VIZ MEDIA ADDS EXCITING ANIME CONTENT FOR DECEMBER UPDATE TO NEON ALLEY FREE ANIME STREAMING PLATFORM
Catch New SAILOR MOON Dubbed And SAILOR MOON CRYSTAL Subtitled Episodes, NARUTO SHIPPUDEN Simulcast Premieres, And Latest Updates For BLEACH, NARUTO And RANMA ½
VIZ Media moves into December and prepares to round out the year with its latest digital anime content update for Neon Alley. The free digital streaming platform experienced significant growth and programming expansion in 2014 and is preparing several noteworthy content and series premiere announcements for 2015.
New episodes of widely loved series such as BLEACH, NARUTO and NARUTO SHIPPUDEN, RANMA ½, and SAILOR MOON and SAILOR MOON CRYSTAL figure prominently in December’s programming update. These augment the Thanksgiving debut of the full series of COPPELION (dub) and the world premiere of the first 13 dubbed episodes of NARUTO SPIN-OFF: ROCK LEE AND HIS NINJA PALS.
Catch the exciting digital continuation of SAILOR MOON with the English dubbed premiere of Episodes 37-46, available to stream beginning on December 6th for a limited time on Neon Alley and Hulu. Two new subtitled episodes of SAILOR MOON Season 2 will be added to the current series library every Monday throughout December. SAILOR MOON CRYSTAL fans also will not want to miss brand new episodes of SAILOR MOON CRYSTAL throughout December. SAILOR MOON CRYSTAL subtitled Episode 11, “Reunion – Endymion,” premieres on November 6th, followed by Episode 12, “Enemy – Queen Metalia,” on December 20th.
With the latest addition, Neon Alley now features over 30 series, and has a over 1,000 English dubbed episodes and 2,400 subtitled episodes for fans’ viewing pleasure! The 2014 update is augmented by scores of additional episodes from top-rated VIZ Media anime series including:
BLEACH
· Neon Alley adds English dubbed BLEACH Season 18 Episodes 256-267 available to stream beginning on December 1st.
· Viewers can now check out a total of 267 English dubbed episodes, as well as the complete subtitled BLEACH anime (366 episodes).
NARUTO
· For ninja fans, Neon Alley adds dubbed Episodes 66-78 of the original NARUTO anime series, which will all be available beginning on December 3rd.
· With the newest addition, viewers can check out a total of 77 English dubbed episodes as well as the complete subtitled NARUTO anime (all 220 episodes) series!
NARUTO SHIPPUDEN
· Don’t miss simulcasts of the latest English subtitled episodes of NARUTO SHIPPUDEN every Thursday in December beginning with a special double premiere of Episodes 389 and 390 on December 11th. Single episode simulcasts of the next 3 NARUTO SHIPPUDEN episodes will take place every Thursday for the remainder of the month.
· Also catch the action-packed addition of NARUTO SHIPPUDEN English dubbed Episodes 19-23, bringing the total number of available dubbed episodes of the series to over 100.
RANMA ½
· RANMA ½ fans can enjoy the addition of 2 new dubbed episodes of the classic martial arts comedy each week throughout December beginning with Season 6, Episodes 119-120 on December 5th and every Friday thereafter.
Neon Alley is VIZ Media’s consolidated online destination for FREE streaming anime content in the U.S. with over 3,200 subtitled and English dubbed episodes and movies from more than 36 series! Neon Alley also reaches an expansive on-demand U.S.-based audience on Hulu, which enables viewers to watch shows anytime, anywhere across devices including Xbox One, PlayStation®4 (PS4™), Roku, Roku TV, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Google Chromecast, and mobile devices. A full list of Hulu -enabled devices can be found at http://www.hulu.com/plus/devices.
Additional information on Neon Alley is available at: www.NeonAlley.com.
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Gotham Awards Choose "Birdman" as Best Picture of 2014; Michael Keaton Named "Best Actor"
Honoring independent films, the Gotham Awards are the first major awards of the film awards season. This year, the 2014 edition kicks off the 2014-15 season. The Gotham Awards ceremony was held on Monday, December 1, 2014 at Cipriani Wall Street.
