Star Wars: The Force Awakens Shatters Records

As if there was ever any doubt that this would happen!

Star Wars: The Force Awakens opened this past weekend and it destroyed all sorts of records with it's release.  Here are some of the records that it broke, according to Comicbook.com:

- The biggest opening weekend for any movie with an estimated $238 million domestically, and $279 million internationally, giving it a whopping $517 million since it's release.

- The biggest Thursday preview total with $57 million.

- Biggest Friday and single-day total with $120.5 million.

- First movie to ever pull in over $100 million in a single day.

- Fastest film to reach $100 million and $200 million in sales.

- Biggest December release (Comicbook.com says that the previous record for this was $84.6 million!)

- Biggest IMAX Thursday release ($5.7 million), single-day ($14 million, Friday) and weekend ($30.1 million). Biggest IMAX global opening with $48 million.

- Highest theater average for wide release ($57,568).

Star Wars: The Force Awakens has opened in every market around the world, except Greece, India, and China. Greece and India will have it's premier December 24, 2015, and China will have it open on January 9, 2016.  There was a little worry over at the House of Mouse as to how Star Wars would be received in other countries.  Yes, here in the United States it's a huge phenomena, but not all countries are as familiar with the Original Trilogy, and are more familiar with the prequels.  Considering The Force Awakens deals more with the Original Trilogy, and not Episodes I, II, and III, would people still go out and see it with the same enthusiasm as we would here?  After this past weekend, Disney got their answer.

The Force Awakens had the biggest opening weekend of all time in the UK, Australia, Russia, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Austria, Poland, Denmark, Romania, Hungry, Bulgaria, Croatia, Ukraine, Iceland, Serbia, and New Zealand.  It had the second highest opening weekend for France, Belgium, Israel, and Chile.

Believe it or not, there are still people out there that haven't seen it yet, so I will refuse to talk about the details of the film until it leaves theaters.  Why spoil it for everyone that's still waiting to see it?  When that happens, though, I can't wait to talk to you about what you liked about the film, and what you didn't.

Now we can all try and start guessing what's going to happen in Episode VIII...