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J.J. Abrams says it’s “no accident” that Luke Skywalker is missing from Star Wars: The Force Awakens poster and trailer

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Since the release of the new poster and trailer last week, there has been a lot of speculation among fans about where Luke Skywalker is in the marketing for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Many feel that he’s jumped to the Dark Side, and going by the thread of comments from this article, there are a […]

Star Wars: The Force Awakens set for a $600 million opening weekend

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Following the awesome new trailer and record breaking ticket sales, it looks like Star Wars: The Force Awakens is set for a rather large opening weekend. Experts are saying that the movie could have the biggest domestic opening of all-time with around $300 million (beating Jurassic World’s $208 million), which added to a worldwide taking of […]

The Week in Star Wars – New trailer for The Force Awakens, runtime rumours, female directors are “going to happen” and more

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We’ve got a couple of rumours in this edition of The Week in Star Wars surrounding trailers, ratings and runtimes. We’ve also got word on female directors joining the universe, comic book previews and new maps for Battlefront… Kicking things off as we normally do with Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and a new rumour […]

Avengers: Infinity War has a reported budget of $1 billion

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Well it looks like Marvel Studios are going hard or going home when it comes to their two part Avengers: Infinity War films for 2018 and 2019, with a new report suggesting the budget for both movies will be a whopping $1 billion. Seeing as the joint budget for both previous Avengers outings was $470, […]

Hotel Transylvania 2 breaks September box office records with a $47 million opening weekend

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It was looking to have a strong opening, but the animated feature Hotel Transylvania 2 has passed all expectations, breaking September opening records in the process. The movie opened to around $47 million domestically, shooting it straight to the number one position. It broke the previous record of $42 million which, funnily enough, was held […]

The Week in Star Wars – Hayden Christensen returning as Darth Vader, John Boyega, Domhnall Gleeson, Gwendoline Christie talk The Force Awakens, Max Von Sydow’s character revealed and more

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In this week’s edition of The Week in Star Wars, we look at a rather dubious rumour about Hayden Christensen returning to the Star Wars Universe, John Boyega, Domhnall Gleeson and Gwendoline Christie talk The Force Awakens and more… Kicking things off as we usually do on The Week in Star Wars by looking at the latest […]

Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters is everything wrong with reboots

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Luke Owen on the Ghostbusters reboot… Here’s a fairly unpopular opinion: I quite like reboots and remakes. Just as theatre directors have put their own stamp on the works of William Shakespeare, reboots and remakes allow directors to put their own spin on existing material and come at it from a new perspective. Two of […]

Official synopsis for Ghostbusters reboot

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It may not be popular with The Internet or fans of the franchise, but Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot will be with us next year (with the trailer arriving before the end of the year), and now we have the first official synopsis. It backs up a lot of rumours surrounding the movie, mostly that Kristin […]

The Week in Star Wars – Mark Hamill’s ‘near death’ Force Awakens trip, Episode VIII spoilers, Rogue One set photos and more

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I’m back after a week off! And this Week in Star Wars sees some over-blown news about Mark Hamill nearly dying, Episode VIII spoilers, Rogue One set photos and more… It seems as though The Force Awakens was rather dangerous for its returning Star Wars stars. Poor old Harrison Ford was injured while on the Millennium […]