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2 on ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ overtakes ‘Avatar’ as the highest grossing movie in the USDisney and J.J. Abrams can finally relax. Star Wars: The Force Awakens will officially pass Avatar today as the highest-grossing domestic movie of all time, in less than three weeks after its US release. The film pulled in about $90.2 million in the US over the last weekend for a total gross of $742.2 million,…
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Mark Zuckerberg wants to live a bit more like Tony Stark. In a post on Facebook this afternoon, Zuckerberg wrote that he intends to build an AI that can run his home and present him with virtual reality visualizations of his work. “You can think of it kind of like Jarvis in Iron Man,” Zuckerberg…
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Google has launched a new tool to celebrate the upcoming release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, letting users choose to join the light side or the dark side of the force, and customizing the appearance of their Google apps accordingly. Once you’ve picked a side (the dark side was worryingly popular in The Verge‘s offices), Google…
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We should hope J.J. Abrams is better at making Star Wars movies than he is at telling the truth. The Episode VII director promised in October that we wouldn’t see any more trailers for the upcoming sci-fi epic until the film’s premiere in December. A few short weeks later, the Japanese trailer hit the internet, showing new…
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A terminally ill Star Wars fan had his wish realized this week when he was shown an unedited version of Star Wars: The Force Awakens over a month before its official release. Daniel Fleetwood is the man at the heart of #ForceforDaniel, a Twitter campaign that was created to convince Disney, Lucasfilm, and Bad Robot…
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Add another actor to Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ cast list: Simon Pegg. During a behind-the-scenes video at Comic-Con this evening, Pegg was shown on set in a costume as some alien creature. “My life is now complete,” Pegg said.
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Taylor Swift will debut her video for “Bad Blood” off her most recent album 1989, next week at the Billboard Music Awards, and she’s been teasing the big event pretty ruthlessly on Instagram. First there was her own mysterious, stern-faced headshot. That was quickly followed by a slew of recognizable names: Zendaya, Ellie Goulding, Paramore’s…
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With superheroes dominating the box office, It’s easy to forget comics weren’t always as well regarded or accessible. The Verge talks to comic theoriest Scott McCloud, Comixology founders John Roberts and David Steinberger, and Symbolia creative director Joyce Rice to find out more about the future of this expanding, diversifying medium. SOURCE: The Verge
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It’s all connected. That’s the guiding mantra / rallying cry / marketing pitch for Marvel’s Cinematic Universe. Every film exists in the same continuity, pushing along a large meta-narrative one two-hour (or so) chapter at a time. The continuity, of course, is only skin deep. A tragic death of a fan favorite in the first…
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It’s been less than a week since The Avengers: Age of Ultron opened in theaters and Marvel is already revving the engine on its next big superhero team-up. The studio announced today that principal photography has begun on Captain America: Civil War while detailing the main cast for the movie, and I’m just going to…