On Saturday, the first box-office figures from Star Wars: The Force Awakens streamed in, revealing the flick to be the unprecedented sales smash that many expected.
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“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” made domestic box office history, bringing in an estimated $238 million in its opening weekend, rocketing past the previous record of $208.8 million held by “Jurassic World”.
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“Our sole focus has been creating a film that delivers that one-of-a-kind Star Wars experience, and director J.J. Abrams, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy, and the Lucasfilm team have outdone themselves”, reads a press release from Alan Horn, chairman of Walt Disney Studios.
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Disney, which bought the rights to the “Star Wars” franchise from its creator George Lucas for $4 billion (roughly Rs. 26,525 crores) in 2012, has built up the hype around “The Force Awakens”, rolling out a well-orchestrated marketing campaign that has left fans wanting more.
The first strike by the J.J. Abrams sequel came on Thursday night where $57 million was earned domestically from a combination of traditional, 3D and IMAX showings beginning at 7 pm.
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A person dressed as a Storm Trooper attends the release of the film “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” in Disneyland Paris in Marne-la-Vallee, France, Dec. 16, 2015.
– Highest Thursday “preview” gross: $57M.
The film has also set a new opening night box office record in the United States and Canada. Soon to begin was a screening of the film for families who have lost a relative to combat or service-related injuries. In New York, some of the city’s larger theaters were playing the film every hour, beginning at 6:00 am.
A Rentrak audience survey shows that The Force Awakens audience was evenly split in age (with moviegoers older than 25 representing 54%, and 46% of the crowd under 25) and mostly male (66%).
The Force Awakens has a shot at becoming the highest-grossing movie of all time, analysts said.
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Well, the movies just struck back. According to early polling from CinemaScore, the movie is getting an “A Grade” among general audience members and an “A-plus Grade” among women and children.
