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The force was strong this weekend for the new Star Wars movie as it broke several different box office records!

The new ‘Star Wars’ movie broke records for biggest single-day ticket sales ever.

Experts say the movie grossed over $250 million in ticket sales over its three day opening; previously, Jurassic World was the fastest movie to reach that milestone, but it took five days to reach that.

Check out some of the other records the movie broke:

 

·       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).

 

In Canada, the movie beat the opening weekend record previously held by Marvel’s ‘The Avengers’.

“Avatar,” the highest grossing domestic movie ever, reportedly took 12 days to get past $250 million.