The music video for “The Inner Force” was released Thursday (7 January 2016), and after its first eight hours online, had already received 8.18 million hits on Chinese online portal QQ.
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Biggest opening day, biggest single day, biggest Christmas day and biggest opening week are just some of the records the film has broken here in the U.S.
“The Force Awakens”, however, has yet to open in China, the second-largest film market.
The Force Awakens will have one more weekend with 100% coverage in IMAX theaters, so It’s likely that the film will get a billion dollars in domestic gross.
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” has passed a trio of titles – “Iron Man 3”, “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” and “Skyfall” – to take the 11th spot on the all-time global box office chart.
Robert Thompson, a professor of popular culture at Syracuse University in NY, said the hype and marketing surrounding the latest “Star War” had helped ensure its success but so was the fact that it is a good movie.
Disney thanked its fans for helping it clinch the domestic record, saying that without them “there is no Star Wars”.
The global box office record still belongs to “Avatar”, however, with James Cameron’s blue heroes taking in $1.6 billion since the 2009 release.
The previous fastest movie to reach $1 billion was Universal’s Jurassic World, which did it in 13 days last June.
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Original trilogy stars Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher reprised their Han Solo and Princess Leia roles alongside younger newcomers, including Daisey Ridley, John Boyega and Oscar Isaac.
