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Link Time!!!
6 November 2009 1:00 PM, PST | Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news »
Ellen and Oprah on the cover of O magazine - PopEater George Lucas owns the Droid name, not the phone - GeekSugar Alexander Skarsgard and the cast of True Blood hit the red carpet - Lainey Gossip David Beckham and his Sharpie visit the kids - JustJared Lil Kim looks like she belongs in the Jackson family - Pink Is the New Blog Michael Lohan says God is punishing Lindsay - The Superficial Katy Perry's close call with a wardrobe malfunction - Egotastic Audrina multitasks while filming The Hills in La - Hollywood Tuna Shakira's hair causes a few stares - Hollywood Rag Celebs who love to show off their toned tummies - cityrag Pamela Anderson debuts her new fragrance - popbytes Vintage pic of John Hamm in uniform - D-Listed »
- PopSugar
Star Wars stormtrooper replica case back in court
4 November 2009 7:36 AM, PST | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »
In one corner we have George Lucas, the minted mastermind behind the Star Wars franchise with an estimate wealth of $3 billion and in the other, Andrew Ainsworth, a British prop designer. The two are fighting it out in the legal courts over stormtroopers, the iconic armoured soldiers from Lucas’s sci-fi saga. Ainsworth, the owner of Shepperton Design Studios worked for Lucas on the original Star Wars, sculpting the stormtroopers’ helmets but then went on to sell replicas of the full costumes without George’s say-so. And that’s where the trouble began. »
What if 'Empire Strikes Back' Included a Power Ballad?
4 November 2009 7:32 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
A little known fact about Empire Strikes Back was that George Lucas had popular singer/songwriter L.B. Rayne put together a righteous power ballad for the film's soundtrack, and supposedly the song -- titled "Skywalking" -- was to be featured throughout the film and over the credits as well. Lucas, however, scratched the idea at the last second, later admitting that it didn't really fit with the film's themes. Rumors suggest there's a lost cut of Empire Strikes Back that contains "Skywalking" in the film, though I've personally never seen it, nor do I know anyone who's seen it.
Back in the late 80s, I remember my friends passing around a bootleg cassette tape of "Skywalking", but that was the last I heard of it ... until now. Yes, folks, the power ballad that was at one time a tall tale Star Wars fans shared with one another around a »
- Erik Davis
Star Wars The Clone Wars: Season One Blu-ray Review
3 November 2009 12:13 PM, PST | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »
As the Star Wars prequel trilogy unfolded it became painfully clear that the Clone Wars emotionally alluded to by Ben Kenobi in A New Hope would not be the focus. The narrative chosen by George Lucas was a major blow to scores of adults who waited decades to see insinuated epic battles unfold only to be given glimpses of a galaxy-wide war through a short montage of Jedi being purged and a blink-and-you'll-miss-it skirmish pitting Wookies and Clones against droids.
The exclusion of the Clone Wars in the Star Wars prequels opened the door for spin-off alternative forms of entertainment to delve deeper into the world of Clones, Jedi, politics and the Separatist forces. After a short test of anime-influenced Clone Wars shorts on the Cartoon Network, LucasFilm embarked on a new CGI animated show that will cover the Clone Wars slipped over between episodes II and III of the live-action films. »
Directors We Love: Alfred Hitchcock
1 November 2009 4:03 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
This is a no-brainer, right? Everyone loves Hitchcock. But it was not always so. The great director, whose North by Northwest comes out on a new, 50th Anniversary DVD and Blu-Ray on Tuesday, was once considered a populist panderer with little artistic value in his work. Even if you were a film critic, it was not the done thing to explore the mood and structure of a film. And even the rare critic that did that, such as Manny Farber or James Agee, tended not to go crazy over Hitchcock's work. (He was too popular and supposedly did not need defending.) At the time, it was more important in film to have a strong moral message, or to impress audiences with size and scale. Hitchcock worked in the lowest genres, telling stories about creeps and murderers and kidnappers, none of which had any benefit to society. Yes, Hitchcock was nominated for Best Director five times, »
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
Exclusive: A 'Star Wars: Death Troopers' Excerpt Takes Your Halloween To The Dark Side
30 October 2009 9:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
A few weeks ago, I posted about a curious new entry in the "Star Wars" Expanded Universe. The capital-e capital-u continuation of George Lucas's classic sci-fi series spans multiple eras in the franchise timeline, but it's generally always maintained a pretty strict focus on intragalactic conflicts in a galaxy far, far away.
