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 […]
Flickering Myth’s Top Ten Movies of 2019
The Flickering Myth writing team present our top ten movies of 2019… 2019. A year that has seen Disney dominating the multiplexes, the Mouse House setting records left, right and centre (not least Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame, which dethroned 2009’s Avatar to become the highest-grossing film of all-time). It’s seen legendary filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese […]
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 […]
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 […]
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker writer explains how the Luke and Leia flashback was created using Return of the Jedi footage
While the scenes of Carrie Fisher’s performance as General Leia in The Rise of Skywalker were constructed using unused footage from The Force Awakens, writer Chris Terrio has revealed that the flashback sequence with Luke and Leia was crafted using footage from Return of the Jedi. “We also had access to the dailies from the Original Trilogy, and […]
Titan releases Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – Official Collector’s Edition
Titan Comics takes us behind the scenes of Disney and Lucasfilm’s latest Star Wars blockbuster this week with the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – Official Collector’s Edition, a 96-page hardcover special, which is available now priced $19.99/£15.99. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – Official Collector’s Edition features a wealth of […]
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker passes $900 million at the global box office
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker continues its march towards the billion dollar mark at the global box office, with Disney and Lucasfilm’s blockbuster pushing its worldwide haul to $918.8 million after three weekends on screens. Rise of Skywalker managed to make it three in a row at the top of the North American box […]
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker screenwriter confirms that The Emperor’s “body died in Return of the Jedi”
While Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker offered nothing in the way of an explanation as to how Emperor Palpatine managed to survive the events of Return of the Jedi, screenwriter Chris Terrio has now revealed to Awards Daily that the Sith Lord was indeed killed by Darth Vader aboard the Second Death Star – at […]
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