The Force Awakens was the big winner at the 42nd Saturn Awards held on June 22nd. The seventh Star Wars movie won eight awards including Best SF Film and Best Actor (Harrison Ford). Outlander, Supergirl and Hannibal all received recognition in the TV categories. FILM AWARDS Best Science Fiction Film: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Best Comic-to-Film Motion Picture: Ant-Man Best […]
Alden Ehrenreich will be the new record holder for the Kessel Run. The Hail Caesar! star has been cast as a young Han Solo for Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s Star […]
Last year’s bumper crop of SF, fantasy and superhero films were rewarded at the MTV Movie Awards, held on April 9th. Hosted by Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart, the ceremony included a clip from the forthcoming Suicide Squad. Star Wars: The Force Awakens won Best Movie, with star Daisy Ridley acknowledged for Breakthrough Performance, and Adam Driver for Best Villain as […]
Rogue One, the first official Star Wars spin-off movie, finally has its own trailer. Shown on Good Morning America on April 7th, the trailer confirms some of the details about […]
Erik Bauersfeld, who voiced both Bib Fortuna and Admiral Ackbar in the original Star Wars trilogy, has died aged 93. The voice actor originally auditioned for the role of Yoda, but Frank Oz got that part. He was initially uncredited as the Admiral in Return of the Jedi but fans’ constant repetition of his most famous line, “It’s a trap!” brought him […]
Principal photography on Star Wars Episode VIII has begun today – 15 February – at Pinewood and Lucasfilm have offically announced the cast: “Rey took her first steps into a […]
The 14th annual Visual Effects Society Awards were held on February 2nd, with Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Game of Thrones the clear winners. JJ Abrams’ revival of the […]
The release of a new Star Wars movie seems set to become as much part of the Christmas routine as Slade’s song or the Charlie Brown special. Disney has moved the release of Rian Johnson’s Episode VIII from May 2017 to a December slot. Rogue One will be out this December, and it’s anticipated that the young Han Solo movie […]
With six weeks or so until The Force Awakens in cinemas worldwide, Disney and Lucasfilm have released a set of character posters mixing old and new Star Wars characters. Harrison […]
As websites worldwide crash beneath the weight of Star Wars fans who can’t possibly risk missing the very first showing in their area of Episode VII, Disney have released the main trailer – which, it has to be said, lives up to the hype around the film. Although the trailer concentrates on the new characters, there are sightings of Han, […]
John Williams, the man behind the iconic themes for Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Indiana Jones among many others, is to be the first composer to receive AFI’s Life Achievement Award. “John Williams has written the soundtrack to our lives,” Howard Stringer, Chair of the AFI Board of Trustees, said in a statement. “Note by note, through chord […]
Colin Trevorrow will be behind the cameras for the third of the new trilogy of Star Wars films. “Colin is someone I’ve been interested in working with ever since I saw Safety Not Guaranteed,” Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy explained. “The power of that film paired with the enormous success of Jurassic World speaks volumes about his abilities both as a […]
A special 14 acre Star Wars Land will be opening at Disneyland in Orlando and Anaheim, Disney has confirmed. Speaking at the D23 event, Bob Iger said that this will be the largest single-themed land expansion ever, with everything including the cantinas coming from the movie mythology. It will be “the first time our guests can immerse themselves in the […]
Genre veteran Max von Sydow is coming to Game of Thrones, according to a report at Entertainment Weekly. The magazine explains that the actor, soon to be seen in Star […]
Han Solo’s backstory is about to be revealed in the next of the Star Wars anthology movies, brought to the big screen by The LEGO Movie’s Christopher Miller and Phil Lord. The screenplay is written by Lawrence Kasdan and Jon Kasdan and focuses on how young Han Solo became the smuggler, thief, and scoundrel whom Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi […]
Sir Christopher Lee, star of countless genre roles from Hammer Horror to Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings, has died aged 93. The Daily Telegraph is reporting that […]
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