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Movie Trailers Roundup for February 3, 2016
After a week off, the Movie Trailers Roundup is back. We have seven trailers this week and it’s a split between kids/family movies and horror movies. It’s a rather unusual contrast but seeing as family movies are more traumatizing than horror flicks, it’s oddly appropriate too.
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Steven Moffat to Leave Doctor Who in 2017
In my review of 2015’s Doctor Who Christmas special, I speculated that the episode was written in a way to end the story of River Song and that might be a sign that showrunner Steven Moffat is winding down his time at the helm of Doctor Who. One month later, it turns out that I was right.
The BBC has announced that Moffat will be leaving his post as the lead writer and executive producer of Doctor Who at the completion of a twelve episode season in Spring 2017.
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Movie Trailers Roundup for January 20, 2016
You know, it’s interesting seeing how much less cyclical the movie industry is than the games industry. These movie trailer roundups are consistently pretty packed with big movies. While the games industry is built around the fall (and March to a lesser extent), movies go year-round with bigger pushes in the summer and at Christmas. So even though the spring is relatively quiet for the movie industry, we still have more movie trailers than game trailers this week.
Anyway, there are seven trailers for you to watch this week. Suicide Squad is the big new trailer of the week and it admittedly looks pretty fun. Since it’s a DC movie rather than TV show, I still might wait for people to watch first and report back before I see it. I’m most looking forward to 10 Cloverfield Lane, the apparent sequel to Cloverfield which I quite enjoyed before the motion sickness set in. And for other folk, there are trailers for Neighbours 2 and Blue Mountain State.
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Kylo Ren Learns Some Valuable Lessons on Undercover Boss
Adam Driver hosted Saturday Night Live on Saturday night and you just knew that Kylo Ren would be making an appearance. The villain of Episode VII: The Force Awakens took off his mask and mingled with his underlings at Starkiller Base as radar tech Matt. It went about as well as could be expected.
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The Logistics of Building the Millennium Falcon (Infographic)
Thanks to the United States government, we know that the cost of building the Death Star will be about $850 quadrillion (or $852,000,000,000,000,000 if you want all the zeros spelled out for you). Suppose that you want something a little smaller, faster and more nimble. You would be looking for a YT class Corellian freighter, perhaps even the Millennium Falcon. Fortunately, building a Millennium Falcon is much more affordable and operating it is a positive bargain.
To find out how much your own Millennium Falcon will set you back, our friends at Varooma have put together a handy infographic for you.
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Movie Trailers Roundup for January 13, 2016
It’s officially awards season in Hollywood! That means absolutely nothing to the Movie Trailers Roundup. I’m not sure you’ll see too many awards contenders releasing trailers now.
That being said, this week’s roundup has six trailers featuring some of the stars of Hollywood. Hiddleston, Portman, Kenobi, Owen Lars, the Coens, Spacey and McConaughey all feature in the roundup. That’s some serious star power coming soon.
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Movie Trailers Roundup for January 6, 2016
Unlike the three-week break that we took for the Game Trailers Roundup, the Movie Trailers Roundup returns with actual trailers. Because Christmas is a big time for movie releases and movie watching, distributors want to get people hyped for their upcoming movies. That’s why we have nine movie trailers for you to watch this week.
A lot of these trailers are for blockbusters. Deadpool, X-Men, Godzilla and Triple 9 all have trailers that came out over the last three weeks. There are also trailers for three animated kids movies if you’re looking for a movie adventure for the youngins.
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Star Wars Original Trilogy Trailers Redone in The Force Awakens Style
I think that one of the unsung heroes of Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens was the guys who cut together the trailer. It got people hyped for the movie while giving almost nothing away apart from who was in the movie. In a day and age when movie trailers are closer to two-minute synopses of the movies they’re supposed to be previewing, The Force Awakens might have had one of the best trailers in recent memory.
Since The Force Awakens is getting comparisons to the original trilogy, YouTuber Tom F decided to flip the script. He recut trailers for the original Star Wars trilogy in the style of The Force Awakens’s trailer. The result is pretty good, especially Empire’s.
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Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song Review
Another year, another Doctor Who Christmas special. Fortunately, this year’s special was more focused on the characters than it was the novelty of it being Christmas somewhere in the universe. This year’s Christmas special saw the return of River Song and her first encounter with the Twelfth Doctor.
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Movie Trailers Roundup for December 16, 2015
I’ve been looking for a way to have a full five days of 5:00 PM weekly posts for et geekera. We do game trailers on Monday, comic book releases on Tuesday, eSports events on Thursday and links on Friday. If you’ve read the title of this post, I think it’s time for us to do movie trailers on Wednesdays. It may not stay here for long as I’ve been considering switching the eSports Weekend Calendar to Wednesday but let’s see how this goes for now.
For the first movie trailers roundup, we have eight trailers for you to watch. Four of them are for some of next summer’s blockbuster releases, including the new Star Trek movie that seems to borrow from The Search for Spock and the Independence Day sequel that likely won’t include the line “welcome to Earf.” There is also a teaser trailer for a Steven Spielberg children’s movie which is the first time in forever that we’ve been able to say that.
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