After just 17 days of release, Lucasfilm’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has overtaken Warner Bros.’ Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them to become the UK’s highest-grossing movie of 2016. So far, Rogue One has pulled in £50.7 million from its run in the UK, topping off a phenomenal year […]
Hollywood: If You Can’t Build It, Don’t Bother
Samuel Brace on practical effects and CGI… Fantasy is better when fantasy looks real. For the most part, cinema is our escape, a door of which to travel through, a portal to somewhere that isn’t here. To suspend our disbelief is part and parcel of going to the movies, and the best of these movies […]
Flickering Myth’s Top Ten Movies of 2016
Flickering Myth’s writing team present our top ten movies of 2016… As 2016 draws to a close and we ring in the New Year, Flickering Myth’s writers have been putting our collective heads together to vote on the best cinematic offerings from the past twelve months. As always, we’ve voted on our individual top ten […]
The Highest Grossing Movies of 2016
Luke Owen charts the highest grossing movies of 2016… The box office battle of 2016 is now in the books, and Disney are the ones wearing the king’s crown. Their domestic totals are very impressive, and their worldwide takings are even better. As with the opening weekends, The House of Mouse holds six of the […]
Ranking the Star Wars Universe (2016 Edition)
Flickering Myth ranks the Star Wars Universe… This article is dedicated to the memories of Carrie Fisher and Kenny Baker. May the Force be with you both. For 40 years, we’ve enjoyed the adventures and battles between the Jedi and Sith, in a galaxy far, far away. We’ve seen the fall of the Jedi Order, the […]
Ben Mendelsohn says there’s an “enormously different” version of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Given the amount of footage we saw during the marketing campaign which was absent from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, it seems pretty clear that the much-publicised reshoots played a huge role in shaping the final cut of the blockbuster Anthology movie. So it will come as little surprise to hear that star Ben Mendelsohn […]
Kathleen Kennedy teases bigger future plans for Rogue One’s Saw Gerrera
Of all the characters featured in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Forest Whitaker’s Rebel extremist Saw Gerrera seems to be the one that will act as connective tissue between the standalone anthology film and the rest of the Star Wars universe. Originally appearing in several episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Gerrera will next pop up in Star Wars […]
ILM’s John Knoll on digitally recreating a key character for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
One of the big talking points coming out of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was the return of Grand Moff Tarkin, with Industrial Light & Magic digitally recreating the likeness of Peter Cushing, some 22 years after his death. Given Tarkin’s ties to the Death Star, it was perhaps inevitable that the character would […]
The Biggest Opening Weekends of 2016
Luke Owen charts the biggest opening weekends of 2016… It’s fair to say that 2016 has been rather disappointing in terms of the quality of movie delivered, and the biggest opening weekend for 2016 would have been fourth last year behind Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Jurassic World and Avengers: Age of Ultron. With that […]
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has now passed $600 million worldwide
It was only just a couple days ago Rogue One: A Star Wars Story crossed the $500 million mark, and now the Star Wars spin-off has reached another milestone, passing $600 million worldwide. Yesterday the Gareth Edwards-directed film earned $22.5 million in North America and $19.7 million internationally. This brings its North American gross to $340.6 million and international to […]
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