Star Wars

US aircraft carrier counters false Houthi claims with 'Taco Tuesdays'

The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower may be one of the oldest aircraft carriers in the US Navy, but it's still fighting despite repeated false claims by Yemen's Houthi rebels. The Houthis and online accounts supporting them repeatedly have alleged they hit or even sank the carrier in the Red Sea as it leads the US response to the rebels' ongoing attacks targeting both commercial vessels and warships in the crucial waterway. That's put its leader, Capt. Christopher Chowdah Hill, and his social media profile directly in what has become an increasingly bizarre internet front line as the campaign goes on. And while he shrugs off his posts, they represent the new level of information warfare the Navy is having to fight as it faces its most intense combat since World War II and tries to keep the morale of the nearly 5,000 personnel aboard the Eisenhower high and munitions ready as their deployment stretches on. I think it's been about two or three times in the past six months we've allegedly bee

Elon Musk backs lawsuit against Walt Disney over 'Mandalorian' firing

Carano's lawsuit filed in federal court in Los Angeles claims Disney and Lucasfilm Ltd. violated California law in terminating her from the Star Wars spinoff in Feb 2021 due to her political views

Ray Stevenson - RRR and Thor actor - dies aged 58, co-stars pay tribute

No cause of death has been revealed yet but he was reportedly hospitalised during filming on the Italian island Ischia, according to BBC

Explained: How Netflix plans to find its inner 'Star Wars' to survive

Netflix teams are plotting ways to milk more from Netflix's bigger shows and movies with universes and characters they can return to again and again

'Star Wars' spinoff 'The Mandalorian' most pirated show of 2020

'The Mandalorian' was the most pirated television programme of 2020 using BitTorrent, according to an analysis from TorrentFreak

Avatar', Star War' sequels delayed by a year in Disney release shuffle

Audiences will have to wait a year more for a trip to Pandora or a galaxy far, far away as Disney has pushed all the sequels to James Cameron's Avatar movies and Star Wars franchise by a year

Amber Alert to Nomophobia, 10 words that entered the dictionary in 2019

Here are some of the most interesting additions to Oxford English Dictionary in 2019

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker will leave you strangely dissatisfied

The movie is set at an almost breathless pace that seems to be a continuation of a chase that started many movies ago

Disney aims to stoke Star Wars fever with Starcruiser, plans new shows

The entertainment giant unveiled plans for the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, a multiday experience at Walt Disney World that will let guests feel like they're staying inside a spaceship

'Rise of Skywalker' heartens Star Wars faithful after tough year

Star Wars fans finally have something to be excited about

How Aamir Khan's Secret Superstar beat 'Star Wars' at China's Box Office

Aamir Khan's 2017 'Dangal' drew $193 million in China last year, according to Boxofficemojo.com

Star Wars turns 40 and it still inspires our real life space junkies

Star Wars introduced us to Jedi knights with lightsabers, an evil empire building and much more

How Star Wars kick-started modern toy collecting

While the film was a massive hit, toy cos showed little interest in taking on a Star Wars product

Star Wars passes Bechdel test - why can't our galaxy respect women as much?

The women characters are no longer just there to add sexiness. They are the story

Forget Rogue One, Disney is rebuilding the entire Star Wars universe

At the Hollywood premiere on Saturday night, there was no question that the Expanded Universe had a lot of wizened experts on hand

A disturbance in the Force

'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' is strictly for fans who love everything to do with the Star Wars universe