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R2D2 and C3PO are getting their own adventure on Disney+. The streamer is developing A Droid Story featuring the duo. It will be an animated series produced by Lucasfilm Animation and ILM. Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy said, "As we continue to develop new stories, the intersection of animation of visual…

The Willow television adaptation has been handed a series order at Disney+. Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu will direct the pilot for the series, which is slated to begin production next year. This comes 18 months after news of the development of the adaptation of the movie, directed by Ron Howard from a story…

With social distancing requirements apt to give a boost to virtual reality, especially in public places like theme parks, Lucasfilm and Oculus VR specialists are joining forces for a new Star Wars attraction. Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge is an original story that will include multiple styles of gameplay and…

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…

When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysteri…

Disney/Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker has officially crossed the $1B mark globally, becoming Disney’s 7th release of 2019 to the milestone. The epic saga-ending installment is also the 9th film of the year to get there (along with Sony’s Spider-Man: Far From Home and Warner Bros’ Joker). The Star Wars…

FRIDAY UPDATE: Disney/Lucasfilm's Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker hit an upward offshore trajectory on Thursday versus Wednesday, adding $24.4M in 52 material markets for an international box office cume of $282.3M so far. December 26 was good for a 45% bump over Christmas Day and repped 15% of the initial weekend's…

Advance ticket sales for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker are pacing with 2017’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi at the same point in their Fandango cycle. We heard from other exhibition sources that a $200 million-plus opening is within reach. Also working greatly in favor of business this weekend: 15% of K-12 schools are…

The interstellar, multi-generational saga of House Skywalker reaches its concluding and (hopefully) climactic chapter with Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the ninth installment in the space opera that has captivated moviegoers since the Carter Administration. The mega-release from Disney’s Lucasfilm and…

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…

Disney/Lucasfilm's Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker has been set for a December 20 China release, in step with domestic. This marks a change from the saga's recent holiday installments which have each bowed in the Middle Kingdom in January, after initial rollout elsewhere. The official Star Wars Weibo account posted a…

We are a little under a month away before one of the most iconic space sagas concludes with Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. During the American Music Awards, a new featurette was released and gave an emotional look at how the franchise George Lucas started in 1977 has impacted pop culture and the world. In under…