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Happy New Year to all our readers, followers and supporters.  You are the foundation and structure for our site and social media pages.  I just want to take this opportunity to say a big thank you for your support throughout 2015.  I raise my glass to all of you, here's to 2016.  I sincerely hope its the best year yet for all of you. Thank you Rob Wainfur and The Bearded Trio team @thebeardedtrio The Bearded Trio - The Site For Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and John Williams THE BEARDED TRIO ON FACEBOOK THE BEARDED TRIO ON TWITTER THE BEARDED TRIO ON GOOGLE+ THE BEARDED TRIO ON PINTEREST CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON STEVEN SPIELBERG CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON GEORGE LUCAS CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON JOHN WILLIAMS

Star Wars fans are a talented lot.  When the new trailers hit the web for Star Wars The Force Awakens , it wasn't long before they took their talent and mashed up the original trailer with other movies and franchises.  Here's ten of the best Harry Potter Marvel's Avengers Game of Thrones Firefly Disney The Prequels Toy Story Halo Star Trek Jar-Jar Binks And to bring balance to the Force here's the original The Bearded Trio - The Site For Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and John Williams THE BEARDED TRIO ON FACEBOOK THE BEARDED TRIO ON TWITTER THE BEARDED TRIO ON GOOGLE+ THE BEARDED TRIO ON PINTEREST CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON STEVEN SPIELBERG CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON GEORGE LUCAS CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON JOHN WILLIAMS

Track ten on the soundtrack to Star Wars The Force Awakens is Finn's Confession , a slow and sad piece with strings that unfold to a more uplifting feel as Finn finally relieve's his burden by confessing.  At times it reminded me of another John Williams soundtrack, War Horse with hints of The Phantom Menace , especially Anakin's Destiny . In the movie Finn talks about his experience with The First Order, the horrors he witnessed and being forced to perform.  Here the track plays which captures his sadness, guilt and eventual confession.  The magic of John Williams manages to evoke all these emotions in just two minutes and nine seconds.  A beautiful and powerful piece which has similarities to track six, Rey's Theme which you can hear hints of at one minute 20 seconds into Finn's Confession. You can read my mini review of track six, Rey's Theme here. Coming up next I will look at track eleven, Maz’s Counsel Rob Wainfur @thebeardedtrio The B

In an interview published on the BMI website on the 22nd of December, John Williams discusses his latest Star Wars project, The Force Awakens and the difference working with J.J. Abrams and George Lucas.  He said: I’ll tell you a little bit about that. We wouldn’t be having this conversation if it hadn’t been for George Lucas’ creation of Darth Vader and Yoda and Luke Skywalker and all the rest of it. J.J. Abrams, who is the new young director of the new film, has done a brilliant job, I think. The wonderful thing about J.J. Abrams, just one of his many wonderful qualities, is that he is very appreciative of George’s legacy and has been very careful to forge a tapestry that’s strongly related to the originals, which he has done. He also discussed his latest project with Steven Spielberg, The BFG which hits cinemas next year: We actually worked on it, just yesterday and today. And after this phone call I’m going to go and begin on reel one and that will be the rest of my day. A

Rey's Theme from the soundtrack to Star Wars The Force Awakens is quickly becoming a fan favourite.  Track number six on the album, the music takes a change of pace from the opening tracks with ascending strings and woodwind melody that will evoke emotions similar to the Force theme from previous Star Wars movies.  The theme is featured earlier in The Force Awakens soundtrack and is first heard in track two,  The Scavenger .  I suspect that this piece will feature again in episode VIII and could easily become one of the principle pieces to the new trilogy. The piece reminds me of previous soundtracks, especially The Terminal and War Horse  with a hint of Harry Potter .  It really is the stand out piece on the soundtrack with a third motif that will leave you smiling.  You can listen to the piece below.  The track is 3 minutes 12 seconds long.  Let me know if you enjoy the track. Coming up next we will have a review of track ten on the soundtrack to Star Wars The Force

