‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ will debut at Cannes
Lucasfilm announced today that “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” which depicts Solo’s life before the events of “Star Wars: A New Hope,” would have its premiere at the festival before opening in France on May 23 and in the United States two days later. The film’s director, Ron Howard, is expected to attend the …
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Rian Johnson Explains How He’s Approaching Making a New Star Wars Trilogy
By Joe Skrebels Rian Johnson has explained to IGN how he’s approaching his new Star Wars trilogy, seemingly the first mainline Star Wars movies outside of ‘The Skywalker Saga’. “We’re just at the very beginning of figuring out what this new thing is going to be,” he explained in an interview with IGN, …
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‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Is Going to Cannes
The Cannes Film Festival has hosted representatives of the Star Wars galaxy before: The second installment of George Lucas’s prequel trilogy, “Star Wars: Attack of the Clones” (2002), screened there after having a premiere in New York. “Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith,” the culmination of the prequel …
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Star Wars spin-off to be presented at Cannes
PARIS (AFP) – The latest spin-off in the Star Wars saga, dedicated to Han Solo, will be screened at Cannes next month, the film festival announced on Friday (April 6). Solo: A Star Wars Story will grace the festival’s red carpet ahead of its release in France and the US. “Presented out of competition, the …
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‘Solo: A Star Wars Movie’ to get world premiere at Cannes festival
(Reuters) – The latest “Star Wars” movie spinoff, “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” will get its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, organizers announced on Friday. A glitzy red-carpet premiere in the French coastal city is scheduled for May 15, ten days before the film opens in theaters around the …
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Star Wars spinoff ‘Solo’ to premiere at Cannes Film Festival
NEW YORK — “Solo: A Star Wars Story” will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, bringing a galaxy far away to the world’s most prestigious film festival. The French festival announced Friday that the “Star Wars” spinoff will premiere out of competition at this year’s festival shortly before opening in French …
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Solo: A Star Wars Story to screen at Cannes Film Festival
The Star Wars spin off-film about the young Han Solo will be shown at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. It’s the first screening of Solo: A Star Wars Story to be confirmed. The film – starring Alden Ehrenreich in the role that made Harrison Ford a star – will be shown out of competition at Cannes, reportedly …
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Star Wars Will Return to the Cannes Film Festival With ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’
Star Wars will return to the Cannes Film Festival with the global premiere of Solo: A Star Wars Story, debuting out of competition on May 15. Solo is not the first Star Wars film to debut at the star-studded event. Two of the prequel trilogy films, Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Episode III: Revenge of the …
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This week’s best home entertainment: from Star Wars: The Last Jedi to Plebs
(Left to right) James Franco in The Disaster Artist; John Boyega in Star Wars: The Last Jedi; Gemma Arterton in Urban Myths; Crystal Reed in Gotham; and Tilda Swinton in A Bigger Splash. Composite: Justina Mintz/Warner Bros; Lucasfilm/Walt Disney Pictures; Steven Peskett/Sky UK; Sandro Kopp/ …
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Solo: A Star Wars Story to receive world premiere at Cannes
Solo: A Star Wars Story will receive its world premiere in the lofty setting of the Cannes film festival, according to multiple reports. The latest Star Wars spinoff, which stars Alden Ehrenreich as a young Han Solo, will receive a special screening out of competition at the festival on 15 May, before receiving a …
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Solo: A Star Wars Story Premiering at Cannes Film Festival
A wookie on the Promenade de la Croisette? Believe it, folks. Chewie, Han Solo and the gang will be at the Cannes Film Festival, where Solo: A Star Wars Story is having its premiere. Screening out of competition, Ron Howard’s galactic adventure, the second-ever stand-alone Star Wars film after Rogue …
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Solo: A Star Wars Story ‘to debut at Cannes Film Festival’
The Ron Howard-directed motion picture – which stars Alden Ehrenreich as a young Han Solo – is set to be featured at the iconic movie event, with sources claiming the project will be screened on May 15. Insiders told Deadline that following the special Cannes-based screening ‘Solo’ will hold its global …
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‘Star Wars’ fanatics show off lightsaber skills
The academy was founded in 2016 by Nicole Hruska, who combined her two passions — “Star Wars” and theatrics — within cosplay and lightsaber combat. Hruska was a part of the Lone Star Saber Academy in Austin, but when she moved to Lincoln, she said she knew she wanted to continue sparring …
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‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Will Debut At The Cannes Film Festival
The 71st Cannes Film Festival will play host to the world premiere of Solo: A Star Wars Story on May 15 with a special screening reports Deadline. News of the screening comes as somewhat of a surprise, although it’s not particularly far removed from the May 25 release date for the United States.
