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‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ to be filmed in Britain

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he next chapter in the wildly successful “Star Wars” movie franchise will be produced in Britain, Disney’s Lucasfilm announced. “Star Wars: Episode VII” will be the first in the series since Disney bought the studio from George Lucas in 2012 for $4 billion. It is scheduled for release in 2015.…

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Navajo actors audition for the first major Hollywood film to be dubbed into Dine: ‘Star Wars’

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Members of the Navajo tribe in the southwestern United States are hoping the force will be with them as they dub “Star Wars” into their native Dine language. Two days of auditions began Friday at the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, Arizona for Navajo wishing to lend their voices…

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Scientists claim to have built hologram-projecting cell phone

This photo, obtained on March 20, 2013 from Nature, shows a 3D image of an Hewlett Packard logo in RGB, from a completely transparent substrate. (AFP)

Fancy watching a movie on your mobile phone, where figures leap out from the screen in 3D, rather as Princess Leia did in that scene from “Star Wars”? That’s the claim made by US researchers, who on Wednesday reported they had made a display which gives a three-dimensional image that…

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George Lucas hails new ‘Star Wars’ film director J.J. Abrams

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Sci-fi and action filmmaker J.J. Abrams will direct the next “Star Wars” film, the franchise’s creators and owners confirmed Saturday, saying its “legacy couldn’t be in better hands.” George Lucas’s Lucasfilm, bought by entertainment giant Disney for $4 billion in October, said Oscar-winning writer Michael Arndt will write the screenplay…

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J.J. Abrams to direct new ‘Star Wars’ film

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Sci-fi and action filmmaker J.J. Abrams has been tapped to direct a seventh “Star Wars” movie expected to be released by Disney in 2015, a Hollywood trade publication reported. After purchasing “Star Wars” creator George Lucas’s Lucasfilm for $4 billion in October, Disney announced it was planning a new trilogy…

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Disney to release ‘Star Wars: Episode 7′ in 2015

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The Walt Disney Company announced Tuesday that it planned to release a seventh Star Wars film. Disney has acquired Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion. The film studio was previously owned entirely by George Lucas, the creator of the iconic Star Wars and Indiana Jones series. Lucas will continue to work at…

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Company’s ‘LaserSaber’ looks just like ‘Star Wars’ Jedi weapon

A man wields a "LaserSabre." Screenshot via YouTube.

George Lucas might be about to sue somebody. A company called Wicked Lasers, which produces some of the most powerful consumer-level lasers available, began selling on Friday a special attachment for one of their latest creations that turns it into a “LaserSabre,” which looks suspiciously like the favorite weapon of…

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‘Star Wars’ designer of Darth Vader, Chewbacca and R2-D2, dead at 82

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Ralph McQuarrie, the cinematic designer known for the famous “Star Wars” characters such as Darth Vader, Chewbacca and R2-D2, has died at age 82, his website announced Sunday. McQuarrie, who died Saturday, collaborated with George Lucas on the original “Star Wars” trilogy in the 1970s and with Steven Spielberg on…

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