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Famed Imperial baddie Grand Moff Tarkin got a CGI rendering in the live-action prequel Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and his animated form lives on Disney+’s upcoming animated series from franchise maestro Dave Filoni in Star Wars: The Bad Batch, which debuts on Tuesday, May the 4th, with a 70-minute premiere followed…

When Jon Favreau set out to make The Mandalorian, the Star Wars franchise's first-live-action series, he had a strong sense of the world he wanted to create: Intimate as well as grand, the series should harken to the vision of the original Star Wars trilogy, while taking the universe established by George Lucas in new…

The first live-action TV series coming from the Star Wars universe has broken ground on two fronts this Emmy season. It not only became a breakout success for the first year of the new streaming service Disney+ by earning a whopping 15 nominations including Outstanding Drama Series, but it also overcame Television…

Ever since Disney got its hands on Lucasfilm in 2012, a Boba Fett stand-alone movie was rumored to be in development, the last instance of which had Ford v. Ferrari filmmaker James Mangold attached to direct. Boba Fett the movie never came to be, but in the wake of Solo: A Star Wars Story fizzling at the box office…

ATX Television Festival had a stacked panel for Disney+’s The Mandalorian with show creator, executive producer and writer Jon Favreau as well as show directors Dave Filoni, Deborah Chow, Rick Famuyiwa, Bryce Dallas Howard and Taika Waititi. From the get-go, Favreau had an idea of how he wanted to frame the Star…

SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains details about the series finale of Star Wars: Clone Wars "Victory and Death” on Disney+. For Star Wars: The Clone Wars producer-scribe-supervising director-animator Dave Filoni, the animated series has represented a 15-year journey that began when he arrived at Lucasfilm from…

The end is (finally) near for Star Wars: The Clone Wars.  The award-winning animated saga returns for its finale season this Friday as the franchise makes the jump to Disney+, the subscription streaming service that is already home to the live-action Lucasfilm fan-favorite The Mandalorian. Today, Disney and Lucasfilm…

Star Wars Resistance will live to fight another day. Disney Channel has ordered up a sophomore season of the animated Lucasfilm saga with a Fall 2019 premiere episode. The first season of Star Wars Resistance resumes on Jan. 13 on Disney Channel and DisneyNOW with the ongoing adventures of Kazuda (“Kaz”) Xiono, the…

UPDATE: A photo has dropped and episodic directors revealed today for the upcoming Star Wars live-action Disney streaming series  The Mandalorian. In addition to Jon Favreau writing the first episode and serving as EP, Star Wars Rebels EP Dave Filoni will helm the first episode. Additional episodic directors include…

The animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars will return with 12 all-new episodes on Disney’s streaming service. The news was announced at the Clone Wars anniversary panel at Comic-Con. The series ran for six seasons between 2008-2013, and the revival announcement drew raised light sabers from some in the audience. The…

Here’s the first seven minutes of the upcoming Disney XD animated series Star Wars Rebels, which was sneaked tonight after the premiere of Phineas And Ferb: Star Wars. Rebels was the only shard of the Star Wars franchise at Comic-Con this year, and in terms of its timeline in the franchise, its frosh characters won’t…