Jurassic World has congratulated Star Wars: The Force Awakens for beating its global opening weekend record.
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Boyega posted a clip on Instagram of the moment he entered the screening after being introduced, teasing that there would be more to come, reported Digital Spy.
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The film smashed through the previous biggest global box office opening record, $524 million set by Comcast Corp-owned Universal Pictures’ “Jurassic World” earlier this year.
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In a cute image tweeted by Jurassic World producer Frank Marshall, a T-Rex is seen passing a medal on to new Star Wars droid BB-8.
The figure does not include box office receipts from India or Greece where the movie opens this week, or from China where it opens on 9 January.
One of the records the sci-fi adventure broke was the biggest weekend take in the USA with $247 million (as well as the largest global opening weekend ever with $529 million)!
The highly anticipated seventh instalment of the space saga has blazed a record-setting trail, taking the prize for highest-grossing domestic opening night with $57m and biggest domestic single-day sales Friday with $120.5m.
That exceeded the previous best of £9.48m set by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 in 2011.
Of course, this is hardly the first movie to get off to an explosive start; both Marvel’s The Avengers and Jurassic World were, at one point, in the discussion to surpass Avatar.
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It also set a Monday domestic record with $40.1 million, demolishing the “Spider-Man 2” mark of $27.2 million from 2004.
“The Force Awakens” picks up the intergalactic story of good versus evil 30 years on from “The Return of the Jedi”, the last episode of the original trilogy.
While Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill were paid in the low seven figures, and franchise newcomers Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, and Adam Driver were paid in six figures, Ford made somewhere between $10 million and $25 million, the latter figure reported by The Daily Mail.
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Meanwhile “Creed”, a next-generation version of the “Rocky” series earned $5 million in its fourth week on the big screen.
