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Spencer Wilding says playing Darth Vader is “every actor’s dream”

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Although James Earl Jones is the voice of the most iconic villain in the galaxy Darth Vader, it took two other actors to physically reprise the prestigious role in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Welsh actor Spencer Wilding (who we exclusively revealed as playing Vader back in April) took part in an interview conducted […]

UPDATE: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story becomes the biggest film of 2016 in the UK, crosses $700 million worldwide

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After just 17 days of release, Lucasfilm’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has overtaken Warner Bros.’ Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them to become the UK’s highest-grossing movie of 2016. So far, Rogue One has pulled in £50.7 million from its run in the UK, topping off a phenomenal year […]

Film Anniversaries To Look Forward To In 2017

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This week, Neil Calloway looks at what films are celebrating milestones this year… With 2017 now underway, it’s time to stop looking at what happened in film in 2016, and start looking forward to the new year by looking back. Here are some film anniversaries you can look forward to. 2017 will mark the tenth […]

Hollywood: If You Can’t Build It, Don’t Bother

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Samuel Brace on practical effects and CGI… Fantasy is better when fantasy looks real. For the most part, cinema is our escape, a door of which to travel through, a portal to somewhere that isn’t here. To suspend our disbelief is part and parcel of going to the movies, and the best of these movies […]

Ranking the Star Wars Universe (2016 Edition)

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Flickering Myth ranks the Star Wars Universe… This article is dedicated to the memories of Carrie Fisher and Kenny Baker. May the Force be with you both. For 40 years, we’ve enjoyed the adventures and battles between the Jedi and Sith, in a galaxy far, far away. We’ve seen the fall of the Jedi Order, the […]

Ben Mendelsohn says there’s an “enormously different” version of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

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Given the amount of footage we saw during the marketing campaign which was absent from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, it seems pretty clear that the much-publicised reshoots played a huge role in shaping the final cut of the blockbuster Anthology movie. So it will come as little surprise to hear that star Ben Mendelsohn […]

Star Wars: Episode VIII named 2017’s most anticipated movie

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With 2016 almost over and attention now shifting to 2017’s exciting line-up of movies, ticket site Fandango has been polling its visitors as to the most anticipated films of the next twelve months, and it will come as absolutely no surprise to hear that Star Wars: Episode VIII tops the list. The follow-up to Star […]

Kathleen Kennedy teases bigger future plans for Rogue One’s Saw Gerrera

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Of all the characters featured in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Forest Whitaker’s Rebel extremist Saw Gerrera seems to be the one that will act as connective tissue between the standalone anthology film and the rest of the Star Wars universe. Originally appearing in several episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Gerrera will next pop up in Star Wars […]

ILM’s John Knoll on digitally recreating a key character for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

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One of the big talking points coming out of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was the return of Grand Moff Tarkin, with Industrial Light & Magic digitally recreating the likeness of Peter Cushing, some 22 years after his death. Given Tarkin’s ties to the Death Star, it was perhaps inevitable that the character would […]