SAN FRANCISCO, CA, MAY 4, 2015 — Star Wars: Force For Change, a charitable initiative from Disney and Lucasfilm, today announced its latest campaign, teaming with eBay Giving Works to auction off a selection of plaster stormtrooper helmet replicas uniquely decorated by artists around the world. Click on through for the details.
Snowtroopers on the battlefield? Kylo Ren sans helmet? These things and more in Vanity Fair’s video for their feature on The Force Awakens. View the link above and stay tuned for more exclusive info as it’s released.
This June, Vanity Fair is doing a special feature for The Force Awakens with exclusive photography from renowned artist Annie Leibovitz.
As suspected, the closing ceremonies has concluded with the official announcement for Celebration London July 15-17, 2016. Tickets go on sale TOMORROW
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The countdown to The Force Awakens Panel at Celebration Anaheim has begun! StarWars.com has launched their live feed of the event on their YouTube channel so everyone can experience the show around the world. This will be a day long remembered…
New images and artwork for The Force Awakens have hit the web in the last few hours. One of them is surely official as it was printed in the Celebration Anaheim program, but the others are as-of-yet “unofficial”. Click on through to check them out. Spoiler Warnings Apply
My new issue of Star Wars Insider landed today and inside, there is a reveal of a very cool Celebration exclusive for an even better cause. Hot Wheels is having a special R2-KT character car for sale ($10.00 each). Disney and Mattel will be donating the proceeds to Star Wars: Force for Change.
Thanks to FanoftheWars on Twitter, we can confirm that the digital versions of Episodes I-III, and V, VI do NOT have the 20th Century Fox fanfare intro played before them.
Below is a quick video I grabbed of the new opening fanfare:
There is a rumor circulating that there is a major change/correction in the release of Star Wars: The Digital Movie Collection, and if true, will right a terrible wrong. Word is that A New Hope as been revised once again to show that Han shot first in the infamous confrontation with Greedo. There is no visual proof of this yet or word of any other tinkering going on with any other scenes in any of the other films. I guess we’ll know tomorrow.
Update: According to Dark Horizons, the rumor is false.