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Prowse as Vader in Episode III

Actor David Prowse hopes he gets the role of Darth Vader again in Episode III. The 66 years old actor thinks young Hayden Christensen isn’t up to the job. This article appeared in the Daily Telegraph lately; you can read it all here. The 66-year-old, who suffers from arthritis and walks with the aid of […]

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Episode III Already?

Two seperate rumors sprouted their head today; one concerning Padme and the other concerning the droids. First off, E! Daily News reported this quote from Lucas concerning the C3PO and R2D2 and why they don’t remember everything in the 1977 Star Wars (besides the fact that they had no idea the prequels were coming): (SPOILER […]

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George Lucas Explains

In an interview with Cinescape George Lucas explains the complicated storytelling of his Star Wars films. You can read the complete article at Cinescape. “Whenever you talk to an author and somebody that writes, they write this back-story, [and it’s] basically character driven,” Lucas said. “What you’re doing is setting up who your characters are. […]

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Episode II in Digital

I saw Attack of the Clones in digital today, and surprisingly I was not overwhelmed by what I saw. Before you jump all over me with your reactions though, I will say this- it is the most crisp picture I have ever seen on the big screen. Also, it will age a lot better than […]

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Rolling Stone Magazine AOTC Artwork

I just got my June 6th issue of Rolling Stone magazine, and the contents page has a very cool artwork for Episode II! Check it out now! Also, there is an article inside about the new prequels. They also have a ranking of all the Star Wars movies so far. They rank Episode II at […]

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AotC Jumps to $86.1 million

With a stellar estimated $32.1 million dollars on Saturday, Episode II has jumped to a total of $86.1 million by the end of Saturday. This takes the weekend total to nearly $56.7 million with Sunday to go. Expect final total in a few hours. Check out our daily box-office analysis for more.

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Attack of the Clones Review

For those of you just planning on skimming through my review, let me make it easy for you. Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones is the most deep and rich Star Wars film of them all. When I say deep and rich, I mean from the standpoint of storyline, characters and locations. The […]

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6 Hours to Go- a Contest to Keep You Busy

I can’t wait; 6 hours to go. Actually, a little more. I’ve been finding ways to keep myself busy all day now (look here; I scanned my ticket!). Now look what I’ve found- Zam uses a cell phone! Tell me which model it is gets a free GFA t-shirt. Make up a name, the most […]

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10 Hours to Go to AOTC

Here’s my ticket for tonight! 🙂 For those of you who don’t have tickets, one word of advice- make a trip to your theatre! Tickets are still available at a LOT of theatres, even if it says they aren’t online. 10 hours to go… 7 on the east coast… New Zealand & Australia have already […]

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Attack of the Clones DVD

A bit of news about the Attack of the Clones DVD (and Star Wars DVD’s in general) was released today. There is a good chance we won’t have to wait as long for the AOTC DVD as we had to for the Phantom Menace disc. This was reported by the SF Gate. You can read […]

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36 Hours to Episode II: The Attack of the Clones

I can’t wait another 36 hours for Star Wars. I just can’t. And to think I waited 2 months after the release to see Episode II (and I wasn’t disappointed, as many people would lead you to believe). I couldn’t do that now. And to make the wait a little more bearable, I’ve been keeping […]

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TV Guide Star Wars Photographs

This week’s TV Guide has a feature on Star Wars and interviews with Lucas, Hayden and Natalie Portman. Cool stuff! There are also three seperate Star Wars covers; each quite nice with morphing covers. Click here for one of the covers. You may also read part of the story online. And just in case you […]

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Celebration II Photographs

Check out all my pictures from Celebration II! The gallery is divided into ‘Celebrities’ and ‘Fans’; where ‘Fans’ is pretty much everything that is not a celebrity. Not that celebrities are not fans, at the celebration all are equal, but lets just say they are a little more equal than the rest of us. Check […]

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Sun Times Interview with Lucas

‘’Because it’s a galactic adventure, it demands we go to different places,’’ he said. ‘’In a normal movie, you go to different cities or different parts of the same city, or you go to the country. In these films, the same thing holds true, except you’re going to a different planet system. ‘’What that means […]

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Small Town Star Wars Crisis

Gregory Karber writes in to tell me about the crisis in their town: Our local movie theater is refusing to show Star Wars at Midnight! So I decided on a course of action. Pressure local radio stations to pressure the Malco’s managers through a giant email campaign. I’ve set up a webpage with their addresses […]