Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Research

Producers/Directors and writers:

Star wars: the force awakens was produced by these 3 companies: Lucas films, which is George Lucas's own company which is always associated with star wars since the original trilogy;   True north Productions and Bad Robot. The producers were Kathleen Kennedy; J.J Abrams' and Bryan Burk. It was Directed by J.J Abrams' who has directed by Star Trek remakes as well Mission impossible III and Super 8. The Writers for the film were: Lawrence Kadsan; J.J Abrams'; Michael Arnit and George Lucas.

Cast/ Main Actors in the film: 

Harrison Ford: Han Solo  Mark Hamill: Luke Skywalker Carrie Fisher: Princess Leia Adam Driver: Kylo Ren Daisy Ridley: Rey John Boyega: Finn Budget and location: The film was green lit by Disney In October 2012, with filming beginning in April 2014. it was shot across the world in places such as Abu Dhabi and Iceland with photography done in Ireland And in Pinewood Studios in England. Filming was  finished by November 2014. it had a estimated $245.000.000 budget. Screenings and Critical Reception: On its opening weekend, Star wars was shown on 5337 screens across the world and overall, over 30,000 screenings took place, earning over $57.000.000 on its opening weekend.it was in cinemas until April 2016 when the first Blu-ray copies started coming out. According to Rotten Tomatoes, the film has very positive reviews with an average score of 92% from reviewers and a audience score of 89%. Box office and Music: It made $936,627,416 in the US box office alone with it making $2,026,638,964 worldwide. it surpassed the 1 billion in just 12 days and it the 3rd film to surpass 2 billion.  Making it the 2nd largest grossing film ever made, only beaten by James Cameron's Avatar. In China it went on to make 30.7 million dollars. The score was composed by John Williams who also composed the originals and the prequels as well as the Indiana Jones Films. Marketing and tie-ins: Star wars Was marketed from November 28th 2014 with a teaser trailer. it quickly gained views on YouTube, 2 weeks later several mock Trading cards were released showing some of the characters names. A second teaser trailer was released April 2015 which broke the Guinness world record for most viewed movie trailer in 24 hours. At the 2015 Comic-Con , a panel was held with the actors along with behind-the-scenes footage.There were also Star Wars marathons in cinemas across the US showing all 6 films prior to the 7th. Tie-ins wise.there several books and comics released prior to its release. There is also a novelization of the film released in January 2016 and a marvel comic series adaptation which came out in June 2016. On September 4th last year all official merchandise for Star Wars The force Awakens was released. SFX And issues during production: The special effects in Star wars; The force Awakens were done by Industrial light & magic who are Lucas Film's own VFX and animation studio. There was and big issue during production with mark Hamill initially refusing to have a role in the film. in the end a settlement was agreed with him being in right at the end of the film. Also Harrison Ford was reportadley injured during filming which caused filming to be delayed for a few days.