"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is undoubtedly a major box office hit, breaking record highs with approximately $247 million in its opening weekend alone. According to Variety, the seventh "Star Wars" installment outperformed previous box office hit record holders like "Jurassic World" with its $208.8 million opening weekend from this summer and "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" with its $84.6 million upon opening in December 2012.
On the other hand, Variety has noted that "The Force Awakens" has yet to beat "Jurassic World's" Global box office earnings with its $517 million worldwide sales against "Jurassic World's" $525 million. It's not yet too late for "The Force Awakens" as it has yet to open in China.
It totally makes sense that "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" should be at all cost a top grosser especially if the movie has one very big pay check to give one of its actors. The highest earner in this "Star Wars" movie is none other than Harrison Ford who, according to The Guardian, was given a huge sum of $34 million. Some would surely wonder why Ford got the biggest cut. According to Variety, the reason was because [SPOILERS] he was killed off in the movie.
On the other hand, Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) and Carrie Fisher (Leia Organa), two of the main stars from the original "Star Wars" reportedly received a "low-seven-figure range," according to GameSpot. As for the supporting actors, supporting actors Adam Driver and Oscar Isaac reportedly were given "mid-to-high-six figures," while the two young stars, John Boyega and Daisy Ridley got somewhere between $100,000 and $300,000.
Those figures do not yet include other percentage deals based on the film's profits. The younger actors will receive a cut when the film reaches $1 billion in worldwide earnings. It has also been said that Fisher and Hamill's salaries will be bigger in the next film as their roles grow bigger.
