UPDATE! AMC Tweets Tease of Upcoming Star Wars Screenings – False.
Today we have hints of upcoming theatrical screenings of the Original and Prequel trilogies in the near future.
Briefly this afternoon, AMC Theaters tweeted a link with a tease that we might soon be able to see all six previous Star Wars Theatrical Films in theaters before The Force Awakens is released on December 18th. AMC quickly removed the tweet as it seems they may have jumped the gun a bit, but our friend (and Cantina member) over at Star Wars Junk was able to snag a screen capture before it was pulled down.
The link that was included in the tweet redirected to an error page, but it wasn’t just any error page. It was a Star Wars specific error page featuring the words “this is not the page you are looking for…” and an image of Old Ben himself.
Although, it could all be a big mistake, the Star Wars themed error page makes it seem more likely that someone over at AMC let this go a bit too early and we can likely expect an official announcement of the screenings in the near future.
And here’s a brief update from StarWarsJunk:
Update on Star Wars Saga at AMC. The tweet was removed cause there still some legal issues to finalize.
— A Princess Alone (@StarWarsJunk) September 16, 2015
Also if/when AMC does show the saga the will be the blu-Ray editions of the films. — A Princess Alone (@StarWarsJunk) September 16, 2015
UPDATE!
AMC’s Director of Communications Ryan Noonan, took to Twitter to debunk the story:
@Ethan_Anderton AMC didn’t tweet it out. Bad photoshop job. The Obi Wan 404 has been around for like 3 years. http://t.co/34u9wBh6uv
— Ryan Noonan (@ryanjnoonan) September 16, 2015
This is a PR stunt, I know, it’s a tactic I just wrote a paper on,
Does the tactic have a name? For example, “bait-and-switch”.
It’s pretty much the ‘Don’t think about my d**k’ tactic.
Well i’d definitely check out a star-wars-a-thon before episode 7 if it happens! Otherwise i’ll just marathon them at home 🙂
They should also include the droids cartoon, the ewoks cartoon, the holiday special, the 2 ewok movies, the clone wars micro-series, the clone wars cartoon movie, the clone wars cartoon, the rebels cartoon, every single star wars related behind-the-scenes material created for tv or the internet, all cut-scenes from the all star wars video games, all versions of the saga films, all trailers and commercials for all star wars related shows, movies, video games, toys, etc., all Lucasfilm-endorsed star wars parodies, and if they have time….The Force Awakens.
Only Clone Wars, Rebels, and the films are canon now though.
SW holiday special and Tarkin are also canon.
Holiday Special is most certainly not canon. Never was, and still isn’t.
Even George took his name off that!
Tarkin is but it’s a book. Holiday Special as not as GL disowned it and no official copies exist.
And you just made my head explode…thank you…
And Timothy Zahn reading the Thrawn Trilogy live 😉
Awesome poster. I guess they can make room at the bottom for the new trilogy and spin-offs when they redo it someday.
In 20 years the poster will be 10 city-blocks long.
Unaltered original trilogy or nothing for me.
Blu Ray final versions or nothing for me!
Then you get nothing! Silly mortal, there IS no ‘final version’ – always in motion is the SE.
Nah now that George is all retired and such it’s finished. And damned near perfect.
I’m hosting my own Star Wars trilogy party leading up to the midnight showing sponsored by Harmy.
http://www.polygon.com/2014/8/18/6030725/star-wars-hd-despecialized-edition
I’m planning to do something quite similar!
If only Harmy had access to some better elements. Most of the space stuff in ESB still bugs the crap out of me because of how badly crushed the blacks are. Oh well, best of what’s possible at the moment.
From the webpage: “Poorly recut versions”…LOL the recut of the DS battle takes an incoherent assemblage of barely finished shots and makes a perfect three-act narrative out of the sequence. I’ll take the GL finals any day!
Yes, audiences in 1977 couldn’t make heads or tails of the Death Star battle, they had no idea what was going on, who was shooting at whom, who won, who lost, it was so incoherent. That’s why most audiences either booed throughout or left before it was over. Which explains its poor box office performance and status as a little seen cult film. And those Academy Awards for Best Editing and Best Visual Effects, a clerical error and completely undeserved. You’re so right.
Well I didn’t say any of those things LOL. Comparing the two cuts, there is no doubt which is superior. Audiences also cheered the crappy shot of the landspeeder entering Mos Eisley and other rough, unfinished FX shots. They also failed to notice that the movie wavered between dissolves and wipes and had other issues that revealed it to be unfinished. The finished versions of the films are my preferred versions for many reasons–the improvements to the DS battle sequence being one of them.
Hang on, which crappy shot of the landspeeder are you talking about? The one from the SE with the awful CG model?
No that would be the awful original shot that looks like a cardboard cutout with a pulsating green outline that is also out of proportion. The final version on the Blu Ray is quite beautiful.
OT back on the big screen? Yessssss…GIVE TO ZIM!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t care if it is the 2011 Special Editions, I just want to see the original trilogy on the big screen as I haven’t seen them that way.
can not wait to see the six films on the big screens again !
lets hope that the OT will be on the big screen again
yess! i have not seen the OT on the big screen since the 90s when the first special editions came out. this will be perfect i hope its chronological order so the last one we see is ROTJ and leads right into TFA
Remember when we were supposed to get all movies in 3D. I saw TPM, and it kinda sucked, but would have watched them all. but NO!!!!!
Actually, I thought 3D improved TPM a bit. I partularly liked ILMs “2/3rds behind, 1/3 in front” approach to the process – subtle, but made a number of otherwise kind of weak compositions really pop. We know that work was well under way for ESB at the time the whole thing was cancelled, which suggests that at least AotC, RotS, and ANH were ready to roll. I have a feeling we’ll see them in some form, someday.
It says here that the tweet was fake.
https://twitter.com/ryanjnoonan/status/644273758199418884
http://www.slashfilm.com/star-wars-amc-theatres-marathon-teased/
The tweet may have been fake, but I would still be very surprised if at least something like this doesn’t happen. It would be free money basically, all they would need to pay for is screening rights. They have marthathoned LotR, Harry Potter, and EVERY marvel movie…they could charge like $120 bucks for movies that are already made and they would sell-out. The only way this doesn’t happen is if there is some legal hangups with fox about ANH or something like that. In which case, I will be doing that same marathon, but at home. Come on AMC, at the very least do a double feature with RotJ and TFA!
We posted the image first and i stand by it. I talked to this guy also and one reason he said it was fake was cause “images don’t appear above the text’ and that isn’t true. Also I know the teen age girl that sent it to us and she isn’t a huge fan. Maybe she was fooled, but i don’t doubt it.