Why Subverting Expectations Was Incredibly Important To Star Wars: The Jedi, According To Mark …
Warning! Major spoilers to follow for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Come back later if you haven’t seen it yet. Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi is a film that surprised a lot of people. While fans had spent two years building up certain expectations for how events would go down in the anticipated sequel …
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The Epic Star Wars Experience That Just Might Top Every Single One of the Films
Starwars-Shot-1—Over-the-Shoulder-v1- Courtesy LenovoI waited 40 years for this moment. That’s how long it’s been since I first sat in a movie theater and I was transported to a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Problem was, though, that I wasn’t really transported anywhere and when the movie …
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Star Wars and Alternative Facts
The Star Wars community is in an uproar right now, and for an odd reason. There have been videos by various YouTubers about the Solo: A Star Wars story poster. In these videos, YouTubers claim that the posters have been changed. This is not the case. The posters that look different are international …
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Watch: ‘Star Wars: Last Jedi’ blooper reel features slap-happy Leia
The “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” blooper reel is out, courtesy of the official Star Wars YouTube channel, and much of the laughs from the minute and a half video centers around Carrie Fisher’s General Leia Organa character slapping Oscar Isaac’s Poe Dameron. Over and over and over again. We counted …
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The Star Wars Easter Eggs In Ready Player One
Staying true to the source material, the film adaptation of Ernest Cline’s novel contains a multitude of references to other movies and TV shows, but there was a point in time when it looked like Star Wars wouldn’t be one of them. Shortly before Ready Player One premiered in theaters, there was some …
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Watch Carrie Fisher Slap Oscar Isaac Across the Face (a Lot) in New Star Wars Blooper Reel
Disney and Lucasfilm released a Star Wars: The Last Jedi blooper reel on Wednesday to celebrate the film’s release on Blu-ray and DVD. The clip features plenty of laughs and character breaks from the cast, but perhaps the most entertaining part of the clip is watching Oscar Isaac get slapped by Carrie …
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Mark Hamill Calls on Disney to Slow Down on The ‘Star Wars’ Projects
Now, Disney is already on pace to break that record with five films within three years, including Episode VII: The Force Awakens, Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and the upcoming films Episode IX and Solo: A Star Wars Story. There’s also a “few Star Wars series” in the works …
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The Effects Strike Back: What ‘Ready Player One’ Owes To ‘Star Wars’
“Ready Player One” is a pop culture nostalgia trip to the ’80s and ’90s, but it’s the technology of today that makes it look the way it does. “I mean, I’ve seen a lot. Starting way back with my friend’s movie, ‘Star Wars‘ — George Lucas,” director Steven Spielberg told Variety. “From a movie like that up to a …
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Mark Hamill on the Best Viewing Order for the ‘Star Wars’ Films
I’ve reached the age where a lot of my friends have kids. When talking to them about movies, one of the things I keep getting asked about is my thoughts on the order they should show their kids the Star Wars movies. Some think they should watch them in the order the films were originally released.
