“The Force Awakens” started its United States box office run in record-setting fashion with $57 million in Thursday night previews – 31% above the $43.5 million in previews for the final Harry Potter film.
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The Walt Disney Co. on Saturday said the film made an estimated $120.5 million from Thursday night previews and opening day Friday. It also netted the records for the biggest single day opening, the fastest movie to gross $1 million – taking only one day to achieve that feat – and helped set a new record for the most money ever taken in U.S. movie theaters in a single weekend.
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China, with roughly 30,000 screens – the USA has about 40,000 – delivered almost $100 million of the worldwide haul that “Jurassic World” managed in its opening weekend overseas this summer.
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In Britain, Germany, Australia, Russia and many other countries, it scored the biggest opening weekend as well.
Forty-seven percent of Thursday’s domestic ticket sales came from 3D tickets, Disney said.
“We are obviously very encouraged by the record-breaking pre-sales for Star Wars: The Force Awakens”, Dave Hollis, the executive vice president of distribution at Disney, said in a statement.
The force will awaken in China, the world’s second-largest movie market, on January 9.
In a turn of events that will shock precisely nobody, a fantasy adventure space film called Star Wars: The Force Awakens is making insane amounts of money.
“The Force Awakens” was expected to gross $180 million to $220 million through Sunday in its domestic opening weekend.
The Force Awakens has taken an estimated $517m (£347m) globally in three days.
The latest film, which some analysts expect to gross more than $2 billion, stars Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and Oscar Isaac. Its ability to profitably exploit “Star Wars” across all its divisions was the justification for Disney’s $4 billion purchase of Lucasfilm LLC in 2012.
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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). Cath Star Wars Episode VII in theaters now.
