Within 24 hours, the trailer had racked over 112 million views, a feat fitting after the two teasers before it also amassed record-breaking numbers. Han & Chewbacca were shown clearly as not having changed much with just the one line “Chewie we’re home”, which was enough to turn millions of fans worldwide to goo and spawn many “Youtube reacts” videos.
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“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” has a December 18, 2015 release directed by J.J. Abrams from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and Abrams. Apart from that, he has done several interviews as well with the other cast of “Star Wars” to promote The Force Awakens. Nearly 50 percent of the audience for Guardians of the Galaxy, for instance, was made up of women, making it the most female-attended Marvel film to date.
So it will presumably be a Jedi-only event when Kilmer hosts a private screening of the upcoming “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” for campaign contributors. They also spend 2.6 times more at the box office than the typical moviegoer, and 67% of them catch movies within the release week, most on opening night.
Just days ago millions of excited Star Wars fans crashed multiple movie theater websites with such voluminous bandwidth to secure their movie tickets, racking up record-breaking pre-order ticket sales, with AMC selling out 1,000 different showings across multiple theaters in just 12 hours. One seller we reached by phone admitted he scalps sports and concert tickets on occasion, but Star Wars was his first foray into movies.
Of course this demographic doesn’t take into account men buying tickets for their entire families, so I expect to see plenty of kids at those first showings as well.
Tickets are available at either Century location in town, and can be found online at cinemark.com and fandango.com.
This past Monday, Disney, Lucasfilm and director J.J. Abrams unleashed what’s being called the final trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and damn near broke the internet in the process. “‘Star Wars’ is back and beginning an exciting new journey, and it’s because of you”.
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“The Force. It’s calling to you”, the company added.
