The movie has already broke pre-sale records and this $50 gross – which is in America alone – is being reported by THR.
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The question remains: Will Luke have followed in his father’s footsteps and fallen to the dark side in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”?
A trio of Star Wars planes have been designed by Japan’s largest airline as part of a five-year promotion license contract for the Star Wars brand with Walt Disney, ahead of the latest Star Wars film, The Force Awakens. There was also a certain character who seemed so far-removed from what Star Wars was all about that it had to be a joke, right?
As it stands, the first film in the Hobbit series holds the record for biggest December weekend of all time, with $85 million. This means it’ll also shatter The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’s seemingly paltry million December record.
Meanwhile, the Verge reported that a new television spot has been released featuring John Boyega’s Finn. No. 2 is “Titanic”, at $2.1 billion.
What’s more, the 178,000 weekly searches for the movie on Google is more than three times as high as “Jurassic World”, which had 51,800 weekly searches a month from release, according to Moviepilot. If you do it with accuracy, the AT-AT Walker should tow instantly in Star Wars Battlefront. A few even predict that it could come close to $300 million. But for those of us who get excited about the idea of a pop-culture phenomenon, and who still put stock in box-office figures even though inflation makes historical comparisons worthless… yeah, it’s mind-boggling.
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I’ve loved the Star Wars universe since I was a kid, and I was fortunate to see the prequels at an early enough age not to be as horrified as more experienced fans were. Avatar was number one at the box office for seven weeks – Force Awakens could top the chart until the end of January when Kung Fu Panda 3 comes out.
