Stars turned out on both sides of the States on Sunday to attend celebrity-packed charity premieres of the latest Star Wars movie Attack Of The Clones. While Ewan McGregor and Samuel L Jackson were among the film’s actors at the West coast Los Angeles premiere, Natalie Portman joined a galaxy of stars, including Susan Sarandon and Michael J Fox and their kids, at a New York screening.
As the hype surrounding the film runs into overdrive, tickets for the New York premiere, which closed Robert De Niro’s Tribeca Film Festival, sold at anything from $500 to $1000. Natalie Portman, who plays Senator Padmé Amidala in the film, flashed a New York-logo tattoo on her wrist as she signed autographs for screaming fans at the Manhattan premiere.
“This is crazy, it’s wonderful, it’s frightening, it’s exciting,” she said.
Meanwhile, in San Francisco, the film’s director George Lucas joined nearly 800 cinema-goers who each paid $500 a ticket to see the movie just days before its US opening. Among the event's many beneficiaries were the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the California Mentor Foundation, Children’s Aid Society and the Fulfillment Fund – charities which help children in cities across the U.S.
The long-awaited next instalment of the Star Wars series, which has been experiencing good reviews so far, is released in Britain and the US on Thursday, May 16.
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