Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens Wookieepedia. Star Wars: Episode VIIThe Force Awakens. Budget$2. 00 million (estimated)[1. Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens, marketed as Star Wars: The Force Awakens, is the seventh film in the Star Wars saga and the first in the Star Warssequel trilogy. The film was directed by J. J. Abrams; co- written by Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan, and Michael Arndt; and produced by Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and Bad Robot Productions.

The film stars Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels and Peter Mayhew reprising their original roles. The original actors are joined by a host of new actors including Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, and Oscar Isaac, among many others. The story begins thirty years after the events of Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi. The First Order has risen from the ashes of the Galactic Empire and is opposed by General. Leia Organa and the Resistance, both of which seek to find the missing Jedi Master. Luke Skywalker. In the midst of this search, new heroes rise in the form of Rey, a Force- sensitivescavenger from Jakku; Finn, a stormtrooper who defected from the First Order; and Poe Dameron, the best pilot in the Resistance. They are aided by Han Solo in their search for Skywalker and their mission to destroy the First Order's new superweapon, Starkiller Base, which targets the New Republic and the Resistance for destruction.

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They are opposed by villains such as Kylo Ren, a dark warrior with a mysterious past; and General Armitage Hux, the commander of Starkiller Base. The film's story will continue in Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi and Star Wars: Episode IX on December 1. Despite initially claiming that the Star Wars story ended with the redemption of Anakin Skywalker in Return of the Jedi, and after spending years refuting speculation that there would be another film, Star Wars creator George Lucas began work on Episode VII in 2. Lucasfilm before he sold it to The Walt Disney Company, although Disney would later elect to not use Lucas' story. The acquisition was finalized on October 3. Disney and Lucasfilm officially announced Episode VII and the sequel trilogy the same day.

Lucasfilm later announced that the film would be an original story not beholden to the continuity of the Star Wars Expanded Universe, which was rebranded as the non- canon Star Wars Legends. The Force Awakens was released on December 1. United Kingdom, Mexico, Latin America, and Asian countries; December 1. North America; and January 9, 2.

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China. Some North American theaters offered special limited advance showings on the evening of December 1. The film received widespread critical praise upon its release and was a massive box office success, becoming the highest grossing film of all time in North America when not adjusted for inflation. Worldwide, the film is the third highest grossing of all time when not adjusted for inflation. It is currently the highest grossing sequel of all time and the first Star Wars film since The Phantom Menace to be the highest grossing film of its release year worldwide.

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Luke's whereabouts.. Synopsis"We got company."―Poe Dameron[src]Flametroopers open fire on the village of Tuanul. Approximately thirty years after the destruction of the second Death Star, Luke Skywalker, the last known surviving Jedi Master, has disappeared. Both the First Order, a successor to the fallen Galactic Empire, and the Resistance, a military force backed by the New Republic and led by Luke's twin sister, General Leia Organa, scour the galaxy in an attempt to find him. Leia sends Resistance pilot. Poe Dameron on a secret mission to the village of Tuanul on the desertplanet. Jakku, to meet with village elder Lor San Tekka, who has obtained a map to Luke Skywalker's location.

During the meeting, First Order stormtroopers under the command of Kylo Ren and Captain. Phasma attack the village. Poe and his astromech droid. BB- 8 attempt to flee in their X- wing starfighter, but a pair of stormtroopers disable the engines with their blasters. With no alternative, Poe gives the map to BB- 8 and orders the BB unit to flee. Poe remains behind to cover BB- 8's escape. After stormtrooper FN- 2.

FN- 2. 00. 3 is hit with blaster fire by Poe. FN- 2. 18. 7 goes to help his squadmate, but FN- 2. FN- 2. 00. 3 smears his blood on FN- 2.

FN- 2. 18. 7. After securing the area, the remaining villagers are herded into the town square. Tekka is captured and brought before Kylo Ren, who demands to know where the map leading to Luke is. Tekka responds that he knows who Ren used to be, and chides Ren that he cannot escape his real identity.

Growing impatient, Ren kills Tekka by striking him down with his lightsaber. Poe takes a shot at Ren from cover, but Ren casually stops the blaster bolt in mid- air with the Force. Poe is captured, and Ren decides to interrogate him further back on their ship. Before leaving, Phasma asks what to do with the crowd of captive villagers, and Ren orders them all slaughtered. Stormtrooper FN- 2.

