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Star Wars: The Force Awakens becomes the first movie to hit $900 million at the domestic box office

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It had already taken the crown of the highest-grossing North American release of all time back in early January, and now after fifty days on screens Disney and Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens has become the first film in history to pass $900 million at the domestic box office. “The film’s achievements are truly […]

Kevin Smith talks about his cameo in Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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It was revealed last week that writer/director Kevin Smith provided a voice for one of the Stormtroopers in J.J Abram’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Having spoken about visiting the set while doing his Hollywood Babble-On show in London in 2014, it was assumed he was asked to the voice work there. But it turns […]

Gwendoline Christie confirms Captain Phasma return for Star Wars: Episode VIII

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Although the character’s fate was a left a little uncertain at the end of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Gwendoline Christie has confirmed that she is set to return as the First Order’s Captain Phasma in next year’s Star Wars: Episode VIII. “I will be in the next Star Wars movie. I think that’s an exclusive, […]

Lawrence Kasdan finished with Star Wars movies after Han Solo spinoff

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Having returned to a galaxy far, far away to co-write Star Wars: The Force Awakens with J.J. Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan has now revealed that the upcoming Han Solo anthology movie will be his last Star Wars project. “That was my last film of this saga,” Kasdan told Bild (via The Supernaughts). “I will never do […]

How the Star Wars franchise keeps in pulling in billions

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As a generation of Star Wars fanatics await the return of one the biggest movie franchises of all time with the Christmas release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (albeit with that controversial crossguard lightsaber), we got thinking – just how big is the Star Wars franchise? When Harrison Ford, Luke Hamill and Carrie Fisher […]

Star Wars Battlefront will reportedly tie in with Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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It’s one of the most anticipated video games of 2015, but so far we know very little about EA’s upcoming Star Wars Battlefront, save from what little information we’ve been able to gather from the E3 2014 behind-the-scenes trailer, and a piece of concept artwork showing Rebel Commandos on Endor. Well, the folks at Making […]

Billy Dee Williams reportedly set for “a fun cameo” in Star Wars: Episode VIII

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When the cast of Star Wars: The Force Awakens was announced, one character absent from the list of returnees to the galaxy far, far away was that of Billy Dee Williams, who played Lando Calrissian in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Recently, Williams – who has reprised the role for an […]

Trio of stars from The Raid reportedly set to appear in Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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The cast of Star Wars: The Force Awakens is already bursting at the seams, and according to Twitch we can now add three more names to the credits in The Raid stars Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian and Cecep Arif Rahman. The site goes on to report that no character details are available for the trio, […]

George Lucas meets The Mandalorian’s Baby Yoda

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As Baby Yoda continues to take the world by storm, The Mandalorian showrunner Jon Favreau has taken to Twitter to share a cute behind-the-scenes photo from the set of the Disney+ show which sees The Child receiving a cuddle from none other than Star Wars daddy George Lucas; check it out here… SEE ALSO: The Mandalorian’s […]