Harrison Ford Made Crazy Money Compared to his Star Wars Co-Stars

If you’ve seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens this weekend-and if you’re reading this or even Blastr, chances are good you have-you know what it’s about.

That would beat the record opening weekend sales of $525 million that dinosaur film “Jurassic World” garnered earlier this year in its worldwide release, including in China.

Final numbers are still being tallied, but in an interview with Bloomberg on Monday morning, Disney chief Bob Iger suggested that receipts for the “Star Wars” sequel had come in higher than initial estimates had suggested. The Force Awakens was beaten by Jurassic World simply because it has yet to launch in China.

John Boyega surprised “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” fans by showing up at several screening of the new movie.

At this rate, there’s no telling how high Force Awakens will ultimately fly in terms of box-office revenue, since films over the year-end holidays can see huge multiples. It seems safe to say at this point that there will be new records broken by Star Wars every single day until the end of its run, when it’s predicted to be at least the third highest-grossing movie of all time (beating Jurassic World again). That honour goes to Robert Downey Jr, who was believed to have made $US50 million for Iron Man 3. Even if The Force Awakens does not surpass the worldwide grosses of Avatar or Titanic, bringing in at least $2 billion during its theatrical run is not a farfetched total.

95% – The film’s score on review site RottenTomatoes.com.

“When we started casting the movie, it felt incredibly important to me that the movie look like the world in which this movie is being released”, Abrams told “60 Minutes.”

The studio purchased the “Star Wars” franchise from George Lucas’ Lucasfilm in 2012 for $4.05 billion, and has planned for a new trilogy of films as well as standalone installments through 2019.

“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2”, the fourth and last movie in the blockbuster franchise that turned Jennifer Lawrence into a Hollywood megastar, earned $5.7 million, falling to fourth place in its fifth week in theaters.