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Remembering Dan O'Bannon: A Look Back at Return Of The Living Dead

2 hours ago | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Warning: If you haven’t seen it (and if that’s the case, get thee to the DVD immediately), the following contains major spoilers for Return Of The Living Dead.

I’ve noticed that Dan O’Bannon’s recent passing has inspired a lot of scolding obituaries, with paragraphs devoted to lecturing a reader ignorant of O’Bannon’s contributions to film. I’ve already been told this week in open letters by complete strangers how I don’t even know that he wrote the original draft of Alien and therefore created the chest-burster and he worked with John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper and on Star Wars and if wasn’t for him there would be no... was Dan O’Bannon doomed to an obscurity I was unaware of? While he is less famous than some of his collaborators, possibly unfairly, he will never need to be explained to me »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Jack Bennett)

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Star Wars: Cool Disco Art

7 hours ago | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »

Accomplished graphic designer and friend of HeyUGuys Paul Collett has drawn up some pretty cool Star Wars inspired artwork and we wanted to share these with you here.

The legendary theme of Star Wars has been remixed many times, and being a product of the 70s the disco mix is a lot of fun. Taking inspiration from George Lucas’s iconic designs Paul Collett has rendered these great posters below.

See more of his work at www.PaulCollett.co.uk, and check out the full images in the gallery below.

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- Jon Lyus

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DVD Review: Family Guy’s Something, Something, Something Dark Side (DVD)

7 hours ago | FusedFilm | See recent FusedFilm news »

The long awaited sequel to Family Guy’s first Star Wars parody, Blue Harvest, has finally arrived on DVD and Blu-ray. Something, Something Dark Side, is the crew’s hilarious redux of Empire Strikes Back. First off I must point out the show wastes no time in giving some kind of pop culture reference to insult or make you smile. While watching Aaron Sorkin’s new show “The Kitchen” featuring people walking and talking intelligently throughout a kitchen, The Griffin’s are struck with another power outage leaving Peter with one thing to do, tell the next story in the original Star Wars trilogy.

Assuming that the viewer is already familiar with the film’s plot, the opening crawl instead goes into detail about how 20th Century Fox made Star Wars unprofitable (foreseeing it a failure) to other companies by letting George Lucas keep all merchandising rights to it and »

- Kevin Coll

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Family Guy Presents: Something Something Something Dark Side - DVD Review

15 hours ago | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

If you are old enough to remember seeing The Empire Strikes Back in a theater during its first release, you will be at the very best age to really enjoy Family Guy.s take on the movie. That is not to say that older and younger audiences won.t enjoy it, but those who made the original Star Wars trilogy a hit are likely to be the biggest fans of Something, Something, Something Dark Side. As the episode opens, the Griffin family is watching Aaron Sorkin.s latest television show .The Kitchen. when the power goes off. They talk about what to do, and then reminisce with great fondness Peter.s telling of Star Wars (as .Blue Harvest..) The question is asked »

- June L.

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Ted Dibiase Says 'Marine 2' Is A 'Totally New Marine'

17 hours ago | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »

WWE star says fans can expect relationship 'chemistry' in addition to the movie's action sequences.

By Shaheem Reid

Ted Dibiase

Photo: MTV News

It's no wonder that WWE superstar Ted Dibiase Jr. is a natural in the wrestling ring. His grandparents (yeah, his grandmother fought as well) were feared squared-circle competitors, and his father, "Million Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase, is a WWE Hall of Famer. The elder Ted's résumé is legendary. So when Ted Jr. came to prominence as a member of the Legacy faction last year (the trio is led by Randy Orton, son of Hall of Famer "Cowboy" Bob Orton, and Cody Rhodes, son of Hall of Famer "American Dream" Dusty Rhodes), it was really no surprise. Ted Jr. won the tag-team titles in his first match for the WWE.

Now Ted Dibiase Jr. is stepping into a whole new arena, and it's not one of the many »

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Lego Prince of Persia?

