formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
As Disney and other studios retrofit beloved franchises with ideological messaging, audiences are turning away, leaving Star Wars, Marvel and the remake machine exposed to a new box-office reality. Source: https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/culture/artc-go-woke-go-broke-the-collapse-of-star-wars-and-the-failure-of-hollywood-s-studio-model
George Lucas’s original 1977 cut has been screened for the first time in decades – but it looks more like fancy dress than grand sci-fi epic. Source: Star Wars was the greatest film ever. Now it looks terrible
Welsh production designer and art director Les Dilley, who won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction for Star Wars (1977) and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), has passed away aged 84 from complications of Alzheimer’s. Source: Les Dilley, Academy … Continued
Earlier in May, filmmaker and critic Jenny Nicholson released the four-hour YouTube documentary The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel. I personally don’t have a lot to add to the discourse, other than this: Nicholson is right about the … Continued
The epic Darth Maul vs. Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon Jinn duel. The thunderous Boonta Eve Podrace. The battle of Naboo. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace is packed with moments best witnessed on the big screen, spooling back to … Continued
Carl Weathers, who starred as Apollo Creed in the first four “Rocky” films opposite Sylvester Stallone, died Thursday, his manager Matt Luber confirmed to Variety. He was 76. Source: Carl Weathers Dead: Rocky’s Apollo Creed, Star Wars, Predator Actor Was … Continued