In the marketing for The Mandalorian and Grogu, fans have seen the baby alien nodding, using the Force, and eating cookies. However, Kathleen Kennedy recently confirmed to Variety that Grogu will not speak.
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Marvel Releases New Dr. Strange Trailer
A new trailer for Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has just made its way to YouTube in time for the holidays. The movie releases summer of 2022, and will be the answer to a forthcoming long pause in all things Marvel. Once Spider-Man No Way Home is out of...
Spider-Man Appeals to All, Matrix Elects Partisanship
There is a joke in Spider-Man No Way Home that was clearly put in as an olive branch to a demographic that has been utterly hated by movie producers for about a decade now. Rather than reviling sixty-five percent of the American population that call themselves...
Calculating the Cost Disney Paid for 2021 Movie Mistakes
We all know that Disney stock has lost something like 20% of its total value in 2021 after the Disney+ subscriber numbers stalled. That's already a huge amount of money that The Walt Disney Company saw leave its coffers due to a lack of interest in Disney+ content....
Spider-Man Faces a New Foe: Omicron
Spider-Man: No Way Home made an astounding $587 million in its opening weekend, lifting worldwide theaters into positive territory for the year. It is resounding success for Sony, the producing studio, which had already made two of the most profitable movies of the...
Spider-Man Has Destroyed the Corporate Spin; Now What?
One month ago, I discussed in detail whey Ghostbusters Afterlife and Encanto meant more at the box office than typical movies. The simple reason was that Sony was doing something that hadn't been tried since Sonic the Hedgehog came out just before the pandemic....
Spider-Man’s Opening Night(s) Blows the Doors Off Theaters
Variety is reporting that Spider-Man: No Way Home has blasted its way into theaters with an incredible $50 million Thursday night. That means that Spider-Man is on track to have the third-highest opening for any film in history (coming in behind Avengers Endgame and...
Warrant Issued for Alec Baldwin’s Cell Phone
Is law enforcement beginning to tighten the circle around its investigation into Alec Baldwin and the shooting that killed an innocent movie director? According to Jazz Shaw and KOAT Action News, Santa Fe County County police have issued a search warrant for Alec...
Black Panther 2 Drama: Canceling Letitia Wright Has Failed… For Now
A week ago, rumors were started up by some of the access media types that Black Panther 2 star, Letitia Wright, was going to be either be canned or written out of the MCU. I chatted with some sources I have around Marvel, which are admittedly less than I have for...
The Grogu Road Map for Star Wars
Potential Star Wars and Galactic Starcruiser Spoilers Ahead: Almost exactly a year ago, I posted on Pirates and Princesses an article that reverberated throughout the Star Wars community. Some in the blogosphere thought I was crazy, others thought I just might...
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore Trailer Releases
There's a new trailer making rounds today, this one from Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. Check it out and make sure to let us know what you think in the comments below! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmK7BaGr0To
Opinion: Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot Should Be Kind to Snow White
West Side Story actress, Rachel Zegler, has completed an interview with Buzzfeed in which she says Snow White "has constantly been criticized." That seems odd given that Snow White is a story from 1812 that essentially deals with archetypes of jealousy, vanity, and...
Is Letitia Wright Being Removed from Black Panther 2?
Letitia Wright does not want to be vaccinated against the pandemic virus with any of the current vaccines at this time. She is also an actress who was planned to be the star of Black Panther 2 after the death of Chadwick Boseman from cancer. So, the rumor mill has...