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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…

There’s one month left before the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker so today Lucasfilm/Disney released a gallery of character posters to highlight the returning classic characters as well as the intriguing new faces who joining the cosmic struggle between good evil. By all accounts, Rise of Skywalker…

Werner Herzog already qualified as the most unlikely cinema citizen to visit the Star Wars universe since the late Alec Guinness was wearing Obi-Wan Kenobi’s robes and on Wednesday night the German filmmaking icon also became the Jedi brand’s most unexpectedly impassioned apostle. Herzog, the esteemed director of Fitzc…

Asked in a BBC radio interview about whether Disney has pumped out too many Marvel and Star Wars films over too short a timespan, CEO Bob Iger reaffirmed plans for a Star Wars slowdown. While Marvel is “doing sensationally well,” the Star Wars pipeline is getting a closer look, Iger said during a wide-ranging…

The final trailer for Star Wars IX: Rise of Skywalker just arrived during halftime of Monday Night Football on ESPN, a high-profile promotion for the J.J. Abrams-directed fantasy epic that also served as the starting-whistle for the film’s advance tickets sales. The December 20 mega-release from Disney-owned Lucasfilm…

Deborah Chow will be the director who ushers Ewan McGregor back into the Jedi Universe to resume his portrayal of Obi-Wan Kenobi on the new Lucasfilm series planned for the Disney+ subscription streaming service. Chow’s credits include Jessica Jones, Mr. Robot, American Gods, Better Call Saul, and Lost in Space, but…

Kevin Feige will develop a Star Wars movie for Lucasfilm, Disney has confirmed. Feige reportedly discussed the idea in a late summer meeting with Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy and studio co-chairmen Alan Horn and Alan Bergman. Disney Studios co-chairman and CCO Alan Horn confirmed the project is in development in…

The official poster for Disney and Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was unfurled on Saturday in the middle of the studio’s feature film presentations at the D23 Expo in Anaheim. The pic, directed by JJ Abrams, is the finale of the original Skywalker Saga of films in the franchise and hits theaters December…

Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy has named Michelle Rejwan as SVP of Live Action Development and Production for Lucasfilm. Rejwan is a producer on the upcoming Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and was a co-producer on 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens and also a co-producer on Bad Robots’ pics Star Trek: Into Dar…

Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy has been elected chair of the American Film Institute Board of Trustees. Kennedy will lead the AFI Trustees to set the Institute's priorities and guide its national education programs. Kennedy succeeds Sir Howard Stringer, who served as chair of the AFI Board of Trustees since…