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‘Star Wars’ crushes opening-day record, global sales near $130 million
Posted On Dec 18 2015
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“It might join the $2bn club worldwide, and maybe, just maybe, be the highest grossing film of all-time”.
The Thursday night record set in July 2011 for the release of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2”, which took in $43.5 million, has already been broken by “The Force Awakens”.
Because “The Force Awakens” is entering uncharted box office territory, typical moviegoing patterns make it hard to forecast where the film’s opening weekend tally may wind up. It is a film that reminds the world why it loves Star Wars.
“The “Star Wars” franchise is uniquely multi-beneficial to Disney, and clearly the evergreen intellectual property further diversifies and strengthens the company’s foundation alongside its most important franchises”, Moody’s said.
Forty-seven per cent of the opening day’s United States domestic ticket sales came from 3D tickets, Disney said. Disney bought “Star Wars” producer Lucasfilm for $4 billion in 2012. The movie opened in 12 global markets on Wednesday.
The figure is more than £3m ahead of the previous record holder, the James Bond film Spectre, which scored £6.3m in October. Previously, the movie had already outsold previous single-day record-holder “Hunger Games” by an 8-to-1 margin at Fandango, and a 10-to-1 margin at MovieTickets.com.
France generated $5.2 million in ticket sales, Italy $2 million and Sweden $1.7 million.
In 1983, Star Wars fans made their way to showings of the film, the final of the original saga.
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” has set a box office record with an estimated $57 million from Thursday night shows.
A man inside the cultural epicenter of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma-the Walmart-allegedly told employees that he had placed a bomb inside the store and was going to see Star Wars, where he had hidden another. “I liked how they brought back the old characters”, said Risner. Given the extreme secrecy surrounding every bit of The Force Awakens before its premiere, a premature score release would’ve been out of place.
