New Movies, Movie Trailers, DVD, TV & Video Game News !!: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Opens to Record $57 Million on Thursday!

vendredi 18 décembre 2015

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Opens to Record $57 Million on Thursday!

Star Wars: The Force Awakens opens to record $57 million on Thursday

Star Wars: The Force Awakens posted an estimated $57 million in Thursday evening previews, topping the previous industry record of $43.5 million set by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 in 2011. 3D is an impressive 47% of the night – IMAX posting $5.7 million from 391 screens, nearly doubling the previous record of $3 million. Domestically across all formats, the film plays in 4,134 theaters this weekend, a record for the month of December.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens began its international rollout on Dec. 16 in 12 markets, followed by an additional 32 markets on Dec. 17, opening #1 in each and bringing its two-day international total to $72.7M and a global cume near $130M. International highlights include:

– Biggest single day of all time in UK/Ireland, Germany, Norway and Sweden
– Biggest opening day of all time in UK/Ireland, Germany, Australia, Brazil, New Zealand, Belgium, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland (French-speaking), Austria, Ukraine, Slovakia, Croatia, Iceland, Serbia, Chile, Peru
– Biggest Disney opening day of all-time in France, Denmark, South Africa, Czech Republic, Turkey
– Biggest December opening day in France, Italy, Mexico, Argentina, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore
– IMAX records set in UK/Ireland, Australia, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, Austria, Turkey, Portugal, Qatar, UAE, Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, New Zealand, Chile, Costa Rica, Trinidad

In addition to its North American debut, Star Wars: The Force Awakens adds Japan and Spain today for a day-and-date release across all territories except Greece and India, which open Dec. 24, and China, which opens on Jan. 9.

Numbers and additional detail below:

UK $14.4M
France $7.8M
Germany $7.1M
Australia $6.8M
Mexico $3.4M
Italy $3.1M
Russia $2.9M
Brazil $2.7M
Sweden $2.7M
Other terrs $21.8M
Total $72.7M

Star Wars: The Force Awakens is set 30 years after the events of Return of the Jedi, and features a new generation of swashbuckling heroes and shadowy villains, as well as the return of fan-favorite smugglers, princesses, and Jedi.

Directed by J.J. Abrams, the highly-anticipated movie stars Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong’o, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew and Max Von Sydow. Kathleen Kennedy, J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk are producing with Tommy Harper and Jason McGatlin serving as executive producers. The screenplay is by Lawrence Kasdan & J.J. Abrams and Michael Arndt.

You can watch all the previously-released trailers and TV spots for the film by clicking here.