The strong opening weekend at the box office for Star Wars: The Force Awakens not only means a projected US$1.1 billion in profits for Walt Disney Co., but it also provides the company with another franchise to leverage across its consumer products and parks businesses.
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This past weekend, Star Wars unleashed its Force on the box office, shattering all sorts of records, but specifically, it hauled in $238 million in its first three days of release. Star Wars’ domestic launch is now tallied at about $247 million, still the highest ever in the States.
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Jurassic World still holds the record for top grossing film during foreign and worldwide opening weekends with totals of $316.1 million and $524.9 million respectively.
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IMAX Corp said Monday that the film accounted for $48 million in ticket sales worldwide.
Even before anyone in the public saw the movie, the latest chapter of “Star Wars” was smashing records.
Add yet another notch to the belt of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”. They are going to make a big multiple on that $4 billion investment on Lucasfilm. That’s more than half a billion dollars in just one weekend.
In third place, the Tina Fey and Amy Poehler comedy “Sisters” earned an estimated $13.42 million in its opening weekend.
Analysts say the space saga could become the biggest-selling movie of all time.
“Star Wars”premiered Monday in Hollywood, California, during a star-studded red carpet event, and the film begins trickling into theaters Thursday night prior to Friday’s full-force North American release”.
Actor Harrison Ford, 73, is believed to struck an extraordinary pay deal for the movie which may see him earn 56 times as much as the film’s young leads, according to the Daily Mail, which cited “a Disney source”.
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It will be a hard act to follow, not only by other films, but by its sequel, “Star Wars: Episode VIII” as well as the coming “Star Wars” anthology movies.
