{"id":4340,"date":"2016-01-08T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T04:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=4340"},"modified":"2016-01-08T13:46:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T05:46:36","slug":"star-wars-passes-avatar-to-be-top-grosser-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/01\/08\/star-wars-passes-avatar-to-be-top-grosser-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars passes Avatar to be top-grosser in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away&#8230; <em>Avatar<\/em> held the record of highest-grossing domestic film of all time. Until <em>Star Wars: The Force Awakens <\/em>came along. With the Force strong within them, it defeated <em>Avatar<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4351\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/01\/667dcc71985f47e0dc2ec56be8bd7a9d.jpg\" alt=\"MV5BOTAzODEzNDAzMl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMDU1MTgzNzE@._V1__SX1303_SY591_\" width=\"400\" height=\"591\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">With a whopping $760.5 million of ticket sales in U.S. in just 20 days, <em>Force Awakens <\/em>takes its place as the No.1 domestic film, beating James Cameron\u2019s <em>Avatar<\/em>. It\u2019s the first time in years that Cameron won\u2019t have the title to himself. It is a first, however, for J.J Abrams who is known to be a student of Cameron and George Lucas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Although <em>Avatar <\/em>still holds the worldwide record with $2.8 billion earnings, some analysts predict that <em>Star Wars <\/em>might take this crown from the former as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">What do you think? Will the new Star Wars film have the same result globally?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away&#8230; Avatar held the record of highest-grossing domestic film of all time. Until Star Wars: The Force Awakens came along. With the Force strong within them, it defeated Avatar. With a whopping $760.5 million of ticket sales in U.S. in just 20 days, Force Awakens takes its place as the No.1 domestic film, beating James Cameron\u2019s Avatar. It\u2019s the first time in years that Cameron won\u2019t have the title to himself. It is a first, however, for J.J Abrams who is known to be a student of Cameron and George Lucas. Although Avatar still holds the worldwide record with $2.8 billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/01\/667dcc71985f47e0dc2ec56be8bd7a9d-e1452225466785.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4340"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4354,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340\/revisions\/4354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}