Star Wars Articles

Stormtroopers, Star Wars Stars Wars‘ Stormtroopers attend the 2011 Governors Awards in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland in Hollywood, on Saturday, November 12. [Photo: Matt Petit / ©A.M.P.A.S.] James Earl Jones (The Great White Hope, the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars movies) was a long-distance Honorary Oscar honoree, as he’s co-starring with Vanessa Redgrave in Driving Miss Daisy on the [...]

Musafa, The Lion King Disney’s The Lion King 3D pulled in $21.92 million in North America this past weekend, Sept. 23-25, according to box-office actuals found at Box Office Mojo. Originally released in 1994, The Lion King has by now become a 2011 sleeper hit. The animated feature directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff was down only 27% from last weekend — the lowest [...]

If you blithely choose to ignore ticket-price hikes, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 now has the highest-grossing opening weekend ever in North America, having just surpassed Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. According to studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo, Deathly Hallows: Part 2, which stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, and Ralph Fiennes, collected $168.55 million — including $43.5 million [...]

Visual-effects artist Grant McCune (above, with R2-D2), whose most notable effort was probably George Lucas’s Star Wars (1977), died of pancreatic cancer at his home in Hidden Hills, 30 miles northwest of Los Angeles. McCune was 67. McCune won an Oscar for Star Wars, which he shared with visual-effects specialists John Stears, John Dykstra, Richard Edlund and Robert Blalack. Two years later, McCune was nominated [...]