Disney and Lucasfilm confirmed nearly two years ago their plans to make standalone spinoff films for the Star Wars universe that would be separate from their upcoming trilogy (Episodes VII, VIII, and IX). Since then, there’s been a lot of rumors as to what these films will be about, which characters will be featured, and who’d be cast.

The first film, which will be directed by Gareth Edwards (Godzilla) and is scheduled for release on December 16, 2016, has been rumored to be a Han Solo origins story, and today comes another tidbit about this production.

The Gold Box spotlight deal of the day over at Amazon today is Universal 100th Anniversary Collection Limited Edition Blu-ray box set for only $129.99 (that’s 63% the list price of $349.98).

The DVD Limited Edition box set is also on sale today at 66% off – $102.49 (down from $299.98).

Both box sets contain 25 of Universal’s most popular films — including Back To The Future, Dracula, E.T., JAWS, The Breakfast Club, Jurassic Park, and more — along with a 72-page exclusive “100 Years of Universal” collectible gigibook, a 15-track music CD, and bonus disc.

Director Sam Peckinpah, who revolutionized cinema with an alpha male strut that spilled over to his films and characters and was an A-list influence to scores of directors who followed, passed away 30 years ago today.

Cinema had not seen such a spitfire, gritty kind of man as Sam Peckinpah before his films rapidly exploded on screen or in many ways since. Although he wasn’t the first director to infuse a sense of machismo, and not just on the sleeve, but right in the viewers face, a bloody knuckle sandwich to the senses, he remains one of the more well known rebels of Hollywood in an era when studio systems pretty much ruled and dictated final directions. Peckinpah, a tough, hard edged man by nature, had skirmish after skirmish with studios over his final visions, which almost cost him his career. Somehow, however, he didn’t get totally blackballed by the industry, although his reputation was even then, already encased in cement.

For this year’s Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, broadcast on BBC Four, Professor Danielle George used simple motors to construct a robot orchestra that then performed the theme song to Doctor Who.

Watch the robot orchestra, comprised of 15 robotic musicians from across Europe, along with human musicians, perform the Doctor Who theme for the 2014 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.

The Star Wars comic book universe has been at home at Dark Horse Comics for over two decades, but that will come to an end in just a few days as the comics franchise begins anew at Marvel.

Therefore, til the end of the year, Dark Horse is offering a deal of 50% off ALL Star Wars digital comics. Also, if you want to get EVERY Star Wars comic ever released by Dark Horse, you can pay $300 for the Farewell MegaBundle digital deal (which the publisher boasts is “over 28,353 pages of Star Wars goodness”).