“[This] is going to be bring a lot of memories back”.
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The film picks up 30 years after 1983’s “Return of the Jedi” and finds original characters, along with new ones, battling the dark side. “The movie was spoiled and everyone in the theater went insane”.
At the start of the press conference, Obama said The Force Awakens was being screened in the White House Friday for military families.
The theater made sure to stock up on IMAX 3-D glasses, popcorn and drinks, Curtis said.
From the screams in the ArcLight Theater, you’d have thought the “Star Wars” franchise had been abandoned, not reborn. The Gorbetts, wearing “Star Wars” T-shirts, arrived to the theater at 6 p.m.to snag good seats.
Caroline Ritter, 34, and Andrew Porters, 29, said their “I do’s” in front of Chewbacca, R2-D2 and Jedi Knights. Disney is demanding movie theaters hand over a much bigger cut of box-office revenue than usual, carving into cineplexes’ profits at a time when they need all the help they can get. Studio Movie Grill, which is hosting 200 “Star Wars”-themed private parties and corporate team-building events, expects 40 percent of those 16,000 guests will be new customers”.
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“Now that we watched the movie, we know it wasn’t the ending”, Melendez said. “We’ve been talking Star Wars; one of the guys even has star wars playing on a tablet we’re all hanging out, Star Wars everything”.