STAR WARS THE FORCE AWAKENS interviews - Ford, Ridley, Boyega, Abrams, Christie, Isaac, Nyong'o. Harrison Ford talks about the Millennium Falcon cockpit and his thoughts on who shot first. The Bearded Trio - The Site For Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and John Williams THE BEARDED TRIO ON FACEBOOK THE BEARDED TRIO ON TWITTER THE BEARDED TRIO ON GOOGLE+ THE BEARDED TRIO ON PINTEREST CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON STEVEN SPIELBERG CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON GEORGE LUCAS CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON JOHN WILLIAMS

We would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a happy 2016.  Thank you for all your support throughout the year.  I hope Santa brings you plenty of Spielberg, Lucas and Williams related goodies. The Bearded Trio - The Site For Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and John Williams THE BEARDED TRIO ON FACEBOOK THE BEARDED TRIO ON TWITTER THE BEARDED TRIO ON GOOGLE+ THE BEARDED TRIO ON PINTEREST CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON STEVEN SPIELBERG CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON GEORGE LUCAS CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON JOHN WILLIAMS

The time is at hand! The Doctor Who Christmas Special, "The Husbands of River Song," arrives tomorrow, Christmas Day. Two new clips have been released in advance of the special. In the first one, we see guest star Matt Lucas searching for a surgeon.... or a Doctor? In the second, the Doctor reunites with this wife, River Song.... and she has no idea who he is. Or does she? Hmmm... We'll have to see, I suppose. Finally, a little Christmas fun with Matt Lucas and Alex Kingston.... ..... and a Christmas greeting from Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Steven Moffat, and many others from Doctor Who !   For more about Doctor Who , please visit  http://www.bbc.co.uk/ Merry Christmas!! The Bearded Trio - The Site For Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and John Williams THE BEARDED TRIO ON FACEBOOK THE BEARDED TRIO ON TWITTER THE BEARDED TRIO ON GOOGLE+ THE BEARDED TRIO ON PINTEREST CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON STEVEN SPIELBERG CLICK H

How many Star Wars personalities can you guess right from just listening to their voice?  Here's ten to test you.  Let us know how many you get.  Don't post the answers just your score.  Good luck. The Bearded Trio - The Site For Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and John Williams THE BEARDED TRIO ON FACEBOOK THE BEARDED TRIO ON TWITTER THE BEARDED TRIO ON GOOGLE+ THE BEARDED TRIO ON PINTEREST CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON STEVEN SPIELBERG CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON GEORGE LUCAS CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON JOHN WILLIAMS

Dreamworks Animation has extended their licencing agreement with Steven Spielberg.  Last week saw a change to Dreamworks (not the animation) to Amblin Partners which sees new backers and collaborations.  Here's the press release on the new extension to the deal: On December 21, 2015, DreamWorks Animation entered into an amendment to the License Agreement, effective as of January 1, 2009 with DW II Management, Inc. (the “Spielberg Entity”) and Steven Spielberg. Pursuant to the License Agreement, DreamWorks previously granted the Spielberg Entity (a) the right to use certain trademarks, service marks and trade names containing the term “DreamWorks” and (b) the right to grant a sublicense (the “Sublicense”) to DreamWorks II Holding Co., LLC and its wholly owned and controlled subsidiaries (collectively, “Holding Company”) to use such trademarks, service marks and trade names. Pursuant to the Amendment, the parties have further amended the License Agreement to extend the term of t

It's become a tradition that movie studios congratulate each other when their previous box office record gets beaten by another movie and studio, especially when it comes to Lucasfilm and Star Wars.  With Star Wars The Force Awakens taking the opening box office record last weekend from Universal's effort earlier in the year with Jurassic World , they have produced this picture.  It's shows a T-Rex putting a medal over BB-8 in recognition of their achievement. Frank Marshall, the producer of Jurassic World tweeted the picture along with a congratulatory message: Cheers to J.J., Kathy, the cast and crew, and DIS/LFL marketing teams! #TheForceAwakens @Disney @StarWars @Bad_Robot pic.twitter.com/oa0zwuAb2Q — Frank Marshall (@LeDoctor) December 21, 2015 The Bearded Trio - The Site For Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and John Williams THE BEARDED TRIO ON FACEBOOK THE BEARDED TRIO ON TWITTER THE BEARDED TRIO ON GOOGLE+ THE BEARDED TRIO ON PINTEREST C

