While Star Wars did not receive any Globe or SAG nominations, likely due to the fact that voters would not have seen the film, which has been shrouded in secrecy, its AFI nomination makes it a potential contender for February’s Oscars ceremony.
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Boyega said: “We are Londoners”.
“It’s like coming home to an event we’ve done for the last 40 years, but this is the biggest by far”. Usually, my dad sleeps in movie theaters (hahaha); he’s the kind of person who can sleep anytime and anywhere.
“I love how watching the saga became a bonding activity for my family when I was growing up”.
Disney said in August it plans to build “Star Wars” lands at its California Disneyland and Florida Walt Disney World parks, with new attractions celebrating the franchise.
Andy Burrows, deputy manager at Springfield Quay, said: “I think yesterday we were selling tickets every one and a half seconds in the UK”.
“But I’m really looking forward to it”.
Brogan Wilson, 20, attended the screening dressed as Rey, one of the new characters played by fresh-faced Daisy Ridley, and has said that the film was “the best one yet”.
Recalling the night the “Star Wars” pair came to his restaurant, manager Prosper Djoufak, 34, told The Standard: “I didn’t recognize him”.
It will feature almost 20 hours of Star Wars movies, but that doesn’t mean that participants will have to subsist exclusively on popcorn and nachos.
Outside the Savoy cinema, the Spire was transformed into a giant blue lightsaber to mark the return of Jedi knight Luke Skywalker to the big screen after more than three decades.
“It never gets old, it’s hard to believe the excitement after all of these years”, he said.
Pavlovic says his favorite film of the series in Empire Strikes Back.
They cheered as a procession of stormtroopers, led by Darth Vader, marched down the red carpet before the stars arrived.
Adam Driver is the dark and mysterious Kylo Ran.
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Lightsabers are also OK but they must be turned off by the time the movie starts.
