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Secret Cinema bringing Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back to London this summer

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After narrowly avoiding disaster last summer with its Back to the Future event by cancelling the first few shows at the very last minute, Secret Cinema has announced that its set to take us to a galaxy far, far away this summer with a month of special screenings of Star Wars: Episode V – The […]

Star Wars: Episode VIII female lead shortlist includes Tatiana Maslany, Gina Rodriguez and Olivia Cooke

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Three frontrunners to play the female lead in 2017’s Star Wars: Episode VIII have emerged. The shortlist for the role includes actresses Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black), Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin) and Olivia Cooke (Bates Motel). According to The Wrap, the three are only in very early stages of the casting process, which means it’s […]

Sarah Michelle Gellar joins Star Wars Rebels

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Coming hot on the heels of yesterday’s season finale, Lucasfilm Animation has added its first new cast member for the second season of Star Wars Rebels, with Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) signing on for an as-yet-unrevealed role… Gellar is set to join her husband Freddie Prinze Jr. in the cast of the […]

Star Wars: Episode VIII officially titled Star Wars: The Last Jedi

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Well, it’s official. We have a title for Star Wars: Episode VIII, and it’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Check out the tweet below: It's official. STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI is the next chapter of the Skywalker saga. This December. #TheLastJedi https://t.co/ySkVwQcMTP pic.twitter.com/eHrPgbsRJq — Star Wars (@starwars) January 23, 2017 “We have the greatest […]

The Callow Way – Why Jack Black Was Right…

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This week Neil Calloway unexpectedly finds himself in agreement with the guy from Tenacious D… It pains me to say it, but Jack Black had a point. During his interjection into the opening song of last week’s Oscars, Black jokingly bemoaned the current state of cinema, complaining about sequels, prequels and comic book movies. It’s […]

Alden Ehrenreich comments on Donald Glover’s casting as Lando Calrissian in the Han Solo Star Wars spinoff

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With the movie recently adding Emilia Clarke to its roster with rumours of another leading lady floating on the internet, our new Han Solo Alden Ehrenreich has been talking about the casting of Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian. “He’s wonderful, I think he’s going to do an excellent job,” he told The Wrap. “He’s such […]

Felicity Jones comments on the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story reshoots

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Earlier in the year, it was reported that Rogue One: A Star Wars Story would be getting huge reshoots that pushed back its post-production (so much the film lost its composer). Director Gareth Edwards said there was nothing to worry about (though Tony Gilroy now has a screenwriter credit), as did producer Kathleen Kennedy, and […]

Daisy Ridley says the title for Star Wars: Episode VIII has changed

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Having finished wrapping Star Wars: Episode VIII, fans have been wondering when we’ll hear the official title for the movie. However according to Daisy Ridley, we won’t find out for “a while yet”. “I heard a title, but I don’t know if it’s going to be that,” she told the presenters of My Dad Wrote a […]

Alden Ehrenreich is the new Han Solo

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After several months of casting rumors and a search that included over 2,500 actors, we finally have our new Han Solo: Hail, Caesar! star Alden Ehrenreich. The news was first reported by PageSix, and then further confirmed by trades such as THR and TheWrap. Ehrenreich will of course fill the iconic shoes originally worn by Harrison Ford, and is […]