Disney and Lucasfilm’s The Mandalorian and Grogu is now staring down the very real possibility that the long-awaited return of Star Wars to theaters won’t even crack a $100 million opening over the extended Memorial Day holiday frame. That’s despite the fact that the...
PlayStation 5 release of MachineGames Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, has entertained gamers on many platforms... including our own author, Frank, here at That Park Place. However, the physical edition’s storage requirements have sparked a minor controversy,...
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,...
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.
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.”
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.
A new rumor has surfaced from Film Threat’s Chris Gore and Alan Ng, suggesting that Disney has been quietly looking to sell Star Wars for the past seven months—but reportedly, there have been no takers.
CNN took another credibility hit this week after it seemingly ran defense for Kathleen Kennedy in what now appears to have been a blatant PR move, according to information shared by Puck’s Matt Belloni. The network published an article contradicting Puck’s report that Kennedy is planning her exit from Lucasfilm—citing a vague, anonymous “source close to the situation” who claimed there was “nothing there right now.”
Now, Belloni has exposed exactly who that source likely was—Kennedy’s personal publicist, Simon Halls.
The ongoing Kathleen Kennedy leaving Star Wars saga has taken an amusing turn as two Hollywood journalists, Puck’s Matt Belloni and Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr., are now publicly feuding over the story of her rumored exit from Lucasfilm.
After weeks of speculation about Kathleen Kennedy and her rumored retirement Lucasfilm, Deadline has now published an exclusive interview in which Kennedy flatly denies she is leaving anytime soon. This comes after Puck first reported that Disney was planning for her departure by the end of 2025, with The Hollywood Reporter and Variety following suit.
Disney has officially released the trailer for Andor Season 2, and while fans of the critically praised but underperforming Star Wars series may be excited, there’s something unusual about how the company is handling its release schedule. Instead of the standard weekly episode drop, Andor’s final season will be released in four “chapters,” each consisting of three episodes. That means the entire season will air in just four weeks—an approach rarely used for major franchise content.
With Puck, The Hollywood Reporter, and Variety all reporting that Kathleen Kennedy is set to retire from Lucasfilm before the end of 2025, it seemed like the long-rumored end of her tenure was finally happening. But now, CNN—an outlet struggling with dwindling relevance and collapsing ratings—has inserted itself into the conversation, citing an unnamed source who claims “there’s nothing there right now.”
After more than a decade at the helm of Lucasfilm, Kathleen Kennedy is reportedly preparing to retire, leaving Lucasfilm by the end of 2025, according to a recent report by Puck, with The Hollywood Reporter soon following suit. While rumors of her departure have circulated for years, this time, it appears to be more than just fan speculation.