“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” continues to add feats to its list of box office records and now has the biggest Christmas Eve domestic gross with Dollars 27.5 million, defeating previous record holder “Avatar” which took in USD 11.2 million in 2009.
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To give you an idea of how accelerated the process was on The Force Awakens, George Lucas began writing the original Star Wars in 1973 for an eventual 1977 release, and began plotting and designing the prequels in 1994 for an eventual 1999 release of The Phantom Menace.
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With the starting of this week it collected over $689 million worldwide. The film has also shattered the records of Jurassic World, which released earlier this year.
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It will be interesting to see whether the Hollywood “Star Wars: Force Awaken” will be affecting the box office collections of Hindi movies like “Bajirao Masatani” and “Dilwale”, or the Hollywood movie will be affected with the Hindi movies. The Phantom Menace grossed $430 million domestically in 1999 and $1 billion worldwide. While the game isn’t strictly tied to the story of the original Star Wars trilogy, it only features heroes, villains, vehicles, and locations from those films.
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And watch you will, because the environments are stunning, the characters are intriguing and the acting is first class. As Rey, Ridley brings the kind of wonder and belonging that Hayden Christensen never really managed to capture in his role as Anakin Skywalker.
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Overseas, Force Awakens earned another $38.4 million for a foreign tally of $400.4 million and global haul of $765.9 million. In order to surpass JW before 2016, it would need to make another $460 million worldwide on non-weekend days. It previously set opening weekend records with $248 million domestically and $525 million globally.
