Star Wars
Lucasfilm Ltd. has chosen L.A. for the 30th anniversary celebration of the release of "Star Wars."
The company will take over the L.A. Convention Center May 23 through 28 for a wide range of events, including back-to-back screening of all six or the space adventures.
The event is dubbed "Celebration IV," because officially sanctioned “Star Wars” conventions have been held in Denver (1999) and Indianapolis (2002 and 2005).
The 17-hour movie marathon begins at 9AM May 23 and will mark the first time in US that all six of the films have been shown in sequence.
May 24 is reserved for official "Star Wars" Fan Club members. Then the convention has its official opening May 25, the anniversary date of the first film's release.
Among events planed during the convention are appearances by Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) and Anthony Daniels (C-3PO), a presentation of Charles Ross' "One-Man Star Wars" stage show, "Start Wars" laser tag, "Stormtroopers Olympic" and "XXtreme Droid Challenge."
Tickets to the movie marathon are free to the people who pre-register to attend "Celebration IV" at http://registration.gencon.com/celebration/. For more information, go to www.starwars.com/celebration.
Also getting in on the anniversary celebration is the Postal Services, which announced Thursday that it will be wrapping about 400 mail collection boxes in 200 cities with special covering to look like R2-D2 as promotion for the new stamp to be announced March 28.
See Starwars.com or Star Wars Wikipidia for a more detail information.
4 comments:
"Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid."
-- Han Solo
Zulhai: So you are a fan too? I’m overjoyed this last few weeks. Every time I turn the TV on, HBO is showing one of the Episodes. So, I have been watching again & again. I still enjoy them as much as I did the first time. In contrast with some of the older James Bond 007 movies, that seems so lame now. My niece’s son who just turned 4 has been in love with the Star Wars. I’m not sure how it started, but he’s totally involved with the movies and the toys and all. Just read, Cate Blanchett may play Harrison Ford's love interest in a fourth Indiana Jones film. Are you a fan as well?
Of course I am a fan!
I saw Star Wars at a Drive-In movie theater. My best friend, Christine, and I were laying on the hood of her Mom's car, and when that battle station (or whatever it was) loomed out over our heads we ducked our heads and cheered out loud for the pure joy of it.
It was awesome, man, totally rad.
Zulhai: Cool! I know what you mean. I still get the chills watching it again!
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