Sweden’s most watched movies of 2017: Star Wars beaten by film you’ve never heard of
So what powerhouse was big enough to topple even Star Wars? A movie adaptation of a long-running TV sitcom that most people outside of Scandinavia have probably never even heard of: Solsidan. Watched 782,367 times between being released on December 1st and the end of 2017, it was by some …
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Star Wars actors mock fan who recut film to remove women
A fan-made recut of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, designed to remove women from the film, has been mocked on social media by the movie’s stars. The film writer and critic Priscilla Page posted a link to a news report about the recut, adding a long, drawn-out laugh to her tweet. priscilla page (@BBW_BFF).
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Disney reveals official synopsis for Solo: A Star Wars Story
Disney have released the official synopsis for Solo: A Star Wars Story, after many fans expected the first trailer. Director Ron Howard left many believing a trailer would be released last week after a teasing tweet, but it seems we’ll have to make do with the similar joys of a vague plot synopsis.
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‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Director Explains How the End Ties Into Rey’s Parents
The latest film in the Star Wars saga has been one of the most successful movies of all time, though it’s not without mixed critical response. Fans have been divisive over the film and its many reveals, including the identities (or lack thereof) of Rey’s parents. But director Rian Johnson revealed he made a …
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Rian Johnson Teases Where His New Star Wars Trilogy Is Going
Thanks to a variety of novels, comic books and animated series, the Star Wars saga is full of incredible characters and events that could lend well to a live-action adaptation. Following the announcement that Rian Johnson would be crafting a trilogy of new Star Wars films immediately made fans theorize …
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Star Wars Offered Japanese Audiences A Choice Between Dark And Light Versions Of The Last Jedi
At 4DX screenings in Japan, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the theater provides both the light and dark versions at the same time. Through vibrations, seat tilting, wind, fog, strobe and other effects, different aspects of the action depicted in the movie are enhanced depending on whether you’ve chosen the …
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As Tourists Flock, Ireland Savors the “Star Wars”
The December 15 release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi compelled several tour operators to launch Star Wars–themed tours that visit filming locations in Ireland, including Donegal, Cork, and the island Skellig Michael, off the coast of County Kerry. This isn’t the first time Ireland has basked in a cinematic …
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Star Wars: Rian Johnson Explains Why Luke Skywalker Isn’t a Coward in ‘The Last Jedi’
The latest Star Wars movie was met with a divisive response from fans, despite being one of the most critically praised films in the franchise. Many took umbrage with how Luke Skywalker was portrayed in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, hiding out on the island of Ahch-To after one of his greatest failures …
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Some Of The Names Star Wars Almost Went With Instead Of BB-8
C-3PO and R2-D2 have spent decades being the two most popular droids in the Star Wars universe for decades, but 2015’s The Force Awakens delivered them a competitor in the form of BB-8. The adorable ball droid quickly became a fan favorite, and he returned to assist our main protagonists last …
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Disney releases the official plot synopsis for Solo: A Star Wars Story
Given what we know about Han Solo from the original Star Wars movies, there are a handful of major events that surely everyone assumes will be addressed in Ron Howard’s Solo: A Star Wars Story, including Han’s first meeting with Chewbacca, him winning the Millennium Falcon from Lando, and him …
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Lucasfilm releases plot synopsis for Solo: A Star Wars Story
Those words from Han Solo in 1977’s original Star Wars could easily be the tagline for the new standalone film Solo: A Star Wars Story. Lucasfilm released a plot synopsis for the May 25 film that sheds a little more light on the story, which takes place several years before Han had his fateful meeting with …
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How One Major Star Wars: The Last Jedi Scene Called Back To A Classic Han Solo Moment
Star Wars: The Last Jedi is full of incredibly dramatic and visually beautiful moments. One such moment is in the latter half of the film when, in an act of desperation, Vice Admiral Holdo turns the Resistance ship, the Raddus, into a weapon and jumps to hyperspace, bisecting Snoke’s ship, the Supremacy.