This new release, horror writer Joe Schreiber's "Death Troopers," adds a fun, Halloween-friendly twist to the increasingly far-reaching "Star Wars" mythology. Set before the events of "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope," the book follows the surviving members of an Imperial prison barge after what can best be described as a zombie outbreak forces them to take refuge aboard an apparently abandoned Star Destroyer. The zombie-spawning virus of course originates aboard the lifeless ship, and bloody shenanigans quickly ensue. Schreiber, a newcomer to the EU stable of writers, cleverly blends horror and "Star Wars" into a terrifying voyage into darkness, »
- Adam Rosenberg
Vote! 'Today's' 'Star Wars' Halloween Special
30 October 2009 7:47 AM, PDT | Extra | See recent Extra news »
May the force be with the "Today Show!"
The "Today Show" crew celebrated Halloween by dressing as characters from "Star Wars" on Friday morning.
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Hoda Kotb dressed as Yoda, Natalie Morales as Queen Amidala, Kathie Lee Gifford as C-3Po, Meredith Vieira as Princess Leia, Matt Lauer as Luke Skywalker, Al Roker as Han Solo and Ann Curry as Darth Vader for »
Exclusive: Richard Kelly's Latest Guest Blog Takes Us To Skywalker Ranch!
29 October 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Richard Kelly is the man. Not just because he'll be here all this week, posting as a guest editor for MTV Movies Blog. It helps, sure, but we're talking about the guy who made "Donnie Darko" here. And "Southland Tales." Isn't that enough? Not for Kelly it isn't. His latest brain-twisting tale, "The Box," hits theaters on November 6. And he has a dynamite week of content planned for y'all, so sit back and enjoy!
October 29, 2009
Skywalking To San Francisco
On Tuesday, I headed north . . . the good people of Skywalker Sound and Industrial Light & Magic hosted a screening of "The Box" an invited me to stay at the legendary Lucas ranch for the night and tour the facilities.
The property itself is everything a fanboy could dream and more - as an alumni of USC and an acolyte in the church of Lucas - I was speechless when I was granted »
- Adam Rosenberg
Interview: Stephanie Lantry and Carrie Smith of Conjoined Comics
27 October 2009 1:15 PM, PDT | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
The Alternative Press Expo is a small convention that is geared to, as you can guess, the alternative facets of what the comics industry has to offer. What’s more than that is Ape is as laid back a comic convention as you will find. Small shows will do that simply because smaller size means more attention, and the increased ability to interact with others in the comics community.
That’s whether it’s fans amongst professionals, professionals among their peers, or otherwise. So inevitably, this means discovering new creators and new comics in a way that’s different from other cons.
I first met Stephanie Lantry and Carrie Smith a few years back thanks to the online community that is the now defunct Brian K. Vaughan message board, the Cabal. As Conjoined Comics, the quick-witted indie-creators have collaborated to self-publish their own comic, To the Power Against, mini-comic Emogician »
- Joey Pangilinan
Lucasfilm Denies Plans For 3D Star Wars Movies
26 October 2009 12:30 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Last week there was a wild rumor floating around that George Lucas wanted to make three more Star Wars movies, in 3D, and with someone else directing them. Now, predictably, the Lucasfilm guys have denied it. Movie Geek Feed talked to Lucasfilm's Head of Fan Relations Steve Sansweet, and he had a pretty strong denial to issue: "It wasn't a news item. It was something that somebody made up. It's totally totally ignorant and stupid, and even the people who picked it up and spread it along, said there's no way this can be true. And of course there's no way it can be true. You shouldn't believe what you read on the Internet. Take everything with a big grain of salt." Of course, it's pretty much what everyone expected to be the case from the beginning, and the Lucasfilm guys are good at covering up whatever plans they »
'Star Wars: Trench Run' coming to iPhone
26 October 2009 8:35 AM, PDT | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Thq Wireless has unveiled a new Star Wars game being developed for iPhone and iPod Touch. Titled Star Wars: Trench Run, the game is based on the climax of George Lucas's 1977 movie when the Rebel Alliance assaults the Death Star. Using a tilt-based control system, players will attempt to pierce the space station's defences and land a proton (more) »
- By Andrew Laughlin
Fun For Everyone Halloween Films - Part II!
