“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” will not only break records —ย every pre-release indicator suggests it will shatter, batter and stomp them into pieces when it opens on Friday, Dec. 18.
Exhibit A would be the advance ticket sales.
On Oct. 19, the first day fans could pony up, “The Force Awakens” outsold previous single-day record-holder “The Hunger Games” by an 8-to-1 margin at online broker Fandango, and by a 10-to-1 margin at MovieTickets.com. It was 10-to-1 at AMC Theaters, too. No film had ever done $1 million in advance IMAX theater sales, but “The Force Awakens” did, with $6.5