Actress Carrie Fisher is celebrating after losing 50 pounds on diet firm Jenny Craig's weightloss plan.

The Star Wars star became the firm's celebrity spokeswoman last year, taking over from the likes of Valerie Bertinelli and Kirstie Alley - and she has become one of the company's biggest success stories.

The 54 year old tells People magazine she was determined to shed the pounds after realising she was afraid to look in the mirror, and she's thrilled with her new look - although she won't be donning a bikini to show off anytime soon.

She says, "I'm not going to wear a lot of sleeveless...

"In God We Trust." "E Pluribus Unum." "May The Force Be With You."

Which of these slogans does not belong on a piece of currency? If you said the latter, you'd be wrong.

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that a tiny nation in the South Pacific with ties to New Zealand known as Niue (pronounced "nee-oo-ey") is now accepting "Star Wars" coins as legal tender. Seriously.

When you imagine a man with a vast pop culture empire like George Lucas, with a personal net worth of $3.2 billion smackers, it was inevitable that he would eventually be able to mint his own money.

However, the "Lucasfi...

Harrison Ford was busy setting up a deal for "Air Force One... 2" before his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live when an old enemy arrived. Of course, the last we saw Ford and Chewbacca they were still on speaking terms. Watch below:

"Daniel Craig's my Wookie bitch now!" Of course, Craig is Harrison's co-star in Cowboys & Aliens - funny, he didn't look all that hairy in the trailers.

George Lucas has lost his court battle with a British designer over the rights to make and sell replica Star Wars helmets.

Andrew Ainsworth made the headgear for the original movies and started selling the Stormtrooper helmets in 2004, to fans who wanted to wear them for fancy dress parties.

The creator of the hugely successful sci-fi series attempted to sue Ainsworth for $20 million after he sold some items in America, but Lucas lost the legal battle in the U.K. because a judge rejected claims the helmets are sculptures.

He hoped to overturn the decision by taking the case to the Sup...

Fans at this year's Comic Con who attended the Star Wars Fan Movie Awards were surprised with a short teaser for the upcoming (Sept. 16) Star Wars Saga Blu-ray release featuring a few storied deleted scenes from the original trilogy.

The clip includes a short teaser from last year's event, in which Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) is shown building his green lightsaber before heading off to save Han Solo (Harrison Ford) from Jabba The Hutt.

Also included in the clip are shots of a sandstorm scene and an extended shield generator battle from Return of the Jedi; escaping Wampa snow creatures fr...

A special fan screening of the Star Wars films in New York has been cancelled after creator George Lucas threatened legal action over the event.

A group of sci-fi devotees had organized a 13-hour Star Wars movie marathon for 200 fans in a bar in Brooklyn last Sunday, but the screening was called off after organizers received a cease and desist letter from Lucas' lawyers.

The letter was received just two days before the event, to be held at The Wicked Monk in Bay Ridge, and alleged the public screening would breach the movie mogul's copyright.

Organizer Mike DeVito tells the New York P...

Star Wars' Yoda has been voted the best screen puppet of all time.

The beloved Jedi Master saw off competition from other characters including Kermit The Frog and Zippy in a poll by U.K. movie library LoveFilm - held to mark the release of The Beaver, in which Mel Gibson communicates through a hand puppet.

The Kim Jong Il marionette from Trey Parker and Matt Stone's 2004 comedy Team America: World Police was runner-up, while lovable muppet Kermit came third.

Zippy from classic British TV show Rainbow - voiced by the late Roy Skelton - was in fourth place, while Sesame Street's Elmo wa...

"Star Wars vs. Star Trek: Could the Empire Kick the Federation’s Ass? And Other Galaxy-Shaking Enigmas" is a paperback compendium jam-packed with detailed information about both universes, as well as trivia, quizzes, quotes, and information drawn from these two iconic settings.

Could a Jedi knight use his light saber to deflect a beam from a phaser?

Which aliens are cooler: the Cardassians or the Chazrach?

Have any Federation ships ever made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs?

And most important . . . in a fight between the Empire and the Federation, who would win?

Ever since ...

Star Wars icon Anthony Daniels has only learned to appreciate the magic of the sci-fi blockbuster in the past two years - by narrating the touring Star Wars in Concert stage spectacular.

The British actor, who has played android C-3PO in all the Star Wars films, admits he was never a true fan of the sci-fi franchise until he stood on the world's stages and watched costumed fans marvel in the music from the movies.

Daniels credits the shows with giving him a new perspective on the films which turned him into a cult star.

He tells the Los Angeles Times, "There's nothing quite like it; it s...

Actress Carrie Fisher is winning her weight battle after losing 30 pounds on the Jenny Craig diet plan.

The Star Wars star has been the spokesmodel for the weightloss company for the past 18 weeks - and she's a big success story.

Signing up for the Jenny Craig program in November, Fisher said, "If I lose 10 pounds, it'll be a miracle. If I lose 30, my outside would match my inside."

Now she says, "Before Jenny Craig, I had tried and failed with so many diets, so losing any amount of weight seemed crazy to me. With this weight loss, it's like a whole new Carrie has emerged. I no longer wa...