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Solo: A Star Wars Story tipped to premiere at Cannes Film Festival
Solo: A Star Wars Story will first be seen in front of the passionate cinema-goers of the world. Lucasfilm and Disney have picked the 71st Cannes Film Festival on May 15 to debut it, according to The Hollywood Reporter. This is the first time one of Disney’s new Star Wars films has premiered at Cannes.
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‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ to Premiere at Cannes Film Festival
Alden Ehrenreich stars as a young Han Solo and Donald Glover plays fellow smuggler Lando Calrissian. Emilia Clarke and Woody Harrelson also topline the space opera, directed by Ron Howard, who replaced Phil Lord and Chris Miller after the duo was fired last summer over creative differences.
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‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Will Premiere at Cannes Film Festival
While many of us are mostly eager to watch the new Star Wars trilogy conclude with Episode IX in 2019, there’s a lot fans out there relying on the spin-off entries in-between the main cinematic storyline chapters to tide them over. Most recently, it was Rogue One, which focused on the Rebel Alliance and …
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When Solo: A Star Wars Story Will Finally Screen For Audiences
Our time with Harrison Ford as Han Solo ended in The Force Awakens when the beloved smuggler was killed by his own son, but the character still has at least one more cinematic appearance lined up. Alden Ehrenreich is taking over as Han for Solo: A Star Wars Story, which has already been …
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Solo: A Star Wars Story to Debut at Cannes
The Hollywood Reporter confirmed Solo’s appearances at the international film festival. Solo is not the first Stars Wars film to debut at Cannes — Attack of the Clones (2002) and Revenge of the Sith (2005) also had their premieres at the festival. Hopefully, Solo will be better received than its predecessors …
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Solo: A Star Wars Story will premiere at Cannes
We recently heard about two big things that won’t be at the Cannes Film Festival this year (specifically red carpet selfies and Netflix movies that qualify for competition), but now Deadline has the scoop on something that will be seen at Cannes: Solo: A Star Wars Story. According to the site’s sources, Ron …
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Will JJ Abrams Retcon STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI?
It’s been a few months since Star Wars: The Last Jedi completely destroyed fan theories that Rey was secretly related to the primary characters of the original trilogy. She’s not a Skywalker, or a Solo, or even a Kenobi—she’s simply a young woman whose parents abandoned her on Jakku. But according …
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Jedi Council: Will Anakin Return as a Force Ghost in ‘Star Wars: Episode IX’?
Denny’s released their “Hand of Sabacc” commercial as part of their partnership with Disney and Lucasfilm to promote Solo: A Star Wars Story. … AwesomeCon revealed that Daisy Ridley texted him to let him know that J.J. Abrams told her that Finn and Rey will be back together for Star Wars: Episode IX.
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The new ‘Star Wars’ movie about Han Solo will reportedly premiere at Cannes Film Festival
“Solo: A Star Wars Story” will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on May 15, according to Deadline. The report is a bit of a surprise since the movie is a franchise blockbuster, which are rarely show at the festival, but there is precedent: “Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith” was first shown at …
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Mark Hamill discusses the possibility of recasting Carrie Fisher in ‘Star Wars: Episode IX’
This image released by Lucasfilm shows Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” in theaters on Dec. 15. … After the tragic death of Carrie Fisher in 2016, fans are petitioning to recast the Princess/General Leia character in the ninth installment of the “Star Wars” franchise. However …
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story writer claims the film was in ‘terrible trouble’ during reshoots
A writer who was brought in to work on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story at the last minute has described the film as being in “such terrible, terrible trouble” when he arrived on the project. Tony Gilroy, who was speaking on podcast The Moment with Brian Koppelman, spoke about the reshoots that took …
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