This week George Lucas sold his beloved Lucasfilm to Disney for US$4billion. In a sense, the Hollywood doyen’s story is a perfect encapsulation of the American Dream. In another, it’s a cautionary tale of obsession.
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Breaking news: Darth Vader announces Obi-Wan Kenobi is dead
Imagine we live in a different world in, say, a galaxy far far away. Imagine instead of the White House we had the Galactic Empire. Imagine instead of Barack Obama there was Darth Vader, and instead of Osama bin Laden there was Obi-Wan Kenobi. Now check out this very clever New York Times parody story from ‘The Galactic [...]
READ MOREAvatar paves the way for Star Wars 3D
The phenomenal success of Avatar and its widely lauded, eye-bogglingly gorgeous visual structure has paved the way for an onslaught of 3D movies. Some titles, such as the re-rendered 3D versions of Pixar classics Toy Story 1 and 2, were in production well before James Cameron’s blockbustepic bulldozed its way into the record books. Others, [...]
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The dark side of the foots
The new Star Wars instalments arrived in cinemas across the country on Friday. No, wait – they didn’t arrive in cinemas at all. They arrived in, er, shoe shops. In yet another shameless Star Wars merchandise tie-in the folk over at Twentieth Century Fox have collaborated with the guys and gals from Adidas to create [...]
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