A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

On December 18, 2015, Lucasfilm Ltd. and Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures released Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the seventh live-action film in the long-running series created by George Lucas and the first of three films that comprise the Sequel Trilogy. This first Star Wars movie since 2005's Star Wars - Episode III: Revenge of the Sith stars Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Adam Driver, and Oscar Isaac, The Force Awakens is set 30 years after the events depicted in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. The film was a huge success at the box office (earning $2.068 billion world-wide, which makes The Force Awakens the third biggest earner in movie history) and introduced a new set of heroes (the Resistance) and villains (the First Order) locked in the conflict between good and evil in a galaxy far, far away. On the same day that The Force Awakens premiered in wide theatrical release, Walt Disney Records also dropped Star Wars: The Forc

On Friday, December 15, Lucasfilm Ltd. and Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures released Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the eighth Episode in the Skywalker Saga and the ninth live-action film in the space-fantasy franchise created 40 years ago by George Lucas.  Starring Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, John Boyega, Laura Dern, and Andy Serkis, The Last Jedi is the second film of a Sequel Trilogy set 30 years after the Rebel Alliance's victory over the evil Galactic Empire. It has, so far, gotten good reviews and earned $494.6 million in its first week of wide theatrical release.  On the same day, Walt Disney Records also dropped Star Wars: The Last Jedi - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack on compact disc and digital download. Composed and conducted by John Williams (with an assist at the podium by William Ross), Star Wars: The Last Jedi is the eighth score composed by the current dean of modern American film scoring for the long-running Star Wa

Gareth Edwards' blockbuster Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is a film that boasts many "firsts" in the history of the 40-year-old franchise created by George Lucas. It is the first stand-alone Star Wars film that's not centered on the Skywalker family It is the first Star Wars film that focuses on ordinary beings from various parts of the galaxy that aren't Jedi or Force users It is the first Star Wars film to identify most of the planets with onscreen tags It is the first Star Wars film with no title crawl, no transitional "wipes," and only the second to use a pan-up establishing shot (the other being Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones It is the first live-action Star Wars film without a musical score composed and conducted by John Williams Lucasfilm President (and Rogue One producer) Kathleen Kennedy and her creative team pulled all the stops to make Rogue One: A Star Wars Story a separate part of the Star Wars universe yet faithful

Courtesy of Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL) Sony Classical’s “Star Wars: The Ultimate Soundtrack Collection” is the music label’s third box set (after its 2004 DVD Companion collection and 2007’s “The Music of Star Wars: 30th Anniversary Collector’s Edition”) of music composed and conducted by  John Williams . Released in January to coincide with the theatrical run of Lucasfilm’s “Star Wars – Episode VII: The Force Awakens,” this limited edition box set marks the first time that all six  soundtracks  from the Original and Prequel trilogies are released together. The Disney-owned official Star Wars website first announced the release of “Star Wars: The Ultimate Soundtrack Collection” in its September 25, 2015 post. Per  StarWars.com , the six scores come in three formats: vinyl LP, audio CD, and digital download. “The sweeping, dazzling music that fueled Star Wars will be reissued by Sony Classical in three new, definitive editions — Star Wars: The Ultimate Vinyl Collection,