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When Lucasfilm announced it was killing the Star Wars  Expanded Universe, I was heartbroken. The galaxy George Lucas had dreamed up took form in the original movies, but it was populated and fully realized by the authors, artists, and video game developers that helped build  Star Wars'  back stories. Now, like a blaster taken to my childhood memories, that Expanded Universe was gone. I thought the damage would be permanent. But I've just seen the  Star Wars: The Force Awakens  trailer. I've seen it, and I want to go back to the galaxy far, far away  right now . I don't mind that Luke won't ever meet Mara, I don't mind that the Yuuzhan Vong are scrubbed from existence. I don't even care that this is now a universe that will potentially never feature cybernetically advanced Ewok pilot Lieutenant Kettch. The trailer shows that the new movie still has the symbols of the soul of Star Wars  — X-Wings and TIE fighters and the Millennium Falcon t...

The trailer for the fourth Jurassic Park film, starring Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, has arrived three days early After a decade of delays, the first trailer for Jurassic World has arrived three days early. A teaser trailer released for the film on Sunday explained that the official first trailer for Jurassic World would appear on Friday. However, the first full trailer for the film has bucked its years of disastrous development by dropping three days early. The sequel takes place 22 years after the events of the first Jurassic Park film, which was released in 1993. A dinosaur safari park, Jurassic World, has been built out of the ruins of the original Jurassic Park on Isla Nublar. As the trailer shows, this Jurassic World includes opportunities to paddle down the river as giant herbivores graze and join the Mosasaurus - an enormous prehistoric crocodile - eat dead sharks in a situation reminiscent of Seaworld's Shamu enclosure. This was expect...