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Star Wars: The Last Jedi Premieres in China at Shanghai Disney Resort

More than two weeks ahead of its public release in China, Star Wars: The Last Jedi made its debut at the Walt Disney Grand Theater at Shanghai Disney Resort.

Fans lined the red carpet in costume for a glimpse of Daisy Ridley, Mark Hamill, director Rian Johnson and producer Ram Bergman – not to mention BB-8 and R2-D2.

Ahead of the premiere, the cast and crew shared a few behind-the-scenes stories and presented lightsabers to four young Jedi apprentices. They also visited Star Wars Launch Bay at Shanghai Disneyland, where they encountered Kylo Ren and caught up with C-3PO.

A processional of Stormtroopers crashed the party, but the Force prevailed and the night ended in applause.

December 21, 2017
Star Wars: The Last Jedi Opening Day Box Office Earnings

Disney-Lucasfilm’s “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” brought in more than $104 million on Friday already making it the second biggest opening day total behind only Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($119M).

The Thursday preview brought in $45 million making it the second largest Thursday night preview total ever, behind again “Star Wars: The Force Awakens’” which totaled of $57 million in 2015.

As far as totals for opening weekend, it is expected to bring in at least another 100 million on Saturday and Sunday easily giving it more than $200 million for the weekend. Those numbers will make it the fourth film in domestic box office history to hit that mark in its opening weekend. “The Force Awakens” will maintain the number one slot with $248 million, but with “Jurassic World” at $208 million, and 2012’s “The Avengers” at $207 million, we will have to wait and see where it ends up ranking for the weekend. It will at least be in the top four, but more than likely it will surpass them and end up 2nd here too.

UPDATE: “The Last Jedi” Surpasses $220 Million making it the 2nd highest opening weekend.

The film may not be hitting “Force awakens numbers, but “The Last Jedi” will finish significantly above Star Wars spinoff “Rogue One,” which opened with $155 million on the same weekend a year ago.

So if any thinks that interest in Star Wars is on the decline “I find your lack of faith disturbing.” While The Last Jedi is below The Force Awakens totals it’s still far ahead of Rogue One numbers.

Directed by Rian Johnson, “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” picks up where “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” left off. It stars returning cast members Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, and Andy Serkis. New stars include Kelly Marie Tran, Laura Dern, and Benicio del Toro. The film has an A CinemaScore and a 93% “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

December 16, 2017
Star Wars: The Last Jedi Shoes By Christian Louboutin are Out of this Galaxy

With the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi only one week away, the merch is coming out faster than a pod racer on Tatooine. The force is strong with these shoes and they are stunning to look at.

Famed shoe designer Christian Louboutin has partnered with Lucasfilm and Walt Disney Studios to create custom shoes inspired by Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The four designs are inspired by the film’s heroines and each include a bespoke glimmering jewel, reminiscent of a Tie Fighter.

REY

The Rey shoe has an ankle-strap leather sandal inspired by her outfit, with translucent PVC elements that reflect her Force abilities. We love that the heel shines just as bright as her blue lightsaber.

CAPTAIN PHASMA

Everyone’s favorite First Order Stormtrooper gets a glam heel inspired by her armor, with silver specchio leather yokes, reflecting her authoritative character.

ROSE TICO

Since Rose works in maintenance for the Resistance, Christian Louboutin designed a utilitarian sandal that depicts her technical side.

VICE ADMIRAL AMILYN HOLDO

Taking direct inspiration from her costume, the Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo shoe features similar draping elements and the colors of her cape.

While the shoes won’t be available in stores, the commemorative styles—each signed by the designer, as well as the actress who portrays each character the style was created for—will be auctioned on charitybuzz.com/StarWars from December 7-December 20, with a portion of the proceeds benefitting Starlight Children’s Foundation on behalf of Star Wars: Force for Change.

But that’s not all! Christian Louboutin also designed a custom showpiece shoe with the team at Industrial Light and Magic that will be unveiled at the film’s premiere. The shoe takes inspiration from the Star Wars world and Christian Louboutin’s signature style elements to create a unique, galaxy-ready shoe. After the premiere, the showpiece shoe will be added to the auction as well.

December 7, 2017
Fantastic Finn Footage in NEW Star Wars: The Last Jedi Trailer

Not so calmingly coming out of a coma we finally get to see extra footage of John Boyega’s and it is intense. With the release of the movie just over a month away, Disney and Lucasfilm are in full-blown promotion mode. With that, a brand new TV spot for Star Wars: The Last Jedi has been released. It’s only a thirty second spot, but if packs a good force push. Still it actually gives us quite a bit to chew on and adds a little extra layer to Rey with one, very interesting shot.

Finn was badly injured at the end of The Force Awakens; however, we knew he would be waking up at some point since we’ve seen him in his bacta suit, which was helping him heal and we’ve seen him in disguise as a First Order officer, taking on his former supervising officer Captain Phasma (Gwendoline Christie) head-on, as well as piloting a ship on the new planet Crait. Now, we get to see him come to, screaming. This cuts to a shot of Finn still wearing the suit and his First Order of business is fining out where Rey is ans he confronts Poe Dameron.

Pre-order your tickets at Fandango while you still can. It was recently confirmed that Oscar Isaac will return as Poe Dameron in Star Wars 9. The only other actor officially confirmed to return is John Boyega. So he probably comes out of his fight with Captain Phasma with all his limbs in tact. We can’t say the same for Phasma. There are good odds that neither she nor Lt. Hux will make it past the end credits of The Last Jedi. This latest extended TV spot has some awesome new space footage with ships going to war. You can check out all the excitement here.

November 22, 2017