It’s no secret that there are a lot of celebrities that like to wonder the floors of the big cons incognito and later surprise fans on twitter when they post their photos. Mark Hamill is pretty notorious for this and he used his Day 4 costume at SDCC this year to poke fun at President Trump. Twitter user Brendan Bajillioz (@WillHunting562) got the surprise of a lifetime when he posted some pics of an Orange...
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Clone Wars animated series, Disney announced yesterday at San Diego Comic Con that the show will return for a twelve episode seventh season in 2019 on Disney’s new streaming platform. This is great news for fans of the show which received an abrupt cancellation from the Cartoon Network in 2014. It’s always been speculated that series creator and director Dave Filoni had an additional three seasons that he...
It’s official! According to the Hollywood Reporter Billy Dee Williams will be reprising his role as Lando Calrissian in the upcoming Star Wars: Episode 9. Rumors started circulating last week when Williams backed out of a convention citing filming conflicts. And let’s be honest, while we love Billy Dee he’s not doing Ladies Man 2: Courvoisier Confidential any time soon. His life is Star Wars now so any filming can be directly brought back to...
The Hollywood Reporter and Variety have confirmed that Keri Russell (The Americans, Mission: Impossible 3 and I bet you didn’t know this but Married with Children and Boy Meets World) is in talks to join the cast of Star Wars: Episode IX. Director JJ Abrams is no stranger to Russell’s work as the two worked together on his hit series Felicity, as well as on Mission: Impossible 3. All that we know right now is that...
Holy crap. I can’t believe I missed this back in April. And now, I have a serious case of FOMO. FOMO to the point that I’ve been trolling Ebay to find any of the five in the first Star Wars Original Concepts series from Hot Wheels. This series celebrates the original concepts by Colin Cantwell, the artist/model maker behind the iconic X-Wing, Millennium Falcon, Star Destroyer, and TIE Fighters (to name a few). If you...
Oh goodie. The 12 year olds that kick my ass in Battlefront 2 are going to get some additional opportunities to do so as EA rolls out their roadmap for the remainder of the year! Some exciting game play changes have already been released over the past several months, and hot on the heels of the Solo season – we’re going to see some additional enhancements to the game mechanics and content. This July we’re...
What a crap time to be a Star Wars fan. The Last Jedi has divided a once peaceful and happy group of people known as Star Wars fans. Solo: A Star Wars Story didn’t live up to its hype and was a box office disappointment. And… wait… thats it. Wow, in the grand scheme of things that’s not a lot of bad stuff – and to be honest – The Last Jedi still brought in...
Ugh. It happened. We knew it would happen. We didn’t want it to happen but it did. Collider reported earlier that Disney has pulled the plug on any new Star Wars anthology stories for the foreseeable future. This is due primarily to the lackluster box office success of the much anticipated Solo: A Star Wars Story. When compared to it’s sister spin-off Rouge One, Solo opened to $84.4M and by week for grossed $192.8M while...
There are spoilers in the following love letter to LFL so let this be your notice. Wow. I can’t believe it’s been seven months since my last blog post. And even more wow, I can’t believe my first one back is going to be a review of Solo: A Star Wars story. Yes, that’s right – I’m going to review a movie here on what was a platform for me to opine about business trends...
