Duncan Reynolds, Odeon’s managing director, said: “Odeon will become a 24-hour operation for the launch of Star Wars: The Force Awakens – which we expect to become the biggest film of all time, and promises to be a landmark cinematic event”. “We can not make any forecasts regarding a movie’s gross before we have actual numbers”, a spokesperson for WDSSPR told The Hollywood Reporter. Are you as excited as we are for next week’s release? According to a new study by Nielsen (via THR), “Star Wars” fans spend more annually than the average American in a variety of product categories including technology, auto, food and personal care: $4,300 per year for Skywalker nuts vs. $4,100 per year for regular folks.
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The Tasting Table has collected favorite “Star Wars” food pictures from Instagram, from eclairs to cookies and from a Millennium Falcon pie to Chewbacca hash browns and bacon.
Three years later, Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones took in $5.3 million and was in fifth place among the year’s top grossing movies. I can’t even remember when I didn’t know that Darth Vader was Luke Skywalker’s father or that Leia was Luke’s sister.
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It is definitely in the genre thinking but Star Wars is very different than Marvel in that they basically build their stories around characters, and then they seed those characters in different stories.
