Latest articles on Star Wars

‘May the Fourth Be With You’ – fans celebrate Star Wars Day

Article Reuters - 4 May 2016

May 4 is globally recognised as Star Wars day as a result of a pun between the popular phrase "May the force be with you" and May the fourth.

Forbes: Women actors are “best value”

Article Staff Reporter - 8 Jan 2016

From US actor Scarlett Johansson to Jennifer Lawrence, Forbes names the top five “best actors for the buck” 2015 list,

Jacob Zuma cancels Christmas

Article Staff Reporter - 17 Dec 2015

Star Wars as The Wrecker fires Santa

A novice’s primer on the Force

Article Shaun De Waal - 17 Dec 2015

A quick guide through everything Star Wars

Star Wars film location back on Tunisia’s tourist map

Africa Staff Reporter - 30 Jan 2014

Tunisia hopes the landscape that provided the backdrop to George Lucas's "Star Wars" films will again attract tourists as it inches towards democracy.

Disney to draw shutters on LucasArts

Article Reuters - 3 Apr 2013

Walt Disney Co plans to shut the 30-year-old LucasArts studio it inherited with the acquisition of George Lucas' film company last year.

Carrie Fisher to play Prince Leia in Star Wars sequel

Article Staff Reporter - 8 Mar 2013

More than four decades after first playing Princess Leia, the actor confirms she will be returning for the seventh film in the blockbuster series.

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