--- title: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Set Christmas Box Office Record description: Another milestone for 'The Force Awakens' canonical: https://time.com/4161752/star-wars-the-force-awakens-christmas-box-office/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-27T16:27:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T13:38:47.420Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'Star Wars' Sets Christmas Day Box Office Record og:description: Another milestone for 'The Force Awakens' og:url: https://time.com/4161752/star-wars-the-force-awakens-christmas-box-office/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0c06bedc24e9aabc/698876e93c1639675f45b58b/star-wars-the-force-awakens_gbtsyr.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: star-wars-the-force-awakens_GbTSyr og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Star Wars' Sets Christmas Day Box Office Record twitter:description: Another milestone for 'The Force Awakens' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0c06bedc24e9aabc/698876e93c1639675f45b58b/star-wars-the-force-awakens_gbtsyr.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Star Wars_ Sets Christmas Day Box Office Record by [Nick Romano / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Nick Romano / Entertainment Weekly Dec 27, 2015 4:27 PM UTC  Star Wars: The Force Awakens Star Wars: The Force AwakensLucasfilm by [Nick Romano / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Nick Romano / Entertainment Weekly Dec 27, 2015 4:27 PM UTC Thanks to [the record-smashing success](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/12/25/star-wars-force-awakens-christmas-eve-box-office) of [_Star Wars: The Force Awakens_](http://www.ew.com/star-wars), the Mouse House entered lightspeed at the box office. As the film’s second week in U.S. theaters begins, Disney announced its earnings have surpassed $2 billion domestically. On Christmas Day, _Star Wars_ raked in another $49.3 million domestically and $27.5 million internationally, yielding a global Christmas Day total of $76.8 million. This now brings the total global earnings for _The Force Awakens_ to $890.3 million ($440.4 million). And with another day comes another record broken. Robert Downey Jr.’s _Sherlock Holmes_previously held the record for highest-grossing Christmas Day domestic release [with $24.6 million](http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/days/holidays.htm?page=xmas&p=.htm), which was even higher than _Avatar_’s earnings ($23.1 million). _The Force Awakens_ earned more than twice that amount. _Joy_ and _Daddy’s Home_, two other Christmas Day releases, also made impressive debuts, considering ticket sales for the holiday aren’t typically eye-popping. The Will Ferrell-led comedy opened in second place with $15.7 million domestic, while David O. Russell’s latest J-Law team-up scored third with $6.9 million domestic. These results put _Star Wars_ on track to cross into the $1 billion threshold by the end of the coming week. [Rentrak](http://investor.rentrak.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=948152) also noted this holiday weekend is poised to become the largest on record for the North American box office. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/12/26/star-wars-force-awakens-box-office-christmas) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4161752/star-wars-the-force-awakens-christmas-box-office/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4161752/star-wars-the-force-awakens-christmas-box-office/"},"headline":"Star Wars Sets Christmas Day Box Office Record","datePublished":"2015-12-27T16:27:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:38:47.420Z","description":"Another milestone for The Force Awakens","url":"https://time.com/4161752/star-wars-the-force-awakens-christmas-box-office/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0c06bedc24e9aabc/698876e93c1639675f45b58b/star-wars-the-force-awakens_gbtsyr.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nick Romano / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0c06bedc24e9aabc/698876e93c1639675f45b58b/star-wars-the-force-awakens_gbtsyr.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"star-wars-the-force-awakens_GbTSyr","caption":"Star Wars: The Force Awakens","creditText":"Lucasfilm","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4161752/star-wars-the-force-awakens-christmas-box-office/","name":"Star Wars Sets Christmas Day Box Office Record"}}]}] ```