The first “Star Wars” film in a decade recorded the biggest domestic opening in Hollywood’s history, collecting $238 million over the weekend in the United States and Canada.
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To the surprise of absolutely no one but to the great relief of Disney, Star Wars: The Force Awakens has set a new record for opening weekend at the Australian box office, as it soars to a global box office in excess of half a billion American dollars in its first three days.
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Box office record ” Star Wars: The Force Awakens” has set a box office record with an estimated $57 million from Thursday night shows. According to a few different warning threads on NeoGAF, there are people out there to ruin the movie by using gaming, especially with Star Wars Battlefront.
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Disney said 47 percent of Thursday’s domestic ticket sales came from higher-priced 3D tickets.
So far, the Disney film has pulled in roughly $130 million worldwide since opening overseas on Wednesday. From there, it’s still a long way to hit the worldwide lifetime total box office record of $2.78 billion – also held by Avatar – but based on its stellar performance, if anything can do it, it’s likely to be Star Wars.
A lot is riding on the film for Disney, which paid $4.06 billion for Lucasfilm in 2012.
“This represents a new record for the industry and portends a massive and potentially record-breaking opening day and weekend for the film”, said Paul Dergarabedian, of box office tracker Rentrak. Soon to begin was a screening of the film for families who have lost a relative to combat or service-related injuries.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is in theaters now. But it carried just 757 theaters, paling in comparison to The Force Awakens’ 4,134 screens-including many in IMAX and 3D. However, given where The Force Awakens is now at, analysts are predicting that it could finish off this weekend at $240 million.
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