The Force is about to be with us.
With just four days until “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” flies into theaters, ticket sales have taken off at the speed of light.
The Disney film accounts for 87% of all ticket sales on MovieTickets.com over the past 24 hours, according to data from the site.
The online ticket seller also reported that “Force Awakens” has sold more than double the number of advance tickets than Marvel’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron” and 20% more than Universal’s “Jurassic World” at the same point in those film’s sales period on the site.
This is an important figure seeing that “Force Awakens” has its targeting computer set on the biggest box office opening in U.S. history, a record that “Jurassic World” set with a $208.8 million debut in June.
Currently, analysts have “Force Awakens” projected for a $200 million to $220 million opening this weekend.
While the buzz for the film has been positive, the pressure is on director J.J. Abrams to deliver a film that pleases both fans and the House of Mouse. Disney bought the production company behind “Star Wars,” Lucasfilm, in 2012 for $4 billion.
“Oh, J.J. is terrified,” director and friend of Abrams Steven Spielberg told 60 Minutes on Sunday. “There’s a lot of pressure on J.J. to start paying Disney back for, you know, the franchise they bought from George Lucas.”
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” hits our galaxy on December 18.
