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Celebrating 30 Years of Return of the Jedi

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Another video made specially for the Cape Town Film Festival has been posted at EW.com (with a caution they’ll only have it available through Monday) – click here.

The Return of Return of the Jedi: 30 Years and Counting, which shows elite geeks — among them Kevin Smith, Seth Green, Chris Hardwick, Jaime King, Topher Grace, Fall Out Boy, Eli Roth, and Jason Mewes — revisiting the movie in which tribal Teddy Ruxpins put down an Imperial invasion force with rocks, logs, and other Gilligan’s Island-esque props. Who saw that coming?

[Thanks to John King Tarpinian for the story.]

Pointy-Eared Pals

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Zachary Quinto provided an affectionate video introduction of Leonard Nimoy for Entertainment Weekly’s CapeTown Film Festival earlier this month.

*** SPOILER ALERT ***

Both appear in the new Star Trek movie, Nimoy uncredited.

*** ANOTHER SPOILER ALERT (DIDN’T YOU PAY ATTENTION THE FIRST TIME?) ***

Peter Weller, who had the title role Buckaroo Banzai (discussed here recently), plays a strident Starfleet admiral in the new movie.

[Thanks to John King Tarpinian for the story.]

Cape Town Film Fest in LA

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capetownArtThe first Entertainment Weekly CapeTown Film Fest runs April 30-May 6 at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.

May 1 – Shaun of the Dead, Q&A with Edgar Wright

May 2 – The Thing, Q&A with John Carpenter

May 3 – Escape from New York, Q&A with Kurt Russell

May 4 – Return of the Jedi, “surprise guests and photo opps”

May 5 – Despicable Me, Coraline, Q&A with Neil Gaiman and Travis Knight, The Goonies, Q&A with Richard Donner, Twelve Monkeys, Q&A with Terry Gilliam

May 6 – Star Trek (2009), Q&A with Leonard Nimoy

Click here for more information.

[Thanks to John King Tarpinian for the story.]