Constantinos Milonas
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- 20 August 2006
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Re: Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens destroyed everything in its path last weekend, to the surprise of nobody at all. And as well as, obviously, winning the box office, it also smashed any number of previously held records. Its tally already sits at an eye-watering $517m.
With $238m of that in the US alone, Episode VII comfortably trounced Jurassic World's record for a US opening weekend by $30m. It also scored the biggest opening weekend figures pretty much everywhere else it played, including here in the UK ($48.9m), in Australia, New Zealand and Japan, and across Europe. Back in the States it achieved the largest ever number of Thursday night previews ($57m, beating previous record holder Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part II by $14m); the largest ever opening day ($120.5m - stomping Harry Potter again); the highest per-theatre average; the biggest ever opening for a film rated PG-13; and various other December records.
http://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/surprise-star-wars-force-awakens-breaks-box-office-records/
Star Wars: The Force Awakens destroyed everything in its path last weekend, to the surprise of nobody at all. And as well as, obviously, winning the box office, it also smashed any number of previously held records. Its tally already sits at an eye-watering $517m.
With $238m of that in the US alone, Episode VII comfortably trounced Jurassic World's record for a US opening weekend by $30m. It also scored the biggest opening weekend figures pretty much everywhere else it played, including here in the UK ($48.9m), in Australia, New Zealand and Japan, and across Europe. Back in the States it achieved the largest ever number of Thursday night previews ($57m, beating previous record holder Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part II by $14m); the largest ever opening day ($120.5m - stomping Harry Potter again); the highest per-theatre average; the biggest ever opening for a film rated PG-13; and various other December records.
http://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/surprise-star-wars-force-awakens-breaks-box-office-records/