Movie:star Wars

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    Disney's 'Star Wars' Land Concept Art Puts You in the Galaxy Far, Far Away (Updated)

    The Empire is expanding, and will soon have outposts established in Orlando and Anaheim. The House of Mouse confirmed this week that the anticipated Star Wars Land expansion — dual 14-acre immersive themed lands at Disneyland and Disney World that will be on the official galactic map — would open in 2019, in time for Episode IX, the closing chapter of the central "Skywalker Saga." The project, announced in 2015, began construction in April 2016. Over the past several months, Disney has been rele

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    How Carrie Fisher Helped Create the 'Star Wars' Legend

    “I got in character and I never got out again — and really, I’ve tried everything.” — Carrie Fisher on ‘Good Morning America,’ 2015

  • NewsMarcus Errico

    'Christmas in the Stars': Revisiting the Sadly Forgotten 'Star Wars' Holiday Album, Bon Jovi and All

    Meco Monardo’s disco version of the Star Wars theme song was a smash hit, outselling the original John Williams music and allowing the trombone-playing music producer to carve out his own lucrative niche in the recording industry covering sci-fi movie scores. By 1980, as “disco was dying,” as Meco explains to Yahoo Movies, but he still had Star Wars fever.

  • NewsMarcus Errico

    Forget Han Solo, This Obi-Wan Kenobi 'Star Wars Story' Is the Movie We're Looking For

    Filling in the blanks between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope had been an Olympic-worthy sport for Star Wars fans for years. While some details have recently been sketched in by the animated series Star Wars Rebels, that 30-year period remains fertile ground for storytellers, with the standalone Rogue One and the solo Han Solo movie along with tie-in novels mining that era.

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    Darth Vader Crashes New 'Rogue One' Trailer

    Just like that the already-daunting task facing Jyn Erso and her ragtag Rebel crew got exponentially more difficult. Darth Vader —  Sith Lord, Imperial enforcer, and all around bad dude — is on their case. In the brand new trailer (above) for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, released Thursday night during the Olympics coverage, the man in the mask made his long-anticipated appearance.

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    This Epic 'Star Wars' Infographic Will Blow Your Mind

    An illustration of the Millennium Falcon from Martin Panchaud’s infographic

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    Watch All the 'Star Wars' Dog Fights Set to 'Danger Zone'

    Han Solo and Luke Skywalker feel the need…the need for speed. The pilots of Star Wars get the Top Gun treatment in this fan video, which sets space battle footage from all seven movies to the tune of Top Gun theme song “Danger Zone.” Turns out that watching the Red Squadron dodge TIE fighters in the Death Star trenches is equally exhilarating whether John Williams or Kenny Loggins is providing the music. Watch it above as part of your early celebration of Top Gun’s 30th anniversary.