Star Wars: The Last Jedi Comic Will Dive Into DJ’s Backstory
An upcoming comic book will reveal the backstory behind Star Wars: The Last Jedi character DJ, played by Benicio del Toro. The Star Wars franchise has always been about the battle between good and evil. The movies acknowledge the relationship between the light and the dark, and the stories are …
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Why ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’s Political Themes Are a Rally Cry for 2018
Star Wars: The Last Jedi is a very timely film, which keeps with the franchise’s tradition of offering fans socio-political messages wrapped up in an intergalactic adventure tale. Given the turbulent times surrounding The Last Jedi’s arrival in theaters, it’s no surprise that fans are latching on hard to the …
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Star Wars: Explore Ahch-To With New ‘The Last Jedi’ Behind-the-Scenes Featurette
The Star Wars saga is known for introducing audiences to a variety of strange and peculiar locales, whether they be inhospitable climates or worlds full of strange creatures. The Last Jedi continued this tradition by introducing audiences to Ahch-To, where Luke Skywalker sought refuge and isolation …
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Why Koo Stark is the greatest female hero Star Wars never had
If you’ve been to see The Last Jedi, the eighth and latest instalment of the Star Wars franchise which has spanned 40 Earth years and counting, you’d be forgiven for thinking that life was fairly progressive a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Female leads are the norm in The Last Jedi and its 2015 …
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How Star Wars: The Last Jedi Asks More of Its Redemption Arc
The redemption arc has long been the Rey’s Portion Bread (and butter) of the Star Wars franchise. The crux of the final film in the original trilogy is the possibility of Darth Vader’s redemption. The prequels are all about trying to convince us why we should care about that redemption outside of what it …
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi finally proves that the Jedi suck
After Lucasfilm announced that the eighth Star Wars movie would be called Star Wars: The Last Jedi, people had questions. Is that singular or plural Jedi? If singular, than who is the last Jedi? What’s going to happen to them? Is it truly the end, or is it a beginning? [Warning: This post contains major …
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‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’: How Snoke Possibly Concealed His True Identity
Star Wars: The Last Jedi made a point to cut down a lot of fan theory on Supreme Leader Snoke, by literally cutting down the villain in a surprise twist. However, there are a lot of Star Wars fans who believe their eyes deceived them and that Snoke is still alive, to be revealed in Star Wars: Episode IX.
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Netflix’s The Toys That Made Us explains how Star Wars changed toys forever
If you’ve run out of holiday classics to snuggle up with during holiday vacation, allow me to recommend The Toys That Made Us, a new documentary series on Netflix. Don’t let the first episode’s opening scene of a low-budget historical recreation put you off. This is a serious documentary about iconic …
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Disney’s Star Wars Movies Just Passed A Significant Milestone
In what should come as no surprise whatsoever, Star Wars: The Last Jedi is continuing to earn a lot of money. The sequel had the second-biggest domestic opening of all time, is due to reach the $1 billion mark worldwide over the new year, and is on route to be the highest grossing film of 2017. This is …
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‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Nears $1 Billion at Worldwide Box Office
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” is inching closer to the $1 billion milestone, with worldwide grosses set to hit the mark before New Year’s Eve. Disney-Lucasfilm’s “The Last Jedi” earned $934.2 million worldwide after pulling in $42.1 million globally on Thursday to reach $464.6 million domestically in two …
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Star Wars franchise surpasses $4 billion, the price of Disney’s Lucasfilm buy
The latest ticket sales from Star Wars: The Last Jedi brings the combined box office total for The Force Awakens, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and The Last Jedi past the $4.05 billion mark. Though that number doesn’t account for the costs to produce and market each of those films, it still validates the …
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Show of Force: Mark Hamill’s three kids had cameos in Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Rian Johnson may have written and directed Star Wars: The Last Jedi, but it was really a Hamill family affair through and through. Mark Hamill made his long-awaited return as Jedi Master Luke Skywalker and he also played a second role as one of the aliens during the Canto Bight scenes. However …
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Box Office: ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Tops $900M As ‘Jumanji’ And ‘Pitch Perfect 3’ Rock Out
Star Wars: The Last Jedi topped the box office yet again for a $19.4 million Thursday gross. That’s the second-biggest “day 14” Thursday gross ever behind The Force Awakens’ $22.9m day-14 total. That’s up 8% from last Thursday, meaning that every single “second weekday” gross for the Star Wars …
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Why Star Wars: The Last Jedi Couldn’t Actually End The Jedi, According To Rian Johnson
A significant narrative thread that runs through the bulk of Star Wars: The Last Jedi’s story is how to deal with the past. For tortured characters like Kylo Ren and Luke Skywalker, that involves forgetting it and even killing if necessary. However, by Rian Johnson’s estimation of the situation, that’s not a …
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‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Rumors: Will it Flop?
