Club Jade

Quotables. Alice in Wonderland producer Richard D. Zanuck calls George Lucas “the Thomas Edison of our time.”

Weequay Thranta Fambaa. A girl on German game show can ID Lego action figures with her mouth. That’s a skill that’ll take her far. (via)

Under the stars. Take a peek at this Star Wars nursery.

Well, it is kind of true. Yoda is one of Cracked’s 6 famous movie wisemen who were totally full of shit.

This video makes me miss Kara Thrace (no, I will not watch 24) and also realize how much running there was in that show. Damn.

You can compare and contrast this with the Beastie Boys original side-by-side at Youtube Doubler. (via)

I guess Boba Fett is taking Karen Traviss’ departure pretty hard. Don’t worry Boba, you’ll find love again. Or at least, quarters. (via)

Pablo Hidalgo is interviewed by The Sci-Fi Block about his upcoming book Star Wars:  Head-to-Head.

The ultimate fanboy conversation in a book, Head-to-Head intends to examine who would win various mash-ups by using various RPG and card game stats, as well as video games. 

Unfortunately, he was unable to match up Threepio against another to see who could talk the other to death.  No one can beat him there! (via)

Congrats to Lisa Schapira, aka s65horsey! She was the first to pick House’s Lisa Edelstein as Aaron Allston’s image of Daala.

Tomorrow’s the day! Aaron Allston’s Fate of the Jedi: Backlash – the fourth in the series – will be in stores Tuesday.

EU Cantina has an excerpt, and don’t forget you have until Monday to enter Aaron’s contest to win an autographed copy.

Because, ladies and gentlemen, I know what you’re really talking about this morning.

The Hurt Locker beat out Avatar for Best Picture (and director – Kathryn Bigelow is the first woman to win) but the sci-fi extravaganza did take statues for visual effects, cinematography, and art direction. I don’t find this particularly heartbreaking: Avatar might have been a fun movie to watch, but Best Picture? Ehh.

Best Picture was really the only uncertain prize going in, so there weren’t many surprises for the genre winners: Pixar’s Up took Animated feature and Music, while Star Trek got Makeup. (District 9 will always have this, I suppose.)

Winter is actually coming. HBO must have liked the pilot for A Game of Thrones, because they ordered nine more episodes: By cable standards, that’s pretty much an entire season. Filming starts in June, and we can expect the series to debut next spring.

Shocker! Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen took the Razzies for Worst Picture, Worst Director, and Worst Screenplay. As for actual entertainment value, Sandra Bullock showed up in person to accept Worst Actress for All About Steve: If she gets an Academy Award tonight (for The Blind Side) she’ll become the first actress to win both a Razzie and an Oscar in the same year.

Nothing new under the sun. Guy Ritchie wants to remake Excalibur “in the tone of Star Wars.” There’s also something going down with Warren Ellis, and didn’t Showtime have The Tudors team signed to do a Camelot series? To all this I say: Haven’t the Arthurian legends suffered enough?

Good news, everyone! Futurama returns to its rightly place as a half-hour show in June.

A recent fund-raising drive by Harry Potter fans has raised enough funds (US$123,000!)  for Partners in Health to fill three planes worth of supplies for Haiti.

The first of the three planes, named Harry, has been deployed.  Ron and Hermione are to follow.

Congratulations to The HP Alliance and all the Harry Potter fans for this monumental achievement.  Other fandoms will be hard-pressed to match this one!