‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Breaks Canadian Opening Weekend Record

As of Sunday, Disney has estimated the worldwide total at $517 million. “And China has yet to open”.

$4 billion – The price Disney paid for the franchise’s production company, Lucasfilm, in 2012.

USA Today USA Today has an unfortunate layout in Monday’s edition, putting an image of a “Star Trek” hand gesture over a story about ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’.

The new “Star Wars” film will nourish Disney’s studio, theme-park and merchandise businesses for years. “Avatar” holds that title with $2.8 billion in global sales.

It remains to be seen whether the earnings from “Star Wars” and some of the company’s other film properties can counter the loss of subscribers Disney is seeing at cable TV networks such as ESPN and the Disney Channel.

According to CNN, the film brought in $528 million internationally. That’s not the only record the new Star Wars flick broke.

“I thought it was an overreaction”, Mr. Iger said of the August selloff, which was triggered by his comments about ESPN’s moderate subscriber losses.

“Now that we watched the movie, we know it wasn’t the ending”, Melendez said.

The latest “Star Wars” also shattered records domestically.

The Disney sci-fi epic, featuring original franchise stars Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher and newcomers Oscar Isaac, John Boyega and Daisy Ridley, skyrocketed to number one, easily eclipsing the United States dollars 209 million debut previously set by “Jurassic World” in June, reported New York Times. Up to date: 01:32 EST, 20 December 2015 Fans got their 1st look of him as dark warrior robust with The Force Kylo Ren in Show star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens over the weekend.& it seems like Adam Driver is about to make a debut of a special kind.