‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ theater opening was the biggest ever. The film pulled in $529M in box office sales in the first week. Rapidly, Star Wars has climbed quickly to the top with $1 billion in worldwide box office. To break it down, SWTFA brought in $544.57M domestic and $546M internationally, which secured a global total of $1.09B. Overseas, SWTFA is ranked as the No. 5 movie of 2015 and the No. 15 movie of all time. According to Deadline, With this sophomore session in IMAX, the Stormtroopers rendered another JWrecord extinct. The worldwide holiday weekend was good for $27.5M on 673 IMAX screens which brought the global cume to $106M. That hyper-sped the film past the $100M milestone in 12 days versus the 18 days it took JW to get there. The average per screen cume for IMAX theaters is $160K. The international portion this frame was $8.5M on 282 screens in 59 countries. Overall the offshore total is now $36.4M with IMAX reporting unprecedented results from Sweden to Brazil to Japan. China looms on January 9 for SWTFA and with it an additional 270 IMAX plays. One JW record that couldn’t be persuaded to the Dark Side was the fastest ascent to $500M internationally. SW did it in 12 days, JW in 11. Also, JW saw a drop of 41% from its first to second sessions back in June with $163.4M becoming the all-time biggest sophomore weekend ever for a day-and-date release at the international box office. SW slipped 53%, although it’s important to recall that this happened during a holiday week that saw cinemas closed for all of Christmas Day in the film’s biggest ex-U.S. market. The frenzy of the film has also sparked theme parks to amp it up. Disneyland, in Anaheim, CA, has incorporated elements of Star Wars into the park. They’ve opened Season of the Force to coincide with the theater release of SWTFA. Also, Space Mountain, Star Tours and part of Tomorrowland were renovated to include special effects from the film and a giant arcade. HAVE YOU SEEN STAR WARS? HOW WAS THE FILM?
