2019s a new force in town. In just 20 days in theaters, \u201cStar Wars: The Force Awakens\u201d has unseated the James Cameron pic as the No. 1 North American movie of all time.<\/p>\n<p>According to Disney, J.J. Abrams\u2019 \u201cStar Wars\u201d earned enough on Wednesday to pass \u201cAvatar\u2019s\u201d $760.5 million lifetime gross. As of Tuesday, the film was just shy of the record at $758.2 million.<\/p>\n<p>The worldwide record still belongs to \u201cAvatar,\u201d though, and that may continue. \u201cThe Force Awakens\u201d has earned $1.6 billion to date, as compared to \u201cAvatar\u2019s\u201d $2.8 billion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStar Wars\u201d will open in China on Jan 9, which will give the film a significant boost, but some analysts are predicting that the film might now net out in the mid-$2 billion range. <\/p>\n<p>Photo: Lucasfilm via AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move over, \u201cAvatar,\u201d there\u2019s a new force in town. In just 20 days in theaters, \u201cStar Wars: The Force Awakens\u201d has unseated the James Cameron pic as the No. 1 North American movie of all time. According to Disney, J.J. Abrams\u2019 \u201cStar Wars\u201d earned enough on Wednesday to pass \u201cAvatar\u2019s\u201d $760.5 million lifetime gross. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions\/1449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}