While “Star Wars” helped create the summer blockbuster, “The Force Awakens” is debuting in the holiday season of December, where the previous top opening was the $84.6 million debut of 2012’s “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”. It already broke the record for pre-sales, and now it’s taken the record for Thursday sales as well.
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Star Wars is certainly a film series that has meant a whole lot to a whole lot of people for a whole long time.
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The next record that will fall is the three-day opening set this past June by Universal’s Jurassic World, which also served to relaunch a beloved franchise.
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That would set a record and beat the current opening weekend title holder, “Jurassic World”, which premiered earlier this year to $208.8 million at the box office.
The latest Star Wars installment easily overtook “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2”, which had held the opening-day record at $91 million.
In case you’re wondering, the film already topped the opening weekend for a Star Wars film today, so everything is just gravy in that respect as The Force Awakens doubtlessly marches toward becoming the highest grossing Star Wars film in history. Whether “The Force Awakens” can come close to the global hauls of those films ($2.8 billion for “Avatar” and $2.2 billion for “Titanic”) won’t be clear for weeks.
After speaking about “the year behind us and the year ahead” and taking questions from reporters, the president signed off by saying, “Okay, everybody, I’ve got to get to Star Wars”.
“The Force Awakens”, directed by J.J. Abrams, stars Daisy Ridley and John Boyega in the key roles as Rey and Finn along with along with original “Star Wars” stars Harrison Ford as Han Solo, Mark Hamill as Luke Sywalker and Carrie Fisher as General Leia.
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The first “Star Wars” film grossed $461 million dollars domestically in 1977. Currently, “The Force Awakens” stands at 95 percent.
