What began as a pair of damning reviews by Nerdrotic and The Critical Drinker quickly turned into a full-scale embarrassment for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy — and a powerful demonstration of how decisively New Media now outperforms legacy Hollywood. Within the same...
Saturday Night Live managed to do something it hasn’t consistently pulled off in years: land a sketch that actually connects with the audience. Unfortunately for SNL, that also meant triggering the internet’s most reliable reflex — outrage....
Netflix has officially secured the exclusive streaming rights to The Legend of Zelda movie following its theatrical and home media releases, cementing the platform’s growing role in the future of big-budget franchise films. The move guarantees that once the film...
For years now, audiences have sensed something was off about Netflix’s original movies. They look expensive, they feature major stars, and yet many of them feel strangely hollow—over-explained, oddly paced, and forgettable almost the moment the credits roll. Now,...
Speaking with Deadline in an exit interview, Kathleen Kennedy effectively acknowledged that Indiana Jones has no active future at Lucasfilm following the commercial collapse of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. During the interview, Deadline directly challenged...
David Ellison has taken the battle for Warner Bros beyond boardrooms and court filings. It has gone international. According to a new report, David Ellison — CEO of Skydance Media and the driving force behind Paramount Skydance — has embarked on a full-scale European...
Lucasfilm is once again playing cleanup duty — and this time, the spotlight is squarely on Dave Filoni, Andor, and long-simmering rumors that the series succeeded in spite of the studio’s internal creative hierarchy rather than because of it. Following a recent report...
Hollywood’s media class has a familiar response whenever a high-profile franchise release fails to resonate with audiences: the problem isn’t the show, it’s the fans. That narrative is once again being deployed following the debut of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, as...
The proposed Netflix Warner Bros. deal continues to move from speculation to serious industry reckoning, as Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos has now publicly laid down a specific commitment regarding theatrical releases should Netflix’s acquisition of Warner Bros....
A long-simmering question surrounding Star Wars and Lucasfilm leadership has now turned into a rare public contradiction — one that places outgoing Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and filmmaker Rian Johnson directly at odds. In a recent interview reflecting on...
Is the Star Wars Rey movie still happening? When Kathleen Kennedy laid out the future of Star Wars in her Deadline exit interview, she named nearly every major project still lingering at Lucasfilm — stalled films, scripts on hold, and ideas pushed years into the...
For the first time, Kathleen Kennedy has publicly confirmed that the long-discussed James Mangold Star Wars film is no longer moving forward as planned. In her Deadline exit interview, Kennedy acknowledged that Mangold’s highly touted project — often referred to as...