Premier Pop C Pop Culture News – Movies, Comics, Television, Books, Toys, Games, and More Dark Horse is honored to announce a dream project: working with J.W. Rinzler, executive editor at LucasBooks, and artist Mike Mayhew (Avengers) to adapt the rough-draft original screenplay which spawned the biggest franchise in film history. Three years before his 1977 film, George Lucas put down on paper his first …
Read More »‘The Vow’ Crushes ‘Phantom Menace’ Rerelease
The box-office bounced back in a big way as the romantic drama “The Vow” opened to a blockbuster $41.7 million, followed closely by Denzel Washington–Ryan Reynolds action-thriller “Safe House” with $39.3 million. Both films vastly overperformed, driving the weekend up more than 30 percent from last year. The rerelease of “Phantom Menace” in 3D opened in …
Read More »Underworld 4 Tops Box Office
The 2012 box office enjoyed another strong weekend as “Underworld: Awakening” and “Red Tails” beat expectations to bring in $25.4 million and $19.1 million, respectively. This continued the box office resurgence after a weak end to 2011. The Top-12 grossing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, through January 22, …
Read More »George Lucas and Disney’s Bob Iger Launch Star Tours
Star Wars creator George Lucas and Disney President and CEO Bob Iger wielded lightsabers amid a legion of stormtroopers Friday to open “Star Tours – The Adventures Continue,” a new 3-D adventure at Walt Disney World Resort. A cast of hundreds of Star Wars characters and performers – including Anthony Daniels, who has played the golden …
Read More »‘Star Wars’ Blu-ray Sets to be Released in Sept.
Fox Home Entertainment will release George Lucas‘ Star Wars films in three distinct Blu-ray sets in September. Star Wars: The Complete Saga will feature all six live-action features, along with three additional discs and more than 30 hours of extensive special features including never-before-seen deleted and alternate scenes and an exploration of the …
Read More »EA and LucasArts Announce Star Wars: The Old Republic
Electronic Arts and Lucasfilm announced an updated global publishing agreement for the highly anticipated massively multiplayer online videogame Star Wars®: The Old Republic™. With this new agreement, certain publishing, marketing and distribution responsibilities previously designated to LucasArts will shift to EA, so that all publishing, marketing and distribution responsibilities can be …
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