looks back at the highest grossing movie in America from every year since 1960. In tracing the evolution of blockbuster cinema, maybe we can answer a question Hollywood has been asking itself for more than a century: What do people want to see?
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In the fall of 2012, the Walt Disney Company dropped a four-billion-dollar bag of money on George Lucas’ desk and took ownership of Lucasfilm Ltd., the company that he’d spent decades building. Disney wasn’t paying all that money for Lucas productions like
Howard The Duck or
Tucker: The Man And His Dream or even
Strange Magic. Instead, the Mouse House flexed its world-domination powers to take full control of the
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Star Wars to release new Funko POP!s with Kylo Ren and Rey with lightsabers – how to buy
We have a good feeling about this. 28/02/2021
Star Wars fans will soon be able to add fine additions to their Funko POP! collections, as five brand new figures are due to be released this spring.
Arriving in May (hopefully in time for this year s May the Fourth celebrations), the new range of
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker figures includes Rey holding two blue lightsabers together to create a surge of power, which fans will remember signifies the moment that Rey used both Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa s lightsabers together to defeat Palpatine and all the Sith.
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Darth Maul may have been chopped in half by Obi-Wan Kenobi in The Phantom Menace but all Star Wars fans know that the Sith Lord somehow survived. He was seen again on the big screen at the very end of Solo: A Star Wars Story, raising hopes that a sequel would further explore his role at the heart of the galactic criminal underbelly. Unfortunately, the movie s box office failure seemed to signal the live-action end of the distinctive Zabrak villain. Until now.
Star Wars Reveals More About Why Darth Vader Saved Luke Skywalker in Return of The Jedi
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Star Wars Has revealed more about why Darth Vader made the monumental decision to turn on Emperor Palpatine and save Luke Skywalker, in the climactic moment of
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. Indeed, much of the new
Star Wars: Darth Vader comic series from Marvel Comics has been focused on retroactively pondering that moment. The Emperor is punishing Vader for a traitorous attempt to recruit Luke Skywalker in
The Empire Strikes Back, while Vader is starting to feel something other than the deep well of the dark side, again.
Star Wars Makes A Heartbreaking Revenge of the Sith And Empire Strikes Back Connection For Vader
Revenge of the Sith and
The Empire Strikes Back. That link gets made in the new
Star Wars: Darth Vader(2020) comic book, which is set between the events of
The Empire Strikes Back and
The Return of the Jedi. Vader tried to tempt Luke Skywalker to join him and overthrow the Emperor, only to have Luke reject the dark side and his father. Now Palpatine is punishing Vader for the treachery, while Vader is beginning to wake up from the dark side, leading to some emotional turns in his character.