Star Wars A&I Ex Machina OCR media studies

1. Star wars PowerPoint
Will Magee-brown

2. Star Wars: The Force Awakens cost
$306,000,000 USD to make, which is
£231747961.68 GBP. Fans obviously liked
it as IMDB rated it an 8.2/10, and Rotten
Tomatoes gave it a 92%.
The Force Awakens made just
under $2billion ($1.983
billion). Disney, as of 2014,
are worth 74.9 billion USD.
It is the first “Star Wars” episode since
“Episode III: Revenge of the Sith,” which
was released in 2005
Disney purchased the Star Wars
franchise for around $4 billion.
They made this money back and
more on one film.
JJ Abrams directed Star
Wars: The Force Awakens,
as well as co-writing the
seventh movie in the
franchise.
The Light saber handles cost
$20,000 dollars for each
handle, which there were
hundreds of.

3. Domestic DVD sales: $26,352,159.
Domestic Blu-Ray sales:
$128,144,737
Star Wars: The Force
Awakens was the most per
booked movie of all time.
There was over
$100,000,000 in pre-
bookings made.
Harrison Ford had a
paycheck above
$10,000,000 and as high
as $20,000,000 which was
apparently 50 times more
than the Star Wars co
stars. Mark Hamill and
Carrie Fisher had salaries
in the low 7-figure range.
Anthony Daniels, who
played, C3PO, was the
only person to appear in
all 7 films.
John Boyega and Daisy Ridley
took home salaries of around
$100-300k, despite being the
main characters.

4. The most expensive The Force
Awakens themed item on IWOOT is
a Storm trooper figure is £399.99.
Star Wars high heeled
shoes can be found.
A Luke Skywalker
figure was purchased
for $1.79 and fetched
a price of $30,000
later on.
The authentic Chewbacca
costume head went for a price of
$172,000.
Star Wars uses many platforms,
such as social media to expand is
popularity.

5. These Storm trooper
dressed dancer made their
way through to the finals of
Britain’s got talent, therefore
increasing it’s popularity.
These adults did yoga
with light sabers, and
it went virally famous
almost instantly. This
therefore increased
it’s popularity.

6. Disney’s net worth is a
staggering $74.9 billion.
Disney owns subsidiary
companies such as Club
Penguin, ESPN, Vice
Media, Pixar, Pine
Woods Properties, and
many more.
Disney also have key
investment in
America’s Industry,
including producing
tee water supply in
Orlando.
US Airways,
EBAY, Yahoo all
have corporate
links to Disney.
EA own the Star Wars
Battlefront games as they
bought the license to create
and publish the games.
Disney is in group
of 6 companies which
own 90% of American
film and media.

7. Technological Convergence:
Star Wars put posters around,
and these posters could be
scanned suing a VR code, and
a hologram of a Storm Trooper
appeared.
As well as this, Star
Wars has
#ForceFriday which
allows fans to look at
Star Wars content and
talk to fans of the
franchise.
Star Wars have a
companion app, as
well as games such
as Star Wars
Battlefront, and many
other apps on Google
play and the app
store.

8. Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Information
SW: TFA was released in
the following countries:
Argentina, Australia, Austria,
Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil,
Bulgaria, Chile, China,
Colombia, Croatia, Czech
Republic, Denmark, Ecuador,
Egypt, India, Israel, Italy,
Japan, Kenya, Latvia, Lebanon,
Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico,
Netherlands, New Zealand,
Norway, Oman, Philippines,
Poland, Portugal, Romania,
Russia, Serbia, Montenegro,
Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia,
South Africa, South Korea,
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey,
Ukraine, United Arab Emirates,
United Kingdom, Uruguay,
Venezuela and Vietnam.

9. Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Information