Star Wars Mania Comes to Hollywood & Highland!

The tents are up! The red carpet is down! A half-mile stretch of Hollywood Boulevard has been closed to traffic for tonight’s world premiere of the highly anticipated Star Wars: The Force Awakens – and to paraphrase future President Trump: It’s gonna be huuuuuuuuuuuuuge!

In an unprecedented show of camaraderie, the movie will premiere for VIP audiences in three separate theaters at the same time – the iconic TCL Chinese Theatre (which hosted the premiere of the original “Star Wars” in 1977), the nearby El Capitan Theatre, and the adjacent Dolby Theatre, home of the Oscars. If you know anything about Hollywood, you know that it’s CRAZY for three different Theater chains to be so accommodating to each other!

Look at the Instagram pics below!

Ja estou aqui em Los Angeles pra premiere bapho de #StarWars hoje! Eles fecharam toda Hollywood Boulevard pra pre-estreia! Vai ser demais! #starwarspremiere

A video posted by Hugo Gloss (@hugogloss) on Dec 14, 2015 at 1:38pm PST

See this Luke. All this will be yours #maytheforcebewithyou #starwarspremiere #workperks A photo posted by Amanda Kay (@amanran) on Dec 14, 2015 at 2:08pm PST

A Little Behind the Scene!! #starwars #forceawakens #forceisstrong #crewguys #r2d2 #starwarspremiere #darkside #lightside #behindthescenes

A video posted by Tiensirin Tienngern (@2tienz) on Dec 14, 2015 at 1:54pm PST

Hoje está acontecendo a premiere de @starwars em Los Angeles. Como eu gostaria de está lá ☹️ #starwarspremiere A photo posted by @babadissimos on Dec 14, 2015 at 1:53pm PST

#forceawakens #starwarspremiere

A photo posted by Beckie (@mrs_bonifassi) on Dec 14, 2015 at 1:25pm PST

The premier for #starwars this week is bigger then Oscars… #hollywood #movies #starwarspremiere #losangeles A photo posted by Pro175 (@pro175) on Dec 14, 2015 at 1:28pm PST

Came home to metal detectors outside my door! #thanks #starwars #starwarspremiere #ugh #lol #hollywood #hollywoodlife #hollywoodproblems

A photo posted by Koi Anunta (@cataclysmickoi) on Dec 14, 2015 at 12:53pm PST

#starwarspremiere #chinesetheatre #starwars A photo posted by Jennifer N. Martinez (@jen_jen1581) on Dec 14, 2015 at 10:40am PST

StarWars premiere entrance #starwarspremiere #starwars

A photo posted by @sabrisansoy on Dec 14, 2015 at 9:34am PST

Star Wars World Premiere day! FYI-if you do not have to go to Hollywood, stay away. I just went through 6 security gates just to go to Starbucks and walk around lol #starwars #starwarspremiere #starwarsprep #jjabrams #disney #insanity A photo posted by Tara A Dettman (@lenoreelux) on Dec 14, 2015 at 9:02am PST

Nobena skrivnost ni, da bo ta teden v znamenju Vojne zvezd! Svetovna premiera bo danes (no pri nas ponoči) v Los Angelesu, kjer feni že taborijo, ceste so zaprte, kulisa se pripravlja… Spremljajte nas še naprej za nove ekskluzivne slike! #starwarstheforceawakens #starwars #losangeles #starwarspremiere

A photo posted by CineplexxSi (@cineplexxsi) on Dec 14, 2015 at 2:03am PST

Can’t wait to watch the marathon from 3am and the new movie. #starwarspremiere #Iamready #nyc #starwars #yolo

A photo posted by ^kinata09^ (@kinata09) on Dec 13, 2015 at 9:27am PST

Hollywood Boulevard gets ready for Rey. #starwarspremiere #theforceawakens A photo posted by Lizo (@lizo_mzimba) on Dec 12, 2015 at 5:53pm PST

TMZ is reporting that security around Hollywood and Highland is tighter than its ever been:

Disney and LAPD are taking no chances for Monday night’s massive ‘Star Wars’ premiere — locking down a chunk of Hollywood with metal detectors and random searches.
LAPD and private security officers are already blanketing several square blocks around the famed Chinese Theatre, where ‘The Force Awakens’ event is going down. We’ve learned anyone strolling through the area could be searched, frisked, and even wanded with metal detectors.

Law enforcement sources tell us there’s no specific threat, but they’re using an “abundance of caution” with such a high profile event. While no one used the word “terrorism” … it’s clearly a concern.

We’re told Disney is kicking in about $20,000 to hire extra LAPD officers … plain clothed and uniformed. As one source puts it, with all the fans showing up, the ‘Star Wars’ premiere is going to be like a “mini Oscars” … so better safe than sorry.

 

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