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The Walt Disney Co. on Monday reported final weekend numbers for the superhero smash at $ 257.7 million in U.S. and Canadian theaters, further boosting the film's record - breaking opening weekend.

«After achieving its historic opening weekend at the global box office, Star Wars: The Force Awakens continues to thrill audiences and break records in Imax theatres worldwide,» said Greg Foster, CEO of Imax Entertainment.

All this sets up The Force Awakens — the seventh chapter in the Star Wars franchise that takes place 30 years after The Return of the Jedi — to break the record for the highest grossing opening weekend at the box office.

Seven movies later, the franchise is hotter than ever pulling in record numbers at the box office in its opening weekend.

The movie also broke the record for the largest pre-summer opening day ($ 82 million), the largest opening in the month of March (beating «The Hunger Games,» $ 152 million) and the largest opening ever for Easter weekend (beating «Furious 7,» $ 147 million).

Paramount's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot was one of August's surprise successes with $ 149.6 million in ticket sales, while The Walt Disney Company (DIS) scored the hit of the summer with Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, which broke the opening - weekend box - office record for August on its way to grossing $ 258 million in the U.S. and more than $ 500 million worldwide within less than a month of its release.

The film surpassed Frozen's record of $ 67.4 million to earn the biggest debut ever for a non-Pixar Disney animated film, and it also scored the fourth - highest March opening weekend in box office history.

A few weeks ago, the superhero movie Deadpool grossed $ 132 million at the domestic box office on its opening weekend, setting a record for R - rated premieres — and dousing its $ 58 million budget in black ink.

The movie took in an estimated $ 85.3 million, according to Exhibitor Relations, setting the record for the biggest - ever R - rated opening weekend at the box office in March.

Walt Disney's «Avengers: Infinity War» set new records for the biggest domestic and global opening of all time this weekend, collecting an estimated $ 250 million in the U.S. and Canada and $ 630 million around the world.

Black Panther entered the fray with a record breaking President's Day weekend opening of $ 242 million in domestic box office sales.

Apple says preorders for its latest iPhones will surpass the record its previous iPhone 6 and 6 Plus devices set last year when they sold 10 million units in its opening weekend.

A largely unknown story outside of teen reader circles, it has become a juggernaut, breaking records for advance cinema booking, recording the biggest opening weekend for a non-sequel in Box Office history, and grossing double its substantial budget within a week.

In it's first weekend, Star Wars: The Force Awakens has completely obliterated records for opening week...

That system went 6 - 5 ATS in the opening weekend, pushing the overall record to 86 - 59 ATS (59.2 %).

Arsenal have missed a couple of opportunities in the last couple of weeks where they could have opened up a small gap at the top of the Premier League, but thanks to Jamie Vardy breaking the Premiership record by scoring in 11 games in a row and also to Bastian Schweinsteiger for getting his first goal for Man United, Arsenal now have a valid chance to go top again this weekend.

Away from home in the Premier League this season Burnley have picked up a great W2 D2 record for them, including a shock win at Chelsea on the opening weekend of the season and a win at Goodison Park against Everton recently.

Newcastle have produced a good W3 D1 L1 record so far on home soil this term, the only reverse in that sequence game against Spurs on the opening weekend of action.

That's the second - biggest opening weekend on record, behind only the $ 247.9 m Fri - Sun launch of The Force Awakens on this weekend back in 2015.

This movie is going to break weekend records in every urban area of the U.S.A. Every black man and woman — and their kids, grandparents, uncles and aunts — are selling out theaters in advance of Friday's opening.

So far «Deadpool» has broken three box office records: Biggest opening weekend in February, Biggest opening weekend in the winter and biggest opening weekend for an R - rated film.

Following a record $ 20.1 million opening weekend in China, Illumination Entertainment's «Minions» has pushed past «Toy Story 3» to become the second - highest grossing animated film of all time.

The film raked in $ 155 million in the US in its opening weekend, breaking box office records for biggest nonsummer and biggest nonsequel debut for a feature film.

Walt Disney Pictures and Lucasfilm «s Star Wars: The Last Jedi drew in a near - record $ 220 million in the domestic box office, the second - highest opening weekend of all time behind 2015's Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

After its massive record - breaking opening weekend, Marvel Studios» Black Panther stayed king, earning an astonishing $ 108 million in its second weekend.