28 December 2009 6:56 PM, PST | GameRant | See recent GameRant news »

Lego bricks are seemingly becoming more well-known as Lego digital bricks nowadays with the brand’s jump into the video game industry a few years back. We’ve already seen Lego Star Wars, Lego Batman, Lego Indiana Jones and there’s even a Lego Rock Band – not even based on a movie but on another game as simply a Lego-styled skin.

As we know, Ubisoft makes the Prince of Persia video games and Disney’s film adaptation of The Sands of Time is coming out in summer, 2011 and that of course means, Lego toys will accompany it. But does it mean we can expect a Lego Prince of Persia game too?

 

Lego has become heavily dependent on other non-original licences in recent years and if you walk into the nearest toy store, a hefty portion of what you will see will be based on other properties and not original Lego designs. »

- Rob Keyes

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‘The Phantom Menace Review’ Explains Why Star Wars Prequels Suck

28 December 2009 11:36 AM, PST | Tubefilter.tv | See recent Tubefilter News news »

Everyone knows The Phantom Menace is a terrible movie. You know it. Little kids with Anakin backpacks know it. George Lucas knows it, as he lies awake on his pile of Star Wars licensed gold. Even prequel apologists like me know it. So, does anyone really need a 70-minute video review to tell us why we hate such a mind-numbing piece of woefully disappointing cinema? Yes, at least when it's produced by mad genius Mike Stoklasa of Red Letter Media. Stoklasa's review doesn't simply trash The Phantom Menace, it explores the reasons the two Star Wars trilogies are so different, and examines the broader question of why some movies make people's eyes glaze over in awe and other movies make them want to slit their wrists. The Phantom Menace Review is conducted in the same style as other Red Letter Media reviews. It's exhaustively illustrated with wall-to-wall footage from the film, »

- Ana Hurka-Robles

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Previews: What does it take to make a Sith?

28 December 2009 10:23 AM, PST | doorQ.com | See recent doorQ.com news »

BioWare's Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic Mmo has a pretty cool behind the scenes look at the development process for the Sith class in the wide-spanning adventure game. Set thousands of years before the films (and even before the popular Kotor video games), this Mmo allows you to play as Jedi, Troopers, Bounty Hunters or the evil Sith. 

 

Creating the Sith has been an interesting process for the BioWare developers. They've taken the two types of Sith seen in the movies -- The Emperor's plotting, cunning villainy and Vader's aggressive, assaultive malice -- and used those as the archetypes for the Sith Warrior and Sith Inquisitor classes.  

 

In the video, the Sith Warriors are badass death dealers, while the Inquisitor's are subtle, lightning throwing tormentors, much like the people people I used to work with. The developers note that playing the Sith in the game isn't just about being evil, »

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Must See Photos: If Star Wars characters had Facebook

28 December 2009 10:18 AM, PST | GordonandtheWhale | See recent GordonandtheWhale news »

The cool cats over at TheMovieBlog.com (via College Humor) have a very funny and clever piece up today showing what it might look like if the characters from Star Wars had Facebook. Okay, it’s not just funny and clever…it’s downright brilliant and hilarious. Check out the rest of the images after the jump!

Read more on Must See Photos: If Star Wars characters had Facebook… »

- Don R. Lewis

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Utah man fired from job for calling ‘Avatar’ fan an “Avatard”

28 December 2009 9:44 AM, PST | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »

While director James Cameron’s latest big-budget film, Avatar, astonishes audiences with a torrid of stunning visual effects, the movie has also grown a surprisingly large and rabid fan-base. Just ask Anthony Hansen, a Salt Lake City-based customer service representative who works for Stencil Tech, or at least he used to until he was fired from the company for expressing his “anti-Avatar” views of the movie.

