“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” shattered the domestic box office record with an estimated $238 million in US and Canadian ticket sales through Sunday, a staggering debut that re-established the celebrated space saga as a global phenomenon under Walt Disney Co.
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If the estimates hold, “The Force Awakens” will easily beat the previous Thursday-night record of $43.5 million by Warner Bros.’ “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” in July 2011. If successful, the total would also make The Force Awakens’ first day in theaters bigger than any opening weekend of a film released in December.
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“Jurassic World”, an unexpected sensation in June, also holds the global weekend opening record with $524.9 million, a number “The Force Awakens” could well exceed.
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This is the biggest overall weekend in box office history with combined grosses north of $300 million, putting 2015 in range of becoming the first $11 billion year in history.
Fans flocked to theaters Thursday evening, many dressed as evil Stormtroopers or lightsaber-wielding Jedi as the movie took in $57 million at domestic theaters. (NYSE:DIS) said the Star Wars: The Force Awakens is on track to break box office world records.
KTLA 5 tallying US box office numbers alone, pegged the Star Wars sequel’s take at a box-office breaking $120.5 million for its USA opening day on Friday.
The movie has already smashed several film industry records and won praise from critics and moviegoers.
Star Wars creator and news-magnet George Lucas hung around as a consultant during the film’s early production stages, to add his own ingredient to the brew. The movie played particularly well in premium formats with 3D showings accounting for 47% of tickets sales, Imax with 12% and premium large formats were responsible for 7%. The picture is now playing in all markets except Greece and India, where it opens December 24, and China, where it opens January 9, Disney said.
Mendelson went on, unpersuasively at this point, to say that, given “what a precedent-setting franchise the original Star Wars was”, he was disheartened that “The Force Awakens” fails to “blaze its own path, but rather rehashes its former glories for our approval”.
Universal’s attempt at counter-programming with the Tina Fey/Amy Poehler vehicle “Sisters” earned them third place with $13.4 million.
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