The Force remains strong with the new “Star Wars” movie, which is on track to top $1 billion in global ticket sales this weekend, making it the fastest-ever film to reach that level. It could be the expensive remake of Point Break, which bombed into 8th place with a gross of $10.2 million. “Star Wars” producer Kathleen Kennedy has said “we’re hoping and anticipating that it will play very, very well there”.
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The achievement is being touted as a great milestone for The Force Awakens, which is yet to premiere in China, considered the world’s second-largest movie market.
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George Lucas may have created the Star Wars universe, but it’s Abrams, 49, who has made it modern and relevant again, warming the hearts of die-hard fans and winning back everyone who jumped ship after Jar-Jar Binks.
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The latest instalment of the “Star Wars” franchise took over the previous second weekend record of US$106.6mil set by “Jurassic World” earlier this year by US$46.9mil.
The intergalactic epic is already the fifth-highest grossing movie of all time, and it has yet to open in massive markets such as China.
“The speed with which records are falling is a testament to the audience broadening out”. Jurassic World was helped significantly by a day-and-date China release which brought in an opening total of $100 million, while Force Awakens doesn’t arrive in Chinese theaters until January 9. Fox’s “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip” also showed some endurance, adding $12.7 million to its $39.4 million domestic gross.
On Christmas day the news editor for a UK-based Star Wars fansite called Jedi News tweeted a suggestion for the next Star Wars movie, saying that “Path of the Jedi” would make a proper name for the yet-untitled film.
The world domination of The Force Awakens is far from over, however.
“Those movies will have the Star Wars saga as their basis, but everything else will be different”, Kasdan said.
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The return of the original cast members: Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, and Harrison Ford are also a likely another reason why so many people were interested in the movie.
