A group of lucky fans have been given the chance to step into the Star Wars universe alongside some of its most iconic characters today (May 12).
It was all part of a sneak peek at the Madame Tussauds experience, which is made up of 11 authentic scenes recreated with many life-like wax figures.
When the experience opens fully on Saturday (May 16), fans will have the opportunity to pick up a lightsaber with Anakin Skywalker, take on Darth Maul with Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn, and join a captive Princess Leia who's being held by Jabba the Hutt.
Han Solo, Chewbacca, C-3Po, R2-D2 and Stormtroopers will also be on hand in locations such as the Death Star and the Millennium Falcon, and guests can witness the ultimate showdown between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader.
Madame Tussauds London's General Manager Ben Sweet said: "We are delighted, and I have to confess relieved,...
It was all part of a sneak peek at the Madame Tussauds experience, which is made up of 11 authentic scenes recreated with many life-like wax figures.
When the experience opens fully on Saturday (May 16), fans will have the opportunity to pick up a lightsaber with Anakin Skywalker, take on Darth Maul with Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn, and join a captive Princess Leia who's being held by Jabba the Hutt.
Han Solo, Chewbacca, C-3Po, R2-D2 and Stormtroopers will also be on hand in locations such as the Death Star and the Millennium Falcon, and guests can witness the ultimate showdown between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader.
Madame Tussauds London's General Manager Ben Sweet said: "We are delighted, and I have to confess relieved,...
- 5/12/2015
- Digital Spy
Madame Tussauds London will soon add a new breed of celebrity to its lineup of famous wax models. The museum will include two new wax figures to its collection based on YouTube stars Zoe Sugg (known as Zoella to the online video masses) and her boyfriend Alfie Deyes (aka PointlessBlog).
Sugg and Deyes, dubbed “Zalfie” by their loyal followers, will be re-created in a setting already familiar to the YouTubers’ viewers -- the duo’s spare bedroom in their Brighton-based flat. The wax figures of the two digital celebrities will sit on the bed, uploading videos to their respective channels. “Zalfie” will join the ranks of wax models at Tussauds inspired by more traditional entertainment and cultural icons like movie stars, sports figures, and historical shakers and movers.
Sugg and Deyes are already involved in the creation of their wax models. The couple attended a sitting for Tussauds’ sculptors in...
Sugg and Deyes, dubbed “Zalfie” by their loyal followers, will be re-created in a setting already familiar to the YouTubers’ viewers -- the duo’s spare bedroom in their Brighton-based flat. The wax figures of the two digital celebrities will sit on the bed, uploading videos to their respective channels. “Zalfie” will join the ranks of wax models at Tussauds inspired by more traditional entertainment and cultural icons like movie stars, sports figures, and historical shakers and movers.
Sugg and Deyes are already involved in the creation of their wax models. The couple attended a sitting for Tussauds’ sculptors in...
- 4/14/2015
- by Bree Brouwer
- Tubefilter.com
Star Wars is coming to Madame Tussauds London.
A new multi-million pound expansion to the waxwork museum will open in May 2015 ahead of the forthcoming release of new movie The Force Awakens.
The collaboration with Disney and Lucasfilm will see waxworks of Star Wars heroes and villains installed in the Marylebone-based attraction.
Walk-in sets will allow fans to immerse themselves in the world of Star Wars and get close to that galaxy far, far away.
Madame Tussauds London's General Manager Ben Sweet said: "Star Wars at Madame Tussauds takes the Madame Tussauds experience up a notch, as guests will not just be able to get close to their film heroes, they will be able to star alongside them and grab a selfie in specially-recreated scenes of some of their favourite movie moments.
"We're working very closely with Disney and Lucasfilm to ensure 100% authenticity and our team has had exclusive access to props,...
A new multi-million pound expansion to the waxwork museum will open in May 2015 ahead of the forthcoming release of new movie The Force Awakens.
The collaboration with Disney and Lucasfilm will see waxworks of Star Wars heroes and villains installed in the Marylebone-based attraction.
Walk-in sets will allow fans to immerse themselves in the world of Star Wars and get close to that galaxy far, far away.
Madame Tussauds London's General Manager Ben Sweet said: "Star Wars at Madame Tussauds takes the Madame Tussauds experience up a notch, as guests will not just be able to get close to their film heroes, they will be able to star alongside them and grab a selfie in specially-recreated scenes of some of their favourite movie moments.
"We're working very closely with Disney and Lucasfilm to ensure 100% authenticity and our team has had exclusive access to props,...
