Disney Star Wars poster shock

The Star Wars poster that had fans freaking out about the direction of the franchise. Source: Supplied

The Star Wars poster that had fans freaking out about the direction of the franchise. Source: Supplied

FANS of the Star Wars franchise had heart palpitations this morning when they woke up to find this.

But you can relax because thankfully this is not the poster for the next Star Wars film.

While the film is not scheduled for release until 2015, it looks like Disney is already capitalising on their recent purchase.  

From May 17 to June 9, Disney's Hollywood Studios will be hosting their Annual Star Wars Weekends. If you manage to score a ticket to the event (and can afford an airline ticket to Florida) you might be lucky enough to meet some of the stars of the films. Ray Park who played the creepy Darth Maul in Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace and Warwick Davis who played an Ewok in the original trilogy are both scheduled to attend the event. 

The festival, aimed at preschoolers, kids and tweens will showcase many of the characters made famous in the films. The event also includes presentations and shows about the galaxy far, far away and under 12s can even attend the Jedi Training Academy where they will be able to master the art of Lightsabers and Jedi mind control.

And if you manage to get through the entire day, you can let loose at the Hyperspace Hoopla, where comedy and dancing combine with Ewoks, Wookies, Stormtroopers and Jawas.

Don’t forget your cameras.

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Movie mashup - a poster perspective

Source: News Limited

REMAKES. Remakes of remakes. Sequels. Prequels ... Hollywood has officially run out of ideas.

The flood of old storylines unspooling in our cinemas needs to end. We need freshness, we need to be invigorated, we need something new.

And we have just the answer - movie mash-ups.

Take two monster hit films and join them together.

To give the scribblers in La-la land a start, we've come up with some likely candidates.

Take our movie mash-up test and see if you can guess the titles of our Oscar-winning combos by looking at the promo posters - then click to see the name and the plot-line.

TO SEE EACH MOVIE POSTER, KEEP CLICKING ON THE IMAGES BELOW

TO SEE EACH MOVIE POSTER, KEEP CLICKING ON THE IMAGES ABOVE

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