That would set a record and beat the current opening weekend title holder, “Jurassic World”, which premiered earlier this year to $208.8 million at the box office.
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It’s Thursday night previews take of $57 million eclipsed Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 2 that had held the record for the biggest preview Thursday at $43.5 million. Advance ticket sales reached well over 0 million, and it became the first movie to ever sell $100 million of tickets in a single day.
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Hollywood records fell like so many imperial storm troopers this weekend, as “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” blasted through the stratosphere with $517 million in estimated weekend sales worldwide. It is the seventh in the “Star Wars” saga, and the first film starring beloved characters like Harrison Ford’s Han Solo and Carrie Fisher’s Princess Leia since 1983’s “Return of the Jedi”. But movies like Avatar, which only opened to $77 million in 2009, went on to make nearly $750 million domestically, making it the biggest movie of all time.
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The movie had opened in 44 overseas markets before its US debut, breaking records in numerous countries including the U.K., Ireland, and Germany. Astonishing though it is, that is just the second biggest opening weekend globally, behind Jurassic World, which took $US524.9 million on its opening weekend in June.
Star Wars does not share the same universal popularity as other films in certain key markets around the world, such as China. As Variety notes, the film has already earned more than its reported $200 million production budget, and with school vacations set to start this week, next week’s box office should continue to rake in the tickets.
So once again, Disney – which prior to this year had the largest North American opening ever with “The Avengers, ‘ ” a $207.4 million take – owns the biggest opener in the land.
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Like the throats of Darth Vader’s commanding officers, box office records have been crushed by Star Wars: The Force Awakens. In third place, the Tina Fey and Amy Poehler comedy Sisters earned an estimated $13.42 million in its opening weekend.