The 2014/24th Annual Gotham Independent Film Award winners are:
Best Feature
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, director; Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, Arnon Milchan, James W. Skotchdopole, producers (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Best Documentary
CITIZENFOUR
Laura Poitras, director; Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy, Dirk Wilutzky, producers (RADiUS, Participant Media, and HBO Documentary Films)
Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award
Ana Lily Amirpour for A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Kino Lorber)
Best Actor*
Michael Keaton in Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
* The 2014 Best Actor nominating panel also voted to award a special Gotham Jury Award jointly to Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo, and Channing Tatum for their ensemble performance in Foxcatcher (Sony Pictures Classics).
Best Actress
Julianne Moore in Still Alice (Sony Pictures Classics)
Breakthrough Actor
Tessa Thompson in Dear White People (Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions)
Spotlight on Women Filmmakers ‘Live the Dream’ Grant:
For the fourth consecutive year, IFP is proud present the euphoria Calvin Klein Spotlight on Women Filmmakers ‘Live the Dream’ grant, a $25,000 cash award for an alumna of IFP’s Independent Filmmaker Labs. This grant aims to further the careers of emerging women directors by supporting the completion, distribution and audience engagement strategies of their first feature film.
WINNER: Chloé Zhao, director, Songs My Brothers Taught Me
The nominees are:
Garrett Bradley, director, Below Dreams
Claire Carré, director, Embers
Gotham Independent Film Audience Award: Boyhood
New this year, IFP members had a voice in determining the 5th Annual Gotham Independent Film Audience Award with nominees comprised of the 15 nominated films in the Best Feature, Best Documentary, and Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award categories. All IFP current, active members at the Individual Level and above will be eligible to vote. Voting took place online from November 19th at 12:01 AM EST and concluded on November 26th at 5:00 PM EST. The winner of the Audience Award was announced at the Gotham Awards Ceremony on December 1, 2014.
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The 2014/24th Annual Gotham Independent Film Award winners are:
Best Feature
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, director; Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, Arnon Milchan, James W. Skotchdopole, producers (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Best Documentary
CITIZENFOUR
Laura Poitras, director; Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy, Dirk Wilutzky, producers (RADiUS, Participant Media, and HBO Documentary Films)
Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award
Ana Lily Amirpour for A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Kino Lorber)
Best Actor*
Michael Keaton in Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
* The 2014 Best Actor nominating panel also voted to award a special Gotham Jury Award jointly to Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo, and Channing Tatum for their ensemble performance in Foxcatcher (Sony Pictures Classics).
Best Actress
Julianne Moore in Still Alice (Sony Pictures Classics)
Breakthrough Actor
Tessa Thompson in Dear White People (Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions)
Spotlight on Women Filmmakers ‘Live the Dream’ Grant:
For the fourth consecutive year, IFP is proud present the euphoria Calvin Klein Spotlight on Women Filmmakers ‘Live the Dream’ grant, a $25,000 cash award for an alumna of IFP’s Independent Filmmaker Labs. This grant aims to further the careers of emerging women directors by supporting the completion, distribution and audience engagement strategies of their first feature film.
WINNER: Chloé Zhao, director, Songs My Brothers Taught Me
The nominees are:
Garrett Bradley, director, Below Dreams
Claire Carré, director, Embers
Gotham Independent Film Audience Award: Boyhood
New this year, IFP members had a voice in determining the 5th Annual Gotham Independent Film Audience Award with nominees comprised of the 15 nominated films in the Best Feature, Best Documentary, and Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award categories. All IFP current, active members at the Individual Level and above will be eligible to vote. Voting took place online from November 19th at 12:01 AM EST and concluded on November 26th at 5:00 PM EST. The winner of the Audience Award was announced at the Gotham Awards Ceremony on December 1, 2014.
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Monday, December 1, 2014
New York Film Critics Cricle Chooses "Boyhood" as Best Picture of 2014
Founded in 1935, the New York Film Critics Circle is, according to their website, “an organization of film reviewers from New York-based publications that exists to honor excellence in U.S. and world cinema.” Members are critics from daily newspapers, weekly newspapers, magazines, and online general-interest publications (that meet certain qualifications). Every year in December, Circle members meet in New York to vote on awards for the year's films. The Circle also puts on an awards presentation, which will be held in January 2015 to honor 2014 winners.
The Circle was the first film critics organization that I encountered as a budding, young movie lover. The Circle's awards have been predictors of the Oscar nominations. However, The Circle sees it awards “as a principled alternative to the Oscars, honoring esthetic merit in a forum that is immune to commercial and political pressures,” according to their website.
