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01 Director Ron
Howard and the
cast at the gala
screening for
Solo: A Star Wars
Story at the 71st
Festival de Cannes

From Cantina

to The Royal

Albert Hall

Concert hall plans week-long
festival of Star Wars

his fall will see the U.K.
T premiere of Star Wars: A
New Hope in Concert, which
opens at London’s historic
Royal Albert Hall on November 16,
2018 and runs up to the 18th, before
embarking on a national tour.
The must-see concert series features
a screening of the classic movie being
projected on a high-defi nition screen,
as John Williams’ celebrated score
is performed live by the legendary
London Symphony Orchestra—the
same orchestra that has recorded the
soundtrack for every Star Wars movie.
Of additional interest to fans of
Williams’ output is a special concert
Cannes Film Festival (pictured), on awarded the movie four stars, and on October 26, when the composer
May 13, accompanied by a squad of praised Alden Ehrenreich for his himself will conduct the LSO as they
stormtroopers and a familiar “charismatic” performance as the perform his iconic movie themes.
Wookiee friend. young Han Solo, while Richard Star Wars: A New Hope in Concert
Journalists and bloggers got Roeper of the Chicago Sun Times will be preceded by a week-long festival
their chance to see the movie at described the new Star Wars fi lm of Star Wars-themed events, due to be
press screenings on May 11, with as “entertaining as hell.” announced after this issue has gone
their reviews embargoed until May Solo: A Star Wars Story is still to press. Visit royalalberthall.com
15, at which point opinion- in theaters all over the world, with for further news of what they have
formers had their chance to share its home entertainment release planned and to book tickets for what
their opinions. Empire Online expected to come this fall. promises to be a special night of music.

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