Star Wars: The Force Awakens Blu-Ray #4

The Blu-Ray release of The Force Awakens is hitting stores today and contains a good selection of extras, including an hour-plus documentary called Secrets of The Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey, several featurettes, as well as a few deleted scenes:

Secrets of the Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey
The Story Awakens: The Table Read
Building BB-8
Crafting Creatures
Blueprint of a Battle: The Snow Fight
John Williams: The Seventh Symphony
ILM: The Visual Magic of the Force
Force for Change
Plus – Deleted Scenes

New Things We Learned From the Star Wars: The Force Awakens Blu-Ray – Part 3

• In a deleted, unfinished scene, Rey and Finn are chased across Starkiller Base in a snow speeder. Things aren’t going well, until Finn gives Rey the wheel and he gets the blaster.

• Originally, Poe Dameron was going to die in the script but Oscar Isaac asked that that be changed, so it was. (You can watch that clip here).

• Trimmed from the shot of Han returning the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon was him taking the legendary fuzzy dice out of his pocket and hanging them back up.

• Warwick Davis (who played Wicket the Ewok in Return of the Jedi) plays the character Wollivan in Maz’s bar, but his daughter is also a character.

• Maz Kanata’s character was so inspired by J.J. Abrams’ teacher, Rose Gilbert, that there were photos of her on set.

• Lupita Nyong’o had 149 dots on her face to do Maz Kanata performance capture.

• Several famous people visited in the set. On the Blu-ray alone we see director Peter Jackson, Malala Yousafzai, Karl Urban, and also Simon Pegg (who played Unkar Plutt, but we knew that).

Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens is now available for Digital Download, DVD and Blu-Ray. Buy the Combo Pack at Disney Store.

For more posts about The Force Awakens, just click here. May the Force be with you! Recommended reading: Everything you need to know about the Star Wars: The Force Awakens Blu-Ray, including release date and deleted scene info.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Blu-Ray #3

The Blu-Ray release of The Force Awakens is hitting stores today and contains a good selection of extras, including an hour-plus documentary called Secrets of The Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey, several featurettes, as well as a few deleted scenes:

Secrets of the Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey
The Story Awakens: The Table Read
Building BB-8
Crafting Creatures
Blueprint of a Battle: The Snow Fight
John Williams: The Seventh Symphony
ILM: The Visual Magic of the Force
Force for Change
Plus – Deleted Scenes

New Things We Learned From the Star Wars: The Force Awakens Blu-Ray – Part 2

• The Dejarik (or holochess) game that Finn mistakenly turns on in the Millennium Falcon picks up immediately after the game played back in A New Hope. No one has played it since then!

• In a deleted scene from early in the movie, we learn that Finn’s mercy at the Jakku village extends beyond not just firing at the villagers. He ran into a young woman behind a hut, too, and let her go.

• In order to prep for all the running in the Jakku (or, really, Abu Dhabi) sand, Daisy Ridley and John Boyega rehearsed some scenes while running on a treadmill.

• Leia and the Resistance were alerted to the destruction of the Jakku village and, though Poe was missing, she figured out BB-8 had the map.

• Han seems to know Finn is lying about who he is immediately, but how ? A deleted scene that’s only on the digital downloads reveals that Han knew because Finn changed all his clothes except his boots, which are Stormtrooper issue. (The scene also explains how Finn lost the gun Han gave him).

• Most of the lightsaber fights were shot with props that looked very much like real lightsabers, but Han’s death was shot without a saber at all. It’s all CG.

Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens is now available for Digital Download, DVD and Blu-Ray. Buy the Combo Pack at Disney Store.

For more posts about The Force Awakens, just click here. May the Force be with you! Recommended reading: Everything you need to know about the Star Wars: The Force Awakens Blu-Ray, including release date and deleted scene info.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Blu-Ray #2

The Blu-Ray release of The Force Awakens is hitting stores today and contains a good selection of extras, including an hour-plus documentary called Secrets of The Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey, several featurettes, as well as a few deleted scenes:

Secrets of the Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey
The Story Awakens: The Table Read
Building BB-8
Crafting Creatures
Blueprint of a Battle: The Snow Fight
John Williams: The Seventh Symphony
ILM: The Visual Magic of the Force
Force for Change
Plus – Deleted Scenes

New Things We Learned From the Star Wars: The Force Awakens Blu-Ray – Part 1

• “The Force Awakens” doesn’t just refer to Rey. It refers to Kylo Ren too. “This was not just ‘The Force Awakens’ in a young woman,” says the documentary. “It’s the dark side of The Force awakening in the villain.”

