The box office is now open for Celebration Europe, the event celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Star Wars saga with what promises to be Europe’s largest Star Wars party ever. Star Wars Celebration Europe will run from Friday, July 13 through Sunday, July 15, 2007 at London’s ExCeL exhibition centre. Celebration Europe, produced by Lucasfilm Ltd. and The Cards Inc. Group.

The X-Realms will have representation there in both press and forum membership capacities and we look forward to meeting members old and new alike at the event. Both 1 day and 3 day tickets are available, for adults and children. Children under 8 years of age will be admitted free when accompanied by a paying adult.

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Hollywood loves vampires. With several movies having been released over recent years and projects like 30 Days of Night and Town Creek in the pipeline it seems that the paying audience just can’t get enough of the undead. In a recent poll here on our message boards, the 1992 movie adaptation Bram Stoker’s Dracula came out on top as our member’s blood sucking feature of choice.

With this in mind I noted with interest that a brand new and rather lavish made-for-TV version is set to air in the UK over the holiday period. Being a BBC production one can at least expect the quality to be high and certainly the cast looks impeccable.

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The spectacular and surprisingly gritty full teaser trailer for Michael Bay’s upcoming blockbuster Transformers has gone online on Yahoo UK.

It features the very first footage of the ‘robots in disguise’ in motion, in battle and transforming. While you don’t get to see Megatron, you’ll be able to catch glimpses of Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Skorponok, Vortex and more! Oh yeah, and you’ll also get some hints on the plot, but of course you know everything about that already after reading our Transformers script review back in September. Watch the trailer by following this link.

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Aint-it-cool-news posted a trio of new shots from Matthew Vaughn’s upcoming adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Stardust. They offer glimpses at the characters of Claire Danes and Michelle Pfeiffer and can be viewed here. The cast also includes the likes of Robert de Niro, Peter O’Toole, Sienna Miller, Rupert Everett, and, according to AICN, Ian McKellen as the narrator of the story. The film is expected to hit theaters July 27, 2007. The reaction from test screenings has been very positive so far.

In Stardust, the young Tristan (Charlie Cox) tries to win the heart of Victoria (Sienna Miller), the beautiful but cold object of his desire, by going on a quest to retrieve a fallen star. His journey takes him to a mysterious and forbidden land beyond the walls of his village. On his odyssey, Tristan finds the star, which has transformed into a striking girl named Yvaine (Claire Danes). But others are vying for the star aswell: a king’s (Peter O’Toole) four sons need it as the compete for the throne, the evil witch Lamia (Michelle Pfeiffer) needs it to make her young again. Other obstacle’s on Tristan’s quest include a pirate named Captain Shakespeare (Robert De Niro) and a shady trader named Ferdy the Fence (Ricky Gervais).

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ABC managed to get a greenlight for their adaptation of the British trash soap Footballer’s Wives, which ran for five seasons and 42 episodes from 2002-2006 and also enjoyed a successful run on US cable television. The show revolved around three ordinary women whose lives are transformed by the celebrity and fortune that come with marriage to sports superstars. The new take will be set in the world of American football rather than soccer but is said to retain much of the over-the-top spirit of the original.

Variety reports that Bryan Singer (X-Men, Superman Returns) is loosely involved to direct the pilot. The director has a three-for-one development deal with ABC which he signed last summer to develop projects under his Bad Hat Harry Productions banner. But a representative of Singer has said that he hadn’t decided yet which script to film under the terms of his ABC contract. Singer’s last TV pilot was Fox’s House.

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Guillermo del Toro gave a very brief update on the status of Hellboy 2 (expected summer 2008) while promoting his latest release Pan’s Labyrinth. Fangoria has the quotes:

“We are preparing to shoot in May or June, but we don’t start casting until January. [...] We’re still fighting the budget battle, so it could still go on a while before we start. But the difference between the first one and the second film is that you get all of the beats that the first one had, but like any franchise you hope it will bring freshness to the characters. I hope that in a way, we will be reinventing what we did on the first one.”

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