this is my house. i have to defend it. that did not sound right. all right. i m not sure if you could pick up the subtle difference there in that. we re joined now by a correspondent for fan dango and judy gold and, guys, i want your thoughts on so much to do with the box office. i ll start with you. disney s encanto led the box office available only in theaters not on streaming service. it has been two years into this pandemic. how is business in hollywood adapting? are the studios managing to convince audiences to get off their couches and return to theaters? if so how are they doing it? business is not just back but back in a big way.
don t give biden any victories because if he pulls off a bipartisan infrastructure bill, it will be a very big deal and i ll leave out the other word joe biden likes to use because this is a family program. norm, massive majority of republican voters in that poll want the bipartisan infrastructure bill. so, you know, i ve been a skeptic in part because we ve been through this faux fan dango over the affordable care act where republicans grassley and yenzy stretched it out with no intention of reaching a deal and we saw it on a tax package with biden in his second term with some of these same republicans. but i think this has been handled beautifully by the president and by chuck schumer and democrats. remember that republicans opposed in unison the american
blockbuster. as of wednesday more than $100 million in tickets have been sold ahead of friday s opening. fan dango says the force awakens accounts for 91% of all of its sales, shannon. do you have your ticket? that s you know, i don t. i m not a star wars gal. don t hate me, everybody. may the force be with them. landon, thank you very much. sports now, legend calling it quits. abby walk back in her 184 goal, the most in international play for men or women, she walked off the pitch for the final time against china. in the game s 71st minute. the 35-year-old called it a career as china went on to win 1-0. wambach helped lead the u.s. to 2015 women s world cup title. she also owns two olympic gold medals and is a six-time u.s. female soccer athlete of the year. she ll be sorely missed. to the nba we go. golden state s clay thompson scored 27 of his 43 points in the third quarter. as golden state bounced back from their only season loss to defeat phoenix 128-103.
who are you? and the force is strong with the upcoming star wars sequel the first full length trailer released last night to awaiting fans during monday night football. the buzz causing the film to shatter ticket sales records. theater across the country already sold out. two popular ticketing websites, movie tickets.com and fan dango crashed because of web traffic. september 18th. and that s tonight s speed read. and khloe kardashian breaking her silence over her
tickets, that websites crashed. fannedango was one of the sites that got overrun by fans. eric davis joins me now. fan dango, nbc news, both owned by comcast. welcome in your star wars shirt. show that off for a second. rocking it out today. there we go. old school. the site crashed because so many people want to see this movie. do i need to how am i going to get tickets? you know what i think it was. there was an unprecedented demand for tickets. you didn t see this coming? to give you an example, the hunger games, back in 2012, is the previous single day record holders for advance ticket sales. we sold eight times as many tickets for star wars the force awakens. so home so far? eight times as many. so it s shattering records.