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Box Office: Avatar beats Titanic, but still lags behind The Phantom Menace
Avatar may have beat Titanic in terms of cold hard cash, but it still has yet to catch up with The Phantom Menace when it comes to the amount of tickets sold, Entertainment Weekly points out. And when the domestic box office numbers are adjusted for inflation, it’s only #26 – all three original trilogy films and TPM are higher, along with Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., The Exorcist and all-time champ Gone With the Wind. (A New Hope is #2.)
Granted, all this stat-pushing is petty and useless, but hey: We’re interested, aren’t we? And on that note, check below the cut for a blast from the past: The ad George Lucas took out in Variety when Titanic took the top spot from Star Wars. Continue reading “Box Office: Avatar beats Titanic, but still lags behind The Phantom Menace“
Video: Rifftrax’s Return of the Jedi sample
You had me at “Build-A-Bear Workshop,” boys. We’ll be able to bask in the full glory of the mocking soon.
George Lucas on Avatar, 3-D
Access Hollywood caught up with the maker himself at the Golden Globes (he had the Jack Nicholson seat at the show) and – naturally – asked him about the Best Drama winner and getting Star Wars in 3-D:
“We’ve been looking for years and years and years of trying to take ‘Star Wars’ and put it in 3-D,” George explained to Access. “But, [the] technology hasn’t been there. We’ve been struggling with it, but I think this will be a new impetus to make that happen.”
More of the same, basically: But is from George. (via)
Ice wars: Frozen lake makes blaster sounds
Sound waves made by a frozen lake sound remarkably like a (slightly dulled) Star Wars blaster, Kottke notes.
Video: Star Wars adidas, the commercial
So the Star Wars aidas commercial features Snoop Dogg, David Beckham, Daft Punk, and more hipsters than you can shake a stick at. Celebrating originality! Riiight.
Lucasfilm to collaborate with Star Wars Uncut?
Casey Pugh, the mastermind behind the fan project that’s remaking A New Hope scene-by-scene, met with Lucasfilm folks this week. Exciting!
Star Wars in 3-D rumors rearing up again
With Avatar having beat out most of the top-grossing films of all time in a mere matter of weeks, the press is sniffing around those old rerelease rumors, digging up comments from various directors and basically? A big fat maybe. What else is new? The relevant bit:
George Lucas, the director, spent $13m filming the original in 1976, added special effects in 1997 and 2004, and will now spend another $10m to change it into a 3-D spectacular.
“George cannot leave it alone,” said an associate. “He is salivating at the opportunity to play with it again. This time the Death Star is really going to explode all over the audience and leave them gasping.”
At the moment there are only half a dozen companies that can turn reels of celluloid into 3-D digital movies.
An ‘associate.’ That’s cute.
Video: Your weekend dose of bizarre
Uhh… Vive la France? (via)
Nab yourself some of adidas’ Star Wars Originals
Twelve items out of the highly anticipated (at least if Googlers are any indication) Star Wars Originals line are up now in the adidas online store. Looks like the prices are going to be all over the range – the sneakers up now go from $80 – $150.