Putting the money-making in perspective, Deadline.com said Saturday that the Disney film had grossed $100 million in just 21 hours by 1 p.m. on Friday. “The Times” definitive “Star Wars’ style guide” class=”local_link” target=”_blank”>Is it Wookie or Wookiee?
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‘I really did feel like “That sounds like the wrong idea”,’ he said.
‘And the answer was that I wanted people to feel the magic of what Star Wars was: the sense of romance, the sense of heart, the loyalty, the sweetness, the friendship, the unexpected scenarios, the discoveries the characters make, the sense of impossible scale made possible’. Katie said: “‘If you want to do this and you don’t, you’re going to regret this'”.
Midnight screenings alone accounted for nearly a quarter (£2.4m) of the Thursday tally.
This is even more likely after some United Kingdom cinema chains increased their prices for the film. The previous Bond installment, Skyfall, remains the UK’s highest-grossing film with a £102.8m haul.
Rentrak projects that “The Force Awakens“, which reviewers describe as both a tribute to the 1977 original and a reboot of the saga, is on its way to a stellar $220 million opening weekend. The UK and Ireland accounted for $29.6m of that.
At that rate, the long-awaited space epic is poised to out-earn Universal’s dino reboot, “Jurassic World”, which broke the record for the biggest domestic opening by selling $208.8 million in tickets last June.
“There are literally millions of tickets available for this weekend, and exhibitors have a lot of flexibility in terms of capacity and increasing the number of shows based on demand”, Dave Hollis, Disney’s head of distribution, said in the statement.
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The global rollout for the film, made for about $200 million, has already brought in an estimated total of $72.7 million since opening in a handful of countries Wednesday. It opens in China next month.
