Joe Rogan criticizes ‘Disney-fied’ Star Wars: Characters were all black and Asian, with women …
“It was like a Disney Star Wars movie. Everything is super diversified. The characters were all black and Asian women. There’s women that are generals. The women are running things. “It was okay. It was a fun movie. It was fun, but it was like,” Rogan said as he rolled his eyes. “It got Disney-fied. It’s like …
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Kevin Smith Admits Fans Hate Star Wars: The Last Jedi
In addition, Star Wars: The Last Jedi is performing nowhere near as well as Star Wars: The Force Awakens at the box office and is more comparable to the standalone Star Wars: Rogue One, a movie not a part of the original trilogy and not featuring any of the original or returning actors, and a movie that …
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China box office: ‘Jumanji’ wins the weekend while ‘Star Wars’ continues to flop
Disney’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi failed to stir up strong interest and fell to fourth place with $10.9m for $42m after 10 days. Its final gross is expected to be far below Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Rogue One: A Star War Story. Although the Chinese audiences are not entirely unfamiliar with Star …
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‘Star Wars’ Musical Pencil Video Goes Viral
The video shows Arizona college student Dani Ochoa writing an algebraic equation to the rhythm of the “Cantina Theme” from Star Wars: A New Hope, according to the Arizona Republic. Facebook; Twitter; Flipboard; Email. Get The Stories That Grabbed Us This Week. Delivered to your inbox, these are …
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‘Air-gapped’ MacBooks and encrypted e-readers: how Disney stopped Star Wars leaks
The latest Star Wars movies have been among the most hotly-anticipated films of all time, and that means there are plenty of people who could profit from finding out their secrets ahead of release. And that in turn means some pretty drastic measures have had to be taken in order to keep the details of …
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Disney to release Star Wars Rivals for smartphones
If you are living down in Australia, you have been able to play Star Wars: Rivals for smartphones since last summer, but that’s the only region it been launched in so far. Now that’s about to change as the game will be released launched elsewhere. The game is PvP based and shares some similarities …
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The Working Class Awakens: ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ and the Birth of the Multitude
Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi may be the first Star Wars movie with a clear class consciousness. For the first time, the storied film franchise moves beyond the noble Skywalker family to focus on a ragtag collective of “nobodies”. The Last Jedi moves, in other words, from a family saga to a class …
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‘Star Wars: Episode 9’: Production and filming update
A picture of Daisy Ridley as Rey in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” Facebook/ Star Wars. The production of “Star Wars: Episode 9” is reportedly slated to begin by June this year. The delay in the filming may have been because of the changes in the script that Director and Writer J. J. Abrams has made.
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When Star Wars finally became the top-rented video of all time
December 1997 was notable in the world of US VHS rentals, then, because it marked the point were Star Wars finally toppled E.T. The Extra Terrestrial from the top of the rankings. Spielberg’s 1982 alien tale was the top-grossing US video rental for 14 years before Star Wars finally toppled it. And the top …
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China Box Office: ‘Jumanji’ Clobbers Competition With $40M, ‘Last Jedi’ Crashes and Burns
‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ crumbled 91 percent in its second weekend in China, earning just $2.4 million — a shocking flameout for 2017’s biggest global film. Dwane Johnson’s Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle roared into China over the weekend, racking up a strong $40 million. The Sony tentpole finally …
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Kevin Smith Explains Why There’s So Much Hate For Star Wars: The Last Jedi
“With Force Awakens you get the nostalgia rush, like, maybe we weren’t as judgy about that movie as people are being about Last Jedi because like we’re going to give you, we’re going to make three Star Wars movies, here’s the first one and there ain’t a hint of Jar Jar in it, enjoy and so the audience is …
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STAR WARS FORCES OF DESTINY: REY Review
STAR WARS FORCES OF DESTINY: REY is a story aimed at a younger audience of STAR WARS fans. I may not be the target audience for this particular flavor of STAR WARS but, because it bears the title, I could not resist. Unlike the mainstream STAR WARS comic line, which Marvel publishes, …
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STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI Passes BEAUTY AND THE BEAST To Become The Highest …
We recently reported that Star Wars: The Last Jedi must now be considered a flop in China after grossing just $38.8 million before being pulled from over 90% of screenings, but that won’t be considered much of a setback for Rian Johnson’s space adventure, which continues to rake it in everywhere else.
