A dwarf actor who has played an Ewok in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, and a goblin in the film Labyrinth has been found guilty of bashing his bishop in front of a 17-year-old girl. Nicholas Read from Cheadle was travelling on a train between London and Sheffield on 16th October last year when [...]
It’s obviously that time again, it’s been a full 12 months since the last rumour that George Lucas was planning another three Star Wars movies. It must be something about the end of October, Christmas is just on the horizon and all that merchandise needs a little bit of a push to get it off [...]
Continue reading …Rotund comedian Ricky Gervais is planning a brand new BBC sitcom starring the dwarf actor Warwick Davis. The show will also be based on the life of the actor. Gervais and writing partner Stephen Merchant have begun developing the show under the working title of Life’s Too Short, named after and based on Davis’ autobiography, [...]
Continue reading …Ultradome, the web-based show created by Heroes star Milo Ventimiglia has gone live on MSN’s Parallel Universe website. The show features fantasy death-matches between a variety of fanboy faves, episode one stars Ventimiglia himself and filmmaker Adam Green going head to head in a fight to the death between a Star Wars universe Jedi and [...]
Continue reading …No, not Natalie Portman who played the Queen of Naboo in Star Wars Episode One, but Keisha Castle-Hughes the Oscar nominated actress who played the Queen in Episode Three. Castle-Hughes was nominated for best actress at the Academy Awards when she was just 13 for her part in the 2002 movie Whale Rider. The New [...]
Continue reading …Star Wars and V for Vendetta actress Natalie Portman has been lined up to produce and star in a movie adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is a recent novel by Seth Grahame-Smith which mashes up the Jane Austen classic Pride and Prejudice with modern zombie fiction. Austen is [...]
Continue reading …Musician Thomas Dolby is at the centre of a web hysteria today after Star Wars fans picked up on comments he posted on his personal blog on December 5th. According to Dolby his friend and former collaborator Paul Sebastien, who has worked for Playstation, Xbox and currently Lucasarts, has told him all about the forthcoming [...]
Continue reading …Way back in May we told you about a brand new project from Heroes star Milo Ventimiglia. Ultradome will be a web-based show which pits geeks against each other to argue out who could win hypothetical death matches between sci-fi and fantasy characters. In the pilot episode Ventimiglia himself will go head to head with [...]
Continue reading …The rumour mill is working overtime today with news that George Lucas is planning on making a brand new Star Wars Trilogy in 3D. MarketSaw claim that they’ve heard from a reliable source that Lucas has been so impressed by James Cameron’s Avatar that he wants a slice of the 3D action. Initial reports claimed [...]
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