The Disney era of Star Wars has been, to put it mildly, deeply divisive. The sequel trilogy—The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and The Rise of Skywalker—sparked the debate and has remained at the heart of it ever since. Yet one performer from the films believes audiences will eventually come around, even going so far as to claim the sequels could become as beloved as the prequel trilogy of the early 2000s.
On Wednesday, former Mandalorian star Gina Carano highlighted a striking similarity between a new marketing slogan for Andor Season 2 and one of her own previous tweets. In a post on X, Carano pointed out that the phrase “Welcome to the Rebellion,” prominently used in Andor’s promotional campaign, mirrors her own previous post and also the slogan.
Gina Carano and The Walt Disney Company have come to an agreement in regards to documents that will be turned over in her lawsuit against Disney, Lucasfilm and more. The court has ordered a protective order in an effort to safeguard secrets related to The Mandalorian,...
In a move that has set the film preservation and Star Wars communities abuzz, the British Film Institute (BFI) has announced that it will publicly screen the original 1977 cut of Star Wars — not A New Hope, not the 1997 Special Edition, but the raw, unaltered classic that lit the spark for one of the most influential sagas in cinematic history.
The legal battle between Gina Carano and Disney has just entered a new—and potentially game-changing—phase. Following a federal judge’s decision to grant Carano’s motion to compel, Disney has been ordered to turn over key internal compensation records tied to The Mandalorian, Ahsoka, The Book of Boba Fett, Andor, The Acolyte, and the upcoming The Mandalorian & Grogu film. The ruling forces the entertainment giant to hand over verified spreadsheets and actor contract data within 20 days—a significant victory in Carano’s ongoing wrongful termination lawsuit.
In a major legal victory for Gina Carano in her legal battle against Disney, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California has granted a motion to compel Disney to turn over key documents related to how other Star Wars actors were compensated—including big names like Pedro Pascal, Rosario Dawson, and the cast of The Mandalorian & Grogu. The order comes after eight months of what Carano described as Disney’s “deflection and stalling” in her wrongful termination lawsuit.
The legal showdown and upcoming trial between The Mandalorian and Deadpool star Gina Carano and entertainment behemoth Disney just took another dramatic turn. In a new statement posted to X, Carano announced that her attorneys have filed a motion to compel after waiting eight months for basic discovery materials Disney has allegedly refused to provide.
John Boyega has revisited his experience with the Star Wars franchise in a new Apple TV+ documentary, offering fresh comments that are once again stirring debate among fans. In Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Men in Hollywood, Boyega shared his views on the franchise’s perceiced lack of representation and takes aim at the fanbase instead of the studio.
A strange thing is happening in Hollywood media. Months after Disney quietly canceled The Acolyte, the narrative around the show is being aggressively reengineered using the misleading metric of “demand.”
The way Disney handled Rachel Zegler after her political social media meltdown stands in stark contrast with the company’s firing of Gina Carano.
Before the sale of Lucasfilm to Disney, George Lucas had reportedly created a large number of Star Wars scripts that would have taken the series in a much darker direction. In the lead-up to the purchase of Lucasfilm by Disney in 2012, fans could sense that...
Investors and movie industry buffs might want to reconsider listening to "reported budgets" coming out of the trades in regards to Disney films. A new article from Caroline Reid at Forbes has shattered the narrative on what Disney is spending behind-the-scenes. When...
For decades, fans of Star Wars have pleaded for the original theatrical cut of the 1977 classic to be made available on streaming platforms. Yet, despite Disney’s ownership of the franchise, the unaltered version—without the A New Hope subtitle or the controversial changes made in later releases—remains elusive. However, for a brief moment, a solution seemed to emerge from an unexpected source.