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News'The Force Awakens' first to cross $800m in North America
JANUARY 11 UPDATE: A confirmed $42.4m fourth weekend propelled Star Wars: The Force Awakens to $812.7m as the worldwide tally reached $1.73bn.
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News'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' takes $53m in China debut
JANUARY 11 UPDATE: The records continued to tumble for Disney/Lucasfilm’s juggernaut as executives reported a $146.4m worldwide haul that propelled the space opera past Jurassic World to $1.734bn.
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News'Force' strong in China on $33m
JANUARY 9 UPDATE: Disney executives issued early estimates on Saturday in what they said would be a record opening day in the territory for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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NewsDisney grossed $5.85bn in 2015
The Walt Disney Studios announced its record-breaking calendar year results as combined grosses for all releases amounted to $5.845bn – the second biggest score ever behind Universal’s $6.88bn from last year.
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News'The Force Awakens' sets biggest third weekend in North America
JANUARY 5 UPDATE: With the North American box office record poised to fall on Tuesday or Wednesday, Disney confirmed that Star Wars: The Force Awakens added $8m on Monday to reach $750.2m following a $90.2m weekend that wiped out Avatar’s $68.5m third-weekend mark from exactly five years ago.
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News'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' scales $1.54bn global
JAN 5 UPDATE: Disney/Lucasfilm’s juggernaut added $14.5m internationally on Monday to reach $786.1m and the global haul climbed by $22.5m to $1.536bn.
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News'The Force Awakens' surges to $1.4bn worldwide
JAN 2 UPDATE: A further estimated $59.5m from the global box office on Friday saw Disney/Lucasfilm’s behemoth reach $1.391bn.
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News'Force Awakens' Disney's biggest North American release
JAN 1 UPDATE: Star Wars: The Force Awakens – already Disney’s biggest film in North America since Thursday – is on the cusp of being crowned the biggest release of 2015.
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NewsGeorge Lucas: 'I sold Star Wars to 'white slavers''
As record-breaking Star Wars: The Force Awakens crossed $1.23bn worldwide the franchise’s creator has made clear his views on the tone of the reboot and selling the property to Disney.
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News‘Force Awakens’ scales $1.3bn global
JANUARY 1 UPDATE: Disney/Lucasfilm’s Star Wars behemoth added $38m worldwide on December 31 to reach $1.33bn and rank as the eighth biggest release of all time.
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News'Force Awakens' adds $149.2m in record North America session
DECEMBER 28 UPDATE: A further confirmed $149.2m boosted Disney-Lucasfilms’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens past the half-billion mark in a huge Christmas weekend session and destroyed the second-weekend record of $106.6m set by Jurassic World back in the summer.
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News'The Force Awakens' targets $1bn by Sunday
DECEMBER 25 UPDATE: Star Wars: The Force Awakens used an estimated $47.6m global take on Thursday as the space opera reached $813.5m worldwide.
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NewsDisney crosses $5bn global mark
Powered over the line by last weekend’s record-breaking debut of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, studio top brass said they were projected to reach the milestone for the first time.
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News'The Force Awakens' hits $529m worldwide
DEC 21 UPDATE: Disney executives confirmed on Monday the space opera had set a new $528.9m global opening record and amassed $281m from its first five international days for the third highest launch in history.
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News'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' hits $310m worldwide
DECEMBER 19 EVENING UPDATE: Disney executives reported on Saturday evening an estimated $60m second-day gross in North America that raised the space opera’s tally heading into Sunday to $180m.
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FeaturesDisney's global 'Star Wars' push
Anticipation has reached fever pitch ahead of this week’s worldwide release of JJ Abrams’ widely admired seventh episode in the space opera - and Disney would not want it any other way.
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NewsCourtney Holt named head of Maker Studios
Disney made the announcement on Tuesday as it appointed Holt evp and head of the digital platform it acquired in 2014 for approximately $500m.
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News'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' eyes box office history
Disney-LucasFilm could be about to rewrite the box office record books with a North American debut that insiders say could reach $220m.
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CommentDisney Japan releases new 'Star Wars' international trailer
Watch the international trailer for the upcoming Star Wars film, which is released Dec 18.
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CommentDisney releases first 'Alice Through The Looking Glass' trailer
The sequel to 2010’s Alice In Wonderland is set for release on May 27 2016.