Tom Jolliffe looks ahead to Tenet, and why it stands head and shoulders over every other tentpole release in 2020… With the Disney machine making record money this year even before they’d fired out Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker to a public who seemed to go with a half-hearted, sleepwalking obligation over a fiery […]
Colin Trevorrow’s original Star Wars: Episode IX plans revealed
If you’ve been wondering how the Skywalker Saga would have drawn to a close had Disney and Lucasfilm not parted ways with Jurassic World helmer Colin Trevorrow, then wonder no more as various sources are reporting that a legitimate copy of Trevorrow’s script has leaked, revealing everything that the filmmaker had planned for Star Wars: […]
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker passes $1 billion at the global box office
It may have fallen from the top of the box office charts this past weekend, but Disney and Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has now hit a major box office milestone with the final chapter of the Skywalker Saga passing the magical $1 billion dollar mark worldwide. By close of play yesterday, Episode […]
The Snyder Cut. The Abrams Cut. How about cut the sh*t?
Tom Jolliffe looks at the recent demands for director’s cuts with Justice League and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker… A film comes out. The director hits the press circuit prior and things seem to be rosy. The film comes out and is greeted with derision. Suddenly there are growing calls for a directors cut. […]
The Top Ten Film Scores of 2019
Hasitha Fernando on the top ten film scores of 2019… In terms of films both original and otherwise, 2019 proved to be quite a strong one. Although the box-office landscape was largely dominated by a plethora of comic-book films there were a great many creatively inspiring films like Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, Rian Johnson’s Knives […]
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker screenwriter explains how Rey re-balances the Force
Some thirty years after Anakin Skywalker fulfilled the prophecy of the Chosen One by “killing” his master Emperor Palpatine in Return of the Jedi, old Sheev’s granddaughter Rey brought balance to the Force once again in last month’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker with her defeat of Darth Sidious in the Battle of Exegol. […]
No Palpatine scenes were cut from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
According to the special make-up effects supervisor for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, no Palpatine scenes were left out of the movie. Palpatine’s big return was one of the key components of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and the evil Sith Lord didn’t disappoint. However, with recent talk of what may or may […]
Billie Lourd played a young Leia in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Carrie Fisher’s daughter Billie Lourd played a young Leia in a flashback for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. There is an awful lot going on in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker but one of the surprising scenes was the flashback of Luke and Leia training together as Jedi. The two actors were de-aged […]
Anakin Skywalker Force Ghost was never planned for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is packed full of memorable moments worthy of discussion, with one of the biggest being the film’s ending where Luke and Leia appear to Rey as Force Ghosts. Many were hoping that Anakin and perhaps the redeemed Ben Solo (Kylo Ren) might turn up as well, however. While many […]
Maz Kanata wasn’t a motion capture character in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
For her first two appearances in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Lupita Nyong’o (Us, Black Panther) took on the role of Maz Kanata via motion capture technology. However, in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Maz was brought to life as an animatronic. In a recent interview with CinemaBlend, Creature And Special Make-Up Effects […]
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