We’ll have more updates on The Force Awaken’s box office ascension as the news breaks. Whether “The Force Awakens” can come close to the global hauls of those films ($2.8 billion for “Avatar” and $2.2 billion for “Titanic”) won’t be clear for weeks.
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So far, Cork says the theaters sold out 12 of the 66 showtimes for those first 30 hours – over 2,000 presale orders. almost } million at the box office during the opening weekend alone, according to iMDb .
The marketing campaign has triggered plenty of pent-up excitement for the return of Luke Skywalker, Chewbacca and Han Solo, plus the new characters and story line. That record was previously held by The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, which took in $84.6 million during its opening weekend. If that’s not insane enough, get this: no December release has ever made $100 million dollars in its opening weekend, let alone in one day.
“The Force Awakens” is set 30 years after the events of 1983’s “Star Wars: Return of the Jedi”. But The Associated Press reported earlier today that the film has earned more than $100 million in presale tickets in North America.
The first showings of the seventh Star Wars movie generated 47% of its USA preview grosses from 3D screenings, including $5.7 millions from 391 Imax screens, almost doubling the previous record.
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We were inside the theater before the first 7 p.m. showing to catch up with fans dressed in costume who were waiting at the edge of their seats. The fourth installment in the Alvin series should make $14 million to $16 million from 3,653 locations.
