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Disney’s Crazy Star Wars: The Last Jedi Demands Make Sense

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Neil Calloway understands why Disney are demanding such a high percentage of the box office for the new Star Wars film… Early tracking (though how they work out how much a film is going to make more than a month before it’s out is beyond me) suggests that Star Wars: The Last Jedi will have an […]

Star Wars: The Last Jedi gets another international poster

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Following on from this week’s international trailer and one sheet for Star Wars: The Last Jedi [check them out here], we now have another international poster for the hotly-anticipated sequel featuring Mark Hamill’s Luke Skywalker, Adam Driver’s Kylo Ren, Gwendoline Christie’s Captain Phasma and Domhnall Gleeson’s General Hux. You may recognise this from the IMAX display […]

Early box office tracking suggests Star Wars: The Last Jedi will have second biggest opening weekend in history

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We’re just under a couple of months away from the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and as excitement continues to grow for the middle chapter of Disney and Lucasfilm’s Sequel Trilogy, early box office tracking is pointing to an out of this world opening for the film. According to The Wrap, The Last […]

Mark Hamill addresses fan theory that Luke Skywalker is evil in Star Wars: The Last Jedi

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Throughout the marketing campaign for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, there have been several pointers hinting at a turn to the Dark Side for Luke Skywalker; there’s the red theme, the lighting on his face on the theatrical poster, the fact a new IMAX theater standee has him alongside Kylo Ren, General Hux and Captain […]

Adam Driver teases an “unexpected” Kylo Ren development in Star Wars: The Last Jedi

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With the marketing for Star Wars: The Last Jedi starting to heat up ahead of its December release, Adam Driver has been speaking about returning to the role of Ben Solo – a.k.a. Kylo Ren – teasing an “unexpected” development for the fallen Jedi. Asked by Sunday Today host Willie Geist (via THR) if fans “will […]

Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson discusses Carrie Fisher’s role

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson recently spoke with Good Morning America following the release of a behind-the-scenes sizzle reel for the next entry in the saga at D23 [watch it here], and naturally he was asked about the passing of Carrie Fisher and her role as General Leia in the film. Speaking delicately […]

Watch the D23 sizzle reel for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, first synopsis released

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During Disney’s live-action panel at D23 Expo this afternoon, Lucasfilm unveiled a behind-the-scenes sizzle reel for December’s massively-anticipated Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Fortunately, for those of us not present in Anaheim, the sizzle reel has been released online, and you can watch it right here… SEE ALSO: Star Wars: The Last Jedi has created […]

Hopefully the Han Solo debacle will teach Disney not to tread on sacred ground

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Samuel Brace on the Han Solo saga and Disney’s handling of the Star Wars franchise… There were more than a few that let out cries of anguish upon hearing the direction of the next Star Wars anthology movie. The fact that we would be revisiting such a famous and iconic character as Han Solo seemed like […]