With a month left to fire up the upcoming American epic space opera film - Star Wars: The Force Awakens the film has gathered more than $50 million in advance ticket sales in North America.
The numbers of Star Wars: The Force Awakens doubled the previous record set by the 2012 British-American epic superhero film - The Dark Knight Rises, with $25 million. The Star Wars: The Force Awakens - as a reboot of George Lucas' (American filmmaker) Star Wars series, will hit theaters in the evening of December 17 in North America. And overseas, The Force Awakens opens day-and-date in much of the world.
As claimed by online ticket services, there are still plenty of seats available for the opening weekend of Star Wars: The Force Awakens in the U.S.
Still, the ticket-buying frenzy puts the Mass media company Disney and the American film and television production company - Lucasfilm in the enviable but still challenging situation of managing expectations.
Many speculated that Star Wars: Force Awakens will score the biggest North American debut of all time, further forward of the $208.8 million earned in June by the American science fiction adventure film - Jurassic World. Some critics claimed that the movie could cross over $250 million and even reach the $300 million mark.
Where In May of 2012, the American superhero film - The Avengers, made history when opening to $207 million domestically, but that capacity has been just at 63 percent.
However, the pre-Christmas corridor isn't known for huge film openings, with consumers pre-occupied with holiday preparations rather than going to the movies, it can amass huge fortunes during the final two weeks of the year - especially the week between Christmas and New Year's weekend. And until now, the biggest December bow came from 2012's high fantasy adventure film - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey with $85 million.