25 October 2009 3:37 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
We’ve really appreciated the great response we’ve gotten from our first set of Fun for Everyone Halloween Films and it’s time for the second of three great collections that will not only put a wintery chill up and down your spines, but a smile on your face and collective memory.
Read on below and don’t forget to tell Screen Rant about Your favorite Howling Heaps of Halloween Film Fun!
5. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966): There are many people that will claim their personal soundtracks to include “Darth Vaders March”, or Kenny Loggin’s “Danger Zone” from Top Gun. Mine is much more commonplace: Linus and Lucy. It’s a track featured inside of all of the Charlie Brown adventures and naturally finds its way to this instant classic from 1966, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. All of the Peanuts cast are here, »
- Mike Wilkerson
Exclusive: Meatwad announces the 'Aqua Teen Hunger Force' Christmas album
23 October 2009 12:22 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
What's more "Christmas" than a rolling ball of meat morphing into a tree and singing about boogers? That's right, Nothing. Meatwad, Master Shake, Frylock, Carl, and -- believe it or not - Neko Case (who just became one of my favorite singers of all time) have teamed together for what will no doubt be this season's must-have stocking stuffer: the 12-track Have Yourself a Meaty Little Christmas, set for CD and download release Nov. 3 through Adult Swim’s Williams Street Records. EW has exclusive song samples (one below and more, along with the full track listing, after the jump) and »
- Mike Bruno
New, 3D Star Wars Trilogy in Hilarious Hoax
23 October 2009 10:48 AM, PDT | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
The post-summer movie season usually brings some outrageous rumors, but the one everyone is talking about this week is a doozy. It may even be up there with some of the best, like Cher as Catwoman or Miley Cyrus as Batgirl.
3-D enthusiast and blogger Jim Dorey at MarketSaw claims to have heard “rumblings” that George Lucas is preparing a brand new Star Wars trilogy utilizing the latest in stereoscopic 3D technology. Aside from the obvious fact that Lucas has been quoted as saying “There really isn’t any story to tell there” and a little bit of common sense, I suppose that piece is a possibility even as a far, far remote one.
Oh, but then it gets better. Lucas would supposedly be producing and not directing, leaving the daily duties to his personal friends Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppolla. What? Spielberg isn’t filming a seventh installment »
- Jeff Leins
While 'Star Wars' Rumors Live, MTV Ponders The Possibilities
23 October 2009 8:30 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
From MTV.Com: While a Sarlacc may take over a thousand years to fully digest its prey, the pop-culture news cycle has proven once again to be the complete opposite — devouring and spitting out a new rumor about the "Star Wars" series in less than 24 hours this week. But what makes fans think there would be a new trilogy in the first place? And where should the most successful movie franchise of all time go from here?
The hijinks began Wednesday evening (October 21), when 3-d-movie-focused blog MarketSaw reported that it had an internal source who'd infiltrated the trusted circle of George Lucas like Princess Leia in a Boushh costume. According to the "absolutely connected" source, Lucas is making secret plans to create a new trilogy of films that will be shot in stereoscopic 3-D — and could be directed by such filmmakers as Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola. A mere four hours later, »
- Larry Carroll
Lucasfilm dismisses reports of new 3D Star Wars trilogy
23 October 2009 5:11 AM, PDT | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
The Truth strikes back. George Lucas's production company has sliced a lightsabre through a report claiming he was planning a brand new Star Wars trilogy to be shot in 3D.
The story originated on MarketSaw, where a tip-off said Lucas would produce, not direct, the new films and suggested that Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola would be among the directors of the new instalments.