• Mark Hamill felt that Luke has “great reservations” when Rey finds him on Ahch-To. “He’s very conflicted,” the actor said. “We’ll have to wait and see [what happens].”

• When Andy Serkis performed as Supreme Leader Snoke, he stood on a ledge 25 feet above Adam Driver and Domhnall Gleeson.

• Though you get a brief sense of it in the movie, the documentary says that Kylo Ren felt abandoned as a child because his parents weren’t there when he was growing up. They were “absent on their own agendas,” and he felt “lost in the world he was raised in.” That’s part of why he was so angry and so open to Snoke’s suggestions. He lacked their guidance.

• The scene where the Resistance opens the map that leads to Luke Skywalker was at one point going to include Maz Kanata. We know because the documentary shows the same footage, but with actress Lupita Nyong’o kneeling next to the other actors her mo-cap outfit. It’s likely she was digitally erased from the final shot.

• Kylo Ren and his Snowtroopers find and board the Millennium Falcon on Starkiller Base, which is how Kylo knows his father was there, and that the Resistance’s attack is imminent.

• The first scene Daisy Ridley shot was of scrubbing the scavenged part; John Boyega’s was filming around the crashed TIE Fighter.

Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens is now available for Digital Download, DVD and Blu-Ray. Buy the Combo Pack at Disney Store.

For more posts about The Force Awakens, just click here. May the Force be with you! Recommended reading: Everything you need to know about the Star Wars: The Force Awakens Blu-Ray, including release date and deleted scene info.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Blu-Ray #1

What more can be said about Star Wars: The Force Awakens that already hasn’t? It’s literally been a topic of conversation for years, and you’d think it would slow down eventually. Instead, it’s the opposite — especially with the Blu-Ray edition hitting stores today with a ton of new info in the extras.

The Blu-Ray release of The Force Awakens contains a good selection of extras, including an hour-plus documentary called Secrets of The Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey, several featurettes, as well as a few deleted scenes:

Secrets of the Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey
The Story Awakens: The Table Read
Building BB-8
Crafting Creatures
Blueprint of a Battle: The Snow Fight
John Williams: The Seventh Symphony
ILM: The Visual Magic of the Force
Force for Change
Plus – Deleted Scenes

Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens is now available for Digital Download, DVD and Blu-Ray. Buy the Combo Pack at Disney Store. For more posts about The Force Awakens, just click here. May the Force be with you!

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Blu-Ray Edition

The Star Wars: The Force Awakens Blu-ray is set to release on April 5. But if you can’t wait that long, you can own Star Wars: The Force Awakens via Digital HD Download on April 1. For everything you need to know about the Star Wars: The Force Awakens Blu-ray, including release date and deleted scenes info, just click here.

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Blu-ray copies leak online

Blu-ray-quality copies of Star Wars: The Force Awakens have hit piracy sites, less than two weeks ahead of Disney’s planned home-video release of the blockbuster in the format. The first pirated copies of Star Wars: The Force Awakens appeared online late Tuesday, and within 12 hours had been downloaded by about 250,000 people, according to piracy-news site TorrentFreak, which first reported the leak.

Disney has set April 1 for the home-video release of the film, followed by Blu-ray on April 5. The movie has grossed more than $2 billion worldwide at the box office. Lower-quality “cam” rips of The Force Awakens cropped up on pirate sites shortly after the movie’s theatrical debut last December, but the latest leak appears to be the first DVD-quality copy to hit piracy networks.

Digital copies of Blu-Ray leaked weeks before the discs reach the stores is not new. We had access to one of the many copies of The Force Awakens available online and it indicates the rip came from a regular retail disc.

Since the leak of all those copies, the people of Tumblr comes flooding the site with dozens of new posts by day containing animated gifs of The Force Awakens. We separated some of the best for you.

And if you can’t wait until April 5 to buy your Blu-ray disc and watch The Force Awakens again, you can download the movie by torrent from rarbg.to site (you will need to have a torrent client installed on your device as uTorrent or BitTorrent). But remember: the illegal downloading of copyrighted material is crime. Buy the original when it is available and may the Force be with you!

Source: variety.com.