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First Official Synopsis for ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Teases an Eventful Adventure
Disney has released an official synopsis for Solo: A Star Wars Story, a major new Star Wars movie that’s coming out in a little over four months, and for which we haven’t seen so much as a single official image. Indeed, many assumed Lucasfilm would push Solo to December to give director Ron Howard …
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Official Synopsis for Solo: A Star Wars Story Revealed
Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in Solo: A Star Wars Story, an all-new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot …
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Star Wars: The most divisive films of the space opera series revealed using maths
A Reddit user has used maths to determine which Star Wars films in the franchise are the most and least divisive. The internet movie fan known as TheNeptunianSloth used data from IMDb to rank the films that cause the most and least disagreement. The idea behind this undertaking came from the …
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How Star Wars Is Going To Tell Rose’s Prequel Story
Anytime a new Star Wars character is introduced, the franchise’s ardent fanbase seeks to learn as much as they can about that new character. The films aren’t the only place you can learn about these characters, either. There are tons of books and comics and all manner of supplemental materials you …
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All 9 ‘Star Wars’ movies, ranked by how much money they made at the US box office
With “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” starting to wind down its theatrical run — becoming the highest-grossing movie of 2017 in the US, though underperforming in some regions overseas (especially China) — it’s a good time to take a look at how all the “Star Wars” movies have done at the domestic box office.
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One Key Reason Star Wars May Have Decided To Scrap The Extended Universe
While there are many different opinions on whether or not this was the right decision, one member of the Star Wars Story Team, Leland Chee, believes there was one specific reason why cutting the EU out was a good idea: Bringing back a very important Wookie. Speaking in the Fandom Files Podcast, …
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Star Wars Han Solo movie trailer DELAYED for TWO reasons: Will it debut at Superbowl?
… months and we have nothing, we need something, I still have no excitement for this movie simply because I have no idea what this movie is about exactly, we have been patient with Disney and Star Wars and we deserve something!!” Solo: A Star Wars Story is released in UK cinemas on May 25, 2018.
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Star Wars Battlefront 2 New Update Out Now; Here’s What It Does
Battlefront II’s 1.1 update is headlined by a couple of pieces of new content. Specifically, the patch adds a version of the planet Crait built for Blast mode. In addition, Iden Versio’s TIE Fighter has been added as a playable Hero ship in multiplayer. Its special abilities include Afterburner, which gives it a …
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A ‘men’s activist’ makes a 46-minute cut of Star Wars: The Last Jedi without the women in it so he …
Some guy who is cross that women exist has made a ‘fanedit’ (sic) of Star Wars: The Last Jedi which removes the significant female characters and scenes from the movie. As reported on Pedestrian, the user-titled ‘Chauvanist Cut’ (sic), which is also described as “basically The Last Jedi minus Girlz …
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Star Wars: Qui-Gon Jinn FORCE GHOST return but in WHICH movie? Liam Neeson speaks
Qui-Gon was shocking dispatched by Darth Maul and his pesky double-ended lightsaber in Star Wars 1: Attack of the Clones. Later on in the prequel trilogy, Yoda actually explains to Obi-Wan how his former master has discoeverd the secret to continuing beyond death. Although fans had seen the …
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Liam Neeson weighs in on possible Star Wars return as Qui-Gon Jinn
Before the days of hunting down, finding and killing baddies who have taken his daughter, Liam Neeson was hunting down, finding and killing baddies on the dark side of the Force. His appearance in the Star Wars universe as Jedi master Qui-Gon Jinn was all-too-short after dying at the end of The …
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‘Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire’ brings the Force to VR
There were many concerns I had before entering Downtown Disney’s the Void, home to the recently opened virtual reality experience “Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire,” but breaking into a trot wasn’t one of them. As a skeptical admirer of virtual reality technology, I’m accustomed to the disorientation and …
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Star Wars Battlefront 2 gets first update of 2018
Star Wars Battlefront 2 has been patched – the game’s first update of 2018. The headline features are a new map for Blast mode – on the eye-catching red/salt planet of Crait – and a new Hero ship for Starfighter Assault in the form of Iden Versio’s modified TIE fighter. Battlefront 2’s microtransactions are …
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