STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS Blows Up Records Pulling in $247 Million Domestically, $528 Million Worldwide
UPDATE: Official numbers are in and they are higher than the press release estimates, as reported on Sunday, from Disney PR. STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS officially opened to $247 million domestically and $528 million worldwide! WOW!
Original report as follows...
This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who has been tracking the hype surrounding STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS because the first film in the 'Sequel Trilogy' has destroyed all box office records for an opening weekend raking in over a half billion worldwide, $517 million, and $238 million domestically. This shatters the domestic weekend opening record set earlier this year by Jurassic World of $208 million.
Here are the new records set from Disney's official press release:
- Biggest Thursday preview gross with $57M.
- Biggest Friday and biggest single-day gross with $120.5M.
- First film ever to post a single day over $100M.
- Fastest film to $100M and $200M.
- Biggest December debut (nearly 3 times previous record of $84.6M).
- Biggest IMAX Thursday night preview ($5.7M), single-day ($14M, Friday), and weekend ($30.1M).
- Highest theater average for a wide release ($57,568).
Impressive... most impressive.
And here's some International box office records:
- Biggest opening weekend of all time in UK (4-day), Australia, Russia, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Austria, Poland (3-day), Denmark (5-day), Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Croatia, Ukraine, Iceland, Serbia, New Zealand. Second biggest opening weekend in France, Belgium, Israel, Chile.
- Biggest IMAX global debut of $48M.
James Cameron and his No. 1 box office movie of all-time, Avatar, must be looking over their shoulder as the Star Wars juggernaut is definitely targeting the top spot, ever.