Not only will Luke, Leia and the Stormtroopers roam the Hollywood streets, but they and other legends from the film series will also perform live on stage in Stars of the Saga, Padawan Mind Challenge and other shows.
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Tags: Hollywood, Selections, Star Wars, walt disney world
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Happy Mother's Day! The Roundup Turns Two Years Old! DISNEY WTF?!
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Tags: Adam Yauch, Alfonso, Andrew Bujalski's Computer Chess, August: Osage County, Beastie Boys, Beauty and the Beast, Big Hero 6, Cannes, Captain Philips, Christy Lemire, dia de los muertos, Disney, Disney Princesses, Ender's Game, greta gerwig, If These Knishes Could Talk, Kickstarter, Merida, Orson Welles, Oscilloscope Labs, Pixar's Brave, Sleeping Beauty, Star Wars, The Customized Play, Tom Hanks, Zero Dark Thirty, Zhang Yi Mou
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In an interview with Vodkaster last week, Trainspotting and Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle lamented the “family-friendly Pixarification” of the mainstream cinema, foreseeing a future cinema that that features less violence, less sex and less brainpower — films so very unlike the hardnosed British films of his punk rock youth. In the interview, he specifically cites the films...
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Tags: batman, British film, charlie chaplin, danny boyle, harry potter, Iron Man, Ken Loach's Kes, Kubrick, mickey mouse, Nicolas Roeg, Pixar, Star Wars
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Between offending Sarah Palin fans, the start of principal photography on House of Cards Season 2 and the supposed Great Purge of titles that hit this week, Netflix had an interesting week. Sarah Palin is not worth talking about — ever, and we know nothing about House of Cards yet. Streamaggedon, as it was called, is...
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Tags: Anette Benning, Badges of Fury, Disney, Emma Watson, Fast Six, Girl Most Likely, Harmony Korine, Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises, House of Cards, Jet Li, John Ford, John Williams, Kiki's Delivery Service, Kristin Wiig, Larry Clark's Kids, Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac, Mark Hamill, mickey mouse, Netflix, Oscars, Quentin Tarantino, Short films, Sofia Coppola, Star Wars, Studio Ghibli, Terrence Malick, The Bling Ring, The Hangover, The Tree of Life, Voyage of Time, Warner Archive Instant, William Friedkin
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Happy Easter and Passover, or just plain happy Sunday, everyone. News, links, etc: -JJ Abrams first real words about Star Wars (and some Star Trek). (Empire) -I guess Charlie Kaufman has officially given up on Frank or Francis now? He’s developing a series at FX. (/Film) -Bryan Singer on his return to (and abandonment of) X-Men,...
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Tags: Amazing Spider-Man, andrei tarkovsky, Before Midnight, Bryan Singer, Charlie Kaufman, Criterion, Derek Cianfrance, Ender's Game, Groucho Marx, Gwyneth Paltrow, Harry Knowles, JJ Abrams, Joel Edgerton, Jurassic Park, Leon Vitali, Life of Pi, Metallica, Rhythm and Huges, Room 327, Satyajit Ray, See Girl Run, Stanley Kubrick, star trek, Star Wars, Superman, The Apu Trilogy, The Shining, x-men, yasujiro ozu
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It doesn’t seem like six months since the Orlando Science Center’s Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination exhibit opened, but the display of iconic film artifacts is about to end its run. To commemorate in advance the April 7th closing, voice actress and online entrepreneur Ashley Eckstein is appearing today (Saturday 3/23) at OSC...
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Tags: Animation, interview, orlando science center, osc, Seth Kubersky, Star Wars
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The third installment of SAK Comedy Lab's live late-night sitcom Better Days marks a turning point for writers John Valines and Tod Kimbro. After two expository episodes, their series finally settles into its groove, and grows beyond sci-fi snark into emotional character development. (Read my earlier reviews of the pilot episode and episode 2.)...
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Tags: John Valines, SAK Comedy Lab, Seth Kubersky, sitcom, Star Wars, theater, theater review, theatre, theatre review, tod kimbro
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It’s really hard to not go on a rant about the news that JJ Abrams is directing the new Star Wars. The news is too old by this point to feel like anything but nerd rage. It’s not the cross-pollination with Star Trek I mind as much as the fact that JJ Abrams just isn’t...
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Tags: Abbas Kiarostami's Like Someone in Love, Amanda Seyfried, Argo, Ashton Kutcher, Audrey Tautou, Before Midnight, Ben Affleck, Coen Brothers, Dakota Fanning, Edmonton Oilers, Elizabeth Olsen, Ethan Hawke, Fruitvale, Gaby Hoffman, Inside Llewyn Well, JJ Abrams, jOBS, Julie Delpy, Kathryn Bigelow, Lee Unkrich, Linda Lovcelace, Lovelace, Michel Gondry, Mighty Ducks, Mood Indigo, NHL, PGA Awards, Richard Linklatter, SAG Awards, Sister Rose Pacatte, Slamdance, Stanley Kubrick, star trek, Star Wars, Steve Wozniak, Sundance, The Shining, Very Good Girls, Voice Over by Martin Rosete, woz
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The idea is to celebrate locally produced blips, as most of the stuff you’ll encounter at Otronicon has its roots in the Orlando area.
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Tags: Digital Media, learning, orlando science center, Selections, Star Wars, video games
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I woke up this morning all excited that tonight was the night that Lindsay Lohan made her big comeback in Liz and Dick, but it turns out I’m a week early. It’s not the movie itself I’m excited about, of course. It’s that once the thing has aired all of the awful ads will...
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Tags: Alan Moore, Alfred Hitchcock, Alma Reville, Anthony Bourdain, Bond, Brad Bird, breaking dawn, Cinemark, Eamonn O'Neill, Elia Kazan, Episode VII, How Green Was My Valley, I'm Fine Thanks, Isla Fisher, James Frano, Janusz Kaminski, jesse eisenberg, Jimmy's End, John Ford, John Krasinski, Judd Apatow, Life of Pi, Lindsay Lohan, Liz and Dick, Liz Taylor, Malcolm McDowell, Marion Cotilliard, Mark Boal, mark ruffalo, Matthew Modine, Michael Haeneke, Morgan Freeman, Movie Hacking, Now You See Me, Oz, Paul Mazursky, Regina Spektor, Robert De Niro, Rust and Bone, Sam Raimi, Skyfall, Stanley Kubrick, Star Wars, Steven Spielberg, The Grandmaster, This is 40, tony leung, Twilight, Wong Kar Wai, Woody Harrelson, Zero Dark Thirty
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