Anything is possible but the next pin to knock down is Jurassic World’s $208 opening weekend record – a figure that Star Wars was nearly halfway towards thanks to advanced tickets.
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Abrams’ film is to show, by contrast, how the direction of the previous films was elegant, balanced and above all appropriate. One key scene that many have been asking about is Maz handing a lightsaber to Leia, as seen in the trailers for the film.
The Walt Disney Co.’s estimate on Friday easily surpassed the previous Thursday night record of $43.5 million by 2011’s “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2”.
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In just its first day of release Force Awakens brought in an estimated $120.5 million setting a new record for the largest Friday, opening day and single day.
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As far as all-time box office sales, two films by James Cameron hold the record – Avatar ($2.78 billion) and Titanic ($2.18 billion).
Image from “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” trailer.
Star Wars is certainly a film series that has meant a whole lot to a whole lot of people for a whole long time.
“The Force Awakens” is playing on 4,134 screens in the US and Canada this weekend. Disney, which paid more than $4 billion for Lucasfilm in 2009, had been downplaying expectations, but rival studios and industry analysts believe that “The Force Awakens” will open to $210 million or more. The movie opened in 12 global markets on Wednesday. Whether or not he’ll be back for Star Wars Episode VIII has yet to be confirmed, but it’s hard to imagine him sitting that or IX out.
Kidding, he wasn’t. The White House was holding a special screening of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”, which opens in theaters this weekend, for Gold Star military families.
It has smashed records for the biggest opening day of all time but it looks to shatter all time box office records for any film’s opening weekend, as well.
To be fair, “Deathly Hallows: Part 2” began its preview showings at Midnight while “Force Awakens” kicked off its USA debut at 7 p.m. ET on Thursday night. Currently, “The Force Awakens” stands at 95 percent.
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Fans of the franchise also came out in record numbers over the weekend to be introduced to new characters like Daisy Ridley’s scavenger Rey, Adam Driver’s villainous Kylo Ren, and John Boyega’s stormtrooper turned good Finn.
