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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Nominated for Five British Academy Film Awards!

The official UK twitter account of Star Wars has just announced that The Force Awakens has been nominated for five BAFTA awards: Special Effects, Production Design, Original Music, Sound and Rising Star Award for John Boyega … Read More

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5 New Lego Star Wars Sets Revealed?

A watchful eye over at our message board came across five leaked images of LEGO Star Wars sets – and surprisingly, only one of them is related to The Force Awakens.   It’s interesting to see that a lot of these seem to … Read More

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens First Order Stormtrooper Anovos Helmet Review By The Collectors Hutt!

My buddy Chris Salton over at The Collectors Hutt recently reviewed the Anovos Star Wars: The Force Awakens First Order stormtrooper helmet. Anovos makes high-quality prop merchandise like helmets and costumes. It is a really … Read More

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“First Order Transmissions” #181: You Have That Power, Too

As all of you know, Jason and Amanda put together the Making Star Wars Podcast Network, which they asked us to be a part of. So here’s out first post on our latest episode of “First Order Transmissions”: episode #181, … Read More

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Beats Jurassic World Landing #3 On Worldwide Box Office!

This weekend Star Wars: The Force Awakens hit the third place for all-time worldwide box office, beating Jurassic World! Now The Force Awakens just needs to beat both Titanic and Avatar, which I am sure … Read More

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Blu-ray on Amazon!

Star Wars Megafan sends us this picture of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens Blu-ray from Amazon.com:

While this is exactly what one would expect it to look like, I think it is nice to see it. I imagine the standard U.S. … Read More

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Gwendoline Christie and Lupita Nyong’o Talk About Their Characters in Star Wars: The Force Awakens

The official YouTube page of IMAX.com posted a new The Force Awakens featurette about the women in Star Wars. In this video Gwendoline Christie and Lupita Nyong’o discuss how their physicality was used … Read More

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Collider’s Jedi Council

On the first show of 2016, Kristian, Mark, Tiffany and John talk about The Force Awakens becoming the domestic box office champion, the new Chewie and more filming at Skellig Michael Island. Then it is all about Rogue One, Mads Mikkelsen has been cast for … Read More

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Concept Art Description: Star Wars Land!

I gotta little peek at a piece of concept art for the Star Wars Land coming to Disney Parks. The goal is total immersion and the only thing that breaks the immersion are the tourists in the painting. I’ve heard the goal is to be … Read More

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“Force Cult” – Episode 43 – Vanessa Marshall and Twiggy Ramirez join us

This week we welcome Vanessa Marshall and Twiggy Ramirez to the show.
This is our big The Force Awakens show and by now we’ve had plenty of time to process everything and see it multiple times.
We all … Read More

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“The Cantina Cast”: Episode 113 Live on Youtube!

We are going live at 9:30 PM EST! You can watch the show live or later on if you wish–the audio is always released on Wednesdays on our podcast feed. If you watch live you have the chance to interact and get … Read More

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Part II: Even more on that The Force Awakens planet returning for Star Wars: Episode VIII

What follows below could be considered spoilers by some. Read on if you don’t mind knowing about a planet from The Force Awakens that will appear in Star Wars: Episode VIII.

Yesterday I reported:
dwellings are being made at … Read More

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Interview with Joonas Suotamo, The New Chewbacca, in Business Insider

The Force Awakens brought back a number of characters from the original trilogy. But outside of Han Solo, none had more screen time than the walking carpet himself, Chewbacca. Due to health reasons, the 71 year old Peter … Read More

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UPDATE! Bel Powley Up For Role In Star Wars: Episode VIII

The casting search for that new female lead (or leads possibly) for Episode VIII is still ongoing apparently.  Back in October we reported that Gugu Mbatha-Raw had been cast as the new female lead in Rian Johnson’s … Read More

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Star Wars: Episode VIII has Mbatha-Raw out and Bel Powley in the mix?

Late last night some casting news hit regarding Bel Powley potentially coming aboard for a part in Star Wars: Episode VIII. If memory serves correctly, this part was assumed to be for a role that would be closely … Read More