Club Jade

• Review: SFX gives the movie four stars.

• People: George Lucas in The Times; Reel Talk has an audio interview with Dave Filoni from SDCC. (via;) Matt Lanter talks to Skewed and Reviewed about voicing Anakin Skywalker.
• Music: ScoreNotes has an audio interview with composer Kevin Kiner; You can preview his work (and gander at some mild spoilers) over at starwarsthemusic.com. (via)
• Posters: CanMag has a couple of new quad posters.

Lucasfilm has won their British copyright infringement case against Shepperton Design Studios. A High Court judge affirmed that LFL is indeed the rightful owner of the stormtrooper costume designs and that Andrew Ainsworth’s company infringed by selling unlicensed reproductions of the iconic armor. No damages are mentioned in the UK case, but LFL may choose to pursue an appeal under UK industrial design law.

UPDATE: A story from the AP notes that both sides are claiming victory; More details at TheLawyer.com. (via)

You can go ahead and add a copy of J.K. Rowling’s The Tales of Beedle the Bard to your Christmas wish list. Sales of the book, which will be released on December 4, will benefit the Children’s High Level Group (CHLG).

You can pre-order either the deluxe collector’s edition or the standard edition from Amazon.

Bonnie recaps Celebration Japan with her picks for the most memorable people, costumes, and phenoms.

Honors: The International Association of Media Tie-in Writers has named Star Wars vet Alan Dean Foster their second Grandmaster. Foster was the first novelist to tackle the franchise, ghost-writing the novelization of Star Wars as well as (under his own name) the first original novel, Splinter of the Mind’s Eye. He returned to the GFFA in 2002 with The Approaching Storm. (via)

• Interviews: AM New York talks to author Karen Traviss, who’ll be in town this evening on her The Clone Wars book tour, while EUC nabbed artist Dustin Weaver.

• Gaming: Yoda and Darth Vader trash-talking in Penny Arcade.
• RPG: WOTC’s relaunch of the roleplaying game is up for four ENnies, including Best Game and Product of the Year.
• Comics: StarWars.com has the first look at Dark Horse’s Rise of the Sith omnibus.

UPDATE: The official site now has the synopsis.

Random House has released the cover for Michael Reaves’ third Coruscant Nights book, due out in November, and man is it cool. (If you ignore the cheesy text effects.) See the whole thing under the cut. (more…)

Check out the new trailer for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince! Run, don’t walk! Tom Riddle is PERFECT! Weeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

• You want eye candy? io9 has a boatload of publicity pics.

• TV Guide’s August 11th issue joins the hype with four covers and a special CD-ROM (how 1999!) that you’ll only find on the Toys ‘R Us newsstand. Look for it on or after August 7.
• Yet more commercials!

Just one for Wednesday – Rebellion #15. But at least it’s also part 7 of Vector!