Advance ticket sales coincided with the release of the full trailer for the seventh Star Wars film, which debuted on USA television during an American football game between the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles. First day sales on Fandango, for example, reached a new all-time high, selling eight times more tickets than previous record-holder The Hunger Games. The first 500 guests who watch Star Wars: The Force Awakens in IMAX will receive a collectable ticket featuring unique Star Wars: The Force Awakens art. New art will be revealed each week. The sheer number of visitors was massive, with perhaps the biggest site of them all, Fandango, saying that their online traffic jumped up to seven times their usual peak levels.
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Cinema tickets for the hugely anticipated Star Wars: The Force Awakens went on sale on Tuesday at 8am and within 24 hours an unprecendented 200,000 tickets had been sold.
Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens arrives in theaters on December 18, 2015. The trailer has so far garnered more than 29million views on YouTube and 10million views on Facebook. “Tickets to the earliest screenings, many of which quickly sold out, are white hot on eBay, where one seller is asking $10,000 for a pair”. This is surely going to be one for the books! 38 years have now passed and the Star Wars has made a total of $37 billion.
The newest installment of the Star Wars franchise is breaking records before it even hits the theaters on December 18.
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Additionally, during a 2005 episode of IFC’s Dinner For Five TV show, Mark Hamill and director J.J. Abrams were guests. We can’t help but wonder if Ford gave that kind of advice to the young actors in The Force Awakens like Daisy Ridley, Oscar Isaac, and John Boyega.
