World At A Glance

Menacing record

LOS ANGELES: The latest installment in the Star Wars saga has become the first movie to earn more than 100 million at the box office in the first five days of its release, according to released industry estimates. Episode I: The Phantom Menace opened on Wednesday in 2,970 movie theatres in the US, earning 102.75 million so far, said Exhibitor Relations, which tracks box office sales. The George Lucas film also set a record for opening-day sales, bringing in 28.5 million in its first 24 hours, distributor 20th Century Fox said. The previous one-day record was set at 26.1 million in 1997 by The Lost World: Jurassic Park. The dinosaur flick took six days to break the 100-million mark.