One of the most highly anticipated films of the second half of the decade, Avatar has been touted as the special effects event that would change cinema forever. The movie centers on Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a paraplegic Marine who takes a job on the alien world of Pandora in order to operate his dead brother’s avatar, a lab-grown “native” fused with his brother’s DNA to that of a Na’vi, the indigenous humanoid population on Pandora. Hired by a non-governmental mining operation on the planet, »

- Reel Loop Satire Squad

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Sr Pick – The Millennium Falcon Bed

28 December 2009 8:41 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Sleep is something that is totally underrated and something that most of the staff at Screen Rant surely don’t get enough of. The body simply needs time to rest, to dream – recharge.

When I was a boy in 1976 in the outskirts of Chicago, Il, I had a stagecoach bunk bed, and we’re not talking about some brown plastic, boneriffic pseudo-cowboy slumber rack. We’re talking real wood, wrought-iron, 4-wheeled ultimate badassery that made other kids Weep when their parents said “not tonite, kiddo” to sleepovers.

 

Now, my wife and I sleep in a custom bed that my father and I made out of wooden cabinetry that offers some extra storage for my wife and (sometimes) I. It sits almost 4 feet in the air and there’s a custom trundle staircase and below us is an powered play house for our daughter, Jade. Pretty cool, right? Sure, I’ve »

- Mike Wilkerson

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Family Guy Presents: Something Something Something Dark Side - Blu-ray Review

28 December 2009 7:23 AM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

The second installment of the hilariously funny Family Guy/Star Wars parody earns its Blu-ray colors. Ok, so if you are a Family Guy and Star Wars fan and were born somewhere between the years 1972 and 1977, this straight to DVD and Blu-ray release will make you spit your coffee or coke or whatever you are drinking out of your nose (hot coffee doesn.t feel so good, but I was watching it at 4:30 in the a.m. trying to wake up). Normal people will enjoy, too. Keep up, there are multiple roles within roles here. The electricity goes out as happened in the first one (Blue Harvest), and Peter starts to tell the family The Empire Strikes »

- Dana Rae

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Star Wars PSA

28 December 2009 5:24 AM, PST | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »

The entire film industry is apparently busy prepping their fabulous New Year's plans rather than producing actual news stories to report on, so here’s a really old Star Wars anti-smoking commercial I’ve never seen before. It features R2-D2 and C-3Po illustrating the dangers of smoking. Not sure if a robot holding a cigarette with a claw is hazardous to said robot’s health, but Threepio makes the point that they should be setting a good example for humans. Though »

- Paul Tassi

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3D for Robin Hood, Jackass, and Star Wars?

27 December 2009 1:31 PM, PST | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »

Expensive three-dimensional technology seems to be paying off for James Cameron’s Avatar, which topped a competitive Christmas weekend and is wowing audiences worldwide.  This naturally has Hollywood types looking through dollar sign pupils at their upcoming releases and stroking their beards at how to replicate that success.

Though Avatar was shot in 3D from the beginning, an increasing number of executives are seeing the benefit of spending the extra $8 million for at least a post-production conversion to three dimensions.  It’s not just in the premium pricing either.  In a time when theaters are under siege from piracy and the possibility of on-demand, as well as a struggling DVD market, there’s value in luring audiences back to stadium seating and sticky floors.

TheWrap.com’s Sharon Waxman wrote a great article about the 3D mania sweeping the town, naming a few titles that may be getting the new experience. »

- Jeff Leins

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Cool Stuff: Leia The Riveter T-Shirt

26 December 2009 9:15 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

TeeFury's t-shirt of the day is a Star Wars design by Thomas G. Sullivan. The t-shirt is a parody of J. Howard Miller's WWII-era call to action piece "We Can Do It!", an iconic feminist image appeared on magazines, newspapers and posters, and helped increase women’s earning power and acceptance into male-dominated trades. The bad news is that Teefury will be selling the t-shirt for one day, and one day only -- Sunday December 27th. The good news is that the t-shirt is on sale for only $9 plus shipping. Check out the full design after the jump. Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm.com. Know of any geekarific creations or cool products which should be featured on Cool Stuff? E-Mail us at orfilms@gmail.com. »

- Peter Sciretta

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I Miss Stand-Alone Adventure Stories, Don't You?

