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With a 16-year span between "Return of the Jedi" and "The Phantom Menace," fans of the Star Wars universe won’t have to wait nearly as long between movies with Disney at the helm. An ambitious film release schedule was announced at CinemaCon this week by Alan Horn, Walt Disney Co. chairman. Ki ...

Like Star Trek and Star Wars fans needed something else to fight over? The Star Wars franchise, now under the ownership of the Walt Disney Co., is gearing up to make movies once again. And one person they had their eye on? A man who helped resurrect another popular science-fiction franchise, J.J. ...

LucasFilm announced that Oscar-winner Michael Arndt will write the screenplay for the upcoming Star Wars films. In addition to being selected as the only screenwriter for Episode VII, Arndt has written a 40-50 page treatment for the subsequent Star Wars films to be released by Disney, which will ...

Mickey Mouse. Winnie the Pooh. Darth Vader? The Walt Disney Co. is now the proud owner of a franchise many felt would never belong to anyone other than the George Lucas family as Star Wars -- and all of Lucasfilm -- was purchased by the media behemoth for $4 billion. That means all the films, ...

Production on Marvel's anticipated ensemble movie "The Avengers" finally kicked into gear last week, but has now shut down following a script leak. The movie is being directed by Joss Whedon (who previously directed "Serenity" for the big screen) and will tie together threads already put in place ...

J.J. Abrams tends to not go too far without including Emmy-winner Damon Lindelof somewhere in the mix. But when Abrams makes his move to the Star Wars franchise this summer, he will have to do it without the man behind some of the more memorable moments of ABC's "Lost." It's not necessarily th ...

One of the big differences between George Lucas and J.J. Abrams is that one likes to use heavy computer-generated images, or CGI, while the other is more about real props and real scenery. Abrams has proven that time and again now with the Star Trek franchise, and he may do just the same with Sta ...

"Star Wars! Nothing but Star Wars! Give me those Star Wars! Don't let them end!" On SNL Bill Murray, as Lounge Lizard Nick Winters, made John Williams famous score funny by adding lyrics, but Williams may get the last laugh. At a recent press conference in Berlin promoting Germany's "Star Trek ...

"Veronica Mars" creator Rob Thomas already has a successful Kickstarter campaign underway to fund a big screen return to Neptune, Calif. And that may open the door for other cult favorite television works like, say, "Pushing Daisies." Thomas' efforts have caught the eye not only of "Veronica Mars ...

His facial features will forever be a part of Hollywood history through his creation of Yoda for "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back." However the makeup artist himself behind the creation of Yoda, Stuart Freeborn, died on Feb. 5. He was 98. Besides Yoda, Freeborn also was part of the creation te ...