AMSTERDAM, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Nearly half of humans believe in alien life and want to make contact, a survey in 24 countries has found, in what researchers said helps to explain the lasting popularity of the “Star Wars” franchise 40 years after the first movie was screened.
After several high-profile exits by previous “Star Wars” directors, Lucasfilm is turning to the filmmaker who helped resurrect the franchise in the first place.
North Korea flying missiles over Japan and detonating a potential 100-kiloton hydrogen bomb just turbo-charged what was already the beginning of a Southern California “Star Wars” defense boom.
Dr. Sebastian Gorka, a now former Deputy Assistant to President Donald J. Trump, says that the West Wing Democrats, the left, and the Fake News Industrial Complex will never succeed in stopping him and others from battling for the president’s agenda.
Several scientific journals have accepted a Star Wars-themed spoof research paper that is filled with fictional entities, references to the films, and a monologue from Revenge of the Sith.
Following the conclusion of an address to a crowd gathered for the 68th Chartered Accountants Day, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi walked off the stage to the iconic Star Wars theme “The Imperial March.”
In a video posted online Tuesday, Driver hops in his truck and drives to Brodheadsville, Pennsylvania, where he surprises the military family with the scholarship for Williams’s daughter.
Carrie Fisher’s autopsy report shows the actress had cocaine in her system when she fell ill on a plane last year, but investigators could not determine what impact the cocaine and other drugs found in her system had on her death.
April 17 (UPI) — Video game publisher Electronic Arts and Lucasfilm have released the first trailer for Star Wars Battlefront II featuring new and familiar faces.
Hollywood studios could be in for another year of “big-budget bombs” and increased volatility around mid-budget releases, film industry analyst Doug Creutz warned in a report this week.
Who knew TV casting directors could hold the key to ending the war on terror?
Disney is reportedly looking to strike a deal with the estate of the late actress Carrie Fisher for the rights to use the Star Wars star’s likeness in the franchise’s future films.
The Board of the George Lucas “Museum of Narrative Art” picked Los Angeles’ Exposition Park over San Francisco’s Treasure Island on Tuesday as home of the highly anticipated museum of the Star Wars creator’s digital and populist art collection.
The Board of George Lucas’s proposed “Museum of Narrative Art” delayed its final site selection approval in what is now a hot and heavy competition between San Francisco’s Treasure Island and Los Angeles’ Exposition Park.
After the tragic passing of Carrie Fisher, Disney must decide how to handle her absence from the franchise that immortalized her.
Celebrities took to social media Tuesday afternoon to offer condolences in reaction to the death of acclaimed actress Carrie Fisher.
Disney released the final trailer for its upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story over the weekend in preparation for the film’s release on December 16.
‘Star Wars’ actor Mark Hamill says his new Web series about pop culture has come along just in the nick of time — because it’s diverted his attention from Donald Trump’s Cabinet appointments.
Kenny Baker played the lovable droid R2-D2 in the “Star Wars” films, achieving cult status and fans’ adulation without showing his face or speaking any lines.
Disney/Lucasfilm dropped the first trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story during the Olympics last night, and the short clip features the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it return of one of cinema’s most beloved bad guys for the first time in more than decade.
Michelle Obama got a boost from Star Wars: The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams, who produced an introductory video ahead of the First Lady’s speech at the Democratic National Convention on Monday night.
Under the hashtag #WebOfDenial, they are wasting hours of Senate floor time warning America that she is in the grip of a terrible new threat in which evil denialists (TM) funded – natch – by the even more evil Koch Brothers have been conspiring to block action on “climate change” by disseminating lies through right-wing think tanks like the Heartland Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Executives at Disney have reportedly ordered four weeks of re-shoots on the upcoming Star Wars film Rogue One, with an anonymous source close to the situation claiming the studio is not satisfied with director Gareth Edwards’ first cut of the film.
Jake Lloyd, the actor most known for his role as young Anakin Skywalker in the 1999 blockbuster Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, suffers from schizophrenia, TMZ revealed Monday.
The Internet was ablaze Thursday morning as the first teaser trailer for the highly-anticipated Rogue One: A Star Wars Story premiered on Good Morning America. The Star Wars spinoff centers on a a group of Rebel spies on a mission
The Internet was ablaze Thursday morning as the first teaser trailer for the highly-anticipated Rogue One: A Star Wars Story premiered on Good Morning America. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wji-BZ0oCwg The Star Wars spinoff movie centers on a a group of Rebel spies on
Disney insisted on a female lightsaber wielding character in “The Force Awakens,” according to a spokesperson, as part of an effort to add more female characters to the Star Wars universe.
On March 20, Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety tweeted praise for Star Wars’ Mark Hamill over his recent comments in support of gun control.
Star Wars star Mark Hamill says his iconic character Luke Skywalker could be gay — if you want him to be.
Hillary Clinton’s presidential war chest boasted a January haul of $130.4 million, thanks in part to A-list Hollywood luminaries like Mark Hamill, Goldie Hawn, Teri Hatcher, Alfre Woodard, and Chevy Chase, according to the latest FEC data calculated by Bloomberg.
LONDON (AP) — British health authorities announced Thursday they have issued criminal charges against the producers of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” over an on-set accident in which Harrison Ford broke his leg. The actor was struck by a hydraulic
On this week’s airing of “Saturday Night Live,” host Adam Driver, star of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” reclaimed his role as villain Kylo Ren as the boss on a mock “Undercover Boss.” Driver’s Ren went undercover as radar technician “Matt” on
President Obama confessed that he still hadn’t seen the new Star Wars movie – The Force Awakens.
What Empire? What Empire is striking back? Answer: It’s the Empire of Beltway Anti-Medical Drug Naderites and bureaucrats—those who have piled high the red tape and the rent-seeking costs, thereby diminishing innovation and pushing down annual approvals of new drugs to levels below those seen in the mid-1990s.
After being cast by George Lucas to play Anakin Skywalker in two Star Wars prequels early in his career, actor Hayden Christensen appeared in only a handful of other films before mostly walking away from the industry.
With controversy over the Slave Leia costume heating up to the point where even Carrie Fisher felt obliged to weigh in, sex in nerd culture is once more getting smeared by the media. Indeed, one could argue that the Slave
As is usually the case, what is bad news for Hollywood is almost always good news for America and Americans. Hollywood enjoyed a record box office year in 2015, but the hows and whys of this are mostly bad news
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump posted a new video ad on Instagram captioned, “We need a real President!”
The December 21 reusable recovery of a SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has improved the economics of commercial activity in space, but it has fundamentally changed the military balance of power and, perhaps inadvertently, launched the era of space militarization.
Science fiction has considered the question of artificial intelligence since the very beginning — what is the subject of Mary Shelley’s groundbreaking novel Frankenstein if not an artificial intelligence, made from organic parts instead of metal?
