Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
As predicted, a Solo commercial graced the screens of Super Bowl watchers, and the full trailer will drop on Good Morning America Monday morning.
Head over to Entertainment Weekly for some analysis from Anthony Breznican, who will have some actual reveals for us next week, or below for some (mostly) official stills, including two that aren’t from the trailer.
Disney XD has a new 30-second spot for the upcoming third season of Rebels, which debuts later this month. (via)
Spoiler: It’s all footage from the trailer, but interesting that we’d be seeing this quite so soon.
60 Minutes posted extra footage after tonight’s feature on The Force Awakens, including John Williams conducting some of the first music in the film, but we also get a glimpse of the scene with Rey, BB-8, Teedo and the luggabeast.
→ Lupita Nyong’o tells Buzzfeed why she chose to play a CGI character.
→ Rolling Stone shares a few things they learned about The Force Awakens that didn’t make the main article.
→ Spot the new stuff in today’s commercial.
→ Dan Mindel on the The Force Awakens cinematography, and how the film being pushed back turned out to be a positive.
→ Also: Another fun Carrie Fisher interview; Sisters and other films that have gone up against Star Wars.
This is, per JoBlo’s count anyway, our fifth TV spot for The Force Awakens.
On that note, over at Empire, John Boyega talks about holding the lightsaber for the first time.
Discussion topic: If the First Order is raising kids to be stormtroopers, why does Finn have an American Outer Rim accent? Do only the officers get the Proper Imperial Elocution package?
First up, here’s the highly relevant Star Trek Into Darkness. Head under the cut for Iron Man 3, Oz the Great and Powerful and World War Z.
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Bloopers! Deleted scenes! Man, this kid is everywhere… (He met James Earl Jones!)
Max Page, who starred in what turned out to be one of last night’s most popular Super Bowl commercials (you can vote here) was on the Today show with his mom this morning.
This cute Volkswagen commercial will debut during the Super Bowl. Now you can do something better with your life that day!
Our favorite droid duo are now… Advertising pitchmen? Okay then!