• Video: Director Jon Favreau Interviews Harrison Ford

    I love unconventional interviews, recorded conversations between actors, actresses, directors and screenwriters about the filmmaking process. It might be that the relationships that have already been established on set translate to a more honest interesting and entertaining interview. That is one of the many reasons I LOVED Jon Favreau's old television talk show Dinner For…

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  • POTD: Crashed AT-AT Snow Fort

    Last week we posted a photo of a Jabba The Hutt snow man found in Spokane, WA. Today Reddit user jabo27 has posted a photo of a Star Wats-inspired snow fort, in the shape of a crashed AT-AT. Here is a few words from the creator: "I know I know the scale is incorrect, but…

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  • POTD: New York City Is Turning Into Hoth

    The east coast blizzard has a lot of residents comparing the landscape to Star Wars' snow and ice planet Hoth. As an extension of that idea, Williamsburg, Brooklyn resident Henry Hargreaves decided to edit Star Wars characters into photos of his snow covered neighborhood. [gallery order="DESC" columns="2" orderby="ID"] via: gothamist

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  • POTD: Snow Jabba

    A snowman version of Jabba the Hutt was spotted last week in Spokane, WA by FETTS. via: DannyTRS

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  • Cool Stuff: New Mondo 'Star Wars' Bounty Hunter Posters - Wave One

    Another week, another amazing Star Wars print by Mondo. Or should we say "prints?" This time, Mondo will be releasing a set of three 8-10 color, 12 x 36 screenprints featuring some of your favorite secondary bounty hunters from The Empire Strikes Back. Artist Ken Taylor has immortalized Bossk, IG-88 and Zuckuss in painstakingly beautiful…

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  • This Week In Trailers: Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist And Rebel, The Wildest Dream: Conquest Of Everest, The Nature Of Existence, Once Upon A Time In Mumbai

    Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…

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  • Cool Stuff: 1979 ILM "Night Crew" T-Shirt

    If you worked at Industrial Light & Magic in 1979 as part of the night crew, then you probably had this Empire Strikes Back crew t-shirt. As part of the 30th anniversary celebration, LucasFilm has reprduced the tee and is selling it online on StarWars.com in sizes Small to XXL for $23.99. Cool Stuff is…

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  • Cool Stuff: Star Wars Space Slug Oven Mitt

    It's very easy to geek up your living room or bedroom, but cool kitchen and bathroom items are definitely harder to find. As part of LucasFilm's celebration of 30th anniversary of Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back, they have created a Space Slug Oven Mitt. Available exclusively on StarWars.com for $19.99. Ships in August 2010. [gallery…

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  • Family Guy: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side Trailer

    The full length trailer for Family Guy's Empire Strikes Back parody Family Guy: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side premieres today on the iTunes store, Apple and YouTube. The trailer is "a nearly exact remake" of the original trailer from the 1980 classic The Empire Strikes Back. Watch it now embedded after the jump. Here is the…

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  • Cool Stuff: Dagobah Frog Habitat

    Someone at LucasFilm had the great idea to turn Yoda's planet of exile Dagobah into a frog habitat toy for kids. Now, I would have loved this when I was younger. Basically it's a small tank that is set up to look like the Sluis sector, a world shown in Empire Strikes Back, featuring murky…

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  • Star Wars - Empire Strikes Back Sweded

    You must check out this sweded version of Star Wars - Empire Strikes Back. Rob Kenyon. Mark Breeze, Paul Nadin, Jamie Broadrick, and Leonora Whitehouse filmed this 60-second short film over the course of two days using a lot of cardboard and gaffers tape. Everything was created from scratch, from the costumes to the puppets,…

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