New Star Wars could be biggest movie ever

At the very least, “The Force Awakens” seems destined to eclipse the $85 million bow of “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” to set a new benchmark for December openings. “I think neither of those things could ever be a bad thing”.

Asked whether he could be any character in “Star Wars”, he first noted that he liked all the characters and then didn’t hesitate. The Force Awakens is the first core Star Wars film that Lucas has no hand in producing.

After passing probably our fifth or sixth such array of merchandise, she said, “Wow, they have a lot of “Star Wars” stuff”.

Recalling that he managed to keep a huge secret while shooting the original Star Wars trilogy, Hamill added: “I’m proud of the fact that I knew a year and a half before anybody else that he [Darth Vader] was actually “Dad Vader”. Joining the veteran actors are relative newcomers Ridley as scavenger Rey and Boyega as redeemed storm trooper Finn.

The highly anticipated seventh Star Wars movie has been breaking box office records in North America, racking up US$50mil (RM213.5mil) in advance ticket sales, according to a report by The Hollywood Reporter. Our father took us to the original movies. “Having an art venue and music venue, with the excitement that myself and everyone has about the return of ‘Star Wars, ‘ it was pretty obvious that it was time to bring it back”.

Part of why Star Wars: The Force Awakens has hints of Academy Award nominations is that there have so far been no front runners in this awards season. For “The Power of the Force”, he’s assembled a mosaic of 16 of his paintings, with cartoon portraits of characters spanning the six existing “Star Wars” films and the upcoming seventh.

Abrams’s film opens in United States cinemas on 18 December, a day after its United Kingdom release.