- 2/3/2015
- Digital Spy
Former Bachelor contestant Desiree Hartsock is calling the shots and handing out the roses as the current star of The Bachelorette. The bridal stylist will blog all season long on People.com about her dates, the guys and the difficult decisions she must make. You can also follow Desiree on Twitter.After a week of deceit and drama, a new location is all I needed to start fresh on The Bachelorette. As soon as we arrived in Atlantic City, I could feel a different energy. I was excited to be in a place I had never been before - and...
- 6/18/2013
- by Desiree Hartsock
- PEOPLE.com
Former Bachelor contestant Desiree Hartsock is calling the shots and handing out the roses as the current star of The Bachelorette. The bridal stylist will blog all season long on People.com about her dates, the guys and the difficult decisions she must make. You can also follow Desiree on Twitter.
After a week of deceit and drama, a new location is all I needed to start fresh on The Bachelorette. As soon as we arrived in Atlantic City, I could feel a different energy. I was excited to be in a place I had never been before – and I...
After a week of deceit and drama, a new location is all I needed to start fresh on The Bachelorette. As soon as we arrived in Atlantic City, I could feel a different energy. I was excited to be in a place I had never been before – and I...
- 6/18/2013
- by Desiree Hartsock
- People.com - TV Watch
Art Director Melanie Light dropped us a line today with the first details of a new project she's working on entitled Scintilla from Av Pictures. Read on to learn more and to see some stills and behind-the-scenes videos of the filming taking place now in Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England.
From the Press Release:
Av Pictures and producers Lionel Hicks and Craig Conway have concluded a multi-territory deal with eOne for sci-fi thriller Scintilla. The distributor has acquired the film for France, German-speaking Europe, Scandinavia, and South Africa.
Scintilla follows a disparate group of mercenaries hired to a lead a special unit deep into a former Soviet state to infiltrate and retrieve data from an underground militia base. All is far from what it seems when a top-secret biotech lab and its unearthly creations are discovered.
The film’s ensemble cast stars John Lynch, Morjana Alaoui, Ned Denehey, Beth Winslet,...
From the Press Release:
Av Pictures and producers Lionel Hicks and Craig Conway have concluded a multi-territory deal with eOne for sci-fi thriller Scintilla. The distributor has acquired the film for France, German-speaking Europe, Scandinavia, and South Africa.
Scintilla follows a disparate group of mercenaries hired to a lead a special unit deep into a former Soviet state to infiltrate and retrieve data from an underground militia base. All is far from what it seems when a top-secret biotech lab and its unearthly creations are discovered.
The film’s ensemble cast stars John Lynch, Morjana Alaoui, Ned Denehey, Beth Winslet,...
- 3/30/2013
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Berkeley
Screened at the Mill Valley Film Festival
MILL VALLEY, Calif. -- The 1960s hasn't lost its hold on veteran television director Bobby Roth who, having plundered his adulthood for low-budget, autobiographical films such as "Jack the Dog" and "Manhood", reaches deeper into his past for "Berkeley", an affectionate look at his undergraduate years at UC Berkeley, when the tumultuous '60s ignited the campus.
Roth, who also wrote the script, attempts and only partially succeeds in capturing the exhilaration of feeling part of something larger than oneself -- an experience shared, at that time, by many young people in the midst of a heady social and political awakening. The elegant looking, nostalgic film is undermined by inadequate character development, amateurish acting and sentimental self-regard. "Berkeley" doesn't have a distributor though it might find life on premium television.
The story centers on 18-year-old Ben Sweet (Nick Roth), a middle-class, Jewish kid from a conservative family, "away from home for the first time, horny and trying to avoid the draft," as it follows him through his less than earth-shattering adventures at college. It's only a matter of time before he grows his hair long and plays Bad Bob Dylan on the street. Otherwise, he's jamming with his buddies, smoking dope, bedding attractive co-eds and arguing with his immigrant father, Sy, played by Henry Winkler, who brings warmth and substance to an underwritten role. Bonnie Bedelia, in wire-rimmed glasses, also does a nice turn as Ben's sardonic professor, a woman who enjoys a nip or two while conducting student conferences.
A crucial misstep was the casting of Nick Roth, the director's son, as Ben. Well-lit and lovingly photographed, Roth is in almost every scene and is the film's primary focus. Unfortunately, Roth fils is not, as yet, a compelling camera subject and cannot carry a movie. His delivery of lines and banal voice-over narration is lackluster and detached. Two-dimensional characters including Ben float through the story and fail to register, with the exception of Sy, whose struggle to understand and accept his son is moving and rings true.
Roth seems infatuated with his youth, a potential pitfall, but he does get the '60s cultural zeitgeist: the cultivated sloppiness, the posturing and intellectual pretentiousness. After all, those were the days when pontificating about the evils of capitalism was considered foreplay. Although, through Ben, he professes a strong connection with this singular period in his life, the passion and energy don't communicate on screen. Not much happens, little is revealed. There's a paradox in making a static movie about a generation that wanted to change the world.
