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EXCLUSIVE: The story of The Acolyte will not continue, with Lucasfilm opting not to proceed with a second season of the Star Wars offshoot starring Amandla Stenberg, sources tell Deadline. Word of the decision comes more than a month after the eight-episode first season of the series from creator…

The first trailer for the new Disney+ Lucasfilm series Star Wars: Skeleton Crew dropped in the Honda Center room at Disney’s D23 in Anaheim on Friday Jude Law came onstage and said the series harkens to the Amblin kid fantasy films of the 1980s ala The Goonies. “I fell in love with Star Wars…

"Unless you want to go another round, one of us is going to have to leave, and I was here first," Gina Carano's former Rebel shock trooper Cara Dune says in Season 1 of Disney+'s The Mandalorian. Those scripted words from the ex-MMA fighter have an added resonance today, as Disney failed to get Carano's…

Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm’s Star Wars were at a lull this year at the Primetime Emmy noms with five apiece. While that’s up +2 from Marvel’s count of three last year with the Disney+ series Ms. Marvel, Star Wars‘ tally this year, all for Ahsoka, is off considerably from 2023’s 23 noms, which was…

Deadline has confirmed that the Shawn Levy directed Star Wars movie we first told you about back in 2022, is being penned by Jonathan Tropper. The news comes as Levy is about to detonate the summer with his directed Marvel Studios feature Deadpool & Wolverine, which some tracking services have at a…

The Locarno Film Festival will pay tribute to award-winning Star Wars, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Indiana Jones sound engineer, editor and voice actor Ben Burtt at its upcoming 77th edition in August. The veteran technician will be feted with the festival's Vision Award Ticinomoda, the prize…

Daisy Ridley lived an uncanny moment while visiting the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California. The Star Wars: The Force Awakens star came face-to-face with the theme park performer who portrays Rey from the film. The actress behind Rey posted photos of herself at Disneyland in Anaheim…

“We weren’t really that interested in making money, we were interested in making movies,” said Star Wars franchise architect George Lucas about the early days of his career with mentor Francis Ford Coppola in a Cannes sit down discussion today. In a wide-ranging chat before a packed Salle Debussy…

A month after Disney and Lucasfilm filed paperwork to have Gina Carano's wrongful-discharge and sex-discrimination suit tossed out, the fired Mandalorian star has kicked back to keep her Elon Musk-supported legal action off the mat. “After admitting that they discriminated against Carano for her perso…

Patty Jenkins is giving an update on film projects she’s been attached to, such as Wonder Woman 3 and Star Wars: Rogue Squadron. In a new interview, the filmmaker says another sequel to the DC superhero movie will most likely never happen. While appearing on Max’s Talking Pictures Podcast, Ben…

Jar Jar Binks. Invoke the name to any hardcore Star Wars fan and then step back to see the explosion. No one is neutral. The actor who brought the goofy Gungan character to life, Ahmed Best, had a number of highs and lows attached to his role. Opinions on the character ran hot after his Star Wars: Ep…

“How many of you had ‘Mark Hamill will lead the press briefing’ on your bingo cards?” the Star Wars icon joked as he took the podium at the White House. “Yeah, me either.” It’s not such a far-fetched idea, however, when one considers the date. It’s May 3, the last weekday before that sacred Star Wars…