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...
Is pressure building to sunset Kathleen Kennedy out of her position at Lucasfilm, and is that why she's pushing a Waititi Star Wars release so soon? For the first time in my history, I'm starting to hear and relay that Kathleen Kennedy's time may be coming to...
Strange things are happenin' at The Walt Disney Company. Is Bob Chapek getting ready to lay down the boom on those who would push the company in divisive directions? I had the excellent opportunity yesterday to sit down with our good friend, Valliant Renegade,...
There are few times that something is crystalized into an absolutely perfect answer to a complex question. In the case of Star Wars and Taika Waititi as a potential writer / director, such a moment has occurred. We've seen some troubling issues surrounding Waititi as...
Is the next Indy film the finale of three or more Hollywood mega-careers? A statement by a legendary composer suggests it could well be. Legendary composer John Williams has confirmed that Indiana Jones 5 may very well be his last time scoring a film....
There are on Star Wars movies in active development. Obi-Wan Kenobi was soundly beaten in ratings by Stranger Things. The fandom seems in a funk. How can it be repaired? As we're finding out that even by its third episode, Obi-Wan Kenobi had failed to reach the...
Following the revelation that Taika Waititi has no script for a new Star Wars movie and isn't even sure he may make one, the best Star Wars fans can hope for is perhaps a movie by 2027. One writer looks at possibilities for the franchise to save itself given the lack...
You would think that one of the most iconic... maybe the most iconic... villains in all of cinema history would have his own little area to appear in a Disney theme park. The towering Darth Vader would surely be located in the heart of whatever Star Wars themed area...
Sympathy for the Disney Devil Part II: A Different Perspective on the Failure of the Sequel Trilogy The last decade has seen a lot of turmoil within the Star Wars community. The announcement of the Disney acquisition of Lucasfilm was a bombshell at the time, and led...
Have you ever seen a film that needed defense like this five years later? Why do they care enough to try? It really is an impressive feat that The Last Jedi has achieved. Despite coming in more than half-a-billion less than its predecessor film, the dogmatists who...
Who is really winning the streaming wars and is Obi-Wan Kenobi a cultural phenomenon like two other media entries this summer? If you've been visiting That Park Place very much, you know that there is a bit of controversy surrounding Stranger Things and Obi-Wan...
We told you the Nielsen ratings were coming... and there they are. In near-record time for Nielsen, we're finding out that when it comes to "minutes watched" for the first weekend of a Stranger Things debut, Season 4 came out swinging big time. The show tallied more...
Every single thing points to Disney's decade-long project with Star Wars being dead. It has utterly failed. Follow along as we detail just how spectacularly it died this week. It would be hard to have missed all the developments surrounding Lucasfilm, Star Wars...