Jedi performers engage in epic lightsaber challenge at the top of the world’s tallest building - Dubai’s Burj Khalifa

Dubai, 7th April 2016: To celebrate today’s digital release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, two Jedi performers ascended to new heights to engage in an epic lightsaber challenge on the 152nd floor of the iconic Burj Khalifa in Dubai City – the world’s tallest building. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is available to download from iTunes and broadcaster OSN.

Captured on video by an aerial film crew, the two Jedi performers practised a series of complex lightsaber battle moves at a height of over 550m above sea level, while the sun set over Dubai. 

The record-breaking release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens in December 2015 achieved the highest grossing global opening weekend of all time ($528.967M), surpassing $1B in a record 12 days and became the top grossing film of all time in the US, surpassing the $760.5M lifetime gross of Avatar in a record-shattering 20 days of release.
  
As well as becoming the highest grossing film of all time in the US and crossing the $800m mark at the international box office, Star Wars: The Force Awakens has broken a further series of box office records since its global debut on 16 December 2015:

• biggest global IMAX debut ($48M) surpassing $152M in IMAX in a record 19 days
• the highest international debut in December history with $281M,
• #1 in many territories after posting the biggest opening weekend in at least 18 major markets