The director of the ninth episode of "Star Wars" said that he intends to shoot the film on film, while abandoning digital technologies. “This decision was determined by the film itself. After all, what we’re filming happened a long time ago,” Variety quotes Colin Trevorrow as saying. His speech in defense...
In the first six episodes of Star Wars, British actor Peter Mayhew played Chewbacca - Han Solo's huge, furry friend. In the seventh episode, Mayhew also starred, but due to lack of mobility (the 71-year-old actor walks with a cane), the creators of The Force Awakens found him an understudy. It was the 29-year-old Finnish basketball player Joonas ...
In an interview with Charlie Rose, Star Wars creator George Lucas said that his Soviet colleagues enjoyed more freedom than American directors, The Wall Street Journal reports. According to Lucas, in the West there is such a system that participants in the film industry cannot afford...
2015 was wonderful and terrible. The terrorists of the "Islamic State" entered the international arena, the world was replenished with two princesses, scientists found water on Mars, and the Kremlin turned its attention from Donbass to Syria. “Forum” collected the most important and interesting stories of the year. Some of them,…
The release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens showed that Disney's take on the space saga into its own hands demonstrated to fans that the studio was willing to listen to their opinions and adhere to a classic style of presentation. However, episode eight could be revolutionary. As The independent writes,...
The seventh episode of Star Wars earned an estimated $ 55 million in late-night screenings, which kicked off in the US on the night of December 18. Thus, he broke the record for the painting "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2", which in 2011 for such ...
The founder of the social network Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, showed a photo of his newborn daughter Max in a Star Wars costume. The photo on the businessman’s page has already received two million likes. The parents dressed the baby in a Jedi costume and “armed” her with a toy lightsaber. Also…
Several American chain cinemas have banned spectators from bringing accessories related to the plot of the film: blasters, lightsabers and other prop weapons to screenings of the seventh episode of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. People wearing themed helmets, masks, with inscriptions and… will also not be allowed into the auditorium.
In the elections to the Odessa City Council, Dmitry Palpatine, who works as emperor at Palpatine Finance Group LLC, won 54,4% of the vote. This is enough to get into the local legislature. Palpatine ran for the City Council elections from the Trust Deeds party. ...
The average age of moviegoers who bought the first tickets for the seventh episode of "Star Wars" is 34 years old, reports Deadline, citing research by the media company Movio. Overall, 70 percent of those who purchased them are men between 18 and 49 years old. According to statistics, ...