It would be awesome if TFA would surprass Avatar, but it's not happening sadly.

I just have to see it $200,000,000.00/$25.00 times to get our US total to $1B lol.

Easy mate :)

Looks like it has started off well in China with a record breaking $33million opening.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/star-wars-7-opens-in-china-breaks-records-with-33-/1100-6433657/

It's great, but not record breaking.  It's behind Avengers 2 and Furious 7.  That article is poorly written, considering they have to throw in it released on Sat to count as breaking a record and doesn't say anything about the actual #1 and #2.  Anyway, I could definitely see it slightly less than Furious 7 overall, maybe even matching depending on how it holds.

The question for Star Wars on china now is, did the Chinese ppl like it ? We know China has very different tastes than we do on the west and the franchise isnt nearly as big there as it is here, the thinical variety of the cast can be a big problem for the movie in China as well, a country that isnt exactly very acepting of different races and that dont give much space to women. So it all depends on the reaction of these first moviegoers, if they loved it we could potentialy see this movie having awesome legs, otherwise it will probably drop fast and follow the Terminator genesis model, wich opened with 30M and ended with just 150M.

I predict itll make around 200-250M on China. Avatar is 100% out of the question now, the movie will break 2 billion worldwide, probably gona make it past Titanic but will end its run 300-500M bellow Avatar.

I can't imagine the Chinese government wanting a long run for a movie about freedom fighters overthrowing a conformist empire lol.

Agreed.  I think it'll will end up at $2.2B WW.  ~$500M less than Avatar.  I do hope there is another movie that comes along that blows away Avatar some day, but it won't be this one.  Kind of a shame.  The movie wasn't perfect by any means, but it still deserves it more than Avatar.

I just saw it again...packed, NYC, IMAX 3D theater (It was quite difficult to get any good tickets this weekend, and the other IMAX was sold out all 3 days.). Clearly, most of the audience hadn't seen, as evidenced by the cheering and gasps (You know when.). It may have legs in the US yet, but I don't know about RoW (I wouldn't expect a final 50/50 split.).

Man it all depends on your efforts, if you manage to get over 1 million watches yourself youre gona make sure this movies gets more than 3 billion worldwide hehe. How many times has its been now that you seen this movie ? 5 ? I mihgt go see it again today for the 4th time if my friend comes over, he hasnt seen it yet and realy wants to go.