Los Angeles: Disney's "Star Wars: The Force Awakens", the latest installment of the blockbuster science fiction franchise, on Sunday hit the USD 1 billion mark in global box office at record pace.


'Star Wars: The Force Awakens'. Pic/Santa Banta

The blockbuster installment, the seventh of the kind, posted the biggest second-weekend box office total ever recorded in North America by raking in more than USD 153 million in the US and Canada, Xinhua quoted the box office figures gathered by Rentrak.