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News Around the Net!

Let’s kick things off today with this gloriously wonderful new trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2:

I loved every single second of that!!  Can’t wait for this movie.

This is a wonderfully in-depth profile of visual effects genius John Knoll, who also happens to be the guy who came up with the idea for Rogue One.

I’ve written a lot about CBS’ misguided, fan-disrespecting effort to squash the Star Trek fan film Axanar.  Here’s a wonderful opinion piece that does a great job of summing up the whole situation and my feelings on the matter.  I wish CBS would drop this lawsuit — as J.J. Abrams and Justin Lin had promised they would!! — but that doesn’t appear to be happening and I am abandoning hope that Axanar will ever be made.  If you have no idea what I’m talking about, here is their incredible short-film Prelude to Axanar:

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