“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” hurtled toward $125 million in United States and Canadian ticket sales on Friday and a potential record-breaking $225 million through Sunday, giving the long-awaited movie a shot at the biggest opening weekend of all time.
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The figure takes the new Star Wars film past Jurassic World’s opening weekend of US$208.8m in North America earlier this year, while the estimated worldwide box office has topped an estimated US$517m.
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“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” this weekend challenged the foreign and worldwide box office records set by the dinosaurs of “Jurassic World”, and impressively did it without benefiting from the world’s second-largest movie market, China. The biggest opening single day record is being held by the Deathly Hollows – Part 2 right now. It was also the first film to ever make more than $100 million on any given day.
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The Force is definitely strong with Disney’s new Star Wars movie. That has been held since 2010 by James Cameron’s Avatar, which has grossed more than $115.6 million in Australia. It could eclipse the global opening weekend record of $316.1 million, set again by “Jurassic World”.
The estimated “Force Awakens” gross so far represents more than half the film’s $100 million-plus record in advance domestic ticket sales.
The most anticipated film in the galaxy opened globally Thursday, setting global and pre-sale box-office records and delighting moviegoers who’ve had opening-night tickets in hand for months. The movie studio plans to release four more movies over the next four years, generating more than $25 billion in revenue from theme parks, toys and video games, analysts predict. The film, which carries a production cost of at least $200 million, opened in almost all other foreign markets Friday.
Guess that $4 billion dollar initial investment that Disney made in LucasFilm is paying off.
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“Sisters”, starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, pulled in $5 million on Friday from 2,962 locations, while “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip” netted $4 million in 3,653 locations.