It wouldn't be Star Wars day without an official announcement from Lucasfilm about the upcoming release of the entire Star Wars saga on Blu-ray. Perhaps the most anticipated Blu-ray release since the format's inception, Star Wars: The Complete Saga will be released on September 16th, and features a ton of extras in a nine-disc collection.

Here's the official info, and May the 4th be with you!

Bring home the adventure and share Star Wars with your whole family -- when STAR WARS: THE COMPLETE SAGA comes to Blu-ray Disc from Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment! To be...

It's a big day for Kurt Russell - the Hollywood star turns 60 today. The birthday boy was born on St. Patrick's Day in 1951, and by the tender age of 10 he had landed his first acting job, making his big screen debut in "The Absent-Minded Professor."

One of the few child stars to carve out a lasting and successful career, Russell has been in over 40 movies in the past four decades.

And there'll be another milestone for Kurt in May - his partner Goldie Hawn's daughter Kate Hudson is due to welcome her second child!

To kick off the celebrations, WENN has compiled 10 fascinating facts abou...

Actress Carrie Fisher is determined to avoid reading about herself online after becoming upset by hurtful comments that she "looks like Elton John."

The Star Wars legend admits she has struggled with her fluctuating weight while on the road with her autobiographical show, Wishful Drinking, and found it "humiliating" when she ballooned to more than 168 pounds.

She became even angrier when she read cruel comments about her figure on the internet - but she's adamant undergoing cosmetic surgery would make her look "terrible".

Fisher tells The New Review, "It's not good to go online to see ...

Sharon Stone's provocative leg-crossing scene in "Basic Instinct" has topped a new poll to find the most paused movie moments.

The actress reveals she isn't wearing any underwear beneath her short skirt as she uncrosses her legs while being interrogated by cops in the 1992 thriller - a scene which was frozen by more than a third of fans in a poll by Lovefilm.com.

The X-rated moment put Stone ahead of runner-up Jennifer Lopez, who bared her butt in 2010 comedy "The Back-Up Plan," while third place went to a blooper in 1977 hit "Star Wars," when a Stormtrooper hits his head on a ceiling.

J...

Christopher Nolan's sci-fi thriller Inception has picked up more honors in the run-up to the Oscars, scooping two prizes at the Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards on Sunday.

The Academy Award-nominated film, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio, was recognized for best sound editing in the categories of sound effects & foley and music in a feature film.

Its Oscar rival The Social Network was also celebrated at the event, winning a trophy for best sound editing in the category for dialogue and automated dialogue replacement in a feature film.

Gwyneth Paltrow's movie Country Strong s...

Liam Neeson, who starred as Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace has signed on to reprise his role for two episodes on Cartoon Network's series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Neeson will reprise the role of the fallen Jedi Master, who appears to his former apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi much in the same way that the fallen Obi-Wan appeared to Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy.

Neeson tells Entertainment Weekly, "[T]hese characters resonate... even after all these years.

"Growing up, my heroes were cowboys; they were strong and mysterious, and it seemed like they ...

Funnyman Seth Rogen was left stunned by a recent encounter with his moviemaking hero George Lucas because the "Star Wars" director spent 20 minutes telling him the world would end in 2012.

Rogen was left speechless when Lucas and Steven Spielberg joined a movie meeting he was a part of - but the encounter has left him worried his life will be over next year.

He recalls, "George Lucas sits down and seriously proceeds to talk for around 25 minutes about how he thinks the world is gonna end in the year 2012, like, for real. He thinks it.

"He's going on about the tectonic plates and all the ...

Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher has embarked on a new healthy eating regime as the new spokesperson for weightloss program Jenny Craig, after enduring years of cruel taunts about her large figure.

he veteran star, 54, admits she has gradually piled on the pounds since her days as a Hollywood pin-up following her turn as Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy, but her weight really ballooned in 2008 when she hit the road to perform her one-woman stage show, Wishful Drinking.

Fisher's lack of exercise and unbalanced diet caused her waistline to spiral out of control and at her heav...

Iconic films including The Empire Strikes Back, The Exorcist and Saturday Night Fever are to be preserved as American national treasures with an induction into the Library of Congress' National Film Registry.

Twenty five films have been selected to be stored in the national archives as part of an annual drive to preserve movies with artistic, cultural or historical significance.

George Lucas' 1980 sci-fi sequel is among the 2010 inductees and will join the Star Wars film in the archive, while Saturday Night Fever, starring a disco-dancing John Travolta, horror classic The Exorcist, and ...

George Lucas banned Carrie Fisher from wearing a bra while shooting her role in the Star Wars films.

The actress found fame playing Princess Leia in the phenomenally successful movie series, which gained her legions of loyal fans. Fisher now reveals she was ordered to ditch her bra on set to ensure the shoot stayed true to life.

She tells the New York Daily News, "Whatever I would have put on (underneath the costume) would have shown through. It was very fine material."

