Beyond the usual action figures and apparel, the seventh installment in the space franchise (and the first from merchandise-driven Disney) boasts a broader array of branded products than ever before: from Chewbacca Coffee-Mate creamer (Wookiees drink coffee?) and “Star Wars” mascara to $400 designer Death Star shoes and a $4,000 Millennium Falcon bed. What is less clear is what sort of ripple effects the film will have on the wider Hollywood ecosystem around it. Kaling, citing filmmakers’ secretiveness surrounding “The Force Awakens”, asked Kennedy to tell her instead what wasn’t in the flick. “A month earlier, Mitch Albom’s column, titled “‘Star Wars’ Geeks Need to Get A Life”, addressed the “Phantom Menace” not as a film, but as a cultural phenomonen.
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Singer-songwriter Carole King, Star Wars creator George Lucas and actress Cicely Tyson descended on Washington on Sunday to be feted for their contributions to the arts as the latest recipients of the coveted Kennedy Center Honors awards.
“She has paved the way for so many women of color, but also what she stands for is awesome for our nation”, Winans told Billboard.
The conventional wisdom has always been that a major hit movie for one studio is good for the entire industry. However, the reality is that most people like to leave as soon as the lights in the theater come back on.
Count Greg Foster, chief executive of Imax Entertainment and senior executive vice president of the Imax Corp., in this camp.
“I don’t think he’s evil at all”, Driver said. But if youre looking for a little bit more insight into Daisy Ridleys character, Rey, who looks to be one of, if not the main character in the latest Episode, check out this new featurette for a glimpse behind the curtain. “I didn’t have much to think about”. But some have argued the character was actually a powerful adherent of the dark side of the Force. “Star Wars never had like insane violence or anything”, she said. “You get a bump when you’re associated with a victor”.
Expanding the universe of “Star Wars” merchandise internationally was part of Disney’s original vision when it acquired Lucasfilm, he said: “It was very clear from the front, and they have followed their game plan”.
2015 Honoree George Lucas & wife Mellody Hobson arrives.
Ford, who infamously wanted George Lucas to kill off Solo in “Return of the Jedi”, had a “why not?” attitude about suiting back up as Solo. “This is a a movie about human beings, about Wookiees, spaceships and TIE fighters”. It has been ripped off 1,000 times since.
“They decided they were going to do their own thing so I decided, “fine….”
The Redditor’s best guess was that Jar Jar would be revealed to be the mysterious new villain Supreme Leader Snoke, played by Andy Serkis in “The Force Awakens”.
“They have a way to directly talk to the consumer, to the fan”, Foster said. Then you see it and you’re in denial of how bad a movie it is.
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In addition, according to NME, Harrison Ford has also confirmed seeing the movie and referred to it as “really big”.
