Disney and Lucasfilm’s long-awaited return to theaters with Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu is off to a softer-than-expected start at the box office, pulling in just $12 million in Thursday night previews according to Deadline. While that number might look...
The Star Wars universe just can’t seem to win lately. Perhaps the greatest example of modern Lucasfilm’s shortcomings can be found in the story of The Acolyte, the controversial Star Wars High Republic Disney Plus series by Harvey Weinstein’s former personal assistant Leslye Headland.
The series was canceled after a single season, but one of its stars let slip that Headland had ambitious plans for her creation that included three whole seasons and a movie.
Disney’s reported budget for the first two seasons of Andor ballooned to over half a billion dollars amid diminishing returns.
In a blunt admission that demonstrates Disney’s ongoing struggles with mismanaged Star Wars projects, Alan Bergman, co-chairman of Disney Entertainment, revealed why ill-fated canceled series The Acolyte was axed after a single season.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny director James Mangold has blamed the failure of his big budget film on the fans in a recent interview, completely ignoring and dismissing all valid criticism of the Phoebe Waller-Bridge led film that also featured Harrison Ford.
Insiders close to the development of the Star Wars: Eclipse video game have come forward to blow the whistle on Disney and Lucasfilm’s alarming mandate that all white playable characters be eliminated from the upcoming title.
Will The Acolyte get a second season? If the canceled Star Wars series were to return, it would certainly be a divisive move from Kathleen Kennedy’s Lucasfilm. While Deadline confirmed that Lucasfilm had canned the widely panned Leslye Headland show, series actor Manny Jacinto believes that there’s still a chance it could return.
Star Wars: Outlaws debuted on Steam yesterday and many were wondering if the troubled Ubisoft title would finally find its audience on PC.
A long time co-author on the Star Wars Encyclopedia (then called Ultimate Star Wars) was fired by publisher DK due to a mandate by Lucasfilm that they hire more diverse writers.
To the shock of many, Gina Carano appears in the new Star Wars Encyclopedia, published by DK and released this month. However, there’s absolutely no mention of any characters associated with The Acolyte. Carano’s character, Cara Dune, gets a large photo and a full write up detailing her history, military service, and adventures with The Mandalorian and Grogu. Dune was prominently featured in the first two season of The Mandalorian and was set to receive her own spin-off series on Disney+ called Rangers of The New Republic.
A new rumor claims that Daisy Ridley will return as Rey as an Obi-Wan Kenobi figure in the recently announced Star Wars trilogy that will be written by Simon Kinberg and produced by Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy. Deadline's Mike Fleming Jr. originally reported...
A Lucasfilm employee went on an angry tirade against the majority of Americans. Now many are wondering why the seeming double-standard is so strong for Disney employees with moderate and/or conservative viewpoints versus those with abrasive, ugly and awful statements...
A new report claims that Simon Kinberg, the writer for box office disasters X-Men: Dark Phoenix and The 355 will pen a new trilogy of Star Wars films that will be produced by Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy. Deadline's Mike Fleming Jr. shares that this trilogy...