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“Star Wars” Ticket Sales Shatter Records

Other than that, we hear him in one of the earlier teaser trailers saying, “The Force is strong in my family”. We reached out to several of the Star Wars scalpers to find out what the going rate for a pair of tickets was.

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The trailer left many questions unanswered – the biggest of which is “Where is Luke Skywalker?”. It could actually be that Skywalker was in it, or his voice and his gloved hand, at any rate, resting for a couple of moments on the droid R2-D2.

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Stars from the original trilogy also appear fleetingly in the trailer. But when it comes to Star Wars, there really isn’t such a thing as “too much”.

Lucas film debuted the movie’s new trailer for The Force Awakens on Monday and there was plenty of reaction from it.

“When I watched the new trailer, I got goose bumps”, Kelley said. Abrams. It premiered during ESPN’s Monday Night Football halftime break, and has already been searched and viewed by millions on YouTube. The clip lasted for 2 minutes and 35 seconds.

As tickets for the December 18 film release went on sale, online ticketers Fandango and theater chain Alamo Drafthouse suffered temporary outages as fans flocked to their sites.

IMAX records have been broken, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Its presales also broke every Imax record, generating over $6.5 million. There could be a few basis for that, considering that in a 1991 Dark Horse Comics mini-series, Luke becomes a reborn Emperor Palpatine’s apprentice, in effect his father, Darth Vader, which puts Luke and Leia on opposite sides.

See the “Star Wars” official website above for the list of theatres participating in “Star Wars” Marathon Event and offers provided by various theatres.

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Advance ticket sales for the new Star Wars film have smashed records two months before the highly anticipated sci-fi sequel is set to hit screens.

'Star Wars' fans clamor for tickets, wonder where's Luke