@kwellscomm PraiseIndy.com News  The actress best known as the iconic character ‘Princess Leia’ in the original “Star Wars” film trilogy, Carrie Fisher, is dead at the age of 60. Fisher died after suffering a heart attack on a flight from London to Los Angeles last week. People on board the plane gave the “Star Wars” […]

Carrie Fisher, the iconic actress who portrayed Princess Leia in the Star Wars series, died Tuesday following a massive heart attack last week. She was 60. “It is with a very deep sadness that Billie Lourd confirms that her beloved mother Carrie Fisher passed away at 8:55 this morning,” Simon Halls, a spokesperson for Fisher’s […]

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It's no secret that President Barack Obama is a fan of Star Wars.

Apparently, there’s nothing more powerful in the box-office universe than the Force. Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the seventh movie in the popular sci-fi franchise,…

The J.J. Abrams-directed film pulled in $57 million at Thursday night's U.S. box office.

Indy is getting a new weapon in the war against mental illness. A local school corp cancels classes heading into the holiday break as a precaution. A good samaritan gets injured while stopping a crime. A hung jury in the first trial of a Baltimore police officer has a city on edge. And…the HealthCare.gov deadline […]

You can’t watch television, or get on social media without seeing or hearing about Star Wars.  Star Wars: The Force Awakens hits theaters tonight, and Jimmy Fallon has had the cast members on the Tonight Show over the past few weeks to promote the movie. In true Jimmy Fallon fashion, he was able to do […]

Star Wars: The Force Awakens is probably one of the most anticipated film releases of 2015.  Details about the movie have been pretty secretive, thus far.  Actress Lupita Nyong’o stopped by Good Morning America to discuss her role in the film. Nyong’o plays a character by the name of Maz, who was a pirate.  Nyong’o told GMA that […]

The hashtag #BoycottStarWarsVII began to trend on Twitter shortly after the trailer was released. Snagging J.J. Abrams as director, The Force Awakens boasts actors Daisy Ridley and John Boyega as the main leads.

Two men who rarely give interviews with media are Billy Dee Williams and more reclusive Spike Lee.  Both men were honored at Indiana Black Expo’s Corporate Luncheon.  I was privileged to be the only Indianapolis media person to have sit down one-on-one interviews with each.  The director of such movie classics as She’s Got To […]

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Let’s be real for a second here. At this point, Lucasfilm is neither confirming nor denying that Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford are returning for “Star Wars: Episode VII.” But if director J.J. Abrams wants to bring back the original-trilogy trio, Hamill and Fisher are almost certainly on board. The question mark has […]

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