Star Wars: The Force Awakens grows more powerful as its opening weekend continues to blast through box office records.
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“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” has already surpassed $100 million in North America, and $250 million globally, setting it up for a record-setting weekend.
The Force Awakens made £38m on Thursday night, beating the previous record hit by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.
The record for biggest box office opening weekend ever belongs to Universal’s “Jurassic World” which premiered to $208.8 million just six months ago.
Elsewhere, The Force Awakens opened to $US279 million as it played in every major market except China, India and Greece.
The Disney sci-fi epic, featuring original franchise stars Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher and newcomers Oscar Isaac, John Boyega and Daisy Ridley, skyrocketed to number one, easily eclipsing the Dollars 209 million debut previously set by “Jurassic World” in June, reported New York Times.
The Force Awakens, which cost around £130m (€177.63m) to make, looks set to break further records and could be a contender for the top-grossing film of all time – a title now held by the 2009 blockbuster Avatar. That’s just one of the records that The Force Awakens box office numbers smashed into oblivion, and it seems bound to potentially smash a few more as well.
“Canadians don’t tend to rush out as much on opening weekend as their American counterparts, although this weekend did not prove that point”, he told CBC News. “That they laugh and cry and scream and have an experience that is even a fraction of what I had when I was a kid and saw Star Wars”.
Disney purchased “Star Wars” producer Lucasfilm for $4 billion in 2012 as part of his bet on big-budget films.
“With incredible reviews and an excited hardcore fan base that will want to go back over and over again, “Force Awakens” will have long-term playability well into 2016 where it should earn the lion’s share of its potentially record-breaking worldwide revenue”, Dergarabedian said.
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“It was bigger than a movie”, Dave Hollis, Disney’s distribution chief, said.
