While Star Wars: The Force Awakens doesn’t open for another month, the film has already set a box office record with $50 million in ticket sales.
Sources told The Wall Street Journal on Thursday that The Force Awakens has made $50 million already. The film has already set the record for pre-sale tickets on Fandango and an IMAX spokesman confirmed that it has already grossed $9 million from IMAX tickets alone.
With numbers like these, many are expecting the film to break the opening weekend box office record, notes The Hollywood Reporter. Jurassic World holds the current record, opening with $208.8 million over the summer.
The anticipation for the film could not be higher. Disney said that last month’s final theatrical trailer scored 112 million views in just 24 hours. And even though many tickets are still available, screenings at odd times have been added at many theaters in the U.S.
There is one record that The Force Awakens might not be able to reach: Avatar’s $2.79 billion worldwide total. That film caught on in China, where the previous Star Wars films didn’t do so well. If The Force Awakens can’t light up the box office there and in other countries where Star Wars still isn’t big, the film won’t pass Avatar.
The Force Awakens opens on Dec. 18 and will open in many outside territories on the same day.