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This isn't the first Star Wars movie since Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm to experience on - set drama.

#LastJedi is the best Star Wars movie since Empire.

Well, it's the first proper standalone Star Wars movie since those dodgy Ewok ones, for starters!

Like many before it, The Last Jedi has already been hailed as the best Star Wars movie since The Empire Strikes Back, and while that's true, it's too faint a compliment.

Casting rumors have abounded for JJ Abrams» new Star Wars movie since, as many celebrities have noted, just about everyone in Hollywood has been auditioning for a part.

Not exact matches

Since the «Star Wars» prequels, in which George Lucas was heavily criticized for using too much CGI to create the worlds and characters, many big - budget movies have tried to find that happy medium of practical and visual effects to give the action on screen a more grounded feel.

The company has done well with several of its movie franchises, such as Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar and Shrek, but it doesn't have anything that really compares to the Star Wars library or the Marvel franchise (although Shrek has pulled in about $ 3.5 billion since the original movie in 2001).

Black Panther would also be the first Marvel movie to reach $ 1 billion since Civil War cleared $ 1.15 billion two years ago, and the fifth so far from Disney's Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Just last week, I sent a stinging open letter to actor Chris Evans: «Since you starred in the movie Captain America: Civil War, I've gained seven pounds and lost my wallet.»

Pretty impressive, especially since this doesn't even include the Lucasfilm Star Wars movies (the third trilogy of Episodes 7, 8, and 9 plus spinoff movies) which I am looking forward to as both an investor and Star Wars fan.

But since William Hurt's General «Thunderbolt» Ross showed up in Civil War, this movie must be considered fair game, not that it matters much either way.

The pace of Star Wars is rapid fire for most of its hour and 57 minutes, and the script is filled with a verbal and visual wit that has been rare in Hollywood movies since the screwball comedies of the «30s.

The boys watched some Star Wars movie this past week with Danny, and since then, a quote from the flick has come up more than once, as he reminded them about homework, chores and general productivity:

We also caught the new Star Wars movie there since the Tech Museum has an IMAX theater.

Since Civil War came out this past weekend, I'm all for cocktails to go along with the movie!

Tim Burton's direction is fantastic — the only scenes he doesn't wow with are the ones both he and the viewer are bored with — Danny Elfman's score makes the movie in a way no one's done since John Williams and the original Star Wars trilogy, Michael Keaton's mesmerizing and there's a whole lot of good stuff.

I had been looking forward to seeing this movie ever since I first heard that Steven Spielberg was making War of the Worlds.

So consistently involving because the excellent cast delivers their lines with the kind of utter conviction not seen in this kind of movie since the first «Star Wars.»

Even bankers think it is a nice little scene: I happened to see this again recently, since it is one of my favorite World War II movies and I look at it every couple of years.

John Carter must've been pretty cool at the time the books were released, but so many things since, including Star Wars and Dune - have been ripped off or inspired by John Carter — so revisiting the John Carter tale in these modern movie times, seems dull and tired.

In Basterds, however, Tarantino was engaged with an exhaustive canon of World War II movies, from Casablanca to Schindler's List, while the subject of Django Unchained — slavery in the American South — is one that has been conspicuously absent in Hollywood films in the century since D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation.

On one hand, «Toy Story» had long since cornered the sincere ode - to - childhood - playthings approach, while the «Transformers» and «G.I. Joe» movies went the overkill route, all but obliterating the notion that those bombastic adventures could in any way relate to how kids use the related toy products, and treating them more like the afterthought tie - ins «Star Wars» and other films typically support.

Although the Mad Titan Thanos has been ominously lurking in the background of the Marvel Cinematic Universe since Joss Whedon's first Avengers movie, Infinity War will finally move the character into focus and Josh Brolin is charged with bringing the motion - capture figure to life on the big screen, having made brief appearances in previous movies.

And his digital resurrection barely scratches the surface of what the movie offers hardcore Star War - riors, since there are callback cameos abound.

Take Two Interactive's GTA V has become the most profitable media product since all time, thereby beating movies like Star Wars and Avatar.

See Also: It's such an outlier in Farrell's filmography that it's hard to know where you'd go after «Miss Julie,» especially since if you like Farrell in period duds, the further options are mostly things like the terrible «Winter's Tale» and the immensely disappointing Robert Towne movie «Ask the Dust,» along with WWII - era tales «Hart's War» and «The Way Back,» none of which we can wholeheartedly recommend.

The film, by director Andrey Zvyagintsev, won the Golden Globe for foreign language film on Sunday, making it the first Russian movie to win a Globe since 1969's «War and Peace.»

Since then, the zombie movie has been a staple at the cinema and at home, with offerings ranging from the totally»80s classic Night of the Comet to the biggest box office zombie flick yet, World War Z. Because there are only so many ways to serve up brains, and with TV's The Walking Dead doing an excellent job of that on a regular basis, filmmakers are taking unique approaches to zombies and treating them as characters, not just mindless threats.

