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Gwendoline Christie “very proud” to play Star Wars’ first female villain in The Force Awakens

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Game of Thrones star Gwendoline Christie is set to swap Westeros for a galaxy far, far away this December as she takes on the role of the fearsome First Order officer Captain Phasma in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and speaking to Entertainment Weekly, the actress has shared her excitement over the character, and the […]

Gwendoline Christie on playing Captain Phasma in Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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As she prepares to swap Westeros for a galaxy far, far away, actress Gwendoline Christie has been speaking about her upcoming role as Captain Phasma in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and how playing Brienne of Tarth in HBO’s epic fantasy Game of Thrones helped with her preparations. “I found it to be a really […]

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 more anticipated than Star Wars: The Force Awakens, according to poll

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We all know that Star Wars: The Force Awakens is going to shatter box office records when it opens this December, on its way to what is sure to be one of the biggest box office hauls of all time. But, if a new poll is accurate, it’s not the most-anticipated movie set to arrive […]

Video Game Review – Star Wars: Uprising

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Chris Sanderson reviews Star Wars: Uprising… Star Wars: Uprising is Disney’s new Star Wars game for iOS and Android released last week. In what looks to be the first of a slew of mobile games being released by Disney, Uprising is surprisingly refreshing given the long list of overly used builder/ timer games that exist […]

Marvel’s Star Wars #1 is the bestselling comic book of 2015

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2015 was certainly a great year for Star Wars, with Star Wars: The Force Awakens shattering records at the box office, and the franchise’s various video games pulling in over $1 billion in revenue. Now it can add another success, with PREVIEWSworld revealing that Marvel’s Star Wars #1 was the bestselling comic book the year. Here’s the […]

Star Wars generates $1 billion of video game sales in 2015

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It’s not just at the box office where Star Wars is generating huge sums of money, with Forbes reporting that the franchise has pulled in over $1 billion of revenue from video games in 2015, spurred on in no small part by the excitement over Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The site reports that 6 […]

Memorable Star Wars Moments – The Detention Level Rescue

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Flickering Myth’s writing team are counting down to the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens by discussing their most memorable Star Wars moments. Next up is James Garcia with the detention level rescue in A New Hope… Unlike many fans of that galaxy far, far away, I unfortunately have no memory of the first time I saw Star Wars. The […]

Memorable Star Wars Moments – Luke meets Obi-Wan

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Flickering Myth’s writing team are counting down to the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens by discussing their most memorable Star Wars moments.  Next up is Neil Calloway with the scene when Luke meets Obi-Wan from A New Hope… Perhaps the most important moment in the entire Star Wars saga comes not aboard a Star […]

Star Wars: The Force Awakens breaks IMAX records with $6.5 million in advanced sales

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Not only has Star Wars: The Force Awakens broken the Internet (it crashed our site and YouTube yesterday), it has now broken IMAX records for advanced ticket sales. IMAX announced that single-day pre-sale tickets for Star Wars: The Force Awakens have come in at an estimated $6.5 million, which broke the single-day previous record – […]