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Opening night of Walt Disney Pictures And Lucasfilm's "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" at the Brenden Theatres inside Palms Casino Resort on December 17, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ethan Miller--Getty Images by [Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly Dec 23, 2015 7:01 PM UTC It’s not exactly making the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, but _Star Wars: The Force Awakens_ has set another speed record of its own. As of Tuesday, _The Force Awakens_ has made an estimated $325.4 million domestically in five days, making it the fastest movie in history to hit $300 million. That’s another record that [_The Force Awakens_has stolen from _Jurassic World_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/12/21/star-wars-force-awakens-jurassic-world-box-office-congratulations), which previously reached $300 million in eight days. An estimated $37.3 million of _The Force Awakens’_ total came in on Tuesday alone, shattering another record for the biggest Tuesday gross of all time. The previous record holder, _The Amazing Spider-Man_, made $35 million. _The Force Awakens’_ $325 million domestic total means that in five days, it has already made more money than most of the other _Star Wars_ movies made during their entire theatrical run. _The Force Awakens_had already passed up _The Empire Strikes Back_ and_Return of the Jedi,_ but now, unadjusted for inflation, it’s pulled ahead of both the original _Star Wars_ ($307.3 million) and_Attack of the Clones_ ($302.2 million). Internationally, _The Force Awakens_ has raked in an estimated $364 million_,_ which brings its global total to $689.4 million. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/12/23/star-wars-force-awakens-hits-300-million-record-time) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://ew.com)_._ ## Transcript If you would have told me a couple weeks ago that I was touched by a robot I would have laughed, I think they scare me more than anything else. Well, when I met BB- 8, it's even weird to say that, when I met BB- 8, whoever designed that thing They are geniuses. Hello. They almost build up some form of real human connection. It has an eye, one eye. It has this really cute way of looking at you. It's just incredible. As a result, the photo of course brings over that character. [ MUSIC ] You get almost starstruck when you meet R2- D2. You have seen that thing since the beginning of my life almost. It was really special. My name is Marco Grab. I'm a photographer. I'm contract photographer for Time Magazine. And I had the honor to photograph all the cast members of the new Star Wars movie. [ MUSIC ] When I got this assignment, I kinda had to think of how I wanna do justice to every single person and then still within the legacy of Star Wars. After all, it's about the actors more than about the characters they play in the film. [ MUSIC ] At the last. Let it go. I like to play with psychological barriers often. Not to expose them at all. It's more how is it to be so close to Harrison Ford? And in order to show the person that looks at the photograph, I have to be physically so close to Harrison Ford. That is the one chance photography has to show us something we would not have normally access to. [ MUSIC ] So we have all a built in default position for how far we wanna stand in front of somebody to have a conversation with him or her. And if you go closer than that, that always results in some form of reaction. It's somewhat going into their defense sphere. It makes people extremely vulnerable. I kind of like to play with that sometimes. To photograph Daisy and John, the youngest of the two actors, They have more attention right now then probably any other actor has or will have in the next couple years. It showed when you worked with them they were very open and giving and it was fun to work with them, and it's also nice to be there in a very specifically important time in their life. For me Star Wars is hundreds of people trying to push the envelope. People take enormous risks in creative and in technical aspects to do things we've never seen before. In a way nobody would have imagined to ever seen. That is for me the most important about it because I love when people take leaps into the unknown. [ UNKNOWN ] touches millions, millions of lives over the next decades. 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