After weeks of rumours and speculation, The Walt Disney Company has announced that it has officially reached a deal with 21st Century Fox to purchase its entertainment assets in a deal which is officially valued at $66.1 billion, and includes $52.4 billion in stock, which leaves Fox investors owning a 25% stake in Disney. The […]
Star Wars: Why Too Much of a Good Thing is Ruining the Franchise
Anghus Houvouras on the Star Wars franchise and news that Disney and Lucasfilm are mapping out its future through to 2035… Franchises, reboots, and sequels. It’s the cinematic world we’re living in. Studios like easy bets. Your average ticket buying movie-goer isn’t that discerning. Case closed. But there are still uncharted waters as we enter […]
Star Wars: Episode VIII named 2017’s most anticipated movie
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 […]
New Lucasfilm trademark filing may have revealed Star Wars: Episode VIII title
With Rogue One: A Star Wars Story opening in a few days and Star Wars: Episode VIII now just a year away from release, it’s only a matter of time until we start getting some news (and maybe even a teaser trailer?) for the second instalment of the Sequel Trilogy, and a trademark filing this week […]
Ron Howard shares new image of Donald Glover’s Lando from Solo: A Star Wars Story
Following yesterday’s TV spot [watch it here], director Ron Howard took to Instagram to share a new image from Solo: A Star Wars Story which features Donald Glover’s Lando Calrissian in the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon; take a look here… SEE ALSO: Check out twelve new promo posters for Solo: A Star Wars Story https://www.instagram.com/p/Bhk9Q-3lkad/?taken-by=realronhoward […]
Are Alternative Facts Being Used In Stats About The British Film Industry?
This week Neil Calloway looks into claims that 2016 was a record year for the British film industry… On Thursday the British Film Institute released their annual statistics, revealing that 2016 was yet another record-breaking year for British cinema. Last year saw £1.6 billion spent on film production in the UK, the highest ever amount. […]
The Cruel Reality of High Expectations
Anghus Houvouras on the cruel reality of high expectations… There’s a brilliant scene in the toxically sweet rom-com 500 Days of Summer where our hero, Tom, has his unrealistic high expectations brutally crushed by cruel, sobering reality. A scene that is brought to life in a brilliantly staged split screen. I often think of this […]
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story won’t have a sequel
Despite the high likelihood of Disney and Lucasfilm’s first Star Wars Anthology film, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, becoming a huge hit when it flies into theaters next month, no matter what kind of box office numbers it produces, the film certainly won’t be getting a sequel. That’s right, according to Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, […]
Star Wars standalone movies were originally George Lucas’ idea
On top of having George Lucas to thank for the very existence of Star Wars, fans may also owe him some gratitude for December’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and other future anthology movies set in the Star Wars universe. During a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly to promote Rogue One, Kathleen Kennedy revealed that before […]
Star Wars Rebels Season 3 Episode 8 Review – ‘The Wynkahthu Job’
Chris Cooper reviews the eighth episode of Star Wars Rebels season 3… I’ve spoken about the term ‘filler’ before, and how I’ve come to realise it’s a term I no longer want to use. Episodes tend to either include big plot advancements or pleasing moments of character growth. We usually learn something, even if it […]
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