Star Wars: The Complete Saga Breaks All Previous Worldwide Sales Records

Star Wars: The Complete Saga has become the fastest selling video boxset of all time.

Despite calls from fans to boycott the release - in protest at further changes made to the six-film-long series by George Lucas - the boxset sold one million copies through pre-order worldwide, earning Lucasfilm a very tidy sum of $84 million.

Kayleen Walters, Senior Director of Marketing for Lucasfilm, said in a statement: "Once again our fan’s enthusiasm to celebrateStars Wars continues to amaze us. Our goal was to deliver a premium product that they could enjoy with their family and friends and we are thrilled that they are enjoying it as much as we hoped they would."

Representative for Twenieth Century Fox, Mary Daily and Vincent Marcais added to the statement: "Star Wars is a franchise with universal stories that resonates as much today as it did 30 years ago. With the Blu-ray, audiences can go deeper into the mythology than ever before and reconnect with everything they love about the Saga in the best possible quality."

The boxset features Episodes I-VI, as well as a wealth of commentaries, making-of documentaries, retrospectives, interviews and much more.

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