Guess what? There’s already a domestic box office gross out on Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Imax is reporting $6.5M in domestic ticket sales, with pre-sales breaking every Imax record. The film is set to open in about 390 Imax screens in North America. What did Force Awakens beat? We’re told that The Dark Knight Rises, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Avengers were in the same $1M reported pre-sales range.
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Advance tickets sales for Disney’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens are blowing up advance ticket records for a number of online retailers. Fandango reported earlier this morning that Star Wars: The Force Awakens is outstripping pre-sales for the first Hunger Games, which holds the company’s first day pre-sales record. Now AMC Theaters says that the JJ Abrams’ directed film set a single-day advance ticket sales record for the exhibitor, beating the previous record by more than 10X. In less than 12 hours, AMC sold out more than 1,000 shows nationwide.