“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” claimed the top spot at theaters with a record-breaking $238 million over the weekend.
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‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ grosses 0.5M to start
But we just don’t know how many repeat viewers and part-time Star Wars fans are going to show up on Sunday. But so far, ” The Force Awakens ” is attracting the interest of seemingly everyone.
The Disney movie sold out across the US and was a big draw around the world.
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“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” has become big.
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By now you’ve probably heard that the latest “Star Wars” movie – “The Force Awakens” – ruled the global box office this weekend with a half-billion-dollar haul. A more cynical theory is that Beijing purposefully delays the release of some potential mega-hits, in the hopes that theater goers will simply buy the pirated DVD version – and thus drive down foreign box office revenues (which embarrass Beijing when they soar too far above domestic films’ intake).
Internationally, the company minted $279 million in the opening weekend.
A visitor poses with a character from the Star Wars film series during a press preview for the exhibit “Star Wars Identities” at the MAK museum in Vienna, Austria, December 17, 2015. He used the appearance to announce new box office totals for the movie.
The studio purchased the “Star Wars” franchise from George Lucas’ Lucasfilm in 2012 for $4.05 billion, and has planned for a new trilogy of films as well as standalone installments through 2019.
$57,568 – The film’s per theater average, the highest opening weekend for a wide release film.
The trio of heroes who appeared in the first of the blockbusters in 1977 – smuggler Han Solo (Harrison Ford), Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), leader of the rebel alliance, and her twin brother Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) – are all back and played by the actors that “Star Wars” first made famous.
10 – Number of years between the last “Star Wars” film, “Revenge of the Sith”, and “The Force Awakens”.
Sources tell Variety Harrison Ford came away the big victor earning a paycheck in the eight-figure range ($15 million to $20 million) to reprise his role of Han Solo.
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Erik Melendez, a fan in the audience, took a cell phone video of the event and posted it on Facebook, stating “Projector at Star Wars midnight 3D show at the Arclight ruined, stopped, then started again towards the end of the movie”.
