‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Box Office Breaks Records; Fans Beat Up People Who Spoil!
Fanboys and the world itself was in a euphoric state once "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" was released in theaters recently, which immediately broke box office records and amassed numerous reports and rumors of people getting arrested and/or beaten for spoiling the movie, according to sources.
It has been reported that the latest movie of the franchise's iconic saga, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," has earned a box office hit of $40.1 million solely on its first weekday, which obliterated the 10-year Monday record held by the movie "Spider-Man 2" at $27.7 million, as stated by Forbes.
The J.J. Abram's movie "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" has also garnered itself numerous box office records when it reached its global cumulative audience to $610.1 million worldwide and becoming the 102nd biggest movie to gross of all time worldwide and the 68th largest grossing movie in the US, courtesy of the source.
Moreover, it was estimated that the movie "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" will only take nine days to cross the $500 million box office mark, while it took "Jurassic World" seventeen days to do so, as reported by the Box Office Mojo.
With the space-frenzy brought about by the movie, rumors have also speculated of fans beating a man to death for spoiling "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" at theaters, as stated by the Inquisitr.
The rumor has it that a 20-year old man by the name of Raymond Chatfield was reportedly assaulted by fans donned as a Stormtrooper, Chewbacca, and Boba Fett, after the former walked out of the theater and shouted out major spoilers in the movie, courtesy of the source.
In recent news, it was reported that a 22-year old New Jersey man, Jesse Carol, was arrested and charged with two counts of second-degree public false alarms when he forced a Freehold movie theater to be evacuated twice due to false bomb threats, which at that time included a screening of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" on Friday morning, according to NBC New York.
In addition, an 18-year old Montana man, Arthur Charles Roy, was arrested and charged with felony assault with a weapon when he threatened to shoot a boy for spoiling a subplot in the movie "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" during an online conversation, where he then sent a photo of him brandishing a Colt 191 gun with a "hair trigger" that was claimed by his mother to be a BB gun, as reported by Fox News.
