Star Wars analysis

Producers/ Production companies- The three main production companies involved in the film making were Lucasfilm. However, George Lucas (the creator of the Star Wars franchise and owner of the Lucasfilm company) sold his company to Walt Disney. But, Bad Robot facility were asked to shoot a minor portion of episode VII in the United States and Truenorth Productions also helped produce the star wars films. All three of which, played important roles in the creation of this film. There are also three producers that all helped produce Star Wars the Force Awakens, these producers were J. J Abrams, Kathleen Kennedy and Bryan Burk.

 

Director-Jeffrey Jacob Abrams is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer

 

Screen writer-

J.J Abrams, Lawrence Edward Kasdan, Michael Arndt

 

 

Actors-

Harrison  Ford- Han Solo

Mark Hamill- Luke Skywalker

Carrie Fisher- Princess Leia

Adam Driver- Kylo Ren

Daisy Ridley- Rey

John Boyega- Finn

Oscar Isaac- Poe Dameron

Lupita Nyong'o- Maz Kanata

Andy Serkis- Supreme Leader Snoke

Domhnall Gleeson- General Hux

Anthony Daniels- C-3PO

Max von Sydow- Lor San Tekka

Peter Mayhew- Chewbacca

Gwendoline Christie- Captain Phasma

Budget- $306 million (gross) $245 million (net)

 

Locations- There was a lot of secrecy around the filming locations of the new Star Wars movie. But finally, the continuation of the saga created by George Lucas has been released, and it's confirmed that The Force Awakens has been filmed basically in England, Ireland, Iceland and the United Arab Emirates.

 

Greenlight date- December 18^th 2015 (release date)

 

Screens shown on (opening weekend, peak figure, weeks at cinema)

USA & Canada-

• Biggest opening weekend and single weekend gross – $247.97 million
• Biggest opening day and single day gross – $119.1 million. It was the first film to gross over $100 million in a single day. This figure incorporates the $57 million it earned from its Thursday night previews. Excluding this amount, it earned the third biggest "single Friday" gross with $62.1 million.
• Biggest opening week (Friday-Thursday) – $391.5 million

• Biggest second weekend – $149.2 million. Its second weekend was also the 12th highest grossing weekend of all-time. 
• Biggest IMAX single day pre-sales – $6.5 million.

China-

• Biggest Saturday opening day – ¥217.5 million ($33 million
• Biggest Disney opening day – $33 million.
• Biggest Saturday to Sunday opening weekend – $52.6 million.
• Biggest Saturday to Sunday IMAX opening weekend – $8.1 million.

Worldwide-

• Biggest worldwide opening weekend and single weekend gross – $529 million.
• Biggest December international opening weekend – $281 million.
• Biggest Disney international opening – $281 million.
• Widest worldwide IMAX release – 937 IMAX screens. This includes 391 IMAX screens in the United States and Canada, 270 screens from China and 276 screens in other markets for a worldwide total of 937 IMAX screens
• Biggest IMAX worldwide opening weekend – $48 million

 

•Critical reaction (Rotten Tomatoes & Metacritic)

Rotten tomato-

 

 

 

 

 

Metacritic-    Meta score     User score

	81

 

 

 

 

Box office figures: worldwide, US, China-  

Worldwide- $1.9 billion

USA- $815 million

China- $124 million

Music (composer of score/ soundtrack)- John Williams

Marketing (teaser trailers, trailers, TV spots, posters, websites etc)- They used all of these marketing techniques to promote the film and create success.

Tie-in products- There are lots of tie in products that apply to all age ranges for example- there are toys and merchandise for children, there are also Star Wars themed children clothing that were brought out to promote the film. For adults there are collectable figures

SFX (special effects - technology used)- They used practical puppeteering, animatronics, suits, circus performances and full CG to produce highly realistic special effects, so the characters didn’t look like special effects but characters, which allowed the audience to see the changes in character and emotions for the characters. Green screen and walls were also used to produce the backgrounds for the scenes.