Roth saturates the soundtrack with raucous music of the era, which supplies ambiance, but doesn't compensate for the emotional vacuity at the film's core. It's sex, drugs and rock and roll without soul. Guess you had to be there.
BERKELEY
IMAC Arts. JungNRestless Films Presents a Jeffrey White Production
Credits:
Writer/director: Bobby Roth
Producers: Bobby Roth, Jeffrey White
Executive producers: Lon Bender, Cosmas Paul Bolger Jr.
Director of photography: Steve Burns
Production designer: Henry G. Sanders
Music: Christopher Franke, Tom Morello
Costumes: Naila Aladdin Sanders
Editors: Carsten Becker, Emily Wallin
Cast:
Ben: Nick Roth
Sadie: Laura Jordan
Sy: Henry Winkler
Alice: Sarah Carter
Blue: Tom Morello
Henry: Jake Newton
Mishkin: Sebastian Tillinger
Buddy: Wade Allain-Marcus
Hawkins: Bonnie Bedelia
Susie: Sarah Bibb
Pearl: Ruby Roth
Thomas the Valet: Thomas Gibson
Ralph: Reed Diamond
No MPAA rating
unning time -- 88 minutes...
MILL VALLEY, Calif. -- The 1960s hasn't lost its hold on veteran television director Bobby Roth who, having plundered his adulthood for low-budget, autobiographical films such as "Jack the Dog" and "Manhood", reaches deeper into his past for "Berkeley", an affectionate look at his undergraduate years at UC Berkeley, when the tumultuous '60s ignited the campus.
Roth, who also wrote the script, attempts and only partially succeeds in capturing the exhilaration of feeling part of something larger than oneself -- an experience shared, at that time, by many young people in the midst of a heady social and political awakening. The elegant looking, nostalgic film is undermined by inadequate character development, amateurish acting and sentimental self-regard. "Berkeley" doesn't have a distributor though it might find life on premium television.
The story centers on 18-year-old Ben Sweet (Nick Roth), a middle-class, Jewish kid from a conservative family, "away from home for the first time, horny and trying to avoid the draft," as it follows him through his less than earth-shattering adventures at college. It's only a matter of time before he grows his hair long and plays Bad Bob Dylan on the street. Otherwise, he's jamming with his buddies, smoking dope, bedding attractive co-eds and arguing with his immigrant father, Sy, played by Henry Winkler, who brings warmth and substance to an underwritten role. Bonnie Bedelia, in wire-rimmed glasses, also does a nice turn as Ben's sardonic professor, a woman who enjoys a nip or two while conducting student conferences.
A crucial misstep was the casting of Nick Roth, the director's son, as Ben. Well-lit and lovingly photographed, Roth is in almost every scene and is the film's primary focus. Unfortunately, Roth fils is not, as yet, a compelling camera subject and cannot carry a movie. His delivery of lines and banal voice-over narration is lackluster and detached. Two-dimensional characters including Ben float through the story and fail to register, with the exception of Sy, whose struggle to understand and accept his son is moving and rings true.
Roth seems infatuated with his youth, a potential pitfall, but he does get the '60s cultural zeitgeist: the cultivated sloppiness, the posturing and intellectual pretentiousness. After all, those were the days when pontificating about the evils of capitalism was considered foreplay. Although, through Ben, he professes a strong connection with this singular period in his life, the passion and energy don't communicate on screen. Not much happens, little is revealed. There's a paradox in making a static movie about a generation that wanted to change the world.
Roth saturates the soundtrack with raucous music of the era, which supplies ambiance, but doesn't compensate for the emotional vacuity at the film's core. It's sex, drugs and rock and roll without soul. Guess you had to be there.
BERKELEY
IMAC Arts. JungNRestless Films Presents a Jeffrey White Production
Credits:
Writer/director: Bobby Roth
Producers: Bobby Roth, Jeffrey White
Executive producers: Lon Bender, Cosmas Paul Bolger Jr.
Director of photography: Steve Burns
Production designer: Henry G. Sanders
Music: Christopher Franke, Tom Morello
Costumes: Naila Aladdin Sanders
Editors: Carsten Becker, Emily Wallin
Cast:
Ben: Nick Roth
Sadie: Laura Jordan
Sy: Henry Winkler
Alice: Sarah Carter
Blue: Tom Morello
Henry: Jake Newton
Mishkin: Sebastian Tillinger
Buddy: Wade Allain-Marcus
Hawkins: Bonnie Bedelia
Susie: Sarah Bibb
Pearl: Ruby Roth
Thomas the Valet: Thomas Gibson
Ralph: Reed Diamond
No MPAA rating
unning time -- 88 minutes...
- 3/9/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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