2014 NYFCC Awards:
Best Picture: Boyhood
Best Director: Richard Linklater – Boyhood
Best Screenplay: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Actress: Marion Cotillard - “The Immigrant,” and also “Two Days, One Night”
Best Actor: Timothy Spall - Mr. Turner
Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
Best Supporting Actor: J.K. Simmons – Whiplash
Best Cinematographer: Darius Khondji - The Immigrant
Best Animated Film: The LEGO Movie
Best Non-Fiction Film (Documentary): Citizenfour
Best Foreign Film: Ida (Poland)
Best First Film: Jennifer Kent - The Babadook
Special Award: Adrienne Mancia
The Circle was the first film critics organization that I encountered as a budding, young movie lover. The Circle's awards have been predictors of the Oscar nominations. However, The Circle sees it awards “as a principled alternative to the Oscars, honoring esthetic merit in a forum that is immune to commercial and political pressures,” according to their website.
2014 NYFCC Awards:
Best Picture: Boyhood
Best Director: Richard Linklater – Boyhood
Best Screenplay: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Actress: Marion Cotillard - “The Immigrant,” and also “Two Days, One Night”
Best Actor: Timothy Spall - Mr. Turner
Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
Best Supporting Actor: J.K. Simmons – Whiplash
Best Cinematographer: Darius Khondji - The Immigrant
Best Animated Film: The LEGO Movie
Best Non-Fiction Film (Documentary): Citizenfour
Best Foreign Film: Ida (Poland)
Best First Film: Jennifer Kent - The Babadook
Special Award: Adrienne Mancia
Merry Negromancer December 2014
Sunday, November 30, 2014
134 Documentary Films Vie for 15 Spots on 87th Academy Awards Shortlist
134 Documentary Features Submitted For 2014 Oscar® Race
One hundred thirty-four features have been submitted for consideration in the Documentary Feature category for the 87th Academy Awards®.
The submitted features, listed in alphabetical order, are:
“Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq”
“Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case”
“Algorithms”
“Alive Inside”
“All You Need Is Love”
“Altina”
“America: Imagine the World without Her”
“American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs”
“Anita”
“Antarctica: A Year on Ice”
“Art and Craft”
“Awake: The Life of Yogananda”
“The Barefoot Artist”
“The Battered Bastards of Baseball”
“Before You Know It”
“Bitter Honey”
“Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity”
“Botso The Teacher from Tbilisi”
“Captivated The Trials of Pamela Smart”
“The Case against 8”
“Cesar’s Last Fast”
“Citizen Koch”
“CitizenFour”
“Code Black”
“Concerning Violence”
“The Culture High”
“Cyber-Seniors”
“DamNation”
“Dancing in Jaffa”
“Death Metal Angola”
“The Decent One”
“Dinosaur 13”
“Do You Know What My Name Is?”
“Documented”
“The Dog”
“E-Team”
“Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me”
“Elena”
“Evolution of a Criminal”
“Fed Up”
“Finding Fela”
“Finding Vivian Maier”
“Food Chains”
“The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden”
“Getting to the Nutcracker”
“Glen Campbell…I’ll Be Me”
“Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia”
“The Great Flood”
“The Great Invisible”
“The Green Prince”
“The Hacker Wars”
“The Hadza: Last of the First”
“Hanna Ranch”
“Happy Valley”
“The Hornet’s Nest”
“I Am Ali”
“If You Build It”
“The Immortalists”
“The Internet’s Own Boy”
“Ivory Tower”
“James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenge”
“Jodorowsky’s Dune”
“Journey of a Female Comic”
“Keep On Keepin’ On”
“Kids for Cash”
“The Kill Team”
“Korengal”
“La Bare”
“Last Days in Vietnam”
“Last Hijack”
“The Last Patrol”
“Levitated Mass”
“Life Itself”
“Little White Lie”
“Llyn Foulkes One Man Band”
“Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles”
“Manakamana”
“Merchants of Doubt”
“Mission Blue”
“Mistaken for Strangers”
“Mitt”
“Monk with a Camera”
“Nas: Time Is Illmatic”
“National Gallery”
“Next Goal Wins”
“Next Year Jerusalem”
“Night Will Fall”
“No Cameras Allowed”
“Now: In the Wings on a World Stage”
“Occupy the Farm”
“The Only Real Game”
“The Overnighters”
“Particle Fever”
“Pay 2 Play: Democracy’s High Stakes”
“Pelican Dreams”
“The Pleasures of Being Out of Step”
“Plot for Peace”
“Point and Shoot”
“Poverty Inc.”
“Print the Legend”
“Private Violence”
“Pump”
“Rabindranath Tagore – The Poet of Eternity”
“Red Army”
“Remote Area Medical”
“Rich Hill”
“The Rule”
“The Salt of the Earth”
“Shadows from My Past”
“She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry”
“A Small Section of the World”
“Smiling through the Apocalypse – Esquire in the 60s”
“Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon”
“The Supreme Price”
“Tales of the Grim Sleeper”
“Tanzania: A Journey Within”
“This Is Not a Ball”
“Thomas Keating: A Rising Tide of Silence”
“Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People”
“True Son”
“20,000 Days on Earth”
“Unclaimed”
“Under the Electric Sky”
“Underwater Dreams”
“Virunga”
“Waiting for August”
“Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago”
“Warsaw Uprising”
“Watchers of the Sky”
“Watermark”
“We Are the Giant”
“We Could Be King”
“Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger”
“A World Not Ours”
Several of the films have not yet had their required Los Angeles and New York qualifying releases. Submitted features must fulfill the theatrical release requirements and comply with all of the category’s other qualifying rules in order to advance in the voting process. A shortlist of 15 films will be announced in December.
Films submitted in the Documentary Feature category also may qualify for Academy Awards in other categories, including Best Picture, provided they meet the requirements for those categories.
The 87th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 15, 2015, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
The Oscars® will be held on Sunday, February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.
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One hundred thirty-four features have been submitted for consideration in the Documentary Feature category for the 87th Academy Awards®.
The submitted features, listed in alphabetical order, are:
“Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq”
“Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case”
“Algorithms”
“Alive Inside”
“All You Need Is Love”
“Altina”
“America: Imagine the World without Her”
“American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs”
“Anita”
“Antarctica: A Year on Ice”
“Art and Craft”
“Awake: The Life of Yogananda”
“The Barefoot Artist”
“The Battered Bastards of Baseball”
“Before You Know It”
“Bitter Honey”
“Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity”
“Botso The Teacher from Tbilisi”
“Captivated The Trials of Pamela Smart”
“The Case against 8”
“Cesar’s Last Fast”
“Citizen Koch”
“CitizenFour”
“Code Black”
“Concerning Violence”
“The Culture High”
“Cyber-Seniors”
“DamNation”
“Dancing in Jaffa”
“Death Metal Angola”
“The Decent One”
“Dinosaur 13”
“Do You Know What My Name Is?”
“Documented”
“The Dog”
“E-Team”
“Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me”
“Elena”
“Evolution of a Criminal”
“Fed Up”
“Finding Fela”
“Finding Vivian Maier”
“Food Chains”
“The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden”
“Getting to the Nutcracker”
“Glen Campbell…I’ll Be Me”
“Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia”
“The Great Flood”
“The Great Invisible”
“The Green Prince”
“The Hacker Wars”
“The Hadza: Last of the First”
“Hanna Ranch”
“Happy Valley”
“The Hornet’s Nest”
“I Am Ali”
“If You Build It”
“The Immortalists”
“The Internet’s Own Boy”
“Ivory Tower”
“James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenge”
“Jodorowsky’s Dune”
“Journey of a Female Comic”
“Keep On Keepin’ On”
“Kids for Cash”
“The Kill Team”
“Korengal”
“La Bare”
“Last Days in Vietnam”
“Last Hijack”
“The Last Patrol”
“Levitated Mass”
“Life Itself”
“Little White Lie”
“Llyn Foulkes One Man Band”
“Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles”
“Manakamana”
“Merchants of Doubt”
“Mission Blue”
“Mistaken for Strangers”
“Mitt”
“Monk with a Camera”
“Nas: Time Is Illmatic”
“National Gallery”
“Next Goal Wins”
“Next Year Jerusalem”
“Night Will Fall”
“No Cameras Allowed”
“Now: In the Wings on a World Stage”
“Occupy the Farm”
“The Only Real Game”
“The Overnighters”
“Particle Fever”
“Pay 2 Play: Democracy’s High Stakes”
“Pelican Dreams”
“The Pleasures of Being Out of Step”
“Plot for Peace”
“Point and Shoot”
“Poverty Inc.”
