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• 'Star Wars' Day in Movie Culture: All the Best Parodies, Tributes, Dubstep and More
• Boba Fett Origin Story Will Be Second 'Star Wars' Anthology Movie
• Remembering Geoffrey Lewis, Manoel de Oliveira, Andrew Lesnie and Other Reel-Important People We Lost in April
• New 'San Andreas' Trailer Promises To Destroy Cities Without Superheroes
• Did You Know You Can Stay at That Ridiculous House in 'Ex Machina'?
• Your Nerdy Guide to Better Understanding 'Avengers: Age of Ultron'
• Movie News: 'Star Wars' Movie Seeks New Director; Watch a TV Spot for Cameron Crowe's 'Aloha'
• Happy Star Wars Day! Check Out New Images from 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens'
• First Look: See 'Suicide Squad' Cast in Uniform, Plus Will Smith as Deadshot

'Star Wars' Day in Movie Culture: All the Best Parodies, Tributes, Dubstep and More Posted: 04 May 2015 11:00 PM PDT Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for Star Wars Day movie culture:   IGN remade the trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens with clip art:   A fan redid the Star Wars: The Force Awakens in the style of the original trailer for the first Star Wars in 1977 (via Geek Tyrant):   In a parallel universe, Jar Jar Binks is so popular, he's the main draw of Star Wars Episode VII -- alternatively titled The Bink Awakens (via Geek Tyrant):   Here's a cute animated short featuring R2-D2 and BB-8 hanging out (via Geek Tyrant):     Time invites you to celebrate the day by watching a time-lapse construction of a Millennium Falcon using 250,000 Lego bricks:   And Wired invites us to watch a... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Boba Fett Origin Story Will Be Second 'Star Wars' Anthology Movie Posted: 04 May 2015 09:22 PM PDT Note: The above image is fan art and not official art from the upcoming untitled movie It's been rumored for quite awhile now, but today -- on Star Wars Day, of all days -- we bring word that the second standalone Star Wars movie due out in 2018 will be a Boba Fett origin story. The Wrap broke the news only hours after that film's initial director, Josh Trank (Chronicle, Fantastic Four) departed the project to pursue other ideas. So while the film awaits a new director, we can start speculating as to what kind of origin story this actually is.   Here's video of Boba Fett's initial 1978 screentest -- his real origin story. That's because we've already seen stuff with Boba Fett as a kid, adopted by his father Jango Fett -- who has a much... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Remembering Geoffrey Lewis, Manoel de Oliveira, Andrew Lesnie and Other Reel-Important People We Lost in April Posted: 04 May 2015 09:00 PM PDT Reel-Important People is a monthly column that highlights those individuals in or related to the movies that have left us in recent weeks. Below you'll find names big and small and from all areas of the industry, though each was significant to the movies in his or her own way. Paul Almond (1931-2015) - Director. For Granada Television, he directed the classic documentary Seven Up! (pictured above), which spawned the rest of the Up series. He also directed Captive Hearts and a 1961 version of Macbeth starring Sean Connery. He died on April 9. (LAT) Richard Corliss (1944-2015) - Film Critic. He was the critic for Time magazine for the past 35 years. He also can be seen in the documentaries Life... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

