What is the GA hype for Star Wars Like in your neck of the woods?

[chasmmi]

The thought occurred to me last week that despite the mass appeal and crazy pre-order numbers for TFA in places like the USA, here is Korea, you still wouldn't even know the film is coming out.

 

I was chatting with a cinema-going friend of mine a few days ago and me telling him, was the first he'd heard of a new star Wars film being made. At first I thought that was crazy seeing as how everywhere that film has been in the US/Europe part of the interweb.

 

But then I thought about it; I haven't seen a single trailer for Star, nor a poster or anything. When I asked my local cinema (the biggest chain in Korea) about preordering, I was told I can't do it until the Monday before release as with any film. It's crazy when I think about it. I've seen trailers for The Revenant and HEart of the Sea for weeks, yet nothing for TFA.

 

I still expect it to be crazy big here once the date draws near, but I just found it odd that literally the only thing Star Wars you can see in Seoul (15 days before release) is a special chicken tikka Subway Sandwich Set.

 

How about in other parts of the world. Is Star Wars everywhere? Or just a big film that only internet types and megafans know is coming?

 

[darkelf]

It's huge here. Pre-orders started 2 months before release (they never start more than a month out) and everything filled up so quickly that even my small-ish 6-screen cinema had to add additional midnight shows. Plus, the ads and tie-ins are everywhere, I even saw one in a shoe store...

 

So yeah, pretty good for a no good country like Croatia

[75Live]

Well considering the first day of tickets were available online and my on theater sold out 12 showings in about 3 minutes, i would say it is pretty huge around here too

[DAR]

Huge.  Massive 

[Kalo]

Everyone I know everywhere is talking about it. and I live in the country! although when I talked to the sales clerk when I saw mockingjay. they said the first show was only about half-way sold out. but that still is pretty crazy for a movie still about a month away in a small town. 

Edited December 3, 2015 by Kalo

[DeeCee]

There's already tickets sold to sessions on Wednesday 6th January at Sydney IMAX.  

[ShouldIBeHere]

For Germany pretty big... several stores are flooded with (cheap!) merchandising.

 

But a lot of people already express their annoyance with the amount of merchandising thrown in their face... many are a bit "shocked" when I tell them that there are at least four more movies coming over the next years. It truly feels more like a sales-event than a true cinematic-event. 

 

Awareness is massive, though. Even among people who will probably never see it and are totally not interested in movies.

 

The only comparable awareness I can remember are LotR, HP (the last ones, at least) and Hobbit (the first one, at least).

Edited December 3, 2015 by ShouldIBeHere

[misafeco]

I don't see heavy advertising, but everyone knows it's coming. It'll be huge, like the biggest movie since Avatar. Revenge of the Sith has the adm. OW record here, i think TFA can sell more tickets. Lots of sellouts and those are rare in Hungarian cinemas.