BNE: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, the sixth and final installment of the Star Wars series, has broken almost all box office records in its opening four days. It became the first movie to rake in more than $50 million on its opening day. Industry analysts have described this as “staggering”. Avid fans, many in full Star Wars regalia, waited for hours for initial screenings across the U.S. Tickets went on sale at one minute past midnight in the more than 9,000 theaters that screened the movie. “Sith” also set the record for the biggest global debut ever, a simultaneous release in 104 countries.

Even though “Sith” earned $108 million in weekend sales, it failed to topple Spiderman as the biggest weekend earner of all time. Spiderman netted an impressive $114 million in 2002. Still, it does make the new Star Wars blockbuster only the second movie in cinema history to earn more than $100 million in a weekend. Putting things into perspective, that is double the earnings of the final Lord of the Rings movie. Episode III easily surpassed takings of the preceding two Star Wars movies. Attack of the Clones pulled in $80 million on its opening week