Adam Driver spent two years developing a Star Wars movie with director Steven Sodenbergh, script-writer Scott Z. Burns, and the Lucasfilm brain trust of Kathleen Kennedy, Carrie Beck, and Dave Filoni, only to have Disney executives Bob Iger and Alan Bergman kill it. The reasoning? "They didn’t see how Ben Solo was alive," Driver told [...]
When Star Wars announced the full panel schedule for Celebration Japan, one panel caught my attention above the rest. Sure, there are panels for some of the franchise's headliners, like The Mandalorian & Grogu, Andor, and Ahsoka. But there's another panel that has the potential to really steal the headlines. On the first day of [...]
It is an undeniable reality that Lucasfilm has a spotty track record of getting movies done in the Disney era. Every film they've released since Disney bought the company has experienced significant production problems, with the sole exception of The Last Jedi, and there have been a litany of projects quite publicly left on the [...]
Earlier this week reports started to swirl that Kathleen Kennedy was going to be retiring as President of Lucasfilm this year. It was originally reported by Puck, but major trades like Variety and The Hollywood Reporter reported hearing the same thing - though these reports were a bit more conflicted. Kennedy didn't wait long to [...]
Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy may be retiring by the end of this year, according to reports. The news was first reported by Puck, but industry trades like Variety and The Hollywood Reporter have since shared the same reports. It should be noted, however, that some of these reports are decidedly less concrete than Puck's original [...]
If you follow Hollywood and the movie industry, you've no doubt seen some comments from Disney CEO Bob Iger in recent days that have stirred conversation. The comments I want to focus on today are those he made in a recent CNBC interview about Disney's current lull and what the studio is doing about it. [...]
Lucasfilm is incredibly well-represented in the official list of Emmy nominations this year, as the studio received a very impressive 23 nominations across four shows. Included among those nominations were Andor being nominated in Outstanding Drama Series and Obi-Wan Kenobi being nominated in Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series, two of the most prestigious and notable [...]
Lucasfilm isn't in danger of running out of content to make any time soon. They're running full speed ahead with Star Wars material, including a number of movies and shows that are currently in development. There's never been a time with more Star Wars content than we're getting right now, and it's wonderful. But it [...]
Earlier this week, Disney announced an updated schedule of theatrical releases in the coming years, and among the changes is that we'll have to wait a little bit longer for Star Wars to return to theaters. Disney pushed back the Star Wars movie that was originally scheduled to release on December 19, 2025, instead filling [...]
Star Wars will soon be returning to the big screen, as Lucasfilm President Kathy Kennedy announced the company's theatrical plans at the recent Star Wars Celebration. And when that happens, one of the iconic hallmarks of the franchise will return as well: the opening crawl. "The crawl's coming back," Kennedy told Entertainment Weekly at Celebration [...]
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