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title: FRIDAY FEATURE: A Look Back at Star Wars and Its Amazing Legacy in IMAX
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description: "Lucasfilm’s all-new epic adventure — Rogue One: A Star Wars Story — arrives in IMAX theatres worldwide."
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December 16, 2016

FRIDAY FEATURE: A Look Back at Star Wars and Its Amazing Legacy in IMAX
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Happy Friday, IMAX fans, and welcome back to another edition of Friday Feature. Today marks the culmination of many months of waiting for countless people around the globe as Lucasfilm’s all-new epic adventure — _Rogue One: A Star Wars Story_ — arrives in IMAX theatres worldwide.

In celebration of the release, we’re looking back at the _Star Wars_ franchise and its amazing legacy in IMAX.

For many fans, going to see a _Star Wars_ film in IMAX has become a new tradition and the best way to experience the saga.

One notorious group, for instance, has lined up at the TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX in Hollywood for every _Star Wars_ film, including this weekend with _Rogue One_. Numbers have ranged on average from 150 to 200 people. Last year, the TCL even played host to a wedding on opening day of _Star Wars: The Force Awakens_ — the highest-grossing film in IMAX of all time.

In 2002, _Star Wars_: Episode II _Attack of the Clones_ marked the first time a _Star Wars_ film was offered in IMAX.

At the time, Jim Ward, VP of marketing for Lucasfilm commented on the release saying, “For the first time fans of Star Wars will be able to see all their favorite characters, environments, vehicles and droids in a setting that is up to eight stories high and over a hundred feet wide.”

Now with _Rogue One_, IMAX fans have the opportunity to return to the _Star Wars_ universe and experience it in the best possible format now playing in IMAX theatres worldwide.

Go _Rogue_ in IMAX! See you there!