Fan outrage over the “purity” of Star Wars post-The Last Jedi is, apparently, also a problem. Solo is looking to explore the life of one of the series’ most iconic characters; at first, fans argued that Alden Ehrenreich, who will portray young Han in Solo, looked nothing like Harrison Ford. And now, stoking …
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George Lucas admits he ‘may have gone too far’ with ‘Star Wars: The Phantom Menace’
George Lucas admitted to a screening audience that he “may have gone too far” with “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.” (Reuters). Director George Lucas admitted to a screening audience that he “may have gone too far in a few places” when it came to 1999’s “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.”.
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The new ‘Star Wars’ movies have already made more than the $4 billion Disney paid for the …
With “The Last Jedi” making over $900 million worldwide at the box office, Disney-owned “Star Wars” movies have combined to earn over $4.06 billion. That’s how much Disney paid for Lucasfilm, the company that makes the “Star Wars” movies, in 2012.
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Unbridled Rage Star Wars TLJ
Unbridled Rage Star Wars TLJ STAR WARS Discussion.
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Star Wars – Darth Bane – La dinastia del male
Star Wars – Darth Bane – La dinastia del male o semplicemente La dinastia del male (Dynasty of Evil) è un romanzo del 2009 scritto da Drew Karpyshyn facente parte dell’Universo espanso di Guerre stellari. Il romanzo è il terzo della serie Darth Bane, incentrata sulla vita dello stesso e della sua …
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Disney’s ‘Star Wars’ Movies Have Already Raked In More Than It Cost To Buy Lucasfilm
There was never really any doubt going into this, but it looks like Disney’s decision to buy Lucasfilm for the rights to Star Wars was a smart financial decision. If you needed more confirmation, it comes in the form of The Last Jedi pushing the take on Disney’s three Star Wars installments up above $4 …
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Star Wars fan video updates Obi-Wan and Darth Vader lightsaber battle with intense twist
There are many virtues to Star Wars: A New Hope. More than 40 years after its release, George Lucas’ original film remains the gold standard for what has become a world-spanning pop culture franchise. But in at least one respect, A New Hope does lag behind its many successors: The lightsaber action …
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Why The ‘Last Jedi’ Backlash Won’t Hurt ‘Star Wars Episode IX’
By the way, if this all comes to pass, then Star Wars: The Last Jedi will have earned in its first 17 days ($520m) what The Avengers had earned in its first 25 days ($523m). And it’ll be pacing way ahead of Jurassic World ($500m after 17 days) to remain the second-fastest grosser of all time behind The …
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Why Star Wars: The Last Jedi Isn’t Actually a Box-Office Disappointment
There’s an odd debate happening right now around the box-office performance of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Said debate stems from the film’s second-weekend performance, which followed the second-largest opening weekend of all time, ranking only behind its predecessor, Star Wars: The Force …
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The One Change ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Should Have Actually Made
I loved Canto Bight as a new location for Star Wars full of the elites making money off the never-ending war between the Empire/First Order and Republic/Resistance. I think it adds color to the Star Wars universe, and the storyline helps bolster Finn and Rose as characters as well. Just because a plotline …
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‘Star Wars’ Franchise Crosses $4 Billion, Eclipsing Disney’s Lucasfilm Price
From the get-go, Wall Street analysts lauded The Walt Disney Co.’s decision in 2012 to buy Lucasfilm — home of George Lucas’ Star Wars franchise — despite a high price tag of $4.06 billion. They weren’t wrong in their enthusiasm for Disney chairman/CEO Bob Iger’s empire-building. Combined …
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