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The Biggest Opening Weekends of 2015

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Looking at the totals for 2015, it’s been a good year for movie studios at the box office. We’ve had a couple of record-breaking opening weekends, and a certain movie from a galaxy far, far away smashed the December opening weekend record. Last year, the biggest opening weekend was $121 million, and this year is […]

Spoilers: More cameos revealed in Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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Warning: this post does contain spoilers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens… Many of the original Star Wars cast – including Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels and Tim Rose – returned to their roles in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but it was revealed over the weekend that there was a prequel […]

Jurassic World congratulates Star Wars: The Force Awakens on their record-breaking opening weekend

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It was revealed yesterday that Star Wars: The Force Awakens had earned around $517 million worldwide, earning it the biggest domestic opening weekend of all-time, and today it was announced that more accurate number was actually $528 million, which makes it the biggest weekend of all-time, beating the previous winner Jurassic World. Well, Amblin at least they took […]

Spoilers: J.J Abrams explains R2-D2’s role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and how it connects to A New Hope

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As the title suggests, there are some spoilers from The Force Awakens in this piece… One of the questions holding over Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the role of R2-D2, and how he conveniently came back online at the end of the movie to help The Resistance find the location of Luke Skywalker. Well, […]

Quentin Tarantino lashes out at Disney over Star Wars: The Force Awakens pushing The Hateful Eight out of movie theater

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The world is eagerly awaiting the arrival of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but it seems that Quentin Tarantino isn’t too happy about Disney’s relaunch of the Star Wars saga, with the filmmaker accusing the studio of forcing the ArcLight Cinerama Dome in Hollywood to drop his new film The Hateful Eight in favour of The […]

The original plot of Star Wars: The Force Awakens featured the search for Darth Vader and the second Death Star

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Warning: there are some minor spoilers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens in this post… There was quite a lot of speculation after the announcement of a new Star Wars trilogy about what the plot of Episode VII would be. As it turns out, a lot of them were wrong. But original screenwriter Michael Ardnt […]

Domhnall Gleeson playing General Hux in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Simon Pegg confirmed to appear as an alien

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The Star Wars: The Force Awakens panel is taking place at this very moment in Hall H of the San Diego Comic-Con International, during which it has been confirmed that Simon Pegg will appear in the film as an alien creature, while Domhnall Gleeson’s character has been introduced as General Hux, who is in charge […]

The most tweeted about movies, TV shows and celebrities from Comic-Con 2015

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The San Diego Comic-Con took place over the weekend (which I’m sure you’re more than aware about), and Twitter has been analysing social media activity over the past few days to work out the most tweeted-about movies, TV shows and celebrities during the convention. So, what was the most popular movie on the social media […]

Five Film Franchises on the Fence

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Anghus Houvouras with five film franchises on the fence… In part one, we examined the worst film franchises passing through Hollywood like kidney stones wrapped in barbed wire. As we continue to look at examine the current state of film franchises that Hollywood has to offer, it felt like there were some that were neither […]