As if the pre-order records, overseas earnings, and Thursday night showing cumes weren’t enough of an indication that Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a box office hit, the latest projection suggests that the film is about to break three more box office records.
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Yes, that’s a record, topping Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 at $91.1 million set on its opening Friday in July 2011.
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The seventh “Star Wars” movie is expected to sell more than $220 million of tickets at USA and Canadian theaters through Sunday, beating the record $208.8 million for “Jurassic World” in June, Walt Disney Co said on Saturday.
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Disney executives hewed to the low end of expectations with the numbers well below those of rivals, who were projecting an opening weekend above $250 million.
Star Ward will head to Greece and India on December 24 while January 9 has been set as a debut date in China.
And the Star Wars $100 million is the first triple-digit million-day ever.
From the White House to Facebook, the Star Wars craze is cutting a wide swath as the long-awaited sequel “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” opened in theaters across the globe. It’s highly probable that “The Force Awakens” will hyperspeed past “Jurassic World’s” $316.1 million worldwide and $524.9 global opening records as well.
Strong reviews for the film, which is set 30 years after “Return of the Jedi”, have added to the fervor for “The Force Awakens”.
A lot is riding on the film for Disney, which paid $4.06 billion for Lucasfilm in 2012.
Rentrak’s Paul Dergarabedian, one of Hollywood’s best-known box office analysts, said the film’s opening night performance in the U.S. and Canada “portends a massive and potentially record-breaking opening day and weekend for the film”.
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In third place, the Tina Fey and Amy Poehler comedy “Sisters” earned an estimated $13.42 million in its opening weekend. The fourth installment in the Alvin series should make $14 million to $16 million from 3,653 locations.
