Movie pirates break records for stolen previews of latest Hollywood movies

Tuesday, December 29, 2015 - 07:00 in Mathematics & Economics

Hollywood has broken two very different records this holiday season. Star Wars: The Force Awakens has become the first movie to reach US $1 billion in gross sales in just 12 days. This beats the previous record of the movie "Jurassic World" which had the additional benefit of sales from the world's second biggest market, China. Star Wars opens in China in January and so it will likely push its sales to even more astronomical levels.

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