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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…

Star Wars creator George Lucas and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy are paying tribute to Peter Mayhew, the gentle-giant actor who played Chewbacca in the original Star Wars trilogy and two later films in the franchise. He died Tuesday at his home in North Texas. "Peter was a wonderful man,” Lucas said in a…

That disturbance in the Force today came from Chicago, where J.J. Abrams, Kathleen Kennedy and the cast of the newly titled Star Wars IX: The Rise of Skywalker greeted thousands of fans at a jam-packed McCormick Place to preview the December film, release its official title and premiere the first trailer. The trailer…

Disney’s Lucasfilm and director J.J. Abrams just announced the full title of the finale film in the Skywalker screen saga: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker . The Abrams-directed film will be released Dec. 20. The trailer opens on Rey, breathing heavy on the desert planet of Jaku. A craft with a black-gloved pilot…

At Disney’s investor day, Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy confirmed that the full Star Wars film franchise will be available on Disney+ within the first year of its launch. The original trilogy, released between 1977 and 1983, as well as the prequel trilogy that came out from 1999 to 2005, will join the Disney…

The end of an era? J.J. Abrams took to Twitter today to announce the completion of principal photography on Star Wars IX, which has been billed by all involved as the final installment of the Skywalker family saga which began its historic cinematic run in May 1977 with the release of the first Star Wars movie. With an…

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…

It looks new but it sure sounds familiar. That’s the first-take reaction many Star Wars fans will have when they watch the just-released trailer for Star Wars Galaxy of Adventures, the latest iteration of the Jedi universe. Star Wars Galaxy of Adventures is a new series of slickly produced, anime-informed shorts that…

Pixar co-founder and computer animation pioneer Ed Catmull will retire next year after more than four decades working in the film industry. The soft-spoken computer engineer will step down from his current role as president of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios at the end of the year, though he’ll serve in…

Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, who has been the steward of the Star Wars universe since 2012, has signed a three-year extension that will keep her with the company through 2021. Kennedy has been the lead figure for the cinematic reinvigoration of the Jedi universe under the corporate banner of The Walt Disney…