Official Star Wars Marathons
To commemorate the release of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith on 19 May 2005 the Empire Cinema in London's Leicester Square hosted a day-long Star Wars marathon showing of all six movies. An army of Imperial stormtroopers "guarded" the area, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra gave a free concert of Star Wars music.
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the release of the original Star Wars film on 23 May 2007 a Star Wars marathon began at the Los Angeles Convention Center with a free showing of the six films.
On 1 January 2007, Sky Movies broadcast a Star Wars marathon starting at 6:00am with Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace and ending at 8:30pm with the end of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. All six films were broadcast in high definition.
Read more about this topic: Star Wars Marathon
Famous quotes containing the words official, star and/or wars:
“I thought it altogether proper that I should take a brief furlough from official duties at Washington to mingle with you here to-day as a comrade, because every President of the United States must realize that the strength of the Government, its defence in war, the army that is to muster under its banner when our Nation is assailed, is to be found here in the masses of our people.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)
“My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you’re boned, what’s left to create the illusion? Let ‘em wonder. I never believed in givin’ them too much of me.”
—Mae West (1892–1980)
“I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.”
—Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)