New 'San Andreas' Trailer Promises To Destroy Cities Without Superheroes Posted: 04 May 2015 07:00 PM PDT These days you can count on blockbuster movies culminating in the destruction of an entire city, if not more. But lately that has involved superheroes punching each other while chaos rains down from the sky. There is one movie this summer, however, that promises to give you the shock-and-awe of a crumbling city without a single superhero in sight. We're talking about the earthquake disaster movie San Andreas, of course. It stars Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario, and a doomsaying Paul Giamatti in a movie that promises to deliver the most ridiculous geological throwdown ever put on film. We're talking about an end-of-times rumble where the situation gets so dire, the survivors have to share the same shirt. Teasing aside, San Andreas looks like the kind... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Did You Know You Can Stay at That Ridiculous House in 'Ex Machina'? Posted: 04 May 2015 05:30 PM PDT Movie tourism is a big deal for a lot of cinema fans, with people making trips all over the world just to visit shooting locations and landmarks seen in their favorite films. Sometimes they can get some help from a map or an app or an official tour. When a spot used for a set is a hotel, that makes the stay so much easier. From California's Hotel del Coronado of Some Like It Hot to Connecticut's Yankee Peddler Inn of The Innkeepers, there are plenty of places you can stay the night and feel like you're in the actual movie filmed there. Now we can add the Juvet Landscape Hotel, which is seen in the new sci-fi movie Ex Machina as Oscar Isaac's character's secluded residence and A.I. research lab. Built in 2009 and located in the Vallstad valley of... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Your Nerdy Guide to Better Understanding 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' Posted: 04 May 2015 04:00 PM PDT For more Marvel goodness, follow our Marvel Studios Countdown.   One of the things Avengers: Age of Ultron does well is reveal familiar threads and characters from the comics in clever and sometimes subtle ways. I’m not talking about Easter Eggs, where things are dropped into the background for sharp eyed comic readers to spot. I’m talking about the Marvel Cinematic Universe borrowing whole cloth from the shared world we’ve known from the long-running comics. Here are just a few of our favorites.   With a Name Like Strucker’s It Has to Be Bad If S.H.I.E.L.D. has an arch-enemy, it’s this guy. He is to Hydra as Nick Fury is to S.H.I.E.L.D. While Thomas Kretschmann’s Strucker never gets to look Samuel Jackson’s Fury in... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Movie News: 'Star Wars' Movie Seeks New Director; Watch a TV Spot for Cameron Crowe's 'Aloha' Posted: 04 May 2015 02:20 PM PDT Star Wars Anthology: The second installment in the Star Wars Anthology standalone series now needs a director. Josh Trank (Fantastic Four), who had been attached to the project as director for more than a year, announced he was stepping aside. "I’m making a personal decision to move forward on a different path," he stated. "I know deep down in my heart that I want to pursue some original creative opportunities." The movie is still expected in 2018. [StarWars.com]   The Long Home: Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games series) will star in The Long Home, an independent drama to be directed by James Franco. The two previously teamed for In Dubious Battle, based on a John Steinbeck novel; the new project is drawn from a novel by William Gay and is set... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Happy Star Wars Day! Check Out New Images from 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Posted: 04 May 2015 12:48 PM PDT Happy May the Fourth, y'all!  In honor of Star Wars Day -- celebrated annually on May 4th because you can say stuff like, "May the Fourth be with you!" -- a host of new images from Star Wars: The Force Awakens have arrived online, courtesy of a Vanity Fair photo shoot by celebrated photographer Annie Leibovitz. Following on the heels of the latest trailer, the new images confirm a few big character rumors, as well as introduce our first look at Lupita Nyong'o's mysterious character, a pirate named Maz Kanata. First, check out the cover photo above featuring  Han Solo (Harrison Ford), Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew) and the Star Wars newbies, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and BB-8. Here's a cool behind-the-scenes image of the photo above from... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

First Look: See 'Suicide Squad' Cast in Uniform, Plus Will Smith as Deadshot Posted: 04 May 2015 12:00 PM PDT We got our first look at Jared Leto's Joker recently, and he looked on the far edge of sanity. But now that Suicide Squad director David Ayer has revealed more members of the cast in costume, the Joker looks like he'll fit right in. Task Force X assembled and ready. #SuicideSquad pic.twitter.com/fEV7E1aPsm — David Ayer (@DavidAyerMovies) May 3, 2015 "Task Force X" is an alternate name for the Suicide Squad. From left to right, per Vanity Fair: Adam Beech as Slipknot, Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang, Cara Delevingne as Enchantress, Karen Fukuhara as Katana, Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flagg, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Will Smith as Deadshot, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Killer Croc, and Jay Hernandez as El Diablo. Ayer also shared another... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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