Star Wars: Coventry cinemas ban lightsabers and Darth Vader masks
With just five days until the worldwide premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, loads of leaked photos and information from the film is beginning to make its way onto the vast sinkhole that is the internet. After the event, Boyega posted some remarks on his Twitter with regards to meeting the K-pop group. “Cried like a baby, whooped like a teen!”
It will play at about a dozen theaters throughout Ventura County, some offering 3-D and Imax screenings, starting at 7 p.m. (see accompanying box for locations, times and ticket prices). She tweeted: “StarWarsForceAwakens totally delivers no spoilers I repeat no spoilers again no spoilers just wow”.
The movie is set about 30 years after the events in “Return of the Jedi”, and Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher will be reprising their roles.
At the iconic TCL Chinese Theatre where the first “Star Wars” premiered in 1977, fans are already camped out, eagerly awaiting their turn when the film opens for regular folks next Friday.
According to Matthew Belloni, executive editor at Hollywood Reporter and Billboard, one man was forcibly removed from the premiere. The Phantom Menace, first released in 2D in 1999, was converted to 3D and re-released, but then Disney tabled plans to re-release 3D versions of the second two films in the series. “I won’t tell you what it is”. And, Barclays’ Kannan Venkateshwar says that given all the anticipation since we got the last “Star Wars” movie ten years ago, the new installment would likely disappoint.
Canadian Jesse Brown, who has been living in L.A. for 14 years, chats with a fellow Star Wars fan outside Hollywood’s Chinese Theater.
The carpet melded classic “Star Wars” figures with the new generation that will carry the weight of two more sequels, video games, comic books, toys and other merchandise.
Demand for tickets was forecast to be so great that handling the surge has required months of planning akin to that seen for the World Cup or Queen’s Jubilee, the cinema claimed.
Ms Ritter, 34, will walk down a makeshift aisle in a white dress accompanied by Darth Vader, while Mr Porters, 29, will wear a traditional suit but will sport a Stormtrooper bowtie and braces.
A teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
There was always a debate about how big a movie would become and people were also busy readying themselves for Christmas so hype was building, he said.
“I think that the fans are coming out of the woodwork”, he said. “If I was going to be recognized for anything, “Star Wars” is all right”.
“It’s not my fault, we can blame it on JJ”. For the record, I don’t know if that happens, I’m just using it as an example.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – “Star Wars” is back, and audiences at the world premiere of “The Force Awakens” excitedly greeted the mix of familiar characters and new faces waging war in a cinematic galaxy far, far away.