Not to mention that the movie also debuted with a record setting $248 Million domestically crushing Jurassic World’s previous record $203 Million. It will open in Greece and India this week, and in China on January 9.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens breaks global box office records
This is higher than projections, with The Force Awakens expected to have missed the global record. The top Tuesday ever belongs to Amazing Spider-Man which opened on a Tuesday with million.
The film marks the seventh installment in a newly rebooted Star Wars franchise.
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The figures were revealed by the International Organisation for Migration, which said the million mark was exceeded on Monday. The number represents a fourfold rise on the total previous year . “We never thought it would reach this level”.
A Montana man has been arrested on suspicion of threatening to shoot a student for divulging a plot line from the newly released “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” film, court documents showed on Tuesday. Many box office analysts believe that “The Force Awakens” has a chance to join “Titanic” and “Avatar” as the only films to cross the $2 billion mark globally.
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“The industry is expecting awesome holds this upcoming weekend and through the holidays, and if that happens, “Avatar” and its records may be the next thing to fall in the face of the power of the force”.
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Insiders tell Variety that Disney made a decision in 2014 prior to casting the new roles to create a “legacy pay scale” intended for talent like Ford, Fisher and Hamill, who had previously been a part of the Star Wars universe, and general pay scale for actors that would be appearing for the first time. For the sequel, she negotiated up to a $10 million salary, which included bonuses and escalators, extra earnings distributed when a film “crosses certain box office thresholds”. The Tina Fey and Amy Poehler comedy “Sisters” landed in third place with $13.4 million. It earned only $14 million.
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Meanwhile “Creed”, a next-generation version of the “Rocky” series earned $5 million in its fourth week on the big screen.