Great movie about an amazing woman, Katherine Graham, owner of the Washington Post and the decision she faced; betting the Washington Post company's future on whether or not to publish the contents of the so called Pentagon Papers; an 8000 page study detailing how all the presidents since Truman had lied to the american people and congress about the war in Vietnam and the impact it had on the Nixon Whitehouse.

As you probably are well aware, rumors about Star Wars Episode VII casting continue to swirl furiously... as they have pretty constantly since work started on the next round of Star Wars movies!

So since they're both desperate for dough — their rent's overdue, their heat and electricity have been shut off — Zack and Miri decide to round up a couple of strippers (skin flick veterans Traci Lords and Katie Morgan) and eager acolytes (Jason Mewes, Craig Robinson) and make their own adult movie, a tawdry parody of «Star Wars» called «Star Whores,» and distribute it on - line.

As I was walking into the movie theater to watch The Monuments Men, I asked my friend who was with me a question that had been plaguing me about the movie since I first saw the advertisements: Is this movie supposed to be a comedy, a drama, a war movie, or something in between?

It's a pointless endeavor, really, since the movie has already been deemed by nearly every critic as one of the greatest war films (if not the greatest war film) ever made.

Since Avengers: Infinity War and the as of yet untitled Avengers 4 were shot back - to - back, it's obvious that Chris Evans will reprise his role during the next ensemble movie.

Who knows, though, since Captain Marvel is the focus of a lot of MCU - related speculation at the moment; not only will it be the franchise's first female - led superhero movie, but it also got a massive Hail Mary pass from last month's blockbuster Avengers: Infinity War, which asked fans to sit through, roughly, 7,000,000 minutes of end credits in order to get the merest peek at her logo.

His return will rank this movie as one of the most anticipated renewals of a franchise since Star Wars.

This isn't exactly surprising, since Trank only recently finished filming the Fantastic Four reboot and will soon be moving on to one of Disney's planned Star Wars spinoff movies.

A good chunk of the Marvel movie's opening weekend audience opted not to follow up for a second viewing this weekend since the movie suffered a 56.4 % drop in ticket sales from its first frame, but the massive turnout was still enough for Avengers: Infinity War to top its nearest competitor by almost $ 100 million.

Ever since Black Panther was announced in Captain America: Civil War I have been salivating waiting for T'Challa to get his own feature film, when the trailer dropped and that Run the Jewels track played I knew that this movie was going to deliver.

Walking out of «World War Z,» I realized I probably haven't felt this edgy and paranoid after a movie since... «Aliens,» maybe?

The update to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness was a different kind of war movie, one which captured the horror of war and the madness of Vietnam like no other before or since.

This is kind of a cross between the Civil War suit and the Black Panther movie suit, since I liked the base of the Civil War suit better, but I preferred the details from the Black Panther movie, so I combined the two.

Since Hepburn and her then - husband, producer Mel Ferrer, who joined her on the project, were good friends with English director Terence Young (the director of three of the first four James Bond movies), whom Hepburn had allegedly met more than two decades earlier while she treated him as a nurse in the Netherlands during the Second World War, they lobbied hard for him to get the gig, even though Jack Warner initially wanted Carol Reed in the director's seat.

The movie: In the thirty years since Star Wars completely changed the face of Hollywood, no - one thought it could be bettered.

This is all the more appropriate since, as a whole, Civil War can be summed as part effective superhero action / thriller, but also equal parts, if not more so, engaging dramatic / psychological thriller that features Earth's Mightiest Heroes; though admittedly, while the title might suggest otherwise, Civil War is only really a superhero war movie in a figurative senWar can be summed as part effective superhero action / thriller, but also equal parts, if not more so, engaging dramatic / psychological thriller that features Earth's Mightiest Heroes; though admittedly, while the title might suggest otherwise, Civil War is only really a superhero war movie in a figurative senWar is only really a superhero war movie in a figurative senwar movie in a figurative sense.

Yet in the century since Mason's book appeared, its imperialist backdrop has become a harder sell, and since the Vietnam war it has been adapted only one other time, for a British TV movie in the late 70s.

Ever since the release of the first trailer of Avengers: Infinity War, diehard fans had been poring meticulously over every single frame and still from the movie, released via both official and unofficial channels, trying to figure out the main story beats of the superhero ensemble film.

«Infinity War» caps 18 other interlocked movies built in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2008.

In The Director and the Jedi, by filmmaker Anthony Wonke, he places the spotlight on director Rian Johnson, and his process as a director new to the franchise, as Johnson has been a fan of the film since childhood, and sets out to make the most powerful Star Wars movie he can.

In addition to its widely - loved animated classics and live - action remakes of those movies, Disney's key franchises include Star Wars (since 2015), the Marvel Cinematic Universe (since 2012), and Pirates of the Caribbean.