Star Wars: The Force Awakens has overtaken Titanic at the US box office.
The wildly popular film has made $686.4 million in US ticket sales as of Friday, and is closing in on Avatar's record, according to figures released by Disney on Saturday.
The movie has also made $679.2 million in the international box office, reports USA Today.
Cute droid: Rey, played by Daisy Ridley, and robot BB-8 in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
James Cameron's blockbuster film Titanic, released in 1997 and staring Leonardo DiCaprio
and Kate Winslet, made $658 million at the US box office.
The Force Awakens has also now earned more than Jurassic World (which made $652 million) to become the biggest box office hit in the US in 2015.
The JJ Abrams reboot of the sci-fi classic has been filling theaters around the world.
It is set to rake in even more when it opens in China, one of the world's largest box office markets, on January 9.
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