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It might be Easter and Passover week for many people throughout the world, but for a multitude of fanboys, it’s Star Wars Celebration in Orlando, Florida. The golden ticket for everyone at this event is watching any Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Han Solo Anthology footage for the pics that are bowing, respectively…

Score this a victory for SoCal. George Lucas has chosen Los Angeles as the site of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. The USC alum said today that the billion-dollar project will be built in L.A. campus-adjacent Exposition Park rather than on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay. Speculation in the rival California…

UPDATE, 8:29 AM, with Force Awakens’ John Boyega tweet and Oscar Isaac’s Facebook post. The Star Wars family immediately began expressing their reactions today to the death of Princess Leia; the wry, beloved Carrie Fisher who passed away at the age of 60. Fisher reprised her role as the Rebel royal in last year’s Star…

Princess Leia — commando? Carrie Fisher, who died Tuesday, was known for her wit and penned three memoirs, the first of which contained a sort of auto-obituary. In 2008’s Wishful Drinking, she wrote about her Star Wars director’s reasoning for her Princess Leia wearing that flowing white dress — and not much else — in…

Disney has dropped the Chinese trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and this newer version features additional footage, giving fans more of a glimpse at the film's big Chinese stars Donnie Yen and Jiang Wen. It also shows more scenes of a bombing mission involving Wen's assassin character Baze Malbus. The…

After much speculation, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has landed a China release date for January 6, 2017, Deadline has confirmed. This early January slot for the Star Wars spinoff will follow a similar pattern to Disney's release for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which opened in the Middle Kingdom on January 9 earlier…

The George Lucas Family Foundation has established the Haskell Wexler Endowed Chair in Documentary at the USC School of Cinematic Arts in honor of the documentarian and two-time Oscar-winning cinematographer. The first holder of the Wexler Chair is Michael Renov, Vice Dean of Academic Affairs at SCA and a professor in…

Editor’s note: The YouTube video was set to private after this story posted. James Cameron knows a thing or three about visual effects and successful moviemaking, having helmed the two biggest moneymakers in cinematic history. So what film made him get into the business? Star Wars. In an interview that hit YouTube…

Hollywood heavyweights had some private time with Hillary Clinton today at Jeffrey Katzenberg and wife Marilyn’s home, before a multimillion dollar fundraiser at George Clooney’s L.A. pad. A major fundraiser for the former Secretary of State and President Barack Obama’s biggest bundler, the DreamWorks Animation boss…

Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this weekly column, two old friends get together and grind their axes on the movie business. The column, which usually runs Sunday, will give Monday a shot.   FLEMING: Hope  you had as nice an ending to your year as did the movie…

UPDATE: George Lucas has released a statement regarding his comments about Disney and Star Wars that ruffled some feathers in a December 25 interview with Charlie Rose. Here it is in full: “I want to clarify my interview on the Charlie Rose Show. It was for the Kennedy Center Honors and conducted prior to the premiere…

As Star Wars: The Force Awakens continues its global box office domination, it’s worth remembering that George Lucas’ original 1977 classic tale of Jedis and the Dark Side was far from a sure thing. While that film’s subsequent success has gone down in film lore, and led to J.J. Abrams’ billion dollar and counting…