Return to the Finalizer"The Resistance will not be intimidated by you!"―Poe Dameron to Kylo Ren[src]Kylo Ren probes Poe Dameron for information about the map. Returning to the Finalizer, FN- 2. He ducks inside an empty shuttle to take his helmet off, breathing heavily, but Phasma notices him and tells him to submit his blaster for inspection, having earlier noticed that he did not fire a shot. Knowing he would be punished and re- evaluated for not firing on the villagers, and with his faith in the First Order severely shaken, he decides to desert. Meanwhile, after failed attempts of torturing Poe for vital information about the map of Luke Skywalker's location, Ren uses his mind probe Force power to pry the information from Poe's mind. Ren learns that the map is located within a BB series droid that fled the village, and informs General.

Armitage Hux of the new information. Encounter with the scavenger"Classified. Really? Me too. Big secret."―Rey to BB- 8[src]Rey encounters BB- 8 in the deserts of Jakku.

Elsewhere on Jakku, a scavenger named Rey traverses the corridors of a downed Star Destroyer at the Graveyard of Giants. Scavenging through the Star Destroyer, she finds a valuable piece of salvage and drops it in her satchel. Rey heads to Niima Outpost, and hauls the sack of salvage throughout the town. She then goes to Unkar Plutt to exchange her scraps for foodstuff, and he offers her a quarter portion for her salvage. After taking the foodstuff, Rey heads to her home, a downed AT- AT, and prepares a meal for herself.

After finishing her meal, she watches a starship depart from the planet and then notices a distant sound. She immediately runs off with her quarterstaff to investigate. There, she encounters BB- 8 struggling against being captured by a green- skinnedhumanoid scavenger named Teedo. She frees the droid and gives it directions to Niima Outpost and sends it on its way, but BB- 8 insists on traveling with her.

Rey goes to Unkar Plutt to again exchange her salvage for foodstuff, and the Crolute offers to buy BB- 8 for sixty food portions; while tempted, Rey declines the offer. Plutt then sends two thugs to steal BB- 8. Escape from the Finalizer"You do exactly as I say and I can get you out of here."―FN- 2. Poe Dameron[src]FN- 2.

Poe Dameron walk through the halls of the Finalizer to escape. Needing a pilot to escape, FN- 2. Poe Dameron from his cell, and the two steal a Special Forces TIE fighter. FN- 2. 18. 7 mans the guns, killing several of his former comrades in the hangar, and then disables the Finalizer's turbolasers on the outside of the vessel.

Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer Moviepedia FANDOM powered by Wikia. Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer, Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer Pictures (since 1. MGM, is a media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of cinema and television programs. On April 8, 2. 00. Sony and Comcast for $US 4.

MGM now produces film and television content in conjunction with Sony Pictures, although in March 2. MGM name, separate from the Sony Pictures brand. From the end of the Silent Film Era through World War II, Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer was the preeminient motion picture studio in Hollywood, with the greatest output of all of the studios: at its height, it released one feature film a week, along with many short subjects and serials. A victim of the massive restructuring of the motion picture industry during the 1. Paramount decrees), and the power shift from studio bosses to independent producers and agents. On November 3, 2.

MGM filed for Chapter 1. MGM emerged from bankruptcy on December 2. Spyglass Entertainment, Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum, became co- Chairmen and co- CEOs of the holding company of Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer.[4][5][6][7]former company headquarters highlighted by the famous Leo the Lion logo at the top]]. The studio's official motto, "Ars Gratia Artis", is a Latin phrase meaning "Art for art's sake"; [8][9][1.

Howard Dietz, the studio's chief publicist.[1. The studio's logo is a roaring lion surrounded by a ring of film inscribed with the studio's motto. The logo, which features Leo the Lion, was created by Dietz in 1. Goldwyn Pictures and updated in 1.

MGM's use.[1. 0][1. Dietz based the logo on his alma mater's mascot—the Columbia University lion.[1. Originally silent, the sound of Leo the Lion's roar was added to films for the first time in August 1. In the 1. 93. 0s and 1. A- list movie stars under contract to the company.[1. This second motto was also coined by Deitz,[1.

MGM was the last studio to convert to sound pictures, but in spite of this fact, from the end of the silent film era through the late 1. Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer was the dominant motion picture studio in Hollywood.[1. Always slow to respond to changing legal, economic, and demographic nature of the motion picture industry during the 1. In 1. 96. 6, MGM was sold to the Canadian investor Edgar Bronfman, Sr., whose son Edgar, Jr. Universal Studios.

Three years later, an increasingly unprofitable MGM was bought by Kirk Kerkorian, who slashed staff and production costs, forced the studio to produce low- budget fare, and then shut down theatrical distribution in 1. The studio continued to produce five to six films a year that were released through other studios, mostly United Artists.

Kerkorian did, however, commit to increased production and an expanded film library when he bought United Artists in 1. MGM ramped up internal production as well as keeping production going at UA which included the lucrative James Bond film franchise.[2.

