It wasn't an iceberg that sunk James Cameron's Titanic; it was a star war.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens cruised to an $88 million New Year's weekend at the box office, enough to topple the all-time domestic ticket sales records set by Jurassic World ($652 million) and Titanic ($659 million).
With a total domestic take of $740 million, Star Wars is just a few days away from unseating Avatar ($760 million) in the chart's #1 spot. James Cameron's film got there in about two months. Star Wars is going to do it in slightly more than two weeks.
With a total global box office of $1.51 billion, Star Wars sits just outside the top five in that category, just $5 million behind Furious 7. That should change once the box office for the first Monday of the year has been tallied.
Avatar and Titanic rule the #1 and #2 worldwide gross spots with $2.79 billion and $2.19 billion, respectively. Star Wars has to slow down at some point, but it likely won't happen this week, when the film is opening in China -- the second-largest moviegoing market, behind the United States -- on Jan. 9.