This is a really clever video which has edited together parts of the Star Wars movies to bring us a Star Wars cast rendition of 'Stayin' Alive.' The Tonight Show shows its excitement over the release of the latest Star Wars sequel, The Force Awakens, by editing together footage of the previous six movies set to the tune of the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive." The Bearded Trio - The Site For Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and John Williams THE BEARDED TRIO ON FACEBOOK THE BEARDED TRIO ON TWITTER THE BEARDED TRIO ON GOOGLE+ THE BEARDED TRIO ON PINTEREST CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON STEVEN SPIELBERG CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON GEORGE LUCAS CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON JOHN WILLIAMS

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS BREAKS IMAX® OPENING WEEKEND RECORD IN THE UK WITH £3.4 MILLION FROM 42 IMAX® THEATRES FILM ALSO SETS NEWS IMAX WORLDWIDE OPENING WEEKEND RECORD GROSSING USD$48 MILLION IN IMAX ®  THEATRES WORLDWIDE IMAX Corporation today announced that Lucasfilms’  Star Wars: The Force Awakens  scored a record-setting opening weekend in the UK with £3.4 million from 42 IMAX® theatres. The film surpassed the Company’s previous best weekend in the country set by SPECTRE with £2.9 million. The film also set a new IMAX worldwide opening weekend record – grossing USD$48 million worldwide on 677 screens (excluding China), surpassing the Company’s previous best weekend set by  Jurassic World  with USD$44.1 million globally (which included China).The previous worldwide box-office record holder in IMAX – without China – was  Avengers: Age of Ultron , which earned USD$25.2 million during its opening weekend globally. “We always knew the worldwide opening for Star

T'was the night before Christmas and all was quiet.  Let's rectify that and make it even more like Christmas with ten festive tracks by John Williams.  Merry Christmas. Lets start with a classic from the movie, Home Alone. We'll return to Home Alone later.  Next up it's a real treat.  John Williams conducting Sleigh Ride with the excellent Boston Pops. Over to Home Alone 2 now with Christmas at Carnegie Hall. All aboard the Hogwarts express now as we head to the magical land of Harry Potter for Christmas, floating candles and all. Staying within the Harry Potter universe we have this wonderfully majestic piece from The Chamber of Secrets.  Has a magical Christmas feel. Back to Home Alone now.  We couldn't do a John Williams Christmas list without this one. A short track now from John Williams' latest soundtrack, The Book Thief. Finally lets have a really traditional medley of Christmas music.  Thanks for reading and listening.  Merry Chri

It's been the opening weekend for Star Wars The Force Awakens and the overall feel has been a positive one.  But to be sure The Bearded Trio asked our followers, readers and fans on our Facebook page to mark the movie out of ten.  We had over 80 responses so we've added up all the scores and divided them to give you the average score. So our readers are giving Star Wars The Force Awakens an average score of: 8 out of 10 That's not a bad score.  Some wanted to give it 11 or more (we added these as a 10) while a few gave the movie 2 or less.  But on average the movie was scoring between 6 and 9.  A solid start for the new Star Wars trilogy. The Bearded Trio - The Site For Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and John Williams THE BEARDED TRIO ON FACEBOOK THE BEARDED TRIO ON TWITTER THE BEARDED TRIO ON GOOGLE+ THE BEARDED TRIO ON PINTEREST CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON STEVEN SPIELBERG CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON GEORGE LUCAS CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON JOHN WILLIAMS

“The UK’s biggest comic event” - Shortlist “ Tens of thousands of comic book fans ” - Daily Mail “The UK’s biggest gathering…expect serious dressing up” - Metro “…huge comic con” - Time Out THE MOST POWERFUL FORCES IN COMICS JOIN TO CELEBRATE 5 TH ANNIVERSARY OF LONDON SUPER COMIC CONVENTION TAKES PLACE 20 & 21 FEBRUARY 2016 AT LONDON’S EXCEL CENTRE ·         WEEKEND PACKED WITH THOUSANDS OF SUPERHEROES, VILLAINS AND ANIME CHARACTERS ·         THE UK’S ONLY COMIC DEDICATED CONVENTION ·         SPECIAL GUESTS FOR 2016 INCLUDE FRANK CHO, HUMBERTO RAMOS, MARV WOLFMAN AND MIKE ZECK ·         FEATURES BEST SELECTION OF CREATORS, PUBLISHERS, BACK-ISSUE DEALERS, RETAILERS AND COSTUMERS IN EUROPE ·         LONDON SUPER COSTUME CHAMPIONSHIP ALSO RETURNS FOR 2016 – THE UK’S BIGGEST SHOWCASE OF COSPLAY London Super Comic Convention , the UK’s only comic dedicated event, returns for 2016 celebrating its fifth anniversary on Sat 20 &