"I asked George to explain it to me and he said, 'When you go into space, you're weightless and then your body expan...

Hollywood actor James Earl Jones was convinced long running children's series Sesame Street would be a big flop - because he feared the colorful puppets would be "too scary for kids."

The Star Wars legend joined pal Burt Lancaster to film pilots for the show in 1969, teaching tots how to count and recite the alphabet, but he was sure the then-groundbreaking format would fail to entice young viewers to learn with Jim Henson's Muppets.

He tells the New York Post, "It was Burt Lancaster and I. He had the letters, and I had the numbers, or vice versa. I said to one of the producers, 'You kn...

Director Irvin Kershner has died at the age of 87.

The American moviemaker, best known for directing Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, passed away at his home in Los Angeles after a long illness.

The news was confirmed by his goddaughter Adriana Santini on Monday.

Kershner began his career teaching photography at the University of Southern California, before stepping behind the camera to work on a number of TV shows and small screen movie Stakeout On Dope Street in 1958.

His film career took off in the 1960s and he went on to direct a number of movies including A Fine Madness with Sea...

We're always looking forward to see what the Today show hosts are going to wear for their annual Halloween show. Last year the cast wore fantastic Star Wars costumes, but this time around they went for a pop music feel, with a few classics as well.

Meredith Vieira dressed up in Lady Gaga's pink hoop dress for a performance as the star, and Natalie Morales put on Justin Bieber garb for a second song! Matt Lauer dressed up as Clark Kent, then transformed into Al Roker in a Superman costume. Megamind stars Will Ferrell and Tina Fey showed up as their characters from the movie with Roker and...

Star Wars fans are set for a truly out-of-this-world experience - producers are re-working the sci-fi franchise in 3D.

The hit space films are set to receive the Avatar treatment for theatrical re-release from 2012, and effects technicians are already promising the newly-revamped versions will be "fantastic". The first of the six movies to be converted into hi-tech 3D will be Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, but bosses are adamant they will not rush to complete the project.

Visual effects supervisor John Knoll says, "Getting good results on a stereo conversion is a matter of tak...

Singer Eddie Fisher, who was once married to Elizabeth Taylor, has died at the age of 82.

The entertainer, who sparked outrage in the 1950s when he left wife Debbie Reynolds for her pal Taylor, passed away in California on Wednesday. Fisher died as a result of complications stemming from recent hip surgery, according to his family.

A statement reads, "He was loved and will be missed by his four children: Carrie, Todd, Joely, and Tricia Leigh as well as his six grandchildren. He was an extraordinary talent and a true mensch (admirable person)."

Fisher became a teen idol in the 1950s wi...

George Lucas has filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against a technology company for allegedly hijacking a "Star Wars" reference to market 'mind control' products.

Lawyers representing the sci-fi franchise's creator fired off a cease-and-desist letter to bosses at Jedi Mind Inc. in May last year, demanding they stop using the name of Star Wars' famous mystical space age knights.

The head of the company, which makes futuristic computer headsets that use brain waves to run software applications, allegedly agreed to phase out the Jedi Mind trademarks, but representatives for the movie gian...

Rapper Kanye West has only recently come to terms with the death of his beloved mother after spending the last three years in a "delusional" state.

The hip-hop star was left devastated when Dr. Donda West suffered fatal complications after undergoing plastic surgery and passed away in November 2007.

The Stronger hitmaker refused to deal with the tragedy and continued to work through his pain - but he admits the whole concept behind his futuristic Glow in the Dark tour in 2008 and 2009 was designed to allow him to live in a fantasy world where he could pretend he was just a kid again.

In ...

Harrison Ford surprised crowds at the Comic-Con convention on Saturday by appearing in handcuffs - shortly after a man was arrested for allegedly stabbing another fan at the San Diego, California event.

The handcuffed actor was led onstage by two security guards and given a standing ovation from the 6,000-strong audience at the sci-fi and comic book gathering.

The "Star Wars" legend, who was promoting his upcoming movie "Cowboys & Aliens," seemed surprised by the warm welcome, telling fans, "I just wanted to make a living as an actor. I didn't know about this."

Ford's stunt is believed t...

Star Wars actor David Prowse has been banned from attending any events connected to the sci-fi franchise after reportedly "annoying" creator George Lucas.

The star, who played Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, reportedly fell out with Lucas when the filmmaker used another actor when the iconic character was unmasked.

Prowse has also been accused of leaking plots relating to Vader's death, while the actor alleges he has not been paid a fair share of profit from the films.

The 75 year old, who has recently beaten pancreatic cancer, has been told he cannot attend any "Lucas...

“I'm only trying to say that Amity is a summer town. We need summer dollars.” - Mayor Vaughn

In reading about the productions of some of the most successful movies ever made, a noticeable trend arises pretty quickly. Nobody believes in the project, the shoot becomes mired with complications, some studio executive shouts “What is this shit?!” during the first screening, the director verges on a nervous breakdown, and then, out of nowhere, the premiere has a line wrapped around the block and everyone drowns in money.

If the story sounds familiar, that’s because it more or less describes the...