

Duncan Reynolds, managing director of Odeon, said: “Star Wars has broken all our records and it looks phenomenal." A spokesman for the chain said that it was selling tickets at a rate of one per second. Odeon, the nation’s largest cinema chain, said that it had sold more than 700,000 Star Wars tickets, including more than 60,000 fans who booked into 113 different cinemas at midnight. The film, which many experts think will become the biggest-grossing movie of all time, goes on general release in Britain on Thursday. The first reviews of the science fiction film were published at 8am on Wednesday, after months of secrecy, with film critics giving the latest outing in the franchise a universal thumbs-up. Patrick Foster Media Correspondent: Tickets for Star Wars: The Force Awakens are selling at a rate of one per second, Britain’s leading cinema chain has said, as more than 100,000 fans booked into midnight screenings of the film.Ĭinemas across the country will throw open their doors at 12.01am on Thursday, hours after end of the film's central London premiere. Star Wars: The Force Awakens tickets are selling at the rate of one per second
