I love Star Wars, including the prequels. But George Lucas - along with Steven Spielberg - defined my childhood in a very real and tangible way. 2001: A Space Odyssey, The War of the Worlds, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jaws, and shortly thereafter Superman: The Movie, Alien, and others were all there during a period of years that shaped my imagination and my attitudes about movies when I was young. There were certainly other films that I loved too as a child, and movies in general were a window into a larger world offering escape from the constraints and pain of childhood.
As a seven year old boy in a tiny rural town where even tinier vision and expectations ruled the day, Star Wars is when I truly and completely fell in love with cinema. Lucas brought it back to life in grand style during the summer of 1977. Those who bemoan the loss of the wonder years of moviemaking in the 1930s and 1940s would do well to remember Mr. After nearly a decade in which a new generation of artists and more cynical, personal filmmaking came to dominate cinema, Lucas reminded our culture of the sweeping heroic storytelling that once captured our imaginations. I was seven years old when George Lucas revived mythic storytelling for the big screen.
#STAR WARS THE FORCE AWAKENS FREE FULL FULL#
You're hear for the real goods, so let's get on with it - here is my full review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens! And I think final box office will fall somewhere in the range of $1.5-2 billion, depending on how big it opens and how fast it tops $1 billion.Īnd that's quite enough financial talk today. So for now, I'm betting it hits $200+ million for opening weekend, probably tops Jurassic World's worldwide opening receipts, and secures $1 billion by/before the end of the first week of January. Certainly by the first weekend of January The Force Awakens will surpass $1 billion, most likely sitting somewhere in the $1.1-1.2 billion range. That should lead to $850 million to $1 billion by the end of Christmas weekend (the film's second weekend of release), depending on how big opening weekend goes and how strong it holds over the holiday weekend. The film should do around $500+ million worldwide this weekend, give or take.
The long-range forecast is, at a very general level, easy to guess at. Guessing any higher seems insane at this point, but we'll have a pretty good idea of how big the mountain of cash will be after Thursday's showings and Friday's numbers are added up. It has strong odds of topping the $208.8 million biggest-ever opening weekend record set by Jurassic World this summer, and there's at least a chance the $100+ million advance ticket sales could translate into strong enough demand for a full opening tally as high as $220 million. We've all speculated for months about opening weekend, and now it seems obvious $180-200 million is the low-to-middle range of likely domestic receipts.
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