Star Wars Breaks Records With $238 Million In U.S. Ticket Sales

Star Wars: The Force Awakens officially blown Jurassic World out of the water as the biggest opening weekend of all time.

The highly-anticipated film set the all-time domestic debut record over the weekend with an estimated $238 million in ticket sales, according to the announcement made by Walt Disney Studios on Sunday. The Force Awakens made $279 million internationally over its five-day debut, reaching a grand total of $517 million globally in sales, so far. The movie broke a swing of other standing records, including the largest Friday sales and the biggest December debut of all time. It also became the first film ever to bank over $100 million in one day.

Alan Horn, chairman of Walt Disney Studios said this in a press release “Our sole focus has been creating a film that delivers that one-of-a-kind Star Wars experience, and director J.J. Abrams, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy, and the Lucasfilm team have outdone themselves. To all of the fans around the world who not only came out in Force to make this such an exciting and astronomical debut but who treated this film as their own and helped preserve the experience for their fellow fans by not spoiling it – thank you, we do”