New ‘Star Wars’ breaks pre-ticket sales record

Star Wars: The Force Awakens is generating “unprecedented ticketing demand,” according to the nation’s largest online ticket seller, breaking the previous first-day ticket sales record held by The Hunger Games. “For Star Wars, we have already sold eight times as many tickets as we did on the first day of sales for the previous record holder,” the company said. The film is highly anticipated, with its movie trailer having been viewed over 15 million times.