‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ pulls in record $57M on opening night

After George Lucas’ disappointing return to the series back in 1999, fans can relax with the knowledge that The Force Awakens is everything the prequels could never manage to be and more. “Sith” generated almost $850 million in worldwide box office. The sum has shattered the box office industry’s preview night record.

A recent survey of “Force Awakens” movie reviews suggests those fans won’t be disappointed. “The Force Awakens” opens in China on January 9.

“The Force Awakens” has already set a new record for Thursday night previews with an estimated $57 million from showings that began at about 7 p.m. Thursday.

3-D screening accounted for 47% of the night’s grosses on Thursday. Whereas the show-time of The Deathly Hallows Part-2 started at midnight.

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While the ticket sales of the next day are still to be added into the numbers.

It’s setting records overseas, too, including the biggest single day ever in the United Kingdom with an estimated $14.4 million on Thursday. Only two films have accumulated over $200 million on their opening weekends, Jurassic World and The Avengers, while Disney’s Avengers: Age of Ultron fell just shy this year with $191.2 million.

The Force has found its way into the record books.

It has been predicted that the movie will grab $220 million in its opening weekend, another record for the blockbuster franchise, which was launched in 1977. But in that time, the Force has awakened, indeed. Although it would be the second day of premiere, Saturday is the busiest day before Christmas shopping week. The expansive array of cultural design influences lent exotic flavor and style to these intriguing, and sometimes quite brilliant, Star Wars theatrical posters.

The sci-fi adventure film starring Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and Harrison Ford has been a intergalactic hit with both fans and critics.