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41 years ago star wars had premiere in London
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<blockquote data-quote="Simply Sci-fi" data-source="post: 502469" data-attributes="member: 5480"><p>Star Wars didn't have a premiere in London. It simply opened on December 27th 1977 at the Dominion Theatre Tottenham Court Road and the Odeon Theatre Leicester Square. Premieres are organised to generate publicity and Star Wars definitely didn't need any more in the UK. The country was already Star Wars crazy! The press turned up in any case, including news crews from both main TV channels and treated the first people in the queue (and the first to emerge) like celebrities. </p><p></p><p>Each country set the release of Star Wars to suit its own market. Britain traditionally released big family films during the Christmas holiday and the main London cinemas always received top priority and generated a lot of income by offering exclusive presentations. 12 big cinemas around the country got Star Wars on the 29th January 1978 but the film slowly crawled across the UK until December of that year. I tracked the progress of all three Star Wars films for my book and I was very surprised to learn how long some places had to wait.</p><p></p><p>I was lucky enough to live near the Greater London cinema Gants Hill (Ilford) Odeon which opened Star Wars in February 1978. Glorious times!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Simply Sci-fi, post: 502469, member: 5480"] Star Wars didn’t have a premiere in London. It simply opened on December 27th 1977 at the Dominion Theatre Tottenham Court Road and the Odeon Theatre Leicester Square. Premieres are organised to generate publicity and Star Wars definitely didn’t need any more in the UK. The country was already Star Wars crazy! The press turned up in any case, including news crews from both main TV channels and treated the first people in the queue (and the first to emerge) like celebrities. Each country set the release of Star Wars to suit its own market. Britain traditionally released big family films during the Christmas holiday and the main London cinemas always received top priority and generated a lot of income by offering exclusive presentations. 12 big cinemas around the country got Star Wars on the 29th January 1978 but the film slowly crawled across the UK until December of that year. I tracked the progress of all three Star Wars films for my book and I was very surprised to learn how long some places had to wait. I was lucky enough to live near the Greater London cinema Gants Hill (Ilford) Odeon which opened Star Wars in February 1978. Glorious times! [/QUOTE]
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