Star Wars The Force Awakens is finally out, but did Kylo Ren make it out alive?
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It all comes to a head Thursday evening (Dec. 17), as director J.J. Abrams’ “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” lands in theaters.
In the past 52 weeks, 2 million Star Wars books were sold, up from 1 million in 2014 and 964,000 in 2013. “I’m super pumped man. It’s probably gonna be the movie of the year”, said movie goer Dalton Bartley.
But movie studio Walt Disney Co said millions of tickets are still available this weekend as theatres add capacity to meet demand. “We waited a long time for this, ” said Darren Cameron who traveled all the way from Uganda to see a marathon of Star Wars showings at Santikos Palladium in Richmond Thursday.
“Basically, I’ve been sitting around waiting for somebody to give me a job!” he joked.
He shot to fame playing Han Solo in the original Star Wars in 1977. “I’ve not followed any fan theories at all because I’ve been busy with Game of Thrones”, says Christie, who plays warrior Brienne in the popular HBO series. But, the combination of my love for the “Star Wars” franchise with the hunger by fans for any and all news kept me going.
The most popular book so far this year is Aftermath: Star Wars: Journey, followed by Lego Star Wars Character Encyclopedia then DK Readers L1: Lego Star Wars.
“We’re working on it. We’re hoping a couple of ideas that are floating around will gel and I know Steven is interested so hopefully it will happen”.
Killacky said her father died after suffering a stroke three days after his 71st birthday. She said the theater had been mobbed since the afternoon.
The filmmakers behind Star Wars XXX have reportedly said the film had the “highest budget ever” for a porn movie, though they would not disclose that budget.
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Ted Slowik is a freelance writer.
