Did You Know Star Wars Was the First Major Memorial Day Weekend Opening #Shorts | Star Wars Explained

Report from the Holocron of Xela. Description: Did you know that it was George Lucas’s idea to release Star Wars on Memorial Day weekend back in 1977? The two biggest weekends for movies were Christmas and the Fourth of July. Nobody opened on Memorial Day because kids weren’t out of school yet. But George chose that weekend for that exact reason, because he wanted kids to see the movie and then talk about it at school. George said people thought he was out of his mind, but his strategy paid off! #shorts --- Subscribe for more Star Wars videos every day! --- Support the channel: https://www.patreon.com/starwarsexplain Second channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5KUexDNjIDcGPz4nAY9mBw Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@starwarsexplain Alex on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/alexdamonlive Mollie on Twitch: http://twitch.tv/molliedamon Instagram: http://instagram.com/starwarsexplained Twitter: https://twitter.com/StarWarsExplain Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/starwarsexplained Discord: https://discord.gg/ZPwEnDT Google+: http://goo.gl/Q3gDkY Star Wars Tees: http://shrsl.com/?~9i83 Mailing Address Star Wars Explained 1227 Rockbridge Rd SW Ste 208 PMB 264 Stone Mountain, GA 30087


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