Star Wars Battlefront Might Not Include Any Star Wars 7

Everyone but director and co-screenwriter J.J. Abrams, who’s using his sci-fi clout to crowdfund another season of Felicity, I assume.

The movie is filled with grinning references to the old films: The first glimpse we get of the Millennium Falcon will send most audiences into a triumphant, geeked-out fit, while favorites from the original trilogy like Admiral Ackbar and Nien Nunb make cheeky, welcome appearances.

Shattering box office records, the latest installment of “Star Wars” has stoked United States film industry hopes that theaters can thrive in the face of a growing shift to online video streaming.

The trailers of Star Wars: The Force Awakens have some scenes which don’t appear in the movie, said director J J Abrams.

The stellar opening weekend was great news for North American cinemas, where box office revenues were down five percent to $10.4 billion past year while increasing barely one percent globally, according to statistics from the Motion Picture Association of America. “I grew up with Star Wars”.

This is bad news for fans of the prequels and the Clone Wars as well. “The Oscars owe major love to the “Star Wars” franchise”.

“In a year full of sequels, reboots and returns, none have recaptured the zeitgeist like ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens, ‘” wrote Nick Dutro of The Advertiser-Tribune in Tiffin, Ohio.

In a dig so strangely specific that we’re starting to wonder whether Ranzato was at some point in the running to direct the picture himself, he adds that the film is “not a classy reboot however, like Christopher Nolan’s Batman, but an update twisted to suit today’s tastes and a public more accustomed to sitting in front of a computer than in a cinema”.

No disrespect to Jurassic World or Furious 7 – their successes are nothing to scoff at – but if they can have such massive debuts in 2015 and snag the third and fifth spots on the list of the highest-grossing movies of all time, then The Force Awakens will probably surpass them. Not because he is a diehard Harrison Ford fan, but because, as a source for NBC says, “he doesn’t watch movies”.

In a press statement, the BFCA cited as responsible for the change an “unprecedented outcry” from its members who hadn’t seen “The Force Awakens” before voting.