Feb 21, 2012 | Forbes
Let’s say you’re an evil Imperial overlord in the Star Wars universe, and you want to keep the rebels in line. You should build something they fear, say, a Death Star. How much will advancing your evil plans set you back? Short answer: it’s more expensive than you can...
Feb 15, 2012 | Forbes
What do you get when you cross a badass little girl with the scene in Star Wars where Vader first reveals his Force Choke power? You get one awesome commercial for the Xbox Kinect, that’s what…especially when she finds your lack of faith disturbing. The commercial...
Feb 10, 2012 | Forbes
San Diego Comic-Con With 130,000 attendees in 2011, San Diego Comic-Con International (SDCC) is currently one of the United States’ largest conventions, one that boosted San Diego’s economy by $193 million. So how did this tiny gathering grow into what some consider...
Feb 8, 2012 | Forbes
Patrick Stewart, The Graham Norton Show Patrick Stewart and Liam Neeson know that they’ll be forever haunted by their former characters, Captain Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation and Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, respectively. We...
Jan 19, 2012 | Forbes
George Lucas, whose headstone will surely read, “I created Star Wars…and Greedo shot first,” has announced that he will be retiring from big-budget movies in order to make smaller art-house films. The New York Times wrote, “I’m retiring,” Lucas said. “I’m moving away...