Star Wars Has Biggest Opening Ever
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” surpassed the previous record by over $19 million (16.6 million euros) industry monitor Rentrak said Sunday. By last Friday, worldwide ticket sales had reached US$129.5 million as the movie set opening-day records in Britain, Germany, Australia, Brazil and other countries. Fans who have seen the movie, are waiting for things to slow down or are waiting for the video release can enjoy fun apps related to the movie.
Internationally, “The Force Awakens” made $279 million, that’s the third highest opening of all time behind “Jurassic World” ($316 million) and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows: Part 2” ($314 million).
As far as all-time box office sales, two films by James Cameron hold the record “Avatar” ($2.78 billion) (roughly Rs. 18,435 crores) and “Titanic” ($2.18 billion) (roughly Rs. 14,456 crores).
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” had the biggest opening weekend for a movie ever. In a press release, Walt Disney Studios announced that Star Wars: The Force Awakens made an estimated $238 million at the domestic box office on opening weekend.
“Force Awakens” might also speed past “Jurassic World’s” worldwide opening weekend record of $316.1 million as well as its global opening record of $524.9 million.
· Biggest IMAX Thursday night preview ($5.7M), single-day ($14M, Friday), and weekend ($30.1M).
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Elsewhere, The Force Awakens opened to $US279 million as it played in every major market except China, India and Greece.
Right now, the films are not available for streaming in North America and there are no plans at the moment to have them available any time soon. The movie scored a 95 percent positive rating on review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes.
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