Obama Goes Where No Jedi Has Gone Before

POTUS makes a sci-fi slip up

President Obama goofed an attempted sci-fi reference today at a press conference discussing Republican refusal to make a sequester deal. The president said he couldn't "do a Jedi mind meld with these folks and convince them to do what's right." Dude: You confused the JEDI MIND TRICK from Star Wars (think Obi Wan Kenobi and “these aren’t the droids you’re looking for”) with the VULCAN MIND MELD from Star Trek (think Mr. Spock splaying his fingers and treating your face like a bowling ball).

Ford, Hamill, and Fisher Might Return to 'Star Wars'

Interesting read, and I would like to see it.

http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/casting-couch-harrison-ford-jared-leto-nadam.php

Disney Buys Lucasfilm for $4 Billion

The key points here are Disney buys Lucasfilm and the Star Wars franchise.

There will be more Star Wars movies with the first coming in 2015.

Look for a Star Wars-themed theme park at some point.

George Lucas to Retire

Thought he was already sort of retired, but this might make it official.

The man who made such films as “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones” revealed to Empire Magazine that he wants to stop making large-scale blockbuster films in order to focus on new projects.

“I’m moving away from the company,” he said. “I’m moving away from all businesses, I’m finishing all of my obligations and I’m going to retire to my garage with my saw and hammer and build hobby movies.”

“I’ve always wanted to make movies that were more experimental in nature, and not have to worry about them showing in movie theaters,” he added.

Although Lucas currently serves as executive producer for “Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” an animated television series on Cartoon Network, don’t expect a new “Star Wars” film to be released any time soon.

“Why would I make any more, when everybody yells at you all the time and says what a terrible person you are?” he told the New York Times in January.

But fans of “Indiana Jones” may be in luck—Lucas has not specified whether or not a fifth installment of the popular series is coming.

The Phantom Menace in 3-D: Will You See It?

I'm still undecided.