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Mark Hamill, Rian Johnson on ‘Star Wars’ haters and critics in the age of social media
Hamill and Johnson spoke with CNN at the South by Southwest conference earlier this month and talked about Luke’s fate and what it’s like to field criticism from “Star Wars” superfans in the age of social media. The following conversation — which contains major spoilers about “Last Jedi” — has been …
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Simon Pegg Used His Star Wars Knowledge to Get an Extra Scene in The Force Awakens
As nerds are preparing for the premiere of Ready Player One, one of its stars, Simon Pegg, is living proof that being a hardcore fan can actually help you in the real world. It’s easy to miss Pegg’s cameo in The Force Awakens: he played Unkar Plutt, the no-necked, grouchy junk monger who pays Rey in …
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Massive Star Wars auction offers smuggler’s bounty of rare collectibles
If there’s one thing we were ever jealous of Rick Springfield for, it’s his tremendous collection of rare and limited Star Wars toys. What can we say, the man has tremendous taste in collectibles. Most of us can only dream of being able to gather such an impressive array of iconic Kenner pieces like those, …
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What Frank Oz Thinks Of Star Wars: The Last Jedi Backlash
It’s been months since its release, but cinephiles and Star Wars fans alike haven’t stopped dissecting every frame of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Rian Johnson’s explosive sequel purposefully subverted fan expectations, and delivered a ton of plot twists that just about nobody was expecting. Its because of …
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Mark Hamill Is Concerned About Star Wars Oversaturation
Mark Hamill is worried Solo: A Star Wars Story is coming too close on the heels of The Last Jedi. For a long time, it seemed that after George Lucas completed work on the Star Wars prequel trilogy that there would be no further movies from the franchise. That all changed in 2012 when it was announced …
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One Star Wars: The Force Awakens Plot Simon Pegg Pitched To JJ Abrams
Many people know that Simon Pegg plays a role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. However, it turns out Pegg’s influence on the movie went far beyond that, as he actually suggested a scene be included in the movie. During a recent appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Pegg revealed …
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Mark Hamill SLAMS Disney for Star Wars ‘over-saturation’ – ‘They should pace themselves’
… Lucasfilm has been churning out one a year. We’ve had The Force Awakens, Rogue One, The Last Jedi and now – just five months later – Solo is arriving in May. After that there’s Star Wars 9, two separate new trilogies, a TV show and more yet-to-be-announced spin-offs – and that’s just what’s been …
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Mark Hamill Is Worried About All Those New Star Wars Sequels
Disney is making sure that there will be Star Wars movies until your mortal soul fades from this Earth. Currently there are seven new movies in development—a trilogy from Game of Thrones showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff, and one from The Last Jedi writer/director Rian Johnson. Along with …
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Nvidia GTC: The new Disneyland Star Wars ride runs of Nvidia Quadro graphics
SAN JOSE, USA One of the highlights of yesterday’s GTC keynote was a demonstration of the next big Disneyland ride – a new Star Wars attraction called Galaxy’s Edge. NVIDIA has confirmed that it is working with Disney to create the look of the VR ride alongside Epic Games. The ride will involve a trip …
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Discover the Science of ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Black Panther’ at Future Con
And Live Science will be on hand to share a glimpse of Future Con highlights, from the droids of “Star Wars” — especially fan-favorite newcomer, BB-8 — to the sophisticated, vibranium-infused technology of Wakanda, featured in the blockbuster film “Black Panther.” [Nanotech’s Big Ideas: From Tumor …
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‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ 4K Blu-ray Review – Luke Back In Anger
Given that it currently enjoys a Rotten Tomatoes critics score of 91% and 7.4 on the IMDB, I guess I’m probably going to get crucified for saying this. But… Star Wars: The Last Jedi is a terrible film. I’m not talking here, I hasten to add, about any of the thematic stuff that’s caused so much debate in the Star …
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Mark Hamill Has Some Concerns About There Being Too Many Future Star Wars Movies
While Star Wars was originally seen as a slow-drip franchise — with the first six movies coming out in the span of 28 years — that’s definitely no longer the case. Disney spent $4.06 billion to purchase Lucasfilm in 2012, and now it looks like we’re going to be getting at least one new Star Wars title a year …
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New to Home Theaters: Latest Star Wars installment met with mixed emotions
Though critics positively accepted the latest Star Wars film, fans had a surprisingly different take on the Rian Johnson sequel. Known for his work on “Looper” and “The Brothers Bloom,” Johnson took the well-known franchise and made it his own in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.” The beloved Star Wars saga …
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In new ‘Star Wars: Last Jedi’ gag reel, Leia slaps Poe silly
There seems to be never-ending turmoil and tragedy in a galaxy far, far away, but that doesn’t mean everything about “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” is full of gloom and doom. Disney and Lucasfilm released a “Last Jedi” blooper reel on Wednesday to celebrate the film’s release on Blu-ray and DVD, and …
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Hilarious blooper shows it’s not easy being a Star Wars actor
In other Star Wars news, this week Mark Hamill claimed that his character, Jedi Master Luke Skywalker, would have died in Episode 9 of the Star Wars franchise in George Lucas’ version of the story. Instead, Hamill’s character died in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, which was written and directed by filmmaker …
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‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Box Office Profits Determined
It had the second highest opening box office ever, behind Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and is currently sitting pretty with a $1.3 billion gross. Deadline’s report breaks down the movie’s various costs to determine just how much the movie profited, coming to the $417.5 million by determining the …
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