Valentine’s Day might’ve been yesterday, but Star Wars has present for you today to show you how much they love you. Production began on Star Wars: Episode VIII in London a few hours ago, and they already released one of the first shots from the anticipated move that won’t be out until December 15, 2017 or exactly 22 months from today. Does this first look make your lightsaber stand up?
Since I am one of the few people on this Earth who has not seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens, this is a total spoiler for me. While I am happy to see Luke Skywalker in it, I wish the first shot would’ve been of Hans Solo. He’s my second favorite character after Jar Jar Binks. I don’t think I could watch another Star Wars movie unless Harrison Ford in it.
Ever since you saw Star Wars: The Force Awakens you have been counting the days until the next movie in the franchise comes out. You thought that it was going to be released on May 26, 2017, but Disney announced today that they have changed the date. It is now coming out on December 15, 2017. That means instead of waiting 492 day until it comes out, you will have to wait 695. What is another 203 days?
To get you through those extra 203 days, you can watch some cute kittens playing with the even cuter BB-8. If the internet has taught us anything, it is that kittens make everything better. Did it work here?
If not, than maybe the news that Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales will be walking the plank on May 26, 2017 might. Hey, it was worth a try!
After 4 weeks of being #1 at the domestic weekend box office, Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been taken down 2 notches. According to Box Office Mojo, Ice Cube and Kevin Hart’s Ride Along 2 claimed the #1 spot and the multi-Oscar nom The Reverent is #2.
Even though Star Wars: Episode 7 is no longer the #1 film at the weekend box office, it is still the #1 movie of all time domestically and #3 and climbing internationally. Not bad for just a month of play. That’s right, tomorrow marks its one month anniversary. Crazy, isn’t it.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens did the impossible and the film did it in just 20 days. Not only did it knock James Cameron’s movie Titanic out of the second place, it also knocked his other movie Avatar out of first place in the United States. That means for the first time since 1998, a James Cameron movie is no longer the #1 movie domestically. I wonder how he is handling the news? Has anyone seen him?
Here are all of the other Box Office records the film has broken in less that 3 weeks:
· Fastest film to reach $100M (21 hours), $200M (3 days), $300M (5 days), $400M (8 days), $500M (10 days), $600M (12 days), and $700M (16 days)
· Biggest all-time debut and biggest December debut ($247.966M), propelling the industry to the biggest overall moviegoing weekend of all time ($313.3M for all films, Dec. 18-20)
· Biggest second weekend of all time ($149.2M), propelling the industry to the biggest overall Christmas weekend of all time ($296.4M for all films, Dec. 25-27)
· Biggest third weekend of all time ($90.2M)
· Biggest Thursday preview gross ($57M)
· Biggest Friday, opening, and single day ($119.1M)
· Biggest Sunday ($60.55M), Monday ($40.1M), and Tuesday ($37.3M)
· Biggest Christmas Day ($49.3M) and New Year’s Day ($34.39M)
· Highest per-theater average for a wide debut ($59,982)
· Biggest opening week ($390.85M)
· Biggest IMAX debut ($30.1M)
Globally, the film posted the highest global opening weekend of all time ($528.967M) and surpassed $1B in a record 12 days. It also had the biggest global IMAX debut ($48M) and surpassed $152M in IMAX in a record 19 days. It was the highest international debut in December history with $281M, and it remains #1 in many territories after posting the biggest opening weekend in at least 18 major markets.
If that is not enough to show you how powerful this movie is, so far it has made $758.2M domestically and $799.1M for a global total of $1,557.3M. With that dough, it can buy its own planet, like Jupiter.
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The force is so strong with Star Wars: The Force Awakens that it was able to sink Titanic’s status as the #2 Grossing Movie in the United States in just 2 weeks according to Box Office Mojo. That’s right, in just 14 days, the latest movie in the Star Wars franchise made $686,425,583. That is almost $30 million more than the 1997 Oscar winner made in it’s entire run.
How much money does it have to make to take down Avatar and become to the #1 Grossing Movie Domestically of all-time? It needs to make another $74,082,042 to do that. In others words, by next week it will have that title. And somewhere James Cameron is in a corner crying trying to figure out how he can make Avatar 2 earn more money than Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I think that ship has sailed.
