"Star Wars: Episode VIII" release pushed back 7 months January 21, 2016 - 11:06 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - "Star Wars: Episode VIII" is not going to arrive as soon as people expected. Disney and Lucasfilm have just announced that the highly-anticipated pic is being pushed back seven months, from Memorial Day weekend in 2017 to December 15 of that year, AceShowbiz reports. There's no known reason for the delay but sources told THR that the success of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" has inspired the execs to release "Episode VIII" over the year-end holidays as well. All "Star Wars" films always opened in summer until "The Force Awakens" experienced a script delay and challenged the tradition to open in December. The new schedule will provide more time for the studio to work on the movie. Plus, Disney already has plenty of potential hits such as "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2", "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Cars 3" in its summer slate. "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales" will now open on "Episode VIII" old slot on May 26, 2017. The film starring Johnny Depp was previously scheduled to open on July 7 that year. "Episode VIII" will be directed by Rian Johnson and will feature the new characters introduced in "The Force Awakens".  Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity  The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization.Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia.Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty.Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |
