Star Wars

Here are five great stories from the making of the 70's Star Wars that are key to the film's legacy, but you probably didn't know it.

Even the Colorado Department of Transportation is getting in on the Star Wars fun!

Whether it’s Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead or The Hunger Games, you’ve surely seen one of the Bad Lip Reading videos on YouTube. They take a movie or TV show (or footage from football games) and re-record the dialogue with hilarious results. Today they’ve finally set their sights on the original Star Wars trilogy and they’ve brought along some famous friends for the ride.

The original Star Wars was driven by nostalgia for pulp magazines, Saturday-morning serials, and a simpler era with clear-cut heroes and villains. The new Star Wars is driven by nostalgia for the original Star Wars, and a simpler era when that title evoked words like “adventure” and “excitement,” and not words like “the taxation of trade routes,” and “Jar Jar Binks.” The characters in Star Wars: The Force Awakens are all searching for something of great importance to the galaxy far, far away. I won’t reveal what this MacGuffin is, but I will tell you what it represents: that old Star Wars magic. Can director J.J. Abrams and the rest of the saga’s new creators find it?

Sure, there are lots of kids and teens buying Star Wars: The Force Awakens toys, but a long, long time ago in a galaxy that is actually this one, Star Wars belonged to another group of nerds — and those nerds are not going to let today’s kids take ownership of their fandom so easily, especially when these kids don’t know that action figures should STAY. IN. THE. BOX.

Playing the 'used and abused commodity' that hasn't enjoyed as much of the riches that have been generated by Star Wars as, say, George Lucas, is her thing. It has been for a while.

The biggest movie of the year will soon be here, and the creators of Star Wars have been doing some great things to raise money for "Force for Change," and Luke Skywalker got in on it.

In preparation to reprise her iconic Cinnabon-hairstyled role in the upcoming "Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens," producers asked Carrie Fisher to lose over 35 pounds. "They don't want to hire all of me - only about three-quarters," Fisher told Good Housekeeping UK for their January issue...

A man wearing a Darth Vader mask failed at his attempt to rob a Florida convenience store Sunday night. Jacob Mercer, 32, walked into a Jacksonville convenience store wearing dark clothing and a Darth Vader mask, pointed a gun at employees, and demanded money...

I'm a huge Star Wars fan, and I know I'm not the only one excited for the Force Awakens. But this one dad took his love of the move to a whole new level by cosplaying his house.

Am I the only one who thinks that the description of the Force in Star Wars is a great way to describe the spiritual condition on our planet?

Has there ever been as much hype for one movie trailer as there is right now for the Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer? (Except maybe the last Star Wars trailer? And, maybe the Star Wars trailer before that?) Fan anticipation has been at a fever pitch for the last few days, but the waiting is finally over. Enough hype, it’s time for you to actually sit down, take a deep breath and watch official, final Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer in all its glory.