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The long-awaited Obi-Wan Kenobi series will premiere on Disney+ on May 25, finally bringing to life a long dreamed and long awaited project. By now the history of the project is fairly well-known, with a return for star Ewan McGregor having been in the works for years. The original idea was for it to be [...]
Obi-Wan Kenobi is back. Over fifteen years since his last on-screen appearance in Star Wars, Ewan McGregor was brought back for the upcoming Disney+ limited series. To even get to that point was quite the ride, as Star Wars fans endured several rumored projects about Kenobi before finally getting an official announcement in 2019, as [...]
A while ago, Deadline reported that Lucasfilm was no longer developing the film adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi's bestselling novel Children of Blood & Bone. Paramount Pictures has acquired the rights to develop the trilogy of films, with Adeyemi writing the screenplay and executive producing. Nothing about Lucasfilm was mentioned except for the fact that they [...]
The long-awaited next chapter of the Indiana Jones franchise has wrapped filming! The yet-untitled Indiana Jones 5 began filming in June 2021, with such a lengthy production schedule presumably at least in part due to the injury suffered by star Harrison Ford on set. But on Sunday, producer Frank Marshall tweeted an announcement that the [...]
In a bit of non-Star Wars news, yet still very much related to Lucasfilm, it was recently reported by Deadline that Paramount Pictures has acquired the rights to develop a trilogy of films based on Tomi Adeyemi's bestselling novel Children of Blood and Bone. What's significant is that, last we had heard, Lucasfilm had the [...]
George Lucas and Kathy Kennedy are set to receive a very prestigious award recognizing their numerous contributions to the film industry, as the Producers Guild of America will present them with the 2022 Milestone Award at the 33rd Producers Guild Awards on March 19. The award is described as the PGA's "highest honor" and it [...]
We are just days away from a pretty significant moment for the Walt Disney Company, as Bob Iger is officially stepping down as Executive Chairman of the Board on December 21, 2021. Iger will be succeeded as Chairman by longtime board member Susan Arnold. Iger is one of the most accomplished executives in Disney's storied [...]
We are just over a month away from the premiere of The Book of Boba Fett on Disney+, and though we haven't heard much about the series, that will probably be changing soon. The cover of the upcoming issue of Empire magazine was recently revealed, featuring Boba Fett in all his glory. https://twitter.com/starwars/status/1461742893123600385 While the [...]
One of the most accomplished producers in movie history is staying at Lucasfilm for another few years at least. According to Matthew Belloni, a former editor at The Hollywood Reporter who now writes for Puck Newsletter, Kathleen Kennedy recently signed another three-year contract extension. Though that's not exactly official confirmation, it seems to be corroborated [...]
The Hollywood Reporter recently broke the news that Lynne Hale will be retiring at the end of 2021, bringing to a close a run of 35 years leading Lucasfilm's public relations. Hale, who is currently Lucasfilm's Vice President of Publicity & Communications, joined the company in 1986 and played a pivotal role in the Star [...]
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