My wife is the one who like Les Mis, I know very little about it actually. And I’m not a huge fan of musicals — some are more tolerable than others. But this film really looks fantastic from the trailers. Looks like some great cinematography, and it’s certainly loaded with talent. But the music — the music even just from viewing the trailer is very moving.

I’m a huge fan of film scores and I love observing how they affect the viewer and create mood, and I love being affected by film score when it’s done in appropriate ways, so this is something I am very curious to see.

Here’s the…

Harrison Ford is open to the idea of bringing Han Solo back to life on the silver screen in 2015, according to sources close to the just-announced Star Wars sequel, but don’t be surprised if his contract includes a mandatory death scene for the sly old space smuggler.

“Harrison is open to the idea of doing the movie and he’s upbeat about it, all three of them are,” said one highly placed source, referring to Ford, Mark Hamill, and Carrie Fisher, the trio that made a hyper-speed jump to global fame on May 25, 1977, the opening night for George Lucas’s original Star Wars film.

Well, we…

Now that I’ve warned you this is just a “rumor”….

I’m hearing that Matthew Vaughn, the director of Kick-Ass, Stardust, Layer Cake, and X-Men: First Class, is in talks with Lucasfilm to helm Star Wars: Episode VII.  My sources tell me this is the main reason he dropped out of the X-Men sequel (which Bryan Singer is now directing).

Interesting. It would seem to explain why he suddenly dropped out of the upcoming X-Men film. I liked Stardust a lot, X-men: First Class less, but it was okay. So this could definitely be interesting.

Tolkien fanatics, ready your browsers! Advance tickets for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey — which opens Dec. 14 — will be available for purchase on Wednesday, Nov. 7 starting at 12 p.m. ET.

But if snagging the earliest seats for the first of three films based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s beloved novel just isn’t enough Middle Earth for you, you’re in luck. The official Extended Editions of director Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy — set 60 years after the events of The Hobbit — will also be screening in back-to-back-to-back marathon runs on Saturday, Dec. 8, and Sunday, Dec. 9.…

Well, here’s a gem. It’s a little hard to understand, and watch for that matter: poor quality VHS captured digitally from the looks of it. But it’s fun none the less. Hamill had some information and ideas about the sequels even then. Given where Lucas has gone, and that he’s only minimally involved now who knows how much has changed and what will or won’t happen.

Still, the geek in me rejoiced to find this.

Although no one outside of Lucas and Disney executives know the content of the planned movie sequels, the first of which would come out in 2015, they will more than likely be original tales.

That means Zahn’s books won’t be directly adapted, but the author says that was always the case: “The books were always just the books.”

But years ago, he was briefed on Lucas’ plans for sequels, and how the Thrawn books would fit in. “The original idea as I understood it— and Lucas changes his mind off and on, so it may not be what he’s thinking right now – but it was going to be three…

I haven’ t posted about Rise of the Guardians yet because I’m just not sure whether it’s going to be any good. But that said, I can’t keep ignoring it. So, here’s some stuff about it.

Synopsis:

Rise of the Guardians is an epic and magical adventure that tells the story of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, the Sandman, and Jack Frost – legendary characters with previously unknown extraordinary abilities. When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces to protect the hopes, beliefs and imagination of…

This is looking like it will be a decent action film. G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra was decent. Not earth shatteringly good or anything, but I thought it was fun. And I think this film will fall right in that same category. Although having Bruce Willlis does have the possiblity of raising the bar.

Prometheus writer Damon Lindelof may not be writing Star Wars Episode VII, but he can still suggest plot points. On Thursday, FirstShowing.net debunked some pretty rampant and persistent speculation that 1952, the science-fiction project that Lindelof and Brad Bird are writing for the new owner of LucasFilm, Disney, was the code name for a new Star Wars trilogy. But just two days earlier, when rumors were still making the rounds, Lindelof took to his Twitter feed to suggest some Episode VII ideas that were better suited to a Robot Chicken Star Wars special. “Chewbacca’s great-great…