Star Wars is an epic space opera franchise and a fictional universe initially developed by George Lucas during the 1970s and expanded since that time. The first film was Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope), which was released on May 25, 1977 by 20th Century Fox. The film became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, spawning two sequels subtitled The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Twenty-two years after the first Star Wars film was released, a prequel trilogy, set before the original trilogy, was released.(more information)

The Deathstar

Darth Vader

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Star-Wars is the best movie i’ve ever seen. i found these pictures. enjoy !

Here is some trivia about this icon of the 20th Century.

• Luke Skywalker’s name was originally going to be Dirk Starkiller.
• Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca, worked as a hospital orderly in London before being cast as the Wookiee. He was said to have got into character by copying the mannerisms of animals he visited at the zoo.

Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker)

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Fantasy movies are always exciting, mainly because we get to see so very few of them. The Golden Compass looks very promising. The movie is based on Philip Pullman’s book, which is the first one in a lovely trilogy.

It looks like a movie for children at first glance, and so did the book, but I think it’s a bit misleading. The plot isn’t simple and there’s a lot of philosophy going around.

And the plot:
“In a parallel universe, young Lyra Belacqua journeys to the far North to save her best friend and other kidnapped children from terrible experiments by a mysterious organization.” (Source: IMDb)
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Sweat and tears in Myanmar

The US-Kollegen of ComingSoon.net you can be a first TV spot Sly Stable Ones Rambo view, the fourth part of the war action series with the aging Eighties heroes.

Follow the link, the trailer is in Flash format.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=39495

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As a cheerleader Claire Bennett in the series, “Heroes” is Hayden Panettiere no hair curl. But in real life, the 18-year-old actress perhaps soon the world from a different angle to see.
October of this year in the Japanese city of Taiji for local fishermen actively involved in the slaughter of dolphins to escape. The fishermen regard the process as a sober tradition-for Panettiere, it is a useless bloodshed.

To enforce their projects prevented them with other activists to the arrival of marine mammals in a bay off the city in the southwest of Japan, where the fishermen waited. That they have, so fishermen argue that the country’s peace breakthrough occurred. Before the police Panettiere and other activists were heard, they left the country already. Now they arrest warrant sought by police in Japan.

Scott Slone of The Alaska Podshow had when she, together with her brother and father in Anchorage was in the Protestzug against the meeting of the International Whaling Commission grouped.

The Mist: The US-Trailer to Stephen King adaptation by Frank Darabont
With Thomas Jane and Marcia Gay Harden

Finally, he is there, the US-Trailer to Stephen King adaptation The Mist by Frank Darabont, with the already convicted and The Green Mile hands for a great movie adaptations of horror writer No.1 showed.

Potter Cast As in the rest of Andre Braugher, star Frances Hagen, Jeffrey DeMunn, Laurie Holden, Marcia Gay Harden, Thomas Jane, Toby Jones and William Sadler.

This Link leads you to the trailer at Yahoo! Movies, where you the good pieces in the Flash format, as well as in High Definition QuickTime can watch.