Now, it looks as though the film will get moving forward. However, it was still uncertain if Jolie was attached to star. However, the actress hinted the next film she is looking to act in will be a Disney movie. It seems somewhat obvious that Maleficent would the film in question.

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The Star Wars prequels answered the question about how Anakin Skywalker fell from grace, and was turned into Darth Vader. But we never find out the fate of everyone’s “favorite” character, Jar Jar Binks. But putting sarcasm aside, I’m quite sure that many really don’t care what happened to him as he’s seen as the most hated character Lucas has ever created. But Actor Ahmed Best revealed in an interview with EW the fate of Binks:

“In Revenge of the Sith, there was a scene that was cut where I’m walking down a long pathway with Ian McDiarmid before he is turned into the Emperor. And Palpatine kind of thanks Jar Jar for putting him in power. It’s a really interesting scene, and it shows the evolution of Jar Jar from this fun-loving kid’s character into this manipulated politician. And it was an interesting arc for the character that I thought could have been explored, because the scene is really dark. But it just didn’t fit in the movie, which I understand. But yeah, George’s take on it is Jar Jar is now just a politician,” he said.

That would have been a neat scene to view, but I think fans were happy that Jar Jar was only given a cameo in Revenge of the Sith. Perhaps on the next blu-ray release we can see that scene.

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The first poster for  Rob Epstein’s Lovelace starring Amanda Seyfried has come online. The poster is meant to be an omage to Deep Throat. Two new stills have also been released.

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Don’t get too excited (or upset, depending on how you view the franchise) as there is no fifth book written yet. However, Meyer could return to the franchise and write another book in the series.

Whichever way you view The Twilight Saga, there’s only one more film left to go until the series is finished. Lionsgate has now announced the frist trailer for Bill Condon’s The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 will be released next month in front of The Hunger Games on March 23rd. Surprised? You really shouldn’t be as it seems like an obvious move after Summit Entertainment and Lionsgate merged. “We’re very excited about the opportunities created by our recent acquisition of Summit Entertainment. The February 11 home entertainment release of ‘Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn 1,’ the March 23 theatrical release of ‘Hunger Games’ and the November 16 theatrical release of ‘Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn 2′ lead a strong combined slate that we believe will enable us to deliver increased consistency, profitability and value to our shareholders,” Lionsgate Chief Executive Officer Jon Feltheimer said.

Seeking A Friend At The End Of The World opens on June 22nd.

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In the old days, fans used to talk about how great Star Wars was back when the original trilogy was released. However, nowadays many just complain about how bad the prequels were, or how George Lucas keeps “ruining” the franchise with his alterations.

The saga just recently came to Blu-ray last September, and surprise, more changes were made. And with the franchise returning to cinemas, The Hollywood Reporter asked Lucas if we could expect any additional alterations:

“Changes are not unusual — I mean, most movies when they release them they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it’s the end of the world. That whole issue between filmmakers and the studios with the studios being able to change things without even letting the director of the movie know … I’m very much involved in that [so that’s not happening here]. … My job is to try to make the best possible movie it can be — and the current version is the Blu-ray version. That’s the one that’s been made into 3D. But it’s just a conversion. We haven’t made any changes other than the 3D,” he said.

Perhaps no alteration is as controversial as Greedo shooting at Han Solo (Harrison Ford) in A New Hope first. Here’s what Lucas had to say about that. “Well, it’s not a religious event. I hate to tell people that. It’s a movie, just a movie. The controversy over who shot first, Greedo or Han Solo, in Episode IV, what I did was try to clean up the confusion, but obviously it upset people because they wanted Solo [who seemed to be the one who shot first in the original] to be a cold-blooded killer, but he actually isn’t. It had been done in all close-ups and it was confusing about who did what to whom. I put a little wider shot in there that made it clear that Greedo is the one who shot first, but everyone wanted to think that Han shot first, because they wanted to think that he actually just gunned him down,” he said.

Lucas also commented on other changes made to the films: “It’s the same thing with Yoda. We tried to do Yoda in CGI in Episode I, but we just couldn’t get it done in time. We couldn’t get the technology to work, so we had to use the puppet, but the puppet really wasn’t as good as the CGI. So when we did the reissue, we had to put the CGI back in, which was what it was meant to be.”

“If you look at Blade Runner, it’s been cut sixteen ways from Sunday and there are all kinds of different versions of it. Star Wars, there’s basically one version — it just keeps getting improved a little bit as we move forward. … All art is technology and it improves every year. Whether it’s on the stage or in music or in painting, there are technological answers that happen, and because movies are so technological, the advances become more obvious,” he said.

While I don’t share Lucas’ opinion that “all art is technology”, If so, then Michael Bay’s Transformers films are masterpieces. However, most of the changes that Lucas has made don’t take away from the magic the films have, in my opinion. Sure, having Greedo shoot first does take a bit away from Han’s character in that he was first portrayed as the “shoot first, ask questions later” type character. And having Vader scream “Nooooooo” while throwing the Emperor to his death did ruin that scene, and replacing Sebastian Shaw with Hayden Christensen didn’t make a bit of sense. But having Ewoks blink, or adding an additional scene with Jabba the Hut, or the minor stuff that many fans complain about doesn’t take away what made the franchise what it was.

The story will pick up directly after season 11. “”Six months after Clark Kent donned the cape and took to the skies to save Earth from Apokolips… enter Season 11! New allies abound! New enemies afoot! And old friends return where they’re least expected! Pere and colorist Chris Beckett have done a fantastic job of capturing the look of the show and the players, and Gary and Cat are knocking it out of the park on covers. I couldn’t be more excited to help give seasoned viewers and new readers an all-access pass to Clark’s first year in the cape,” series writter Bryan Q. Miller stated.

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However, it’s possible the film could come back when technology advances to the point the film would work.