Jedi Performers Engage in Epic Lightsaber Challenge at the Top of the World's Tallest Building - Dubai's Burj Khalifa - as Star Wars: The Force Awakens Becomes Available for Digital Download

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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 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 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, has broken a further series of box office records since its global debut on 16 December 2015 :

The Middle East has a strong connection to filming took place in two locations in Abu Dhabi during May 2014 .  Abu Dhabi is the location used for Jakku, a frontier desert planet in a remote section of the Outer Rim Territories 

The film stars Harrison Ford , Mark Hamill , Carrie Fisher , Adam Driver , Daisy Ridley , John Boyega, Oscar Isaac , Lupita Nyong 'o, Andy Serkis , Domhnall Gleeson , Anthony Daniels , Peter Mayhew and Max Von Sydow . Kathleen Kennedy, J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk are producing with Tommy Harper and Jason McGatlin serving as executive producers. The screenplay is by Lawrence Kasdan & J.J. Abrams and Michael Arndt . 

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