“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” Now Highest-Grossing Ever in U.S.
Considering that Zen Studios has done Star Wars pinball games before for mobile devices, it was a pretty safe assumption that they’d cook something up for the money-earning juggernaut that is Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Disney’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens has set a new box office record, becoming the highest-grossing film ever in North America. But it is still $20 million shy of Cameron’s other juggernaut, “Avatar” ($760 million).
With the “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” heroine noticeably missing from Hasbro’s Monopoly, frustrated fans vented their disappointment with the hashtag, #WheresRey.
The movie brought in $90.2 million over the New Year’s weekend for Disney, bringing its domestic total to $742.2 million. Since the day of its released, Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been slicing up box office records like Darth Maul shredding last year’s tax documents. So far, the new Star Wars has taken in some $740 million in domestic sales, and it did so in only 19 days in theaters. The film’s main poster makes this abundantly clear.
The Force Awakens tables are coming to Pinball FX 2 next week. It features a tuxedoed Mark Hamill providing a dramatic lead-in to the film’s small-screen premiere, complete with interviews with fans young and old, some behind-the-scenes footage, and clips from various press segments featuring Star Wars director George Lucas.
Some box office analysts are predicting the film could have a $200 million run in China, but are being cautious about making a solid projection due to the uncertainty of the Chinese market.
Hasbro also writes that a Rey 12-inch action figure will be “hitting store shelves this month”, a little over four months after the first wave of exclusively-male 12-inch action figures were released.
Next we have Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Rey’s Story, which will become available on Tuesday, February 16, 2016.