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Harrison Ford Nets $50 Million From Star Wars

Lucasfilm and related companies have been granted a number of design patents to protect various characters and objects from Star Wars. J J Abrams directed the US$200 million production, overseeing a cast of Star Wars veterans and newcomers.

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The 49-year-old filmmaker – whose “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” opened in cinemas last week – has admitted he’s gutted he didn’t agree to helm the next instalment as well.


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Fresh competition or not, the box office galaxy likely still belongs to Disney’s “The Force Awakens”. The DLC for Star Wars Battlefront might not include content from movies outside of the original trilogy.


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It also reached $300 million by mid-Tuesday, and could even break the record take for that day set by the actual opening of The Amazing Spider-Man, which pulled in $35 million in 2012. The 792 piece set is ideal for hardcore Star Wars fans – those who loved Episode VII and want a complete collection. The only reason why Kylo Ren has any hope of being a worthy successor is because we lose one of the most beloved characters. “It’s very good; very good” she said earlier this month. I’m not sure how much merit this holds as we’ve seen Anakin’s Force Ghost; however, it’s alway possible that Snoke may have a Dark Side power of bringing back the dead (somehow).

And the answer, it seems, is that Disney was so keen to get the promotion campaign rolling, it just grabbed snippets of film without waiting to see whether they made the final cut. As my girlfriend Meghan Hurley, 42, said, “I love the fact that the next Jedi will be a female”.

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He was also upset because the movie was monopolizing the single screen at the Eltrym – the theater wasn’t converted to three screens until the 1990s. “But in comparison to what we can do with this [the hospital], [the premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens] is very trivial”.

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