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I’ve been on a few BBC stations talking about the news that Star Wars Episode VII will hold open auditions in the United Kingdom and Ireland. If you want to listen to the interviews, I’ve embedded them below. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/118830494″ params=”auto_play=false&show_artwork=false&color=ff7700″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/118893035″ params=”auto_play=false&show_artwork=false&color=ff7700″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/119042369″ params=”auto_play=false&show_artwork=false&color=ff7700″…
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Last Thursday, The Hollywood Reporter published an article describing an internal dispute between Disney CEO Bob Iger and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy regarding the appropriate time to release the most eagerly anticipated movie of this decade, Star Wars Episode VII. In lieu of repeating myself, here’s how I summarized it for Suvudu: Kennedy and “most…
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Adventures In Print Magazine Freelancing
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When I was six years old, I drew a picture of a house. I wouldn’t call it a particularly magnificent house, but someone at Highlights for Children magazine evidently liked it, because my drawing appeared in a 1997 issue of the magazine. That was a pretty big deal for me. You never forget the first…
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Hollywood.com’s Christian Blauvelt and I hosted our second “Get Thee to the Geek” Google Hangout last night, this time discussing the latest Star Trek movie. Anthony Pascale, editor-in-chief of TrekMovie.com, and Bonnie Burton, all-around geek extraordinaire, joined us to talk about the ups and downs (but mostly the downs). Check out the discussion embedded below:…
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I’ve Got a New Web Show and its Name is Punny
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I’m really excited to be starting a new project this summer along with my friend Christian Blauvelt of Hollywood.com. A few weeks ago, Christian asked me to co-host Hollywood.com’s summer Google Hangout series, “Get Thee to the Geek,” with him. Even if the subject matter — weekly discussions about geek culture – hadn’t appealed to…
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Star Wars. Puns. Enough Said.
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I put together a list of original and, dare I say it, clever Star Wars puns for The Official Star Wars Blog, as part of their pre-game festivities for May the Fourth, a.k.a. Star Wars Day. Anyone who knows me can tell you that puns are a specialty of mine, and since Star Wars is…
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The End of The Clone Wars
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Lucasfilm announced today that its animated TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars is not getting a sixth season. It’s not completely done and over with, because Lucasfilm Animation still plans to release “bonus content” based on the episodes they produced for Season 6. As a big fan of the series, I wanted to share…
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Hello, mainstream media. It’s me, Eric. Since you’ve already started writing a lot of stories about Star Wars, I thought it would be a good idea for us to clarify a few things. Some of your reporters may have never seen a Star Wars movie, but they still ought to employ proper journalistic skills in…
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The biggest news in Star Wars since Disney bought Lucasfilm broke early Saturday morning: J. J. Abrams, who directed the 2009 Star Trek film and this year’s sequel Star Trek Into Darkness, will direct Star Wars: Episode VII, based on a screenplay by Michael Arndt. Predictably, several people have asked me what I think of…
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I’m Eric Geller, a cybersecurity journalist living in the Washington, D.C., area. This is my personal blog. All opinions here are my own and do not represent the views of my employer.
