Around the Web

January 18, 2019 at 12:01 am | Posted in Around the Web, Comic Books, Conventions, Events, Marvel, Movies, News, Regular Feature, Star Wars, Star Wars News, trailers | Leave a comment

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

Comic News

• StarWars.com has reveals on the upcoming Age of Rebellion comics including cover image. Titles will include Leia, Tarkin and Vader.

Convention & Event News

Steve Sansweet and Rancho Obi-Wan will be returning to Celebration.

• Albuquerque Comic Con is January 18 to 20 in Albuquerque, NM. Star Wars guests include Michael Bell, Michael Carter, Howard Chaykin, Mark Dodson, Peter Mayhew, Femi Taylor, and Keone Young.
• STCE’s Comic Con is January 26 to 27 in Laredo, TX. Star Wars guests include Greg Baldwin, Grant Gould, and Ray Park.
• Pasadena Comic Convention & Toy Show is January 27 in Pasadena, CA. Star Wars guests include Julie Dolan, and Kevin Thompson.
• Star Wars Celebration 2019 is April 11 to 15 in Chicago, IL. Star Wars authors who will be in attendance include Jeffrey Brown, Katie Cook, Zoraida Cordova, Delilah S. Dawson, Alexander Freed, Claudia Gray, Justina Ireland, E.K. Johnston, Cavan Scott and Timothy Zahn.
• D23 is August 23 to 25 in Anaheim, CA.

Fandom News

• Jedi News has some leaked info on the Galaxy’s Edge Rise of the Resistance ride.

Movie & Television News

• In the world of movie trailers, Sam Elliott has a new movie coming out next month called The Man Who Killed Hitler and then The Bigfoot. Easily winner for weirdest movie name, but the trailer makes it look like a serious movie rather than a comedy. Not sure about it.

• Here’s the trailer for John Wick 3. It’ll be out in May.

• Here’s the trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home which will be out in July.

• If you’re looking for something creepy, The Hole in the Ground looks good. It’ll be out in March.

• And there’s a teaser trailer for Ghostbusters 3, though no official word on the cast yet, just a release date.

Toy & Collectible News

• Funko has reveled some new Star Wars Pops.

Video Game News

• EA is cancelling the open world Star Wars game they were developing, which really isn’t a surprise. Kotaku has a write up on the story with some updates from EA. We’ll see if any of their Star Wars games other than Battlefront ever see the light of day.

Posted By: Skuldren for Roqoo Depot.