Verizon customers will have the opportunity to tweet questions to the Star Wars: The Force Awakens cast members during the premiere. Some are making the 18,000-kilometer (11,200-mile) round trip from Los Angeles in one day, taking a bus from Charles de Gaulle airport outside Paris to a nearby cinema to see the movie, before returning to the USA the same evening. There is also no escaping The Force in grocery stores, cosmetic shops, restaurants, ice cream stands – and just about anywhere else. After intense negotiations between The Walt Disney Co. and Lucasfilm, and certainly much courting of George Lucas, the creator of what can only be called the worldwide “Star Wars” industry, Disney purchased Lucasfilm in 2012 for a cool
$4.1 billion.
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The poster for the seventh film of the Star Wars saga in China is slightly different from the original one as black characters have been dwarfed in size and even erased, leading to controversy and accusations of racism. On 60 Minutes Overtime, viewers can see extra interview clips and snippets from the movie, which strives to stay faithful to the “Star Wars” brand while attracting a new generation of fans.
The veteran actor, who plays Han Solo in the new movie, managed to sit in the audience at the Sydney Opera House on Saturday without being spotted by any of the Star Wars fans who were engrossed in the footage.
“We do have restrictions on what you can bring into the theater”, Howard said. He will be accompanied for the back-to-back screenings by his mother and his wife, also avid fans. Comic Book Movie spotted them in the pages of a Force Awakens Visual Dictionary. “These two representatives of Disney came racing over and kind of demanded that I cease and desist”, Whitaker tells Overtime editor Ann Silvio.
In less than a week, Pearl native Chris Williams will grab his 6-year-old son’s hand and walk into the theater. Featuring interviews with director J.J. Abrams and the cast, including Harrison Ford, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Gwendoline Christie and Adam Driver, they all talk about what a huge difference the format makes. MORE: Harrison Ford excited to see fan reaction to “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”What I hate is when I go to see a movie and I feel like the trailer told me everything. Don’t know whether to laugh or cry”, an internet user under the name “Jay” wrote on Twitter, while Chinese fans claimed their country is not racist”.
Details have been kept secret ahead of the film’s premiere in Los Angeles on Monday except for a few outlines about the characters.
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One fan, Lavonne Dominguez, wasn’t concerned with merely shopping for a ticket on-line to see the film in her native movie show. She said her reaction after was unexpected. “I didn’t worry about it then because I felt like it had very little to do with me”, he explained.
