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.
