But because of Force Awakens’ estimated $250M all-time opening record weekend, most industry box office analysts are certain we will realize the $11B domestic box office year. Abrams delivered with the dialogue between Leia and Han as well as with new characters Finn and Rey and of course the new adorable droid, BB8, while creating mystery around the new characters that will hopefully be revealed in further installments to round out their development.
Advertisement
Force Awakens’ Sets Another Record
The latest film returns to “a galaxy far, far away” some 30 years on from the action of 1983’s Return of the Jedi . It will open in Greece and India this week, and in China January 9.
Luckily, Poe was around for the crucial third act in which he played a major role, and we got to enjoy a little more Fin/Poe bromance, and hopefully a lot more in the sequel which starts filming in January. In Ireland it broke the record for the biggest single day in ticket sales, earning $910,140 (€836,845) on its opening day. That includes a chart-topping 57 million from fans who flocked to see the first showings on Thursday night.
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.
Even if the Disney team behind it didn’t want to put Rey in for spoiler prevention reasons, then Captain Phasma could have totally been added. “Force Awens” began rolling out in global markets on Wednesday.
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.
At that point Marvel congratulated Jurassic World being the new “opening weekend king” with a picture of Chris Pratt on top of a hammer-wielding T-Rex staring down at the Avengers.
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens”, which opened Friday, bested the Chris Pratt film’s take by earning a whopping 8 million. Internationally, Force Awakens earned another $41.7 million on Monday – including the biggest Monday ever in the U.K./Ireland ($8.8 million) and France ($4.4 million) – for a foreign cume of $322.7 million.
The Force Awakens also broke a bunch of other records, and is sure to break a few more on its theatrical journey.
Advertisement
The Daily Mail and Variety report that Harrison Ford reportedly made eight figures (between $10 million and $20 million) to return as Han Solo for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Abrams, chatting to GQ, was talking about how he and screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan originally were going to kill off Oscar Isaac’s Poe Dameron in the movie.
