Around the Web

August 17, 2018 at 12:01 am | Posted in Around the Web, Books, Conventions, Events, News, Regular Feature, Star Wars, Star Wars Books, Star Wars News | Leave a comment

Here is this week’s Around the Web news roundup of Star Wars and beyond.

Book News

• Pre-orders are up for the B&N exclusive edition of the Solo novelization.
• StarWars.com has the first excerpt from the Solo novelization.
• Here’s an interesting bit of Star Wars book news, Abrams has listed a making of story for Solo on Amazon entitled Industrial Light & Magic Presents: Making Solo: A Star Wars Story. Release date is April 16, 2019, and the author is Rob Bredow with a foreword by Ron Howard. As mentioned on the latest episode of The Star Wars Show, this one is happening.

Convention & Event News

• Michigan Comic Con is August 17 to 19 in Detroit, MI. Star Wars guests include Kevin J. Anderson, Ray Park, Jim Swearingen, and Timothy Zahn.
• Dragon Con is August 30 to September 3 in Atlanta, GA. Star Wars guests include Kevin J. Anderson.
• FanX is September 6 to 8 in Salt Lake City, UT. Star Wars guests include Tim Curry, Delilah S. Dawson, Kevin Hearne, Paul Reubens, and Brent Spiner.
• Dallas Fan Days is October 19 to 21st. Star Wars guests include Dave Dorman.
• Star Wars Celebration 2019 is April 11 to 15 in Chicago, IL.

Fandom News

• Cinemablend has an interview with Dave Filoni covering Star Wars Rebels, specifically the death of Kanan, and one centered on Ahsoka.
• Here is the latest episode of The Star Wars Show.

• Her Universe posted a video of The Clone Wars cast talking about the show for it’s 10th anniversary.

Movie News

• This one is for tank fans, though it is in Russian and there’s no US release date yet, T-34 looks really good…visually at least.

• For something more serious, there’s Green Book, which looks really good. It’ll be out in November.

• I can’t tell if this one is going to be good or bad. Arizona will be out August 24 in select theaters and VOD.

Posted By: Skuldren for Roqoo Depot.