Star Wars boasts biggest opening weekend of all time in Canada

Considering Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ unparalleled $238 million opening weekend, it looks like Disney’s significant investment in Ford reprising his role as Han Solo was an easy one to make. Smash a control panel with his light saber, waaah! Additionally, The Force Awakens raked in $41.7 million internationally yesterday, bringing the film’s total global earnings to a staggering $610 million. What Kylo Ren needs … is Twitter.

Well done, Star Wars! Boop boop beep, indeed.

Meanwhile, newbies Daisy Ridley and John Boyega netted salaries in the six-figure range, around $100,000 to $300,000.

Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher took home salaries in the low-seven-figure range, according to sources.

With this juggernaut just taking off under the Disney umbrella, it probably won’t be long until these new stars see Ford-like paydays, too. The salaries for the legacy stars are expected to rise with each film.

It is an ongoing trend nowadays in Hollywood especially with franchises where the actors get paid less in the first movie and they negotiate better deals in the sequels where they reprise their roles.

Over the weekend Star Wars: The Force Awakens broke a couple of records, and you might have already heard, including Jurassic World’s all-time biggest domestic opening weekend record.

The Force Awakens, which has smashed the previous box office records in the U.S. and globally in its debut weekend, has managed to set a new box office record in Romania as well.