At the time, Kevin Feige – the president of Marvel Studios – took to Twitter to send out a congratulatory humorous message to Jurassic World from Marvel since The Avengers held the record before the dino flick.
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Box Office Numbers for ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Just Got Bigger
Meanwhile “Creed”, a next-generation version of the “Rocky” series earned million in its fourth week on the big screen. The Tina Fey and Amy Poehler comedy “Sisters” landed in third place with .4 million.
The two producing teams have had been on good terms for years, with Marshall actually being married to Star Wars producer Kathleen Kennedy; George Lucas even shared some friendly rival banter with Marshall on the red carpet, exclaiming “We’re gonna crush you like a bug!” The dinosaur fantasy flick took in $208.8 million on its opening weekend. “And that just made me go, ‘Oh, yes!'” James Cameron’s Avatar opened to $77 million on the same weekend in 2009 on its way to becoming the top-grossing film of all time with $2.79 billion in global ticket sales, including $760.5 million domestically.
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.
Lucasfilm Another day, another record for “The Force Awakens”. It will open in Greece and India this week, and in China January 9. It broke the record for highest grossing domestic opening night with $57 million, $120.5 million for its first day (which also breaks the record for the highest earning single day), and beat the standing box office record for the Sunday of an opening weekend with $61 million.
Migrants: more than a million arrive in the EU
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”.
The latest film returns to “a galaxy far, far away” some 30 years on from the action of 1983’s Return of the Jedi.
Harrison Ford’s payday for his role as Han Solo in the The Force Awakens was massive, far outpacing the other actors in the new installment of the franchise.
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“They made a great movie, that’s what really does it. If the movie was disappointing, it could have backed down the road all of the success of each additional film, because this sets the stage and the tone for how well the movie is going to do, and all successive properties under the “Star Wars” brand”.
