Ford shot to fame in the early 80s playing Hans Solo in the Star Wars movies.
Outside of the Star Wars movies, Portman, who took time out to attend Harvard, has stuck mostly to smaller films.
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The Death Star, officially called the DS-1 Orbital Battle Station, is a piece of fiction (so far) which appeared in the Star Wars movies.
This is among the biggest film news of the year, along with the announcement of Disney buying LucasFilms to develop new Star Wars movies.
But set that aside for a moment, it also frees up the schedule for Fred Thompson, who's been a star of movies and television and the U.S. Senate.
That's where Robert Redford, star of movies such as Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid and All The President's Men and director of films including Ordinary People, comes in.
Unless Disney is somehow going to get away with doing Star Wars movies on the cheap, each official Episode will likely cost whatever the upper-realms blockbusters happen to cost at the given time.
When news broke that Disney had acquired Lucasfilm and would be making new Star Wars movies, a part of my brain lit up with the excitement I felt in 1977 and has been sparking every since.
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George Lucas, who recently sold Lucasfilm to Disney and is involved in the ongoing development of new Star Wars movies, told Bloomberg Businessweek that Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Mark Hamill are in talks to reprise their roles as (respectively) Han Solo, Princess Leia, and Luke Skywalker.
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" The star of hit movies such as "Walk The Line, " "Legally Blonde, " "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Election" said during her interview Thursday that "there are so many lessons learned.
It's important that you can squash anyone who might call you 'geek' or 'nerd' and that you can pick up girls, but also equally important that you know the "Star Wars" movies by heart, and understand programming ideas, like recursion and inheritance.
The star of hit movies such as XXX and the Fast and the Furious then headed out to the city's Princes Street Garden's to join an 8, 000-strong crowd at a special outdoor event staged for those who could not get tickets to the main ceremony.
The actors who score well on this list tend to have small paydays and star in highly profitable movies.
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Disney Channel switched from pay to basic cable, and began replacing its old, recycled acquired programming (think Walt Disney Presents) with original movies and star-making episodic series (think Lizzie McGuire).
Ford, 59, has starred in a number of hit blockbuster movies, including Star Wars and the Indiana Jones films.
Kirk in the Star Trek TV series and movies, is attracting a mainstream audience with his new app that goes well beyond Trekkers.
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He has made more than 80 films and established himself as a star in the US with movies such as First Strike and Rush Hour.
Zoe Saldana is more than just a celebrity known for her work in movies like Avatar and Star Trek.
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Earlier this week, Disney chief executive Bob Iger told shareholders the company was also working on "some stand-alone movies featuring the great Star Wars characters".
Director Wes Craven says he was first drawn to the howling ghost-face mask that became the star of his "Scream" movies because it reminded him of the Munch image, one of his favorite artworks.
He went on to star in a string of hit romantic movies, and his shy smile won him legions of devoted admirers.
Now comes reports that Disney will begin exploiting the broader Star Wars universe with spin-off movies featuring Han Solo and Boba Fett.
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The "Star Wars" franchise will get two spinoff movies, Disney chief executive officer Bob Iger announced Tuesday.
For a while star Daniel Craig was unattached to any new movies leaving fans to hold out hope that something would change and the new Bond would go into production.
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While there are many more big movies coming soon, including "Star Trek: Into Darkness" next week and both "Fast and Furious Six" and "The Hangover Part III" the week after, those movies will primarily target men.
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The screenwriter is Robert Towne, who wrote half of the movies that made Jack Nicholson a star, and the leading lady is Thandie Newton, whose face could make a thousand ships do pretty much anything she wants.
Paul Greengrass of the original Bourne movies is probably ready to go for Star Wars.
This is done to allow both young and old Star Wars fans to act out the scenes from the movies at home.
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As part of the contest, Netflix released 500, 000 user records, stripped of all personal information, and, for each account, just a list of movies and the one-to-five-star rating given to each.
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