Already, the leading exhibitor AMC is reporting that 33 venues have already set admissions - revenue records for a single title on an opening weekend in play at the chain, and Saturday isn't even over yet.

New Line Cinema's Stephen King adaptation «It» floated to the top spot in this weekend's box office charts, breaking the record for the largest opening of a horror movie ever, and blowing past analysts» $ 55 - million projections to the tune of $ 117...

Roadside Attractions opened Sally Potter's black - and - white dramedy The Party in three locations Friday, taking in $ 36,344 and recording the second - highest per theater average of the weekend.

According Box Office Pro, Deadpool 2 set a new record for an R - rated movie opening overseas this weekend with an estimated $ 176.3 million, which is $ 44 million more than its predecessor made in its foreign debut.

Black Panther is now in theaters and set to have a record - breaking opening weekend.

And even if it hits $ 100 million in its opening weekend, there's a long way to go before the Wakandan gets close to breaking Deadpool's February record of $ 132.4 million.

MGM / Lionsgate's release of Pantelion Fims» Overboard remake exceeded weekend estimates for second place and earned a record - setting total for Pantelion as the highest - grossing opening in their eight - year history on the strength of the film's A - CinemaScore and strong word of mouth.

It may or may not correlate to actual box - office performance come opening weekend, but Deadline reports that ticket presales for Marvel's Black Panther have already outpaced previous record holder Captain America: Civil War for Fandango's fastest - selling MCU title in the first 24 hours.

In that time, it has smashed several major box office records, including best domestic opening weekend box office ($ 250 million) and the worldwide opening record ($ 630 million), among others.

The movie shattered the record for biggest R - rated opening weekend with $ 132.4 million, which also marked the best debut in the history of 20th Century Fox.

The director not only unveiled his latest movie, «Moonrise Kingdom,» at the Cannes Film Festival, it opened this weekend in limited release to staggering, record - breaking numbers, boasting the highest per - screen averages in history.

Black Panther (one of the characters offered to Sony in that deal) opens this weekend is eyeing at a domestic opening of between $ 150 - 170 million which aims to break multiple box office records.

Just remember Avatar, Titanic and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy — marathon runners that didn't break the opening weekend records, but resulted in greatest runs in cinematic history.

A third instalment in the record - breaking animated franchise Hotel Transylvania hasn't officially been announced just yet but with the second movie taking in over $ 48 million in its opening weekend, it seems likely that Sony will want to cash in on a trilogy and confirm details sooner rather than later.

Deadpool 2 made its box office weight in chimichangas this weekend, nearly breaking the R - rated opening weekend record.

And now that it's finally out, it's breaking even more records in its opening weekend.

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With Infinity War boasting a record - breaking opening weekend, it'll certainly have staying power in cinemas, which means that we don't know when more details about its sequel will arrive.

Rebecca Ferguson was the first to sign on for Daniel Espinosa «s sci - fi thriller Life, hot on the heels of her breakout role in Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation, and Ryan Reynolds «casting was revealed just days after Deadpool «s record - breaking opening weekend.

Even $ 200 million may be a little timid, considering Black Panther shattered records in February with a $ 202 million haul in its opening weekend (the film has grossed nearly $ 1.3 billion to date).

Other records the film has broken include the fact that it also had the biggest opening weekend collection in the US.

After a near record - breaking opening weekend in China, Avengers: Infinity War is now the fifth - highest grossing movie of all time and the 11th highest - grossing film of all time and the highest - grossing superhero movie ever with over $ 1.6 billion in global gross.

Other records broken include those of the biggest opening for an African - American director, the top - scoring superhero film on Rotten Tomatoes (97 percent) and the biggest February bow, supplanting previous champ Deadpool, which took in $ 152.2 million over the four - day Presidents» Day weekend in 2016.

It's also the highest opening of all time for a film in February, as well as a film released over President's Day weekend, handily crushing the $ 152 million record previously set by Deadpool.

After the record - breaking, critical acclaim - nabbing and audience - thrilling success of «Wonder Woman» finally gave female filmgoers a superhero in their own image, Marvel Studios» «Black Panther» — starring a black superhero and boasting a largely black cast — opened this weekend to record - breaking, critical acclaim - nabbing and audience - thrilling success.