Star Wars The Force Awakens Special: The Starkiller Part 3

Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens, marketed as Star Wars: The Force Awakens, is the seventh film in the Star Wars saga and the first in the Star Wars sequel trilogy. The film was directed by J.J. Abrams; co-written by Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan, and Michael Arndt; and produced by Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and Bad Robot Productions. The film stars Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker reprising their original roles. The original actors are joined by a host of new actors including Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, and Oscar Isaac, among many others.

Episode VII
THE FORCE AWAKENS

Luke Skywalker has vanished.
In his absence, the sinister
FIRST ORDER has risen from
the ashes of the Empire
and will not rest until
Skywalker, the last Jedi,
has been destroyed.

With the support of the
REPUBLIC, General Leia Organa
leads a brave RESISTANCE.
She is desperate to find her
brother Luke and gain his
help in restoring peace
and justice to the galaxy.

Leia has sent her most daring
pilot on a secret mission
to Jakku, where an old ally
has discovered a clue to
Luke’s whereabouts….

– Our job’s done here. Let’s go home.

Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens is now on theaters. Read more on IMDb.

Star Wars The Force Awakens Special: The Starkiller Part 2

Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens, marketed as Star Wars: The Force Awakens, is the seventh film in the Star Wars saga and the first in the Star Wars sequel trilogy. The film was directed by J.J. Abrams; co-written by Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan, and Michael Arndt; and produced by Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and Bad Robot Productions. The film stars Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker reprising their original roles. The original actors are joined by a host of new actors including Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, and Oscar Isaac, among many others.

Episode VII
THE FORCE AWAKENS

Luke Skywalker has vanished.
In his absence, the sinister
FIRST ORDER has risen from
the ashes of the Empire
and will not rest until
Skywalker, the last Jedi,
has been destroyed.

With the support of the
REPUBLIC, General Leia Organa
leads a brave RESISTANCE.
She is desperate to find her
brother Luke and gain his
help in restoring peace
and justice to the galaxy.

Leia has sent her most daring
pilot on a secret mission
to Jakku, where an old ally
has discovered a clue to
Luke’s whereabouts….

– Remember, when the sun is gone, that weapon will be ready to fire. But as long as there’s light,
We got a chance.

Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens is now on theaters. Read more on IMDb.

Star Wars The Force Awakens Special: The Starkiller Part 1

Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens, marketed as Star Wars: The Force Awakens, is the seventh film in the Star Wars saga and the first in the Star Wars sequel trilogy. The film was directed by J.J. Abrams; co-written by Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan, and Michael Arndt; and produced by Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and Bad Robot Productions. The film stars Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker reprising their original roles. The original actors are joined by a host of new actors including Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, and Oscar Isaac, among many others.

Episode VII
THE FORCE AWAKENS

Luke Skywalker has vanished.
In his absence, the sinister
FIRST ORDER has risen from
the ashes of the Empire
and will not rest until
Skywalker, the last Jedi,
has been destroyed.

With the support of the
REPUBLIC, General Leia Organa
leads a brave RESISTANCE.
She is desperate to find her
brother Luke and gain his
help in restoring peace
and justice to the galaxy.

Leia has sent her most daring
pilot on a secret mission
to Jakku, where an old ally
has discovered a clue to
Luke’s whereabouts….

– What was your job when you were based here?
– Sanitation.
– Sanitation? Then how do you know to disable the shields?
– I don’t. I’m just here to get Rey.
– People are counting on us. The galaxy is counting on us.
– Solo, we’ll figure it out. We will use the Force.
– That’s not how the Force works!

Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens is now on theaters. Read more on IMDb.

Star Wars The Force Awakens Special: The Resistance

Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens, marketed as Star Wars: The Force Awakens, is the seventh film in the Star Wars saga and the first in the Star Wars sequel trilogy. The film was directed by J.J. Abrams; co-written by Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan, and Michael Arndt; and produced by Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and Bad Robot Productions. The film stars Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker reprising their original roles. The original actors are joined by a host of new actors including Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, and Oscar Isaac, among many others.

Episode VII
THE FORCE AWAKENS

Luke Skywalker has vanished.
In his absence, the sinister
FIRST ORDER has risen from
the ashes of the Empire
and will not rest until
Skywalker, the last Jedi,
has been destroyed.

With the support of the
REPUBLIC, General Leia Organa
leads a brave RESISTANCE.
She is desperate to find her
brother Luke and gain his
help in restoring peace
and justice to the galaxy.

Leia has sent her most daring
pilot on a secret mission
to Jakku, where an old ally
has discovered a clue to
Luke’s whereabouts….

–  It’s the Resistance.

Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens is now on theaters. Read more on IMDb.