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Don’t expect director Taika Waititi’s planned Star Wars film to be about Chewbacca’s grandmother. The director warned as much in a recent interview with Total Film saying, “Look, I think for the Star Wars universe to expand, it has to expand. I don’t think that I’m any use in the Star Wars universe making a film where…

Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy has been around Hollywood a long time. But she’s still learning. Speaking to Vanity Fair’s Anthony Breznican, she admitted that the 2018 Solo film, about the younger years of the swashbuckling space cowboy Han Solo, taught her a lesson: don’t recast…

(UPDATED with more details) The planned full-day walkout at Disney today over the company’s fumbled response to Florida’s discriminatory “Don’t Say Gay” bill has seen an outpouring of support for the  LGBTQ+ community from some leading divisions in the House of Mouse’s empire, as well as from staffers…

While not specifically calling out Disney’s recent debacle surrounding Florida's "Don't Say Gay" legislation, Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy made it known Saturday that she and her fellow PGA Milestone Award recipient George Lucas are on the right side of history, giving a shout-out to the impact of diverse, female…

Director George Lucas and Lucasfilm president/producer Kathleen Kennedy will be honored with the 2022 Milestone Award, the Producers Guild of America announced today. The award is being given “for their unparalleled contributions to the film industry both individually and collaboratively through Lucasfilm.” The…

The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences, and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists. Every installment asks the same five questions…

Disney+ is going rogue with another new Star Wars series. Pivoting off 2016's Rogue One: A Star Wars story, Diego Luna is back with Andor. With Tony Gilroy running the show, the 12-episode series will debut in 2022, Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy revealed at Disney's Investor Day just now. Having started production…

Star Wars world premieres, you will be missed. Since blasting off Force Awakens back in December 2015, all the way through their fifth Lucasfilm production, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker last night, it’s an understatement to say that Disney has raised the bar on the the sense of opulence and wonder in a Hollywood…

We are mere weeks away from the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, but as Disney and Lucasfilm close the final chapter of this saga, director JJ Abrams as well as stars Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and Oscar Isaac took the dais at CCXP to share the end of this adventure with the passionate fans in Sao…

BAFTA will honor film producer extraordinaire Kathleen Kennedy with the Fellowship at the EE British Academy Film Awards on Sunday 2 February 2020. Awarded annually, the Fellowship is the highest accolade bestowed by BAFTA upon an individual in recognition of an outstanding and exceptional contribution to film, games…

EXCLUSIVE: David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the duo who in 2011 launched the singular screen sensation known as Game of Thrones, have walked away from their much-publicized deal with Disney’s Lucasfilm to launch a feature film trilogy in 2022. Benioff and Weiss were supposed to usher in the post-Skywalker era of the Star…

The AFI Conservatory, one of the crown jewels of the American Film Institute, celebrated its 50th anniversary in style Thursday night at the place where it all started, the fabled Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills. One of the first “colleges” for filmmakers (there were only four at the time), it opened at Greystone…