MarketSaw claimed the project depended on the success of James Cameron's 3D sci-fi project Avatar. Lucas is already planning to convert the six existing Star Wars adventures into 3D.
However, a spokesman told Ain't It Cool News: "Lucasfilm is not currently working on a 3D version of the Star Wars movies" and added: "We do not have any Star Wars theatrical movies planned."
It's likely that Lucas will wait for the arrival of more 3D screens before converting and releasing the six existing movies. »
- David Bentley
Star Wars and Zombies Combine in New Novel
22 October 2009 11:32 AM, PDT | HugAZombie | See recent HugAZombie news »
Is there anything cooler than the blending of Star Wars and zombies? Not for author Joe Schreiber, who wrote Death Troopers, a novel that takes place in the expanded universe of Star Wars fiction.
"I had the time of my life on this one, I have to say," says the author. "I've tried to make it into exactly the kind of book you'd want to read if you were a child of the '70s who grew up with the original Star Wars trilogy and really digs horror in the vein of The Shining and Alien, with a little dose of William Gibson mixed in."
Here's the publisher's synopsis:
When the Imperial prison barge Purge — temporary home to five hundred of the galaxy's most ruthless killers, rebels, scoundrels and thieves — breaks down in a distant, uninhabited part of space, its only hope seems to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting, »
- (Fulci)
New Star Wars Trilogy Coming in 3D?
22 October 2009 9:34 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
So a rumor recently popped up online stating that there’s a new Star Wars Trilogy in the pipeline that is going to be filmed in stereoscopic 3D. The rumor originated from Market Saw, who attributed the news to a source close to the Lucasfilm camp who was feeding them this exclusive info. This new 3D Star Wars would Not be a conversion of the existing trilogy (or those prequels we do not speak of), but rather an entirely new three-part chapter in the Star Wars canon!
Another part of the rumor was that George Lucas would Not be directing this new trilogy, but would instead produce them, handing the helming duties off to more able other seasoned directors, such as Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola, who are both friends of Lucas.
Sci-fi fans, are your heads still attached to your necks?
Fueling this latest turn of the rumor »
- Kofi Outlaw
'Star Wars' Trilogy Rumor Hilarity Today Around The Blogosphere
22 October 2009 9:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Today's look Around the Blogosphere is an unusual one, since it's pegged to news. Sort of. The rumor of a third, all-3D "Star Wars" trilogy was clearly going to be debunked, and quickly. Let's start at the beginning...
--"3D Motion Pictures Blog" MarketSaw posted yesterday that the folks at Lucasfilm have gotten it into their heads to do another "Star Wars" trilogy. Entirely in 3D. With franchise architect George Lucas stepping back into a production role. In short, a "Star Wars" junkie's happiest dream. All from a "trusted source." It's hard to swallow though, especially given MarketSaw's rumormill track record. (MarketSaw)
--Shouts of "shenanigans!" followed quickly of course, with Ain't It Cool News leading the charge. A couple of e-mails to Lucasfilm's PR team confirmed that (1) no 3-D "Star Wars" projects are in the works and (2) no theatrical "Star Wars" movies are planned. AICN is quick to »
- Adam Rosenberg
A New 'Star Wars' Trilogy Directed by Spielberg and Coppola?
22 October 2009 8:32 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Um ... probably not. But the folks over at Market Saw seem to believe that they've uncovered secret galactic plans to create a brand new big-screen Star Wars trilogy in 3D. However, they claim these films wouldn't be directed by George Lucas -- instead, he'd pass them off to other directors like Steven Spielberg or Francis Ford Coppola (who Market Saw claims their source mentioned directly as a potential candidate). Yeah, definitely let me know when Coppola decides to direct a Star Wars film so I can look out my window and watch all the pigs flying.
Almost immediately after this rumor hit, folks began to read between the lines. Market Saw, who've been the unofficial Avatar fansite for awhile now, continually mention in their piece that Avatar has to do well in theaters in order for this new Star Wars trilogy to happen since Lucas wants the films in 3D »
- Erik Davis
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