People lined up all week just to see, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” The film set a box-office record for a new movie over the weekend. Star Wars sold almost $250-million in tickets since it opened Thursday night, beating the record set over the summer by “Jurassic World.” Around the world, the movie set a record with $529 million in ticket sales. It is an impressive number, considering the film does not open in China until January. The Chinese market added $90 million to “Jurassic World’s” sales, and “Star Wars” should reach at least that number. One media analyst called the opening “the Super Bowl, the World Series and the Kentucky Derby all rolled into one perfectly realized movie event.” Most fans and reviewers were happy with the film, giving it a 94 percent “fresh” score on the website RottenTomatoes.com. Even Hillary Clinton got in on the Star Wars frenzy. At the debate among Democratic presidential candidates Saturday, she ended with “may the force be with you.” That is possibly the most famous line from all the Star Wars movies.
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the record set over the summer by “Jurassic World.”</span> <span data-start-time='19208' data-end-time='26208'>Around the world, the movie set a record with $529 million in ticket sales. </span> <span data-start-time='26208' data-end-time='31708'>It is an impressive number, considering the film does not open in China until January.</span> <span data-start-time='31708' data-end-time='39396'>The Chinese market added $90 million to “Jurassic World’s” sales, and “Star Wars” should reach at least that number.</span> <span data-start-time='39396' data-end-time='50833'>One media analyst called the opening “the Super Bowl, the World Series and the Kentucky Derby all rolled into one perfectly realized movie event.”</span> <span data-start-time='50833' data-end-time='60479'>Most fans and reviewers were happy with the film, giving it a 94 percent “fresh” score on the website RottenTomatoes.com.</span> <span data-start-time='60479' data-end-time='63854'>Even Hillary Clinton got in on the Star Wars frenzy. </span> <span data-start-time='63854' data-end-time='71500'>At the debate among Democratic presidential candidates Saturday, she ended with “may the force be with you.” </span> <span data-start-time='71500' data-end-time='76250'>That is possibly the most famous line from all the Star Wars movies.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/703/star_image.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question 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