{"id":129232,"date":"2015-12-20T16:53:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T23:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/20\/the-force-awakens-does-boffo-box-office.html"},"modified":"2015-12-25T16:31:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-25T23:31:04","slug":"the-force-awakens-does-boffo-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/20\/the-force-awakens-does-boffo-box-office.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;The Force Awakens&quot; does boffo box office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The movie had great word of mouth before and during the previews, which definitely helped. And the word of mouth from this weekend will definitely drive those numbers upward.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Terence Towles Canote<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Not surprisingly, <i>Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/i>  did well at the box office.  <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23starwars\">#starwars<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/screenrant.com\/star-wars-7-box-office-records-opening-weekend\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/dbKUHNpP_ApoGE9u93peY6g6MWwKx4g59ayxoWIsKgZC1-Ibbv1V5H3e4aK3wGH4m_YcjEfpB64jmVCu97kUrL3LvcAPYOC2R8akc-fYjfgNeB_O-xsf3A9R5AMzz7z5nTEbqnir_XJXDJMDcg=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/screenrant.com\/star-wars-7-box-office-records-opening-weekend\/'>Star Wars 7 Breaks Major Box Office Records<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nStar Wars: The Force Awakens has broken several major box office records, including biggest domestic opening weekend of all-time.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/2cG6bLGV843'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The movie had great word of mouth before and during the previews, which definitely helped. And the word of mouth from this weekend will definitely drive those numbers upward. Originally shared by +Terence Towles Canote: Not surprisingly, Star Wars: The Force Awakens did well at the box office. #starwars Star Wars 7 Breaks Major Box &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/20\/the-force-awakens-does-boffo-box-office.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&quot;The Force Awakens&quot; does boffo box office&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,372],"tags":[264],"class_list":["post-129232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-star-wars-media-movies","tag-starwars"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135040,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/09\/first-last-jedi-trailer-finally-dropped.html","url_meta":{"origin":129232,"position":0},"title":"The first &#8220;The Last Jedi&#8221; trailer has finally dropped","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 9-Oct-17 10:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So this looks like ... well, a continuation of The Force Awakens, except we already know all the characters and can just go right to it. 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