Here’s how popular it is: Star Wars: The Force Awakens just broke the record for the biggest opening weekend in movie history.
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The latest instalment of the highly anticipated space epic raked in $57 million dollars for its opening night Thursday, beating the previous record – $43.5 million – held by Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 in 2011. All on its own, that opening day was also enough to break the previous December opening weekend record of $84.62 million set by The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in 2012.
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So far the film has made $517 million around the world since opening overseas on Wednesday.
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What’s better than scoring a ticket for Star Wars: The Force Awakens on opening weekend?
But The Force Awakens is riding a wave of hype, nostalgia and positive reviews from critics and fans alike.
It is setting records overseas, too, including the biggest single day ever in the United Kingdom with an estimated $14.4 million on Thursday.
The first Star Wars film in a decade took in a total of $US517 million at box offices around the world, Disney said.
The Disney film opened in 4,134 theaters. So yeah, it’s safe to say that anyone at Disney associated with the release of The Force Awakens is having a pretty wonderful holiday season.
It is the seventh in the “Star Wars” saga, and the first film starring beloved characters like Harrison Ford’s Han Solo and Carrie Fisher’s Princess Leia since 1983’s “Return of the Jedi”.
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“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2”, the fourth and last movie in the blockbuster franchise that turned Jennifer Lawrence into a Hollywood megastar, earned $5.7 million, falling to fourth place in its fifth week in theaters.
