All over the world, “Star Wars” enthusiasts toted lightsabers and wore character costumes to packed opening-night showings of “The Force Awakens”. That surpassed the previous opening-day record of $43.5 million for the final “Harry Potter” movie in 2011.
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But this may just be the beginning of the film’s box office empire with movie choices in January and February pretty depleted at the cineplex.
“They were apologetic, but you really can’t get that first time experience watching a Star Wars film”.
Globally, the latest “Star Wars” space epic raked in an estimated US$517 million, Disney said, breaking records for biggest opening weekend overseas in 18 other countries, including Russian Federation and Germany, and second biggest across four nations.
If nothing else, Disney will surely add another title to its domination in the opening-weekend record books.
As of Friday, The Force Awakens has had the biggest December release of any film in cinema history, opening in a total of 4,134 theaters domestically. After a tidal wave of hype, promotion and anticipation, Star Wars: The Force Awakens has finally gone on general release.
Fans came out in a huge way for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and it’ll be interesting to find out exactly why when the dust settles. Lara Tshering takes a photograph of her brother Ugyen Tshering as he stands next to the Star Wars movie poster during opening night of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” at Century Theatre in Boulder, Colo., Thursday, …
2009’s Avatar now holds the record for the highest-grossing film of all time worldwide bringing in a whopping $2.78 billion.
Critics lavished praise on “Force Awakens“, which features newcomers Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and Oscar Isaac alongside original stars Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher.
Eager U.S. fans had already bought more than $100 million in advance tickets for the “The Force Awakens” by Tuesday, according to Box Office Mojo.
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A listing on the Google Play Store says: “Lucasfilm and visionary director J.J. Abrams join forces to take you back again to a galaxy far, far away as Star Wars returns with Star Wars: The Force Awakens”. “And there are plenty of tickets available for them all”.
