Variety – Star Wars: The Force Awakens Ticket Presales Earn Over $100 Million!
It’s official – Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens has reached the $100 million mark in ticket presales with a few days to go before the movie’s release in the United States. This is not only on-par with a previous financial expectation for advance tickets, but it actually exceeds the estimate by a moderate margin.
Variety reports that the first $100 million worth of tickets for The Force Awakens have been sold. That’s not to say those tickets are all for the opening weekend – the sales in question cover everything from now to the new year. So naturally, this reflects very well on estimated box office sales for the opening weekend – indeed, many skeptics are now becoming increasingly confident that the movie could dethrone Jurassic World as the most profitable film of 2015, possibly even beating that movie’s $209 million opening weekend.
For frame of reference, the previous record-holder for ticket presales (The Dark Knight Rises) sold $25 million worth of tickets in advance. That movie went on to gross $448 million domestically and $637 million overseas, coming up to the total just shy of $1.1 billion. So with The Force Awakens quadrupling that record (and more, with a few last-minute presales taking place), it’s no surprise that this film is going to be one of the biggest box office smashes of all time. In the short run, though, the advance ticket sales record set by The Force Awakens is one that won’t conceivably be cleared for decades, if ever – and there are still plenty more records left to break in the meantime.
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Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.
w00t w00t i can’t wait to see the box office numbers after this weekend.
when its all said and done, disney buying lucasfilm for “only” 4.5 billion might be the best business deal of all time.
Unlike most other franchises, Star Wars allows Lucasfilm to create any brand new character they want, during any era. A nobody character like Finn can become as popular as a Marvel superhero.
And they’re just getting started… xD
I bought MY ticket (here in Norway) about ten days ago. Remarkable but true: In this moment less than 2 hours and 30 minutes remain until I will be watching Episode 7!
congrats!
Honestly, why are we so wrapped up with how much Star Wars is going to make in the box office?
It’s obviously going to make what it needs in order to continue the franchise, but I get the impression from these articles that, if it doesn’t obliterate box office records, then it fails to be a great movie?
Seriously, how about we just concentrate on this being great on a personal level.
Because it’s always been about making money. That’s what you’ll hear in all the documentaries. From ANH and ESB being nearly pulled because of funding issues, TPM biggest concern was if it could beat Titanic, in this industry, people only care about money and that’s what TFA is supposed to do, make boatloads of money by being a good movie.
I have to disagree with at least Episode iv. That original collective experience was worth more than just numbers. It inspired generations of film makers and technical producers. It’s too bad there can’t be that mindset with this new generation of Star Wars..
it wasn’t the spirit of the movie (they just wanted to make at least American Graffiti money) but budget concerns were strong all through shooting, Lucas’ previous success didn’t guarantee anything.
But did the masses who flocked to the theaters in 1977 get wrapped up with box office numbers like they are today? Doubtful. They were too caught up with wrapping their mind around what they just saw.
At that time, there were no sequels, no plans, nothing, it was just a movie that was supposed to make money. there was no interest in the future of star wars at that time.
I’m not sure you’re understanding what I’m saying. But whatever, if you’re more interested in what Star Wars brings down in the box office, good for you. I’m only caring about if it’s good or not..
heads up for those interested: collider jedi council will be posting a (non spoiler) review of the force awakens on youtube at 12.01am(PST) on the 16th, 🙂
Meanwhile, at Lucasfilm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULeDlxa3gyc
– Pomojema
Wow before when it was reported that they already had 50 million in pre sale I knew it would eventually get to 100 million
the good reviews are just going to bump it up. just bought my ticket for tomorrow due to this
I’m more interested in how the sequels and spin-offs will do. This film would have been a monster success even if Lucas wrote, produced, and directed simply due to the curiosity factor and fact that they actually got the OT cast back together again.
I’m sure Abrams will get full credit for “saving Star Wars” like he did with Trek.