The trailer is out for Star Trek Beyond and Trek fans have been less than impressed saying it doesn't feel like Star Trek.  Simon Pegg has even spoken out and told us fans to be patient as there's more to come and has assured us that it will be more like Trek.  In the mean time here's five stills from the movie which hits cinemas next year.  I hope Pegg is right and the next Trek film starts to look like...well Star Trek.  No Beastie Boys music please. Rob @thebeardedtrio The Bearded Trio - The Site For Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and John Williams THE BEARDED TRIO ON FACEBOOK THE BEARDED TRIO ON TWITTER THE BEARDED TRIO ON GOOGLE+ THE BEARDED TRIO ON PINTEREST CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON STEVEN SPIELBERG CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON GEORGE LUCAS CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON JOHN WILLIAMS

Check out this HD video showing Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks in Berlin for the Bridge of Spies Premiere which took place on Friday 13th October.  Autograph hunters are in abundance. The Bearded Trio - The Site For Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and John Williams THE BEARDED TRIO ON FACEBOOK THE BEARDED TRIO ON TWITTER THE BEARDED TRIO ON GOOGLE+ THE BEARDED TRIO ON PINTEREST CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON STEVEN SPIELBERG CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON GEORGE LUCAS CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON JOHN WILLIAMS

Here's my quick video showing the unboxing of the John Williams soundtrack to Star Wars The Force Awakens.  This is the deluxe version of the soundtrack.  I apologize for the slight blurriness of the video.  Looked good on the viewfinder but came out blurry. The Bearded Trio are giving you a chance to win a copy.  Competition ends 27th December 2015   Click here to enter. The Bearded Trio - The Site For Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and John Williams THE BEARDED TRIO ON FACEBOOK THE BEARDED TRIO ON TWITTER THE BEARDED TRIO ON GOOGLE+ THE BEARDED TRIO ON PINTEREST CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON STEVEN SPIELBERG CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON GEORGE LUCAS CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON JOHN WILLIAMS

One of the most highly anticipated soundtracks for some years is out, Star Wars The Force Awakens  by John Williams and The Bearded Trio are giving one away in our latest competition.  Yes we are giving you a chance at winning the deluxe version of the soundtrack which has 23 glorious tracks from the maestro. We've made it incredibly easy to enter and the competition is available worldwide.  All you have to do is take to Twitter or Facebook and post the following: I've just entered #TheForceAwakens soundtrack competition on @TheBeardedTrio #JohnWilliams #StarWars That's all you have to do.  Nice and easy.  Now we realise that some of you are staying away from social media to avoid spoilers for the movie.  Not a problem!  If you prefer you can email Rob at The Bearded Trio with your entry.  So get posting on social media or email. Terms and Conditions We will pick up that you've posted and you will be automatically into the draw.  One lucky winner will be

THE FRANCHISE is a podcast dedicated one of the great film series, with each episode an in-depth discussion of one entry in the series. In this seven-part season, The Franchise will tackle the saga that single-handedly changed the way films are made, merchandized and distributed… STAR WARS. The Franchise is co-hosted by veteran podcasters Kyle Newman and Razzle Dangerously, joined by series regular and producer Jimmy ‘Mac’ McInerney and features visits from special guests like Topher Grace. Listen to the first episode here. The Bearded Trio - The Site For Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and John Williams THE BEARDED TRIO ON FACEBOOK THE BEARDED TRIO ON TWITTER THE BEARDED TRIO ON GOOGLE+ THE BEARDED TRIO ON PINTEREST CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON STEVEN SPIELBERG CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON GEORGE LUCAS CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON JOHN WILLIAMS