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Sunday, 19 May, 2002, 19:55 GMT 20:55 UK
Box office feels Star Wars' Force
![]() Star Wars features Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen
The new Star Wars film has taken United States box offices by storm - but failed to break the record for the most successful opening of all time.
It recorded the third highest total for a film's first weekend - behind Spider-Man and the Harry Potter movie.
The totals could be seen as a blow to George Lucas' Star Wars franchise - but it has been showing on fewer screens than Spider-Man was when it opened. Star Wars: Episode II - The Attack of the Clones has now taken a total of $116.3m (£79.8m) in the US and Canada since being released on Thursday. The fifth instalment in the cult Star Wars series that began in 1977, it was one of the most hotly-anticipated films of the year.
But that film still went on to be the fourth most successful movie in US cinema history, earning $431m (£296m). The Attack of the Clones was showing on about 6,000 screens across the country - 1,500 less than Spider-Man when that film opened two weeks earlier. Spider-Man is still attracting cinema-goers, setting a new record for a film in its third weekend.
Hugh Grant's latest film, About A Boy, which has become the most successful British film of the year in the UK, found it hard to compete with the blockbusters in the US. It took $8.4m (£5.8m) in its opening weekend, just behind Richard Gere's Unfaithful, with $10.3m (£7.1m). The Attack of the Clones will have taken millions more in ticket receipts elsewhere around the world, but those figures have not yet been released. |
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