“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” matinees helped push the movie to a record $120.5 million in North American ticket sales through Friday, giving the space adventure a good chance to break the $208.8 million opening-weekend record set last summer by “Jurassic World”. Ticket sales Thursday night and Friday surpassed previous records set by the final “Harry Potter” film in 2011.
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That means “The Force Awakens” could also eclipse the global opening weekend record of $316.1 million by “Jurassic World” – along with the dino movie’s worldwide opening record of $524.9 million.
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Since beginning its overseas rollout Wednesday, “The Force Awakens” has made an estimated $129.5 million internationally.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens continues to burn through the box office record book as it heads towards an opening day Friday over $100 million, according to studio estimates, USA Today reports. The dinosaur action extravaganza pulled in $548 million back in June, but Chinese audiences also got to see it two days early; it opened in China June 10, and in the US on June 12.
The new Star Wars film is the seventh installment in the series created by George Lucas in 1977.
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“Force Awakens” became the biggest domestic opening in North America, as well as the biggest December opening both in North America and globally. Disney said the Friday total “keeps us forecasting an opening weekend near $220 million”.
Movie theater attendance in the United States and Canada, the world’s largest film market, has barely changed in a decade as online and mobile platforms exploded.
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But for right now, it’s looking like Star Wars: The Force Awakens will be the all-time opening weekend champ. The turnout for “Star Wars” is an encouraging result for Disney, rival media companies and movie theaters. The movie scored a 95 percent positive rating on review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes. The popularity of “The Force Awakens”- ticket pre-sales are $100 million in the USA alone – arises from a desire to revisit some old friends (and meet some new ones) in a galaxy far, far away.
