Black Angel, the long lost short shown with The Empire Strikes Back, is coming to Netflix and iTunes in 2014

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Back at the end of 2012, news came that Roger Christian‘s long lost short film BLACK ANGEL has been found. Newly restored, the short premiered at the Mill Valley Film Festival last week and will now be getting a full...

Cool Videos: Original teaser trailer for Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

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Anyone ready to travel back to 1980? No, I haven’t acquired a time machine but watching this teaser trailer for STAR WARS EPISODE V: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK takes me back. Here’s the description from the official Youtube page for...

The story of a shot-for-shot Raiders of the Lost Ark fan film to get the big screen treatment

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Talk about a crazy journey: Childhood friends who spent almost a decade filming a shot-for-shot remake of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK are on their way to having their passion project become a big screen movie. NAPOLEON DYNAMITE producer Jeremy...

Joss Whedon says the ending to The Empire Strikes Back was a “terrible idea”

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Fanboy Rage: Commence! Despite being a lifelong fan of the STAR WARS franchise, Joss Whedon has no plans to direct any of the forthcoming sequels due to his commitment to Marvel and THE AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON. But that doesn’t...

Cool Videos: Mark Hamill’s Joker voice replaces The Emperor’s in Return of the Jedi

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I don’t think anyone would have ever thought that Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hamill, would one day be an exceptional voice actor, particularly as The Joker in almost all of his animated adventures. Watching Hamill in RETURN OF THE JEDI...

I Want That: Yub Yub! Lego Ewok Village!

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I'm about to let me geek flag fly here, so bear with me. I love Legos. I didn't love them as a kid, although they were fun, but Lego has upped their game substantially since then. With all the various...

This George Lucas conference call from 1981 shows how far back the prequel stories were in development

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It is crazy to think that this year mark’s the 30th anniversary of RETURN OF THE JEDI, the lone STAR WARS original trilogy film released during my lifetime. Man, I feel old. Introducing the original trilogy to my kids was...

Brad Bird shares how he would have made Return of the Jedi awesome

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RETURN OF THE JEDI is the least of the original trilogy of STAR WARS movies, but that is still heads and tails better than a lot of movies out there. I have fond memories of JEDI, including the Ewoks. But...

Screenwriters Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg discuss their approach to the next generation of Star Wars films

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Two of the craftsmen of the next (and former for one of them) generation of STAR WARS films, Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg recently spoke to IGN about their approach to the films and general reaction to the hype, including...

Scripty! Read Harrison Ford’s notes on the script for Raiders of the Lost Ark

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If given the opportunity to get inside the mind of an actor for two seconds, anyone would take it. Okay, as long as it was an actor that you approved of. What if I said you could get inside Harrison...

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