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The Force Awakens earned 8.6% of the total 2015 releases in the United States and Canada, second only to the 8.8% of the box office earned by Titanic in 1997. [290] It was the 24th film in cinematic history to gross $1 billion worldwide, standing as the fastest film to surpass the mark at the time, doing so in 12 days. [ 291 ]
According to Star Wars: The Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary (2015), and the trilogy novel series Star Wars: Aftermath by Chuck Wendig, after the Galactic Empire was defeated at Battle of Endor in 4 ABY in Return of the Jedi, thousands of worlds rose up to join the Rebel Alliance, and destroy the disorganized Empire, which had fallen victim to warlordism.
Forbes criticized The Force Awakens for not developing Snoke as a character, or exploring his backstory and inexplicable rise to power after the events of the original trilogy, calling the character "a bandage poorly placed over a gaping plot-hole". Serkis acknowledged that some fans found the lack of backstory "incredibly frustrating", but ...
Sound editors for "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" managed to slide an "Indiana Jones" Easter egg into the film. In an interview with Nerdist, Matthew Wood, supervising sound editor, and David Acord ...
The new trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, released Monday evening, offered clues about the shape of director J.J. Abrams' revival of the beloved franchise, even as it steadfastly refused ...
Related: Star Wars rewatch: The Force Awakens misses its own sharp points "What we really wanted to honor was, Mel had some incredibly astute social commentary, but he was never preachy," Kroll ...
Kylo Ren (born Ben Solo) is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. He was introduced in The Force Awakens (2015), the first film of the sequel trilogy.He subsequently appeared in The Last Jedi (2017) and The Rise of Skywalker (2019).
The Force Awakens writer/director J. J. Abrams told Entertainment Weekly in November 2015, "I wanted to do [Maz] as a puppet originally, but once we figured out the things that she was required to do, it felt like performance capture was the way to go."