“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” surged above estimates to post an all-time industry-high US$US248 million domestically plus $281 million internationally for a record global debut of US$529 million (RM2.27 billion) since opening December 16, Disney said Monday.
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Jay McGuiness is the victor … 11:05PM
Katie Derham left the competition earlier in the evening after a voting freeze saw her and parter Anton Du Beke come in last. Me, her and her husband and my family, we just became a big family. “No matter what I say people will say what they want”.
The Star Wars marathon was officially held at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Texas and began at 4.30am last Thursday. Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher were good to get, but the film could have lived without them.
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“Personally, it’s been three years of feeling privileged to be part of something that’s bigger than all of us”, filmmaker J.J. Abrams told the AP in an interview.
New ‘Star Wars’ smashes box-office record
That smashes the previous opening day record of .1 million, set by 2011’s “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2”. This obliterates the former domestic opening record held by Jurassic World , which debuted to 8.8 million back in June.
For myself, I remember my father taking me to Manhattan to see the original. Or having Han Solo, Chewbacca, the Millennium Falcon, Princess Leia (or General Leia now) and Luke reappear amongst a cast of new characters and settings. The main photo event will commence in January 2016, the report adds.
“Star Wars” fans flipped their Stormtrooper helmets when a pair of beams flared out from the side of Kylo Ren’s lightsaber in the first teaser trailer. “There were a couple of shots that ended up not being used in the film, simply because we were doing our best to make the movie be the best version of itself, which sometimes means losing a moment here or there”.
“With what looks to be a film chasing down the biggest box office revenues in history, this may easily become the busiest Christmastime box office on the books”, Robbins said. After more than a decade a new Star Wars movie has landed. Solo ranks high on many “Greatest Male Movie Character” lists-as does Indiana Jones, another character portrayed by Ford.
The 40-year-old content strategist was one of seven contestants who signed up for the Alamo Drafthouse’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens marathon in Texas.
But we didn’t need to be because “The Force Awakens” was one of the best Star Wars movies to date. I know this sounds stupid, but literally watching it, I forgot – I forgot that he wasn’t his son.
A couple fans showed up with the early crowd but waited outside the theater all evening and into the night for the midnight showing.
I cried. I laughed, and I left the movie a changed person.
Rey’s sensible wardrobe is the first indicator of a change in the galaxy, and the movie keeps them coming like X-wings on the horizon.
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Star Wars has so vastly permeated American culture that there are classes taught on it and lines quoted (and misquoted) from it. It is praised on its wonderful use of a story-telling arc, known as the hero’s journey, and it does so again quite well in “The Force Awakens“.
