Tag: Star Wars
STAR WARS Breaks Blu-ray Sales Records
Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment announced today that STAR WARS is the bestselling catalog Blu-ray Disc of all time with worldwide sales totaling one million units, including 515,000 units sold in North America in its first week alone. This represents $84 million in worldwide consumer spend including $38 million in North America – unprecedented for a nine-disc Blu-ray collection at a premium price.
Star Wars Deleted Scenes Clip: Comic-Con 2011
Not at Comic-Con? We’ve got you’ve covered. Fans who attended the Star Wars Fan Movie Awards just got a sneak peek at some of the deleted scenes from the upcoming Star Wars Saga on Blu-ray Disc.
The 100 Must-See Films of all Time
Hot on the heels of a great British success at The Oscars, this weekend The Sunday Times website will publish their definitive 100 Must-See Films. Ten movie critics from The Sunday Times have compiled lists, lots of lists, about everything that makes movies magical.
How do the latest pretenders like The Social Network and Toy Story 3 measure up to established classics such as The Godfather, Star Wars and Apocalypse Now? Available exclusively at www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/public/filmlist/article568083.ece, from Sunday 6th March, the 100 Must-See Films will be fully interactive, allowing users to search the essential films of all time by genre, price, and decade; readers can even click and buy the film directly from the list.
Star Wars: The Complete Saga Blu-Ray Trailer
The most anticipated Blu-ray release ever – the Star Wars™ Saga – emerges from light speed this September 2011. For the first time, all six of George Lucas’ epic films (Episodes I-VI) are united in one complete set. Fans worldwide are able to pre-order now with online retailers.
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will release Star Wars in three distinct sets to meet the needs of every Star Wars fan. They include:
- Star Wars: The Complete Saga on Blu-ray (9-disc Set includes all six films)
- Star Wars: Prequel Blu-ray Trilogy (3-disc set includes Episodes I-III)
- Star Wars: Original Blu-ray Trilogy (3-disc set includes Episodes IV-VI)
‘Bad Science In Movies’ Checklist Chart Along With Apocalyptic Blockbuster Absurd
Hi! I’d like the chart from io9 completewith the article in the London Sunday Times on January 2, 2011. Both surveys turned up interesting details about breaking rules. These facts led us to the conclusion that science and film do not always share equal values.
The io9 report card consists of 11 categories of mistakes or different rules that were broken, such as “sound in space” and “moving in slow-motion in zero gravity”, that Space Cowboys (2000) broke, for example. The Right Stuff (1983) shares first place in the list with Apollo 13 (1995) – you really can get three men back from the moon on the power it takes to run a coffee machine!
Star Wars Saga 3D In Theaters Starting in 2012
Lucasfilm Ltd. and 20th Century Fox are preparing to re-release the entire Star Wars series in theaters again with new 3D conversions. One film would be released each year, Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace (1999) would be first out of star-dock in the early months of 2012. After that, each of the films would be released in order at the same time each consecutive year, depending on how well the first re-release does.
Lucasfilm told Variety that the company is committed to making the Star Wars saga look as good in 3D as it would have if it had actually been shot that way.
“It’s not going to look like [conversions] we’ve seen in the past,” said John Knoll, the visual effects supervisor for Industrial Light & Magic. I assume he then coughed into his hand and said something like Clash of the Titans.
Zack Snyder To Direct Star Wars Reboot? Or April Fools Joke!?
At this year’s ShoWest, Zack Snyder and George Lucas announce to the world that Snyder has been tapped to reboot the “Star Wars” franchise!? April fools joke?
Maybe but here’s the word from MovieWeb.com:
“To be honest, Zack wasn’t always my first choice,” Lucas told a crowd of skeptical journalists and fans. “But I feel he can really 300 up the project.”
“The original trilogy is really lacking in terms of cohesiveness, writing, and overall story structure. I just didn’t have the time then to do what I did with episodes 1, 2 and 3 which represent the true intended Star Wars universe,” Lucas added.
“Fanboys” Trailer
In “Fanboys,” a group of friends who are avid Star Wars fans travel west to see the Holly Grail of all sci-fi movies, “Star Wars: Episode I.” The year is 1999 and for these death star dorks, the Star Wars films are more than just movies; they are a way of life.
So, after one of the group takes sick it is nothing short of a moral imperative that the friends break into George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch to watch the seminal sci-fi picture together before its release. Enlisting the help of an estranged friend, who has traded in his Darth Vader mask for a proper day job, the adventure lays way to some extremely funny situations, including an outrageous brawl with some hard-core Trekkies.
Funny New “Fanboys” Poster
Another poster for the upcoming “Fanboys” movie has just debuted over at Cinematical, showing a fan wearing a Darth Vader helmet.
In the movie, a group of friends who are avid Star Wars fans travel west to see the Holly Grail of all sci-fi movies, “Star Wars: Episode I.” The year is 1999 and for these death star dorks, the Star Wars films are more than just movies; they are a way of life. So, after one of the group takes sick it is nothing short of a moral imperative that the friends break into George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch to watch the seminal sci-fi picture together before its release. Enlisting the help of an estranged friend, who has traded in his Darth Vader mask for a proper day job, the adventure lays way to some extremely funny situations, including an outrageous brawl with some hard-core Trekkies.
