Star Wars
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Required Reading: Indie Directors Who Need a Blockbuster and The Old Focus
Focus Features The best movie culture writing from around the internet-o-sphere. There will be a quiz later. Just leave a tab open for us, will ya?…
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There Are Plenty of Great Movies With Multiple Villains
Paramount Pictures We all feared that The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was going to have too many villains. But the number of bad guys in the…
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How Many Women Should the New ‘Star Wars’ Movie Have?
LucasFilm Diversity is of vital importance to filmmaking, not only because of how powerful movies can be as a social tool, but because variety is…
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‘Star Wars’ Didn’t Change the Business of Hollywood; ‘Empire’ Did
In this essay published in 2014, film scholar Landon Palmer examines the lasting business impact of Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back.
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Required Reading: The ‘Star Wars’ Outrage Edition
LucasFilm The best movie culture writing from around the internet-o-sphere. This special edition features, naturally, a lot of Star Wars: Episode VII reactions tucked prominently…
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‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ Death Stars the Expanded Universe
LucasFilm People really seem to like this Star Wars thing. But originally, there wasn’t that much Star Wars to go around. You saw the movies,…
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Do Wookies Go Gray? Peter Mayhew Returning as Chewbacca In ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’
Lucasfilm Ltd. Just imagine any of the original Star Wars ensemble not making at least a cameo appearance in Star Wars: Episode VII. There’d at…
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Adam Driver Escapes the Mystery Box, May Actually Be in ‘Star Wars’
Adam Driver Escapes the Mystery Box, May Actually Be in ‘Star Wars’ Listen, I know that there’s been a lot of Star Wars apathy lately. J.J.…
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Yes, But What Does That ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ Release Date Really Mean?
Yesterday’s official announcement that J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: Episode VII is set to hit theaters on December 18, 2015 was a long time coming –…