Star Wars: The Force Awakens Breaks Yet Another Record

It says something about how much the movie industry has changed that Jaws-widely regarded as the film that invented blockbuster season-held its crown for two years, while Jurassic World only had history’s biggest opening weekend for six paltry months.

The wild card is China, the world’s second-largest movie market, where “Force Awakens” opens January 9.

Since early December 2012, Disney stock has increased over 116%. The franchise is on its way to $2 billion by the end of the year, with Disney taking a reported 15 percent cut. Both are all-time opening weekend records. If the film manages to gross the worldwide total of Jurassic World, the total would account for 41.1% of the acquisition.

The Force Awakens wasn’t the only filmed to get pirated: The Revenant, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, and Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight are also among the movies that were pirated this holiday.

Disney said the galactic success of the movie has already enabled the company to cross the US$5 billion mark in global box office receipts in a calendar year for the first time ever, surpassing the previous record of US$4.73 billion set in 2013.

The Lucasfilm investment will pay off considerably for Disney. Additionally, when Disney debuted the final theatrical trailer during a “Monday Night Football” game on ESPN that coincided with the tickets going on sale online, the trailer was viewed 128 million times in 24 hours.

Be that as it may, “The Force Awakens” is not Disney’s only hope. The Force Awakens has a metascore of 81, a Rotten Tomatoes tomatometer of 95%, and an IMDB rating of 8.8.

Non-Star Wars fans will be correct when they point out the film’s flaws during your morning joust around the office water cooler, but you’ll also be correct to smile, place your hand on said critics shoulder and start humming William’s main Star Wars theme.

While Ford is considered the biggest star in the ensemble, the No. 1 reason the actor walked away with the most money had to do with the fact that this would be a one-off situation for him (MAJOR SPOILER), since his character dies in “The Force Awakens”.

Rian Johnson – writer and director of Brick and Looper – is the man enlisted with writing and directing Episode VIII as well as writing the story for Episode IX (Colin Trevorrow, director of Jurassic World and Safety Not Guaranteed, will be directing the film).

Seriously, though, don’t read this if you haven’t seen The Force Awakens yet (and come back when you have!).

4,134 – Number of theaters the film opened in. Today, you can download 7 Best Stocks for the Next 30 Days.

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