Star Wars Junket Skips the Screening Part

Final PR score: Disney VII, press corps Nulla.

When film critic Devin Faraci tweeted way back at the beginning of October that “I honestly believe Disney could hold a Star Wars junket without even screening the movie for press,” he definitely knew what he was talking about. Overseas around that time and this past weekend in Los Angeles, that’s exactly what Disney did.

There was a lot of resulting social media chatter from unhappy film journalists. Then again, this is a film for which Disney could have gotten away with not even holding a press junket at all.

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