“The Force Awakens” was still an entertaining movie and a worthy addition to the “Star Wars” universe.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens has already taken a staggering €2,890,539 in 4 days at the combined Northern Irish and Republic of Ireland box office, with a further €412,961 yesterday bringing the cumulative first five days to €3,303,500. Now, the flick is likely to hold the top spot going into the Christmas weekend, but with four new flicks also opening Christmas Day the competition could be fierce. Fandango, the West L.A. company that sells movie tickets online, announced Monday that it sold more than 37 percent of the estimated $247 million in tickets for the movie’s USA opening.
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It does not name a particular perpetrator, but leaves it to investigators to determine who might eventually stand trial. France is on high alert after the Paris attacks in November and has put in place extra security precautions.
He later shared video footage of one of his movie theatre stops, which he captioned, “Two unsuspecting SW (Star Wars) fans watching the trailer before the movie”. That €1.5m figure easily eclipsed Jurassic World’s huge haul of €977,571 earlier this year, and nearly doubled the highest figure from 2014, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1’s €770,258.
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No doubt, it’ll be an emotional time for Woodson on Christmas Eve night when he plays for the final time at the Oakland Coliseum. After winning the Heisman Trophy as a junior at MI in 1997, Woodson was drafted No. 4 overall by the Raiders in 1998.
The figure does not include box office receipts from India or Greece where the movie opens this week, or from China where it opens on 9 January.
The highly anticipated seventh instalment of the space saga has blazed a record-setting trail, taking the prize for highest-grossing domestic opening night with $57m and biggest domestic single-day sales Friday with $120.5m.
The previous record, $208.8m (£140m), was set by Jurassic World in June. Because of the sale of Lucasfilm to Disney, I was hesitant to be too excited for “The Force Awakens”, despite director J.J. Abrams’ success with the “Star Trek” franchise and my excitement to enter the “Star Wars” world once again.
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The film takes place about 30 years after the “Return of The Jedi” and the First Order has risen to take over the work the Galactic Empire started. Abrams, as well as the film’s actors Adam Driver (Kylo Ren), John Boyega (Finn) and Daisy Ridley (Rey). Harrison Ford fits nicely into the role of an older Han Solo as does Carrie Fisher with her part of a mature Leia Organa and Mark Hamill briefly as a stoic Luke Skywalker.
