Jedi Performers Engage in Epic Lightsaber Challenge at the Top of the World's Tallest Building - Dubai's Burj Khalifa - as Star Wars: The Force Awakens Becomes Available for Digital Download

Jedi Performers Engage in Epic Lightsaber Challenge at the Top of the World's Tallest Building - Dubai's Burj Khalifa - as Star Wars: The Force Awakens Becomes Available for Digital Download

DUBAI, UAE, April 7, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --



To celebrate today's digital release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, two Jedi
performers ascended to new heights to engage in an epic lightsaber challenge on the 152nd
floor of the iconic Burj Khalifa in Dubai City - the world's tallest building. Star Wars:
The Force Awakens is available to download from iTunes and broadcaster OSN.



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Captured on video by an aerial film crew, the two Jedi performers practised a series
of complex lightsaber battle moves at a height of over 550m above sea level, while the sun
set over Dubai. 



The record-breaking release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens in December 2015 achieved
the highest grossing global opening weekend of all time ($528.967M), surpassing $1B in a
record 12 days and became the top grossing film of all time in the US, surpassing the
$760.5M lifetime gross of Avatar in a record-shattering 20 days of release.



As well as becoming the highest grossing film of all time in the US and crossing the
$800m mark at the international box office, Star Wars: The Force Awakens has broken a
further series of box office records since its global debut on 16 December 2015:




- biggest global IMAX debut ($48M) surpassing $152M in IMAX in a record 19 days
- the highest international debut in December history with $281M,
- #1 in many territories after posting the biggest opening weekend in at least 18 major
markets


The Middle East has a strong connection to Star Wars: The Force Awakens; filming took
place in two locations in Abu Dhabi during May 2014.  Abu Dhabi is the location used for
Jakku, a frontier desert planet in a remote section of the Outer Rim Territories 



The film stars Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley,
John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong'o, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels,
Peter Mayhew and Max Von Sydow. Kathleen Kennedy, J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk are producing
with Tommy Harper and Jason McGatlin serving as executive producers. The screenplay is by
Lawrence Kasdan & J.J. Abrams and Michael Arndt. 



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