The Star Wars saga’s ever-present astromech droid, Artoo, spends 99% of The Force Awakens in some sort of low power mode until, suddenly, he awakens to provide the rest of the map that was this movie’s MacGuffin.
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Of the latter, the lowest paid were the unknown main stars John Boyega and Daisy Ridley who got a paltry $100-$300K, while more established names Adam Driver and Oscar Isaac got paid in the mid-to-high-six figures range.
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It has already set an array of records – most notably a $248 million domestic opening weekend and a $529 million global weekend launch, breaking the marks set in June by “Jurassic World” ($208.8 million domestic, $524.9 million worldwide).
‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Has the Biggest Opening of All Time
As far as all-time box office sales, two films by James Cameron hold the record – Avatar (US.78 billion) and Titanic (US.18). He said “Star Wars” profits won’t offset larger troubles Disney faces from shrinking subscribers at the ESPN sports network.
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“The Force Awakens” has managed to evoke comparisons among fans to George Lucas’ original trilogy of films with a mere 1% negative reactions on Twitter. According to Forbes, the movie brought in over $247 million in the U.S. in it’s opening weekend, while around the world the film earned $528 million.
It looks like Jurassic World is simply extending the same courtesy to Star Wars that was extended to them by Disney when they smashed the record previously held by Disney.
Other wide releases also premiering over the weekend included Fox’s “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip” and Universal’s “Sisters”.
Well… yeah. He’s Han Solo. The studio has also reached new highs domestically with $1.851 billion and internationally with $3.134 billion through 20 December.
$4 billion – The price Disney paid for the franchise’s production company, Lucasfilm, in 2012.
Abrams acknowledged that this probably wasn’t what the actor had been hoping for, but “wanted to impress upon him how much [he] wanted this to work”, telling Isaac the character could live on in the extended fiction through books, video games and more. To boot, Trevorrow is set to direct Star Wars: Episode IX.
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“(W)ith strong reviews and a strong female lead, 42% of the Saturday/Sunday audience was female (a high figure for the genre)”, he wrote, “and we view this expansion of the market place as likely granting the film a higher multiplier”.
