“The advance ticket sales for Star Wars: The Force Awakens are beyond what anyone could’ve anticipated”, said Disney distribution executive Dave Hollis in a statement.
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Obama would have been 16 when the first “Star Wars” movie was released in 1977. I didn’t want “Star Wars” to be the rest of my life and that’s what it would have been.
Zeezo’s, the costume, makeup and accessory store in downtown Colorado Springs, has had an uptick in Star Wars-related merchandise ahead of the Thursday opening of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”, said shift lead Sammy Gleason.
“When I read a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, I did get excited, but I paced myself to keep continuing”, said Boyega. “But I am confident that… the president will at some point see the movie”, spokesman Josh Earnest said. “It’s a huge phenomenon and everyone loves it. I’m working too much to see it myself now, but hopefully I’ll get to watch it before Christmas”. “Darth was my first one”, Boyega says.
A group of fans dressed as Imperial Storm Troopers from Star Wars wait for a coffee in Nuremberg at a midnight showing of the new movie.
Harrison Ford said he was “amazed” and “grateful” that details of the plot had been kept so quiet – and that no-one had really “spilled the beans”.
The first reviews of The Force Awakens, published earlier on Wednesday, hailed it as “a triumph” and “a classic”.
Directed by JJ Abrams, the seventh instalment in the space saga – which is a sequel to 1983’s Return of the Jedi – reunites Hamill with the other original stars, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher. “They’re very, very happy because I was happy”. You can relive all the action you see in the movie. It is not like Marvel movies where there is something special added during the credits.
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Among those at the screening was 29 year-old Daniel Morgan Jones from Holyhead, founder of the Church of Jedism, who said interest in the organisation has increased “a thousand fold” in the past few weeks.
