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JJ Abrams talks missing trailer scenes from Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Although U.K.-based Urns for Ashes introduced the items well before the latest wave of Star Wars mania swept across the globe, CNET reports the company has seen inquiries rocket by 300 percent ahead of The Force Awakens.

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Abrams will still cast a Supreme Leader Snoke-sized shadow over the two remaining installments of the new “Star Wars” trilogy as a producer. If you think they turned that ship around, just wait, the Star Wars series will be even better.


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My son is a huge Star Wars fan as well, and boasts a fairly large lightsaber collection along with several LEGO Star Wars toys.


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Disney has an estimated $350 million advertising budget for Star Wars, and Sensor Tower reveals a major increase in advertising from the top three Star Wars apps during the premiere weekend on Facebook.

All of which sounds like tremendously venomous assessment when we’re talking about a film that is mostly pretty good, in the sense that its predecessors were mostly pretty good and this is more of the same.

The force is strong with this one. Abrams, made £356million ($528m) globally in the first week.

“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” has taken over the box office, setting records for its current gross and causing some to wonder whether the film can bypass such movies as “Avatar” and “Titanic” to become the highest-grossing film of all time.

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However, the sci-fi movie was unable to set a similar benchmark in the United Kingdom, failing to knock James Bond’s Spectre off its perch as the most successful ever opener. Star Wars: The Force Awakens has smashed through box office records and propelled the franchise to a new galaxy of wonder. “Crowded theaters and continued sellouts will benefit other movies, though”. “I came out of it saying that I still enjoyed the movie”, he said. But this time, he stood by that character, this time we again saw the older Han Solo, the over confident rogue smuggler just brought back moments of the original but this time he is also a tired old father hoping for the redemption of his lost love and son.

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