26 December 2009 6:32 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

We live in a sad era, partly created out of our own insatiable lust for sequels. It's the era of the tentpole film, the time when everyone and everything is eyed "as a possible franchise." You spend your money for a ticket just to watch for the promise of a sequel -- and you better hope the film makes millions upon millions of dollars or you may never get it!

Take Star Trek. I really, really enjoyed Star Trek. But on repeat viewing it feels more and more like a pilot episode. It's a very good pilot episode, mind you, but now when the credits roll I just really want to know what it's all for. The entire film will collapse if there's no sequel, no reason for the crew to come together. It doesn't stand as firmly on its own two feet as it should. Now contrast this with »

- Elisabeth Rappe

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Seth MacFarlane On The "Family Guy" "Star Wars" Parody

26 December 2009 1:54 PM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »

Seth MacFarlane, 36, created "Family Guy," Fox's animated sitcom, which this year became the first cartoon series nominated for a prime-time Emmy since "The Flintstones" in 1961. Fox just released the DVD "Family Guy: Something, Something, Something Dark Side," a follow-up to the 2007 "Blue Harvest" episode that spoofed the "Star Wars" franchise. Why do an extended "Star Wars" parody? Everybody knows "Star Wars" -- at least, everybody in our audience. And Lucasfilm is probably the only company out there right now that is progressive enough to allow this. Certainly we would have a laugh doing this with "Indiana Jones" or "Wrath of Khan." But I can't imagine in a billion years that Paramount would give us permission. »

- latimes.com

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Deciphering 'Avatar's' 3D Options

26 December 2009 6:54 AM, PST | AMC - Script to Screen | See recent AMC - Script to Screen news »

The week before a big holiday like Christmas can make finding time to hit the cineplex difficult. That's just one reason Christmas weekend is such a popular time for moviegoers. Of all of the big releases in theaters right now, none have garnered as much attention as James Cameron's "Avatar." The nearly $500 million sci-fi epic is a true testament to innovative cinema and filmmaking technology. Lots of people, including Steven Spielberg, have compared the "Avatar" experience to seeing "Star Wars" for the first time in 1977. Since I wasn't born until November of 1982, my closest point of comparison is with Speilberg's own "Jurassic Park" from 1993. Suffice to say, this is one of those redefining cinematic experiences that only seems to come around once a generation.

"Avatar's" brilliance is in its exquisite use of 3D and CGI. I'm often critical of films that utilize 3D just as a gimmick -- »

- Christina Warren

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Who knew that Klingons celebrate Christmas?

26 December 2009 6:02 AM, PST | AOL - TVSquad | See recent AOL - TVSquad news »

Apparently, someone has gone to the trouble to cram Star Trek into the holiday season because why should Star Wars fans be the only ones who have to suffer?

Christmas may have come and gone as fast as Santa on his dilythium crystal powered reindeer, but that doesn't mean you still can't enjoy the unintentional hilarity of A Klingon Christmas Carol. The sci-fi io9 found a clip of the show from a morning show interview they did on Fox 9 in St. Paul. Here's a bit of a spoiler: it's hard to tell that Scrooge has been rehabilitated in the end since all Klingon-speak sounds like an anvil has been stapled to their tongue.

 

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- Danny Gallagher

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Avatar Has Best Christmas Eve

25 December 2009 7:38 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »

According to the Box Office Mojo single-day chart for Thursday, James Cameron’s sci-fi adventure Avatar grossed an estimated $11.3 million on Dec. 24. Looking at their charts, Avatar had the best non-weekend (Mon.-Thu.) Christmas Eve earnings ever (not adjusted for inflation). When it comes to single-day rankings, Avatar’s Thursday grosses were enough to land it in the #39 slot. The Thursday record holder remains Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, which had its Day 1 on a Thursday in May 2005. (Yesterday was Avatar’s Day 7.) As for Thursdays in December, six movies hold higher rankings than Avatar. They are: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Day 2 at #12 and Day 9 [...] »

- Michelle Hutton

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