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In The FOXlight – Star Wars Edition (No Spoilers!)

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As always, we’ll avoid spoilers as we chat about the highlights, but note this time we’re being extra cautious.


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Disney and Lucasfilm have put out the first critics TV spot for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.


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However, given where The Force Awakens is now at, analysts are predicting that it could finish off this weekend at 0 million. But it carried just 757 theaters, paling in comparison to The Force Awakens’ 4,134 screens-including many in IMAX and 3D.

The Force Awakens additionally set a brand new Sun. box workplace record, raising 60.5 million dollars. There’s nothing you can learn from reading this. You don’t want to know the premise. And this time the CGI is done well in addition to the stunning visuals of new planets and locations in the star wars universe. As well, Trevorrow is about to direct Show star Wars: Episode IX.

The salaries don’t include back-end bonuses from the pic’s box office haul that in a rare case doesn’t even kick in till the film crosses $1 billion worldwide, and following the success of “The Force Awakens”, deals are expected to be renegotiated before the next films get underway. No more senate meetings or Jedi council chambers. This next chapter takes place outdoors where it belongs, with rubbish-ships and impossible odds. He starts this list with some afterthoughts to his review, but by clicking on the sides of the picture below you can slide through them all to see our general reception of the film.

There’s a certain amount of credibility “The Force Awakens” is granted because, well, that’s Han Solo standing next to the Millennium Falcon again, for crying out loud. He also thanked them for supporting the film.

John Williams is back – which means the music is exactly ideal.

Variety goes on to report that Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher were both paid low-seven-figure salaries, with Adam Driver and Oscar Isaac receiving mid-to-high-six-figures, and John Boyega and Daisy Ridley earning between $100,000 and $300,000. Rey is a scavenger on the dessert planet Jakku who is waiting for the return of her parents after being left there years ago, but a chance meeting with the droid BB-8 leads her on an adventure in the wider galaxy.

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Opening at midnight on Wednesday, fans flocked to cinemas to be the first to see the hugely anticipated next episode in the Star Wars saga which took €13,236,480 million on its opening day setting a new Ireland and United Kingdom industry record. “Bum, bum, da da da da da…” In my personal rankings, I’d slot it third, behind The Empire Strikes Back (for originality, script, that reveal and more) and the original Star Wars (for being the originator and its overall cultural impact).

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