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A few years ago Star Wars fans got to see the story of Han Solo and Leia Organa’s wedding—in the current canon, at least—unfold in the pages of Beth Revis’ The Princess and the Scoundrel. But now readers young and old will get to see Star Wars’ fairy tale wedding in a new light, with a gorgeous new picture book about the galaxy’s most iconic power couple.Illustrated by Sophie Li and written by Revis, Someone Who Loves You will re-tell the moments of Han and Leia’s wedding ceremony on Endor after the Rebel’s victory over…

Nearly three decades ago, Dark Forces hit the PC with all the firepower of a fully armed and operational battle station—and in doing so helped revolutionize gaming, Star Wars or otherwise. But even after it changed the genre as we knew it, its legacy has persisted; its view of the galaxy far, far away has continued to shape Star Wars to this very day, even as it returns to PC and consoles today in a new remaster.How Invincible's Omni-Man Joined Mortal Kombat 1Developed by LucasArts—which up to this point had balanced…

While Build Your Dreams (BYD) continues to gain global attention for its latest EV innovations, the Chinese automaker is targeting its home turf for its latest strategy. Earlier today, BYD launched refreshed versions of its flagship Han and Tang models, stoking an ongoing EV price war overseas by slashing the MSRPs of the updated models. The Tang is one of BYD’s longest-running EV models in production, arriving in 2015 as a plug-in hybrid crossover. The vehicle is part of BYD’s Dynasty series, which also…

There was a time when it never seemed like Sung Kang’s Han Lue would return to the Fast & Furious franchise. After all, Fast & Furious 6’s end-credits scene and Furious 7 re-depicted the character’s death that was first shown back in Tokyo Drift, but in F9, it was revealed that his demise was a ruse set up by Mr. Nobody. So now Han is back to being a regular member of Dominic Toretto’s family, which is fitting considered that family is involved with why Kang keeps coming back to the Fast & Furious movies.Kang…

Image: Sony/Columbia PicturesOnce Star Wars: The Force Awakens brought back Luke, Han, and Leia to massive box office success, legacy sequels really started working overtime to keep the original (and available) franchise stars around when possible. Ghostbusters: Afterlife brought back the still-living Ghostbusters from the original two movies, and they’re back again alongside an also-returning Annie Potts for March’s Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. Are Fans Tired of Marvel and DC? Superhero Fatigue at NYCC 2023Talking to SFX…

In Charlie Kaufman’s puppet animation Anomalisa, everyone looks and speaks the same. It’s as though a scene in an earlier Kaufman-penned film, Being John Malkovich, in which Malkovich surveys a restaurant from his table and notices everyone – waiters, diners, perhaps even a passing dog – have his face and voice, has gone global.No one is immune: at one point, the mouth of the narrator, a motivational speaker called Michael Stone, falls from his face into his hands and chatters away all by itself. The guru’s improving…

Indian-American pianist and composer Vijay Iyer’s three decades of accolades took off when, as a polymathic twentysomething, he was a California physics PhD student – at which point a sideline in classical music training and self-taught jazz piano took him into another world. Physics has always seemed to square with Iyer’s sharp-focused yet poetic musical muse – precisely analytical yet conceptually wide open, searching for fundamentals that can bend to anything from the psychology of music-making, to…

Image: Sideshowio9: How does the sculpting process work? What kind of tools are used, what is the original raw material, and how are the final pieces made?Arsham: The originals are sometimes a combination of 3D printed elements, some clay work, sometimes there’s some plaster sculpting involved. Then a mold is made of the completed positive. The molds are used to make the final artworks.Van Slee: It’s worth noting that there are three different types of artworks in the Star Wars x Arsham collaboration, each with a slightly…

Image: LucasfilmLook. Hear me out.It would be insane for Lucasfilm to make Luke Skywalker the antagonist of a film. Let alone, once again, the first Star Wars theatrical release since 2019. Insane! Ballsy, which would be a nice change of pace for the risk-averse studio, but still, insane! And yet, dear reader. And yet. Luke Skywalker is the perfect balance of everything we’ve talked about in an antagonist so far. He’d be a big, shocking name, hugely important to Star Wars and worthy of the scale of a movie, but also one…

Image: HasbroTen years ago, Hasbro announced something akin to a disturbance in the Force—and Star Wars toy fans’ wallets: The Black Series, a brand new line that would bump the iconic heroes and villains of the galaxy far, far away up to 6" scale for the first time (and away from the 3.75" scale Star Wars changed the game with).Since then, countless characters from movies, games, comics, streaming shows, and more have made their way onto our desks and shelves—classic heroes like Han, Luke, and Leia; all-new ones still…