Disney also assured fans there are enough tickets for everyone to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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The box office earnings of The Force Awakens are the highest opening night ever by a film.
That number blasted the opening day record in the US, held by “Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2”, which made $91.7 million on its opening day in 2011.
So once again, Disney – which prior to this year had the largest North American opening ever with “The Avengers, ‘ ” a $207.4 million take – owns the biggest opener in the land. But who knew that the seventh installment would gross $100 million in one day?
Other records “The Force Awakens” created were the film with the biggest December debut, the biggest IMAX Thursday night, the biggest IMAX single-day and the biggest IMAX weekend.
There’s no denying that Star Wars: The Force Awakens will continue to rake in hundreds of millions, but only time will tell if it has the strength and endurance to climb to the very top of the box office charts.
3-D and Imax screenings are helping to propel the record gross.
Disney execs estimate that the film is on track for a $200 million opening weekend, a rather conservative estimate at this point.
The £9.64m tally beat the previous best of £9.48m set by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. The decision to delay the China opening was made by the country’s government, which reviews and dates of every foreign film with an eye toward protecting its homegrown film industry.
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Set more than 30 years after the end of the original “Star Wars” trilogy, “Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens”, continues the story of Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) and Han Solo (Harrison Ford).