It also incurred significant amounts of debt in order to increase production.[2. The studio took on additional debt as a series of owners took charge in the 1.

In 1. 98. 6, Ted Turner bought MGM, but a few months later, sold the company back to Kerkorian to recoup massive debt, while keeping the library assets for himself. The series of deals left MGM even more heavily in debt.[2. MGM was bought by Pathé Communications (led by Italian publishing magnate Giancarlo Parretti) in 1. Parretti lost control of Pathé and defaulted on the loans used to purchase the studio.[2. The French banking conglomerate Crédit Lyonnais, the studio's major creditor, then took control of MGM.[2. Even more deeply in debt, MGM was purchased by a joint venture between Kerkorian, producer Frank Mancuso, and Australia's Seven Network in 1.

MGM purchased Metromedia's film subsidiaries (Orion Pictures, The Samuel Goldwyn Company, and the Motion Picture Corporation of America) for $5. Kerkorian bought out Seven Network the following year.[2. MGM used debt to acquire Poly. Gram Filmed Entertainment's 1,3. Seagram in 1. 99.

Turner Broadcasting.[3. MGM then purchased 2. Cablevision Systems for $8.

MGM attempted to take over Universal Studios in 2. Watch Tom And Jerry &Amp; The Wizard Of Oz Online Facebook. The debt load from these business deals negatively affected MGM's ability to survive as an independent motion picture studio. After a three- way bidding war which involved Time Warner (successor to Time, Inc.

Turner Broadcasting) and General Electric, MGM was acquired on September 2. Sony Corporation of America, Comcast, Texas Pacific Group (now TPG Capital, L.

P.), Providence Equity Partners, and other investors.[3. MGM Resorts International, a Las Vegas- based hotel and casino company listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "MGM", is not currently affiliated with Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer.

MGM, as the animation unit was closed to cut costs. Instead, MGM decided to rerelease older cartoons (they had proved popular when released alongside new shorts). Hanna and Barbera moved to television with the formation of Hanna- Barbera Productions.

In 1. 96. 1, MGM resumed releasing new Tom and Jerry shorts, and production moved to Rembrandt Films in Czechoslovakia, under the supervision of Gene Deitch. Deitch's Tom and Jerry cartoons are noteworthy as being very distant from the original Hanna and Barbera style of animation.

In 1. 96. 3, the production of Tom and Jerry returned to Hollywood under Chuck Jones and his "Sib Tower- 1. Productions". Jones' group also produced their own works, winning an Oscar for The Dot and the Line, as well as producing the classic television version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Theodore Geisel). Jones' association with MGM ended in 1. MGM fell into a habit in this period which would eventually sink the studio: an entire year's production schedule was reliant on the success of one big- budget epic each year. This policy began well, in 1.

Ben- Hur was profitable enough to carry the studio through 1. But later attempts at big- budget epics failed, among them Cimarron (1.

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1. Mutiny on the Bounty. As MGM sank (along with the other main- line studios), a series of studio heads came and went, along with a succession of corporate managers, all hoping to bring back the studio's glory days. In 1. 92. 4, movie theater magnate Marcus Loew had a problem. He had bought Metro Pictures Corporation (founded in 1. Goldwyn Pictures (founded in 1. Loew's Theatres chain.

However, these purchases created a need for someone to oversee his new Hollywood operations, since longtime assistant Nicholas Schenck was needed in New York headquarters to oversee the 1. Loew addressed the situation by buying Louis B. Mayer Pictures on April 1. Because of his decade- long success as a producer, Mayer was made a vice- president of Loew's and head of studio operations in California, with Harry Rapf and Irving Thalberg as heads of production. For decades MGM was listed on movie title cards as "Controlled by Loew's, Inc.". Originally, the new studio's films were presented in the following manner: "Louis B.

Mayer presents a Metro- Goldwyn picture", but Mayer soon added his name to the studio with Loew's blessing. Though Loew's Metro was the dominant partner, the new studio inherited Goldwyn's studios in Culver City, California, the former Goldwyn mascot Leo the Lion (which replaced Metro's parrot symbol), and the Goldwyn corporate motto Ars Gratia Artis ("Art for art's sake"). Mayer wanted to replace the Latin motto with "Art is Beholding to the Artist" in English, but was overruled by Schenck. Also inherited from Goldwyn was a runaway production, Ben–Hur (the silent version), which had been filming in Rome for months at great cost.

Mayer scrapped most of what had been shot and relocated production to Culver City. Though Ben–Hur was the most costly film made up to its time, it became MGM's first great public- relations triumph, establishing an image for the company that persisted for years.