jedi-related stories
Posted Nov 23rd 2009 1:03PM by John Scott Lewinski
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Animation, Children, Reality-Free
Black Friday is less than a week away, and if you're stumped for gift ideas for a boy anywhere in the family, you could do worse than going with
Star Wars: The Clone Wars merchandise.
The show remains one of the highest rated programs for males aged 12-25. That's no surprise since boys have always been the cash cow of George Lucas' $3 billion empire (no pun intended).
Hasbro is the emperor of
Star Wars toys (at least those for kids), and the company has a couple of new, higher end items for the 2009 holidays.
The Clone Wars Remote Control R2-D2 is pretty much as advertised. For about $30, you get a replica of a Death Star comm-link that controls the droid's movements, sounds and lights. A kid will have fun driving him around the house. But, the toy is more fun for adults if you imagine that every beep he makes is really a rude, digitized curse word.
Continue reading Holiday gift ideas keep coming from 'a galaxy far, far away'
Posted Mar 2nd 2009 3:07PM by Eliot Glazer
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Battlestar Galactica, Lost, Celebrities, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Reality-Free, Mad Men
Do they cook? Not sure. Are they Jedi Knights? Errrrr, maybe? So what's the deal with
Celebrity Jedi Chefs? We wish we knew. In their own words, they're [mostly] TV actors who "do the same sorts of things that 'normal' Jedi do, but [they] also cook." There are 216 of them, and most have appeared on buzzy sci-fi shows, including
Heroes,
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and
Battlestar Galactica.
We're not talking background players, either. Yeah, we're still stuck trying to figure out what Celebrity Jedi Chefs...
is exactly (and if the pictures, as suggested by the fashion, were all magically taken in 1993), but we needn't hear any more if it means we get to see pictures of Joan Holloway (among others, after the jump) weilding a saber.
Continue reading TV celebs wielding big sabers
Posted Jun 5th 2007 8:33AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Video, Family Guy
Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has been
given the greenlight from George Lucas to do his own take on
Star Wars, using the characters from
Family Guy. The Star Wars "spoof" will open next season, but MacFarlane
previewed some of the episode for the
Star Wars fans at last month's convention.
The clip is a whopping ten minutes long (the episode will be one hour) and the very beginning of it either borrows a joke from or gives a nod to
Spaceballs, with a bumper sticker on the back of Darth Vader's ship. Unfortunately, it's a little hard to hear all of the jokes over the audience, but what you can hear is pretty funny. It looks well thought-out, like something MacFarlane has been thinking about doing for a long time.
Video is after the jump:
Continue reading Preview of the Family Guy/Star Wars episode - VIDEO
Posted Sep 11th 2006 8:07PM by Michael Canfield
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, News, Industry, Celebrities
George Lucas is done with
Star Wars films but is looking to give the series an even longer life, "with over"
100 television episodes,
according to Starpulse News Blog. No word on whether these will be animated, like
Clone Wars, or even if it will be one continuous series. He seems pretty definite on the number 100 though, which is the magic number for syndication. Why not look for a deal that guarantees syndication up front, if you've got the clout?
I'm sure Lucas can write his own ticket and generate more
Star Wars content in any format he wants. I did love
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, anyway -- though maybe I'm the only one.
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