Coming up on Saturday at the Described Movies: Star Wars Episode VIII The Last Jedi, and The Thing From Another World.

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From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 4pm Saturday in NZ, 2pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies Star Wars Episode VIII The Last Jedi from 2017, and The Thing From Another World from 1951.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (also known as Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi) is a 2017 American epic space opera film written and directed by Rian Johnson.
Produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the second instalment of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, following The Force Awakens (2015), and the eighth episode of the nine-part " Skywalker saga
". The film's ensemble cast includes Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Lupita Nyong'o, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Gwendoline Christie, Kelly Marie Tran, Laura Dern, and Benicio del Toro.
The Last Jedi follows Rey as she seeks the aid of Luke Skywalker in hopes of turning the tide for the Resistance in the fight against Kylo Ren and the First Order while General Leia Organa, Finn, and Poe Dameron attempt to escape a First Order attack on the dwindling Resistance fleet.
The film features the first posthumous film performance by Fisher, who died in December 2016, and the film is dedicated to her memory.
The Last Jedi is part of a new trilogy of films announced after Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm in October 2012.
It was produced by Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and Ram Bergman and executive produced by The Force Awakens director J. J. Abrams.
John Williams, composer for the previous episodic films, returned to compose the score.
Several scenes were filmed at Skellig Michael in Ireland during pre-production in September 2015, but principal photography began at Pinewood Studios in England in February 2016 and wrapped that July.
The Last Jedi premiered in Los Angeles on 9 December 2017 and was released in the United States on 15 December.
It grossed over $1.3 billion worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of 2017 and the ninth highest-grossing film of all time by the time its theatrical run was over.
It is also the second highest-grossing Star Wars film and turned a net profit of over $417 million.
The film was well received by critics and received four nominations at the 90th Academy Awards, including Best Original Score and Best Visual Effects, as well as two nominations at the 71st British Academy Film Awards.
A sequel, The Rise of Skywalker, concluded the sequel trilogy in 2019.
Directed by: Rian Johnson.
Written by: Rian Johnson.
Based on: Characters by George Lucas.
Produced by: Kathleen Kennedy, and Ram Bergman.
Starring: Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Lupita Nyong'o, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Gwendoline Christie, Kelly Marie Tran, Laura Dern, and Benicio del Toro.
Cinematography: Steve Yedlin.
Edited by: Bob Ducsay.
Music by: John Williams.
Production Company: Lucasfilm Ltd.
Distributed by: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.
Release dates: 9 December 2017 (Shrine Auditorium), and 15 December 2017 (United States).
File Length: 152 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $300 million.
Box office: $1.334 billion.
The Thing from Another World, sometimes referred to as just The Thing, is a 1951 American black-and-white science fiction-horror film, directed by Christian Nyby, produced by Edward Lasker for Howard Hawks'Winchester Pictures Corporation, and released by RKO Radio Pictures.
The film stars Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite, and Douglas Spencer.
James Arness plays The Thing.
The Thing from Another World is based on the 1938 novella "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell (writing under the pseudonym of Don A. Stuart).
The film's storyline concerns a United States Air Force crew and scientists who find a crashed flying saucer frozen in the Arctic ice and a humanoid body nearby.
Returning to their remote arctic research outpost with the body still in a block of ice, they are forced to defend themselves against the still alive and malevolent plant-based alien when it is accidentally thawed out.
Directed by: Christian Nyby.
Screenplay by: Charles Lederer Uncredited:, Howard Hawks, and Ben Hecht.
based on: "Who Goes There?" 1938 novella John W. Campbell Jr.
Produced by: Edward Lasker, and Howard Hawks.
Starring: Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite, Douglas Spencer, James Young, Dewey Martin, and Robert Nichols.
Cinematography: Russell Harlan, ASC.
Edited by: Roland Gross.
Music by: Dimitri Tiomkin.
Production Company: Winchester Pictures Corporation.
Distributed by: RKO Radio Pictures.
Release date: 27 April 1951 (US).
File Length: 87 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Box office: $1.95 million (US rentals).
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