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If you saw Star Wars: The Force Awakens over the weekend, your hard-earned dollars contributed to an estimated domestic take of $238 million in its first there days, shattering the $208.8 million opening weekend record of set by Jurassic World in June. Add in foreign box office receipts—except China, where it has yet to open—and you’re at a half billion ($517 million), according to Box Office Mojo, which on a global basis is actually slightly less than Jurrasic’s opening.

The predictable smashing success of The Force Awakens aside, TechRadar’s Dave James raises some interesting questions:

Why did director JJ Abrams shoot the epic on 35mm film? Has Star Wars turned its back on digital projection, the format George Lucas helped pioneer? He writes:

…Why is the series that has done so much to move the industry forward now taking a technological step backwards? And what is that going to mean for the new movie?...

[Turns out] the decision to shoot on film is in part an effort to recover the feel of the beloved original trilogy…

“This was really important, that the movie, in a way, go backwards to go forwards," Abrams told Screenrant. "This was very much about new characters and a new story, and like Star Wars has always been at its best, a generational tale of understanding young people and understanding their place in the world. So these are brand new characters that we're meeting, but I wanted it to look and feel the way the original trilogy did."

Read the full story here.

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