Anakin Skywalker Was Almost in ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’

After the Shanghai premiere, the “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” director told media in a conference that he was delighted to see the Shanghai audience laugh at exactly the same scenes that other audiences did, according to an Associated Press report published on Express & Star.

“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” took 12 days to earn $1 billion worldwide, becoming the fastest movie to achieve such a feat.

“They are both global brands that enjoy high awareness in China but haven’t been released in a long time”, said Zou.

Concept artist Iain McCaig revealed in the book “Art of Star Wars: The Force Awakens” that he was commissioned to create some images of Anakin Skywalker for the flick, though the artwork he designed never actually made it onto the big screen. Its worldwide haul now stands at $1.16 billion. In Avatar’s first two weeks in theaters, James Cameron’s movie hauled in $420.7 million, following a $77 million opening weekend. Starring Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt, The Big Short, earning $18 million to date for Paramount and New Regency, will up its theater count on January 8, the weekend before Oscar nominations and the Golden Globes ceremony.

The year saw records broken in months spanning from February to December from blockbuster films like Universal’s “Jurassic World” to surprise hits like 20th Century Fox’s “The Martian”. One of the main reasons I watched the latest movie was because most of my friends are hard core “Star Wars” fans, and they dragged me along to the cinema hall. This means it could become only the fifth film in America to break the $600 million mark, and that could happen as early as the end of today. While concessions may seem costly to movie-goers, it’s really the force behind the theater.

Speaking to the LA Times, he admitted: “I guess I felt like I had this great thing in ‘Star Wars” that provided all these opportunities and gave me a career, but it all kind of felt a little too handed to me. Over the three-day Christmas holiday weekend, it topped the North American box office, snapping up $153.5 million in estimated ticket sales, which analysts at the Rentrak research company said was the biggest second weekend of all time.