Spider-Man: Brand New Day has officially set a new domestic box-office record, becoming the highest-grossing film of all time in North America. The Marvel superhero film claims a title held for more than a decade by Disney’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
File it under the category of “What Could Have Been.” According to Pirates & Princesses (citing The Wrap), acclaimed animator Genndy Tartakovsky turned down a leadership role at Lucasfilm—presented by George Lucas himself. His decision paved the way for Dave Filoni to take creative control of a galaxy far, far away. Now, fans are wondering how Star Wars would look if Tartakovsky had accepted the offer.
Disneyland is about to take a very loud step away from the sequel-trilogy “living land” concept that defined Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge in 2019... and Oga’s Cantina is right in the middle of it. Multiple Disneyland planning calendars and third-party trackers show Oga’s...
Speaking with Deadline in an exit interview, Kathleen Kennedy effectively acknowledged that Indiana Jones has no active future at Lucasfilm following the commercial collapse of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. During the interview, Deadline directly challenged...
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...
A long-simmering question surrounding Star Wars and Lucasfilm leadership has now turned into a rare public contradiction — one that places outgoing Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and filmmaker Rian Johnson directly at odds. In a recent interview reflecting on...
Is the Star Wars Rey movie still happening? When Kathleen Kennedy laid out the future of Star Wars in her Deadline exit interview, she named nearly every major project still lingering at Lucasfilm — stalled films, scripts on hold, and ideas pushed years into the...
For the first time, Kathleen Kennedy has publicly confirmed that the long-discussed James Mangold Star Wars film is no longer moving forward as planned. In her Deadline exit interview, Kennedy acknowledged that Mangold’s highly touted project — often referred to as...
As Kathleen Kennedy prepares to exit Lucasfilm, her farewell interview with Deadline reads less like an honest assessment of her tenure and more like a final attempt to rewrite the narrative — one that once again places the blame on Star Wars fans themselves. Rather...
Kathleen Kennedy is officially leaving Lucasfilm (for real this time...) bringing an end to her 14-year tenure overseeing Star Wars under Disney. This confirms a recent rumor by PUCK News. The announcement confirms a leadership transition that Disney appears eager to...
Is Kathleen Kennedy already out at Lucasfilm? A source for That Park Place says she’s essentially just a figurehead with a meaningless title at this point. And maybe we’re all just waiting for official confirmation she’s moved on when the timing is right for her… and Disney?
Rian Johnson is once again revisiting the backlash to Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and this time he’s not pretending it caught him off guard. In a new interview tied to the promotion of his upcoming Netflix film Wake Up Dead Man, Johnson openly claims that the massive fan backlash was not only expected — it was preferred.
For those of you who follow entertainment news religiously, nothing in this article should surprise you.
For those of you who, like me, had only really heard about AI and movies as a sort of nebulous, “someday in the future” concept … holy guacamole, the future is now (almost).