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Conjuring New Jedi Tricks
The wizards of The Third Floor reveal a few of the secrets of their work on Star Wars: The Last Jedi. As Revenge of the Sith marked the conclusion of the Star Wars prequel trilogy, it also brought a group of artists together who went on to establish the visualization company know as The Third Floor.
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Kevin Smith Knows Why Fans Hate The Last Jedi
Disney’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi is one of the most divisive Star Wars movies to ever be released and it has sparked intense debate amongst hardcore fans. Rian Johnson has gone out of his way to appease fans and detail the reasoning behind every tiny decision that he made and one of the biggest …
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Kevin Smith Thinks Millennium Falcon Will Be Next Big Star Wars Loss
The Star Wars franchise is sort of entering new territory after the release of The Last Jedi, with fans speculating how the story will resolve in Episode IX. According to fan-favorite director Kevin Smith, that could involve a rather heartbreaking goodbye. During a recent episode of his Fatman on Batman …
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi becomes 2017’s highest-grossing movie as the franchise passes $9 billion
It was always inevitable really, but now it’s official: Star Wars: The Last Jedi is the highest-grossing release of 2017, with Episode VIII pushing its global total to $1.2649 billion, surpassing the $1.2635 billion haul of fellow Disney title Beauty and the Beast. The Last Jedi is the second-highest grossing Star …
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‘Star Wars’: BB-8 Almost Had a Completely Different Name
An incredible amount of work and thought are put into each creature in the Star Wars galaxy. But what about the lovable droids who stand alongside the human heroes of the franchise? That includes BB-8, who was introduced in Star Wars: The Force Awakens as Poe Dameron’s best friend and, once …
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Uncharted Writer Amy Hennig Says Non-Release Of New Star Wars Project Is “Killing Her”
Sometimes the toils in the video game industry can be tough to take. Just ask anyone at Visceral Games, the studio that was hard at work on a new Star Wars project alongside writer Amy Hennig, before Electronic Arts abruptly closed up shop and shifted the project to a new developer, in the hopes of …
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The 16 Best (And 16 Worst) Star Wars Characters
The Star Wars saga is filled to the brim with all kinds of characters, spanning all types of species, and one of the most remarkable aspects of the franchise is the rich history behind nearly every character that graces the screen. The series has brought some of cinema’s most beloved characters to life, but …
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Kevin Smith Explains Why There Was So Much Hate For ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’
Kevin Smith may be one of the most vocal Star Wars fans in Hollywood and while he is a fan of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, he also has an opinion as to why so many others did not. The filmmaker recently said on his Fat Man on Batman podcast that the real reason there is so much hate for Rian Johnson’s …
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‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Now Among Top Ten Highest Grossing Movies Of All Time Worldwide
Star Wars: The Last Jedi is one of the ten highest grossing movies of all time. Star Wars: The Last Jedi’s domestic total now stands at $591.5 million. Its foreign total has climbed to $673.4 million. Worldwide, the film has grossed $1.26 billion. That’s enough to knock Beauty and the Beast out of the top ten …
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Why Grand Admiral Thrawn is the Jon Snow of STAR WARS
Grand Admiral Thrawn is the Jon Snow of Star Wars…just with fewer stab wounds and a less glorious mane of hair. One look at Thrawn and Jon Snow and you might not think they’d have much in common beyond both being people who go by assumed names (i.e. Mitth’raw’nuruodo for Thrawn, Aegon …
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‘Jumanji’ Keeps Offshore Crown, Nears $400M; ‘Last Jedi’ Waltzes Past ‘Beauty’ Worldwide …
Refresh for latest…: Major holdovers and expansions, combined with sprinklings of key awards contender releases kept offshore turnstiles clicking to varied offerings this weekend. In highlights, Sony’s Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle leads the action again, rocking up with another $81M including a …
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Box Office: ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Is (Finally!) 2017’s Biggest Movie
Walt Disney’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi ended its first month of domestic release with a sad/shameful $591 million domestic. The sci-fi sequel earned another $11.25m (-51%) in its fifth weekend to set the stage for a 32-day total of around $595m by tomorrow. If it can get to $600m domestic before Friday, …
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