10 Most Impressive Box Office Records Broken By The Star Wars Saga

10 Most Impressive Box Office Records Broken By The Star Wars Saga

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As one of the most profitable Hollywood franchises of all time, the Star Wars saga have been champions at the box office, setting tons of records.

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10 Most Impressive Box Office Records Broken By The Star Wars Saga

When George Lucas finished editing Star Wars in 1977, executives at 20th Century Fox were convinced it would fail. Some theaters refused to show it unless Fox attached it to prints of another movie, The Other Side of Midnight, that was expected to be a big hit. Hollywood insiders were stunned when The Other Side of Midnight disappeared into obscurity and Star Wars became the highest grossing movie ever made.

The Star Wars saga has since grown into one of the most profitable brands in the world. So, here are the 10 most impressive box office records broken by the Star Wars saga.

10 Highest Grossing Opening Weekend

10 Most Impressive Box Office Records Broken By The Star Wars Saga

On its initial release, Star Wars: The Force Awakens set a new record for the highest grossing opening weekend with $529 million. It narrowly broke the record set earlier that year by Jurassic World’s $525 million opening weekend.

The Force Awakens would hold the record for two years before being broken by The Fate of the Furious’ opening weekend gross of $541 million. It goes without saying, but the highest grossing opening weekend record is also the highest grossing single-weekend gross.

9 Biggest Opening Day

10 Most Impressive Box Office Records Broken By The Star Wars Saga

On its opening day, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith grossed $50 million. This gave it the biggest opening day gross of all time, beating the $40.4 million opening day of Spider-Man 2.

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This record was broken the following year when Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest grossed $55.5 million on its opening day. By the end of its theatrical run, Revenge of the Sith had grossed $868.4 million worldwide.

8 Highest Grossing Movie Of All Time (In The UK)

10 Most Impressive Box Office Records Broken By The Star Wars Saga

With an overall box office haul of £123 million, Star Wars: The Force Awakens quickly became the highest grossing movie of all time in the UK. The record had been previously held by Skyfall, the first James Bond movie to top $1 billion at the global box office, with a UK gross of £103 million.

7 Widest IMAX Release

10 Most Impressive Box Office Records Broken By The Star Wars Saga

Before Disney’s Star Wars sequel trilogy began, Jurassic World held the record for the widest IMAX release with 809 screens. The Force Awakens broke that record with a 940-screen IMAX release, which included 392 IMAX screens across the U.S. and Canada and 272 screens in China. The Star Wars saga then broke its own record when The Last Jedi received an IMAX release across more than 1,200 screens.

6 Biggest Thursday Gross

10 Most Impressive Box Office Records Broken By The Star Wars Saga

On its opening day — May 19, 2005 — Revenge of the Sith set the record for biggest box office gross on a Thursday with $50 million. The Matrix Reloaded previously held the record with $42.5 million, and even 15 years later, Revenge of the Sith’s record has yet to be broken.

Revenge of the Sith is one of four Star Wars movies included in the top 10 biggest Thursday grosses of all time, along with The Rise of Skywalker, Attack of the Clones, and The Force Awakens.

5 Highest Grossing Movie Of All Time (In North America)

10 Most Impressive Box Office Records Broken By The Star Wars Saga

Although Star Wars’ limited appeal outside the western world prevented any of the Disney-era movies from becoming the highest grossing movie of all time at the worldwide box office, The Force Awakens did become the highest grossing film in the U.S. and Canada.

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The record had been previously held by Avatar’s $760 million haul, which The Force Awakens aped with $936 million. Not even Avengers: Endgame was big enough to dethrone The Force Awakens as the highest grossing film in North America.

4 Biggest Christmas Day Gross

10 Most Impressive Box Office Records Broken By The Star Wars Saga

Not a lot of moviegoers head to theaters on Christmas Day, but the option is there, and sometimes, a particularly huge blockbuster can make a ton of money around the holidays. The Force Awakens had the biggest Christmas Day gross of all time with $49.3 million, while The Last Jedi had the second biggest with $27.5 million.

3 Fastest Film To Gross $1 Billion

10 Most Impressive Box Office Records Broken By The Star Wars Saga

Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm started paying off the second Star Wars: The Force Awakens arrived in multiplexes. Within 12 days, it became the fastest movie to gross $1 billion at the worldwide box office.

The record had been set earlier that same year when Jurassic World grossed $1 billion in 13 days, and it was broken in 2018 when Avengers: Infinity War grossed $1 billion in 11 days.

2 Biggest Midnight Screenings Gross

10 Most Impressive Box Office Records Broken By The Star Wars Saga

The final chapter in George Lucas’ Star Wars prequel trilogy, Revenge of the Sith, opened with 2,900 midnight screenings across North America. With a gross of $16.91 million, Revenge of the Sith had the biggest midnight screenings gross of all time.

It more than doubled the record held by the previous victor, fellow trilogy capper The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, which grossed $8 million from midnight screenings.

1 Highest Grossing Movie Of All Time (Worldwide)

When Star Wars hit theaters, the highest grossing movie of all time was Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, credited as the first summer blockbuster. Jaws’ record-setting gross had been around $193,700,000, shattering the record set by The Godfather.

Star Wars more than doubled this amount with a $400 million gross. Spielberg eventually stole back the record from his friend George Lucas when he directed the $600 million-grossing E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

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