The first weekend for Star Wars: The Force Awakens has just ended and the final numbers are in.
Setting an all-time industry record in the US, the ticket sales now stands at USD 247.9 million! International markets recorded a USD 281 million, bringing the worldwide total to USD 528.9 million!
It has now officially surpassed this year's surprise mega-blockbuster Jurassic World, which achieved USD 208.8 million in the US and USD 525 million worldwide. Keeping in mind that Jurassic World had the China numbers behind it during the opening weekend, while The Force Awakens won't be released in China until January! That's another potential USD 100 million right there.
The previous biggest December debut was at USD 84.6 million held by The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Star Wars crushed that with almost three times the figure.
Walt Disney Studios now holds some of the most impressive recrods all time in the US:
- biggest Thrusday preview gross of USD 57 million,
(previously held by Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2 at USD 43.5 million)
- biggest Friday gross of USD 119.1 million
(previously held by Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2 at USD 91 million)
- biggest Sunday gross of USD 60.5 million
(previously held by Jurassic World at USD 57.2 million)
- biggest US opening weekend of USD 247.9 million
(previously held by Jurassic World at USD 208.8 million)
- biggest worldwide opening weekend of USD 529 million
(previously held by Jurassic World at USD 525 million)
- first movie to ever cross USD 100 million in a single day
(previously held by Jurassic World at two days)
- fastest movie to ever cross USD 100 million
- fastest movie to ever cross USD 200 million
- biggest movie to open in the month of December with USD 247.9 million
(previously held by The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey at USD 84.6 million)
- biggest per theatre average for a wide release in the US of USD 59,982
(previously held by Jurassic World at USD 48,855)
- biggest IMAX opening for Thursday, single-day and weekend with USD 30.1 million
(previously held by Jurassic World at USD 20.9 million)
- biggest IMAX global debut with USD 48 million
(previously held by Jurassic World at USD 44.1 million)
- biggest opening of all time in UK, Australia, Russia, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Austria, Denmark, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Croatia, Ukraine, Iceland, Serbia, New Zealand. And Brunei.
With Jurassic World beat, Universal Pictures' Frank Marshall put out the image below on his Twitter account earlier today, congratulating J.J. Abrams and Kathleen Kennedy for their success.
History has been re-written and this record will not be broken for the foreseeable future!
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