However, fans were left disappointed at one cinema in Perth after the midnight screening was cancelled just an hour into the film. It is also the newest addition to the space opera in a decade.
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“The Star Wars buildup has been one of the biggest ones I can remember”, said Roland Gau, Assistant Professor of marketing for the University of Texas at El Paso. “I’m very proud of it, thank you”.
Excitement was even more apparent for the next trilogy of “Star Wars” prequels, beginning with “The Phantom Menace” in 1999.
Pictured at the Irish premier of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” at Savoy Cinema are Minister of State for the Diaspora Jimmy Deenihan TD and Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Heather Humphreys TD.
“There honestly were a few moments where I was looking at what we were doing from the outside in and just started sweating”.
Teacher Stephen Dick, 25, said: “I’ve got work tomorrow but it’s totally worth it, staying up this late”.
The official Star Wars app has a Google Cardboard VR experience called Jakku Spy, featuring BB-8 among other Force Awakens cameos.
“The burning question for me is ‘Who is Kylo Ren?'”, he continued. As a kid, you know, I played with Luke Skywalker and Chewbacca and C-3PO and all those.
At 2 p.m. Wednesday, the 47-year-old amateur comedian stood first in line outside of AMC Theaters in Newport to see the film again – along with the six sequels it spawned over more than 38 years.
Here’s what I can tell you.
Most premiere show times are sold out at theaters across the Valley.
Before the film: It’s got the Millennium Falcon in it, so you can’t lose.
The American Film Institute’s top films of the year are selected by critics, scholars, TV and film artists and AFI trustees, and come on the heels of this year’s Golden Globe and Screen Actor’s Guild (SAG) nominations.
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The timing is probably right for a new female superhero, now that Jennifer Lawrence has wound up her stint as the archer Katniss Everdeen in “The Hunger Games” movies.
