In celebration of the 35th anniversary today of the release of original Star Wars, Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes have premiered the film Hughes The Force on their SModcast Internet Television (S.I.T.).

The film, directed, written, and produced by Producer by J.C. Reifenberg, is inspired by Star Wars, as well as all those 1980’s John Hughes movies, like The Breakfast Club and Weird Science. Hughes The Forces revolves around Simon and Henry, two unpopular teens who, in an effort to get into the epic end of the year high school party, must find a hot chick willing to go with them. When that proves difficult, they take matters into their own hands with Simon’s Slave Leia action figure.

Watch the entire film here below, which includes an introduction by Mewes and Reifenberg.

AOL Music is giving fans of the hard rock/heavy metal band UFO a FREE listen right now of their 5-CD box set collection of the band’s Chrysalis records era, which was recently this week on CD and MP3.

Entitled UFO: The Chrysalis Years (1980-1986) the collection houses the band’s five albums released by the record label: No Place to Run (1980), Wild, Willing and the Innocent (1981), Mechanix (1982), Making Contact (1983), and Misdemeanor (1986). There are also tracks from some live performances in Cleveland, Ohio; on the BBC in England, and that country’s Hammersmith Odeon as well.

This week’s promotional materials had a common underlying theme to it – they all centered on creatures of the night. There were character posters and banners for The Dark Knight Rises and the red-band trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, but now it’s time for everyone’s favorite swooning vampire to swoop in and take a stab – or a bite – of the promotional fun. The first set of character posters for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 have been released. You can take a look at the new character posters below.

As a part of a scavenger hunt that was held last week, Twilight fans scoured the Internet looking for clues that would lead to the big reveal and once they had all the clues in their hands, it revealed three character posters, one each for Jacob, Bella, and Edward (played by Taylor Lautner, Kristen Stewart, and Robert Pattinson respectively). Each of the posters has the same profile look and “Forever” tagline.

The People vs. George Lucas
DVD | Instant Video
Directed by Alexandre O. Philippe
Starring Neil Gaiman, Francis Ford Coppola, Chris Gore, Kevin Rubio, Gary Kurtz, David Prowse, Todd Hanson, George Lucas
Lionsgate
DVD Release Date: October 25, 2011

The People vs. George Lucas is a quasi-documentary film which uses a courtroom debate approach to explore the issues of filmmaking and fanaticism pertaining to the Star Wars franchise, and its creator, George Lucas.

The film combines filmmaker and celebrity interviews with fan-created content and fictional dramatizations to present an all-encompassing look at the indelible mark Lucas has left on pop culture and the film industry.

Interviewees include author Neil Gaiman, writer/director Kevin Rubio (Troops), actor David Prowse (Darth Vader), and Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz. Lucas himself appears frequently in archival footage, but is never interviewed directly by filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe.

The People vs. George Lucas discusses the extent to which the Star Wars franchise is an incomplete artistic creation of Lucas (and subject to his evolving vision) versus a cultural phenomenon that belongs to the general public.

Star Wars: Jedi, Volume 1 – The Dark Side
Story by Scott Allie
Art by Mahmud Asrar
Colors by Paul Mounts
Cover Art by Stéphane Roux
Dark Horse Comics
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Cover Price: $18.99

2011 saw the resurrection or rebirth of a Star Wars comic series called Jedi. Initially envisioned as chronicles of specific individual Jedi Knights during the events of The Clone Wars, the new incarnation of the series instead delves a little deeper and further back into the history of the order, and concentrates on Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn in the days he was a young trainer of apprentices and well before the time of Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Subtitled The Dark Side, the new series shadows the final mission of Jinn’s padawan Xanatos and his subsequent fall to the Dark Side of the Force. Xanatos, as a character, had previously been explored as an antagonist in the Jedi Apprentice young adult book series; but this trade paperback delves into an era when he was still a boy.

Intractable and brooding, Xanatos as a 13-year-old padawan evokes the same feel as the Anakin Skywalker of Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones. It is almost as if the Jedi surrounding him cannot sense the menace and darkness beginning to envelop him; but in the words of Jedi Grand Master Yoda, “hard to see, the dark side is.”