Star Wars: The Force Awakens - fans wait will be over

'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' is ready for release - it is due to be shown publicly for the first time in Los Angeles on Monday and will premiers in London on 16 December. Hectic preparations are in their closing stages for the premiere of one of the most-awaited sequels in cinema history. The film is the seventh in the series and the first which, apart from his role in creating some characters, does not involve George Lucas.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 14 December 2015.

The film's stars, including the original 1977 cast members Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford, are expected to join director and co-writer J J Abrams on the red carpet at one of the three cinemas showing it. There are a new generation of actors also in the cast - many of them British. They are Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and Andy Serkis.
The precise venue of the premieres in the USA are being kept under wraps until the last minute, but they are expected to take place at LA's TCL Chinese Theatre, the Dolby Theatre and the El Capitan Theatre.
In order to keep up the suspense, dozens of workers are busy erecting a mammoth opaque tent lining four blocks of Hollywood Boulevard. Incidentally, the TCL Chinese Theatre, one of the cinemas on the Boulevard, had hosted the premiere of the first Star Wars movie in 1977.
Needless to say, fans have been camping outside for several days to ensure they do not miss out on getting the best seat in the theatre when the movie goes on general release on Friday.

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This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 21 September 2015.

The ‘Game of Thrones’ also lifted the awards for writing, directing and for supporting actor, Peter Dinklage. Last week it had won eight Creative Emmys.
After collecting his statuette, Dinklage told the packed crowd in the Microsoft Theatre: "I was chewing gum, I wasn't prepared because the other actors in my category awe me with their performances."
As to co-creator David Benioff, after receiving the drama prize from Tracey Morgan, David gave a big ‘Thank you’ to HBO for believing in dragons.
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This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 31 August 2015.

Wesley Earl Craven was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on 2 August 1939 and, after earning a master's degree in philosophy and writing from John Hopkins University in Maryland, he briefly taught as a college professor.
He entered the movies through pornography – he worked here under a pseudonym. And, his mark on Hollywood came in 1972. It was his first film The Last House On The Left. The film was a horror film about a group of teenage girls who got abducted and taken into the woods.
Then, in 1984, he made a mark with the film A Nightmare On Elm Street – he wrote and directed it and gave a break to Johnny Depp. It seems he got the concept from his own life – as a youth in Cleveland, he lived next to a cemetery on an Elm Street.
Anyway, he cemented a place in the horror genre in 1996 after directing Scream and went on to its three sequels. (Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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