Lucasfilm is celebrating the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back with a yearlong charity campaign that includes special screenings of the beloved Star Wars sequel, auctions, and various other themed events.

“The Empire Gives Back” campaign kicks off on May 19 with a digitized screening of The Empire Strikes Back at the Arclight Hollywood theater in Los Angeles. An onstage Q&A session with Harrison Ford (Han “Fucking” Solo!) will follow the showing.

Tickets for the Arclight Hollywood event are on sale now and cost $100 and $175 for premium seating. All proceeds benefit the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Well, don’t just sit there, geeks. You’ve only got one month to find a date for the screening! I’m just kidding. Your mom will go with you. She loves Harrison Ford!

To keep up on future screenings and events, visit StarWars.com.

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is sponsoring an interactive Avatar exhibit today at The Grove shopping center in Los Angeles. The event is designed to promote the upcoming DVD and Blu-ray release of the blockbuster film, available on April 22 (Earth Day).

A 60′-X-10′ structure featuring three morphing stations will capture attendee’s images through state-of-the-art facial-recognition technology and transform them into blue, giant Na’vi tribes-people. A video of the transformation is then emailed to users who provide an email address.

The exhibit kicks off today at 2 p.m. All those who don’t have a job, a girlfriend, or a vagina between their legs are encouraged to attend. Personally, I’ll wait for the cutting-edge technology that will transform my life into that of stupidly-rich asshole James Cameron.

Avatar is the highest earning film of all time and sparked the 3-D craze that has given theater owners the gall to raise prices on 3-D showings.

Kirsten Dunst (Spiderman) is set to star in director Lars Von Trier’s (Antichrist) end-of-the-world sci-fi thriller Melancholia. She will go nude for the part and you can peep a glimpse of of that here.

Budgeted at a modest $7 million, Melancholia follows a group of people as they freak the fuck out upon discovering that the earth is on a collision course with another planet.

The film costars Keifer Sutherland, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Udo Kier, Charlotte Rampling, Alexander Skarsgaard, and Stellan Skarsgaard. Dunst replaces Oscar-winning actress Penelope Cruz in the role.

Melancholia will be released in Scandinavia in May. No word yet on when Magnolia Pictures plans to distribute the film in the U.S. and Canada.