“Print the Legend”
“Private Violence”
“Pump”
“Rabindranath Tagore – The Poet of Eternity”
“Red Army”
“Remote Area Medical”
“Rich Hill”
“The Rule”
“The Salt of the Earth”
“Shadows from My Past”
“She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry”
“A Small Section of the World”
“Smiling through the Apocalypse – Esquire in the 60s”
“Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon”
“The Supreme Price”
“Tales of the Grim Sleeper”
“Tanzania: A Journey Within”
“This Is Not a Ball”
“Thomas Keating: A Rising Tide of Silence”
“Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People”
“True Son”
“20,000 Days on Earth”
“Unclaimed”
“Under the Electric Sky”
“Underwater Dreams”
“Virunga”
“Waiting for August”
“Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago”
“Warsaw Uprising”
“Watchers of the Sky”
“Watermark”
“We Are the Giant”
“We Could Be King”
“Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger”
“A World Not Ours”
Several of the films have not yet had their required Los Angeles and New York qualifying releases. Submitted features must fulfill the theatrical release requirements and comply with all of the category’s other qualifying rules in order to advance in the voting process. A shortlist of 15 films will be announced in December.
Films submitted in the Documentary Feature category also may qualify for Academy Awards in other categories, including Best Picture, provided they meet the requirements for those categories.
The 87th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 15, 2015, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
The Oscars® will be held on Sunday, February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.
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Negromancer's Fave Poli-Reads - November 2014 Edition - Update #17
From YahooNews: Republican bitch gets out of hand with President Obama's daughters about something that is really not important at all.
From RollingStone: The 15 worst owners in sports.
From RollingStone: Rape... at a college founded by a slave owner that raped his female slaves... No way...
From the GuardianUK: Angela Davis on Mike Brown.
From the GuardianUK: You've got to be kidding me. Masai homeland to be turned into hunting ground for Dubai royalty... Off with their heads.
From FirstLook: Glenn Greenwald's sarcastic piece about the people most excited about a Hilary Clinton presidency.
From Politico: Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) on why the Republicans want to impeach President Obama.
From TIME: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says that American politicians are a bigger threat to democracy than ISIS. Yes.
From Vocativ: Be a cop in Oakley Michigan for $1200.
From RSN: How to scrap the two-party system...
From BBCNews: J. Edgar Hoover used Nazis as Cold War spies. Why am I not surprised.
From TheDailyBeast: Jonathan Alter, one of my favorite writers about politics and society, talks about what the day after the Republican takeover of Congress will be like.
From Newsweek: When Google met Wikileaks.
From WashingtonPost: Senator Mark Warner's middle of the road fantasy almost cost him his seat on Tuesday, November 4, 2014
From YahooNews: President Obama not mopey about 2014 midterms.
From TheWashingtonPost: Rachel Maddow on the GOP banking on fear.
From RawStory: North Carolina voting machines acting kinda shady. I have been hearing similar stories for years.
From ThinkProgress: A secretive voter purge in 27 states, largely unknown and aimed at suspected members of minorities.
From Truthout: The origins, history, and more about GamerGate.
Negromancer News Bits and Bites for the Week of November 23 to 30, 2014 - Update #11
NEWS:
From Billboard: She has an Oscar, and Jennifer Lawrence may very well have a Top 40 hit on the Billboard charts by next week. It's "The Hanging Tree" from the album featuring James Newton Howard's score for Mockingjay Part 1.
From Playlist: 5 Things to Know about Beetlejuice on its 25th anniversary.
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From Variety: Amy Berg, Nate Parker, and Matthew Cooke crowd fund for Ferguson-related doc.
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From THR: Universal releases "Jurassic World" teaser trailer.
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From Variety: The #1 movie at the box office for the weekend of Friday, November 21st to 23rd, 2014 is The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 with an estimated take of $123 million, the biggest weekend opening of the year, thus far.
STAR WARS:
From YahooMovies: John Boyega answers haters of the "Black stormtrooper."
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From YahooTV: Apparently, Andy Serkis is the narrator or provides the voice over for the Episode 7 teaser.
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From TechCrunch and iTunes: The first trailer for "The Force Awakens."
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Star Wars News Dump:
YahooMovies: Joe Johnston, a special effect pioneer, is selling some of his Star Wars items.
YahooMovies: JJ Abrams teases Star Wars teaser.
YahooMovies: A list of theaters showing the Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer.
From io9: Rumors about first Star Wars spin-off film.
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From FlickeringMyth: "Star Wars The Force Awakens" trailer will premiere Friday, November 28, 2017...
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From EntertainmentIE: A possible two-second clip from the first Episode 7 trailer.
TRAILERS:
From 20th Century Fox, new trailer for Unfinished Business.
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