Club Jade

The Force-Cast takes on the latest hot topic with a roundtable comparing sci-fi’s two biggest fish. Joining the usual gang is Rebelscum’s Jovial Jay and former Trek and Wars fan club president Dan Madsen.

On that note, does anyone have any idea why the SciFi Channel isn’t rerunning the hell out of the original series? I was feeling the urge to DVR some TOS last night, and spent about five minutes scrolling through a week’s worth of schedule… And the only Trek I could find was Enterprise. (Poking around online shows some TNG on Friday, but nothing but that and Enterprise through most of June.)

This is why you fail, SciFi. (It’s still SciFi until July 7, by George!) I’ll get my fix – I’m pretty sure the local NBC affiliate runs it at odd hours of the night – but I’m just boggled by SciFi’s lack of action here.

Harry Potter passes James Bond as the film franchise that brings in the most bucks worldwide. Star Wars is #3.

According Variety, this is without taking inflation into account, and Star Wars is still champ domestically. Damn right.

Harry Potter movies still lag behind Star Wars saga in the box office, though they have beaten Lord of the Rings. In other epic comparison news, Luke goes head to head with Harry and Frodo.

Nice of you to drop by

• ComputerWorld interview with ILM’s John Knoll.

• Travel blog Lost Weekend looks at visiting some of the places SW was filmed.
• R2-D2 is top of the ‘bots.
• Dustin Roberts final address as fan club president.
• Australian mayor pleads not guilty to theft of money that bought a Darth Vader voice changer.
• British storntrooper speaks
• Fan confronts school board dressed as Jedi to make point about dress code.
• Article on Billy Dee William’s latest gig, General Hospital: Night Shift

OH, IT’S ON NOW, BITCHES!
Silly Brits picked the Lord of the Rings trilogy over classic Star Wars in an Amazon.co.uk poll. Hometown advantage? The prequel trilogy rang in at #6 on the best list (beating Spider-Man) and #5 on the worst.

JESUS CHRIST IT’S A GOOGLE
Get in the car, ET! Google Maps Street View caught you on film! Or at least get rid of the lightsaber, dude. Your friends should get on that GPS thing by now.

MOVIE TYPE THINGS AND… STUFF

• Lucasfilm Singapore’s first work to be out by summer in “several America-made movies.” It can be press release tiem now pls?

• Sideshow interviews Lorne Peterson.
• Spielberg still cashing in on Star Wars bet. He gets 2.5%!
• Speaking of Spielberg, George Lucas is among the luminaries in the documentary Spielberg on Spielberg

FANDOM & Events

• Assembling A Galaxy, Canada’s first Star Wars exhibit.

• Pennsylvania collector Todd Lechniak profiled
• California fan club participates in fundraiser

MISCELLANY

• TOSblog taunts us with math. Dirty, dirty math.

• Search stats: Here a Darth, there a Darth, there a Dara Darth Darth. (also via TOSblog)
• Large-print Western cover art is using Han Solo as ‘inspiration.’ All things flow back to the source.

To the surprise of no one, Star Wars tops IGN’s list of the top 24 movie franchises of all time. We survived Jar Jar, Bond: Bring it on!