This is how BBC News represented the story:
Star Wars: The Force Awakens has become the UK's biggest film of 2015 after just 16 days of release, with takings of £94.06m beating Spectre's £93.5m.
JJ Abrams' film has also overtaken Avatar (£94m) as the second most successful film in history in the UK. But Skyfall still reigns supreme as the UK's highest-grossing film of all time with £103m in 2012. The Force Awakens sees the return of original cast members Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill. It also introduced audiences to British actors Daisy Ridley and John Boyega, who have starring roles in the seventh movie in George Lucas's franchise.
At the end of December, Star Wars: The Force Awakens also became the fastest film to take $1bn (£674m) at the global box office. It achieved the feat in 12 days, beating the previous record of 13 days set by Jurassic World in June. But while Jurassic World had the benefit of record takings in China over the period, The Force Awakens had yet to open there when the figures were released.
It still has a way to go before it can compete with the two films which took more than $2bn worldwide - 1997's Titanic ($2.18bn; £1.45bn) and 2009's Avatar ($2.78bn; £1.85bn).
My opinion on the news story:
I expected that Star Wars would do extremely well in the box office because it is a franchise that is greatly loved by so many people and it was anticipated for a long time in the build up to Christmas and the way it was marketed also meant that wide audiences were attracted. I did go to see it and after not really watching Star Wars before, I surprisingly really enjoyed it and I think they made it in a way that it will tend the needs of old fans as well as create a great film for people just watching it as a one-off. However, I have seen better films but I believe the reason it has been hyped up so much is because its an old, famous franchise.
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