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Deadline has confirmed that Disney/Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: Rogue Squadron won’t be going into production in 2022 as originally planned. Our sources tell us that casting on the project was not underway. Director Patty Jenkins, who has been developing the movie with writer Matthew Robinson for more than a year is…

Wonder Woman franchise director Patty Jenkins and Lynda Carter spoke today about the DC femme superhero’s resonance during DC FanDome today, and in the course of that conversation, the former confirmed that the threequel is still in the works. “We're super excited about Wonder Woman 3. Gal (Gadot), who is so bummed…

Anyone who skipped CinemaCon this year out of fear of the pandemic in Las Vegas missed a spitfire of a luncheon chat Thursday afternoon. Not only was Patty Jenkins smashing the theatrical day-and-date model, and wagging a finger at exhibition over the decline in the moviegoing experience, but also Paramount Domestic…

Deadline has confirmed that Matthew Robinson will pen Patty Jenkins’ upcoming Star Wars movie Rogue Squadron. Robinsin co-wrote and co-directed with Ricky Gervais the 2009 comedy The Invention of Lying.  Disney had no comment. Of late, Lucasfilm has been steering Star Wars onto the Disney+ streaming service with The M…

After setting the original Wonder Woman during the sober period of World War I, Patty Jenkins made a left turn for the sequel, Wonder Woman 1984, putting the action in the gaudy, greed-is-good era of the 1980s. Speaking during Warner Bros’ panel for the film during Deadline's Contenders Film awards-season event, the…

Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins slammed the New York Post on Tuesday for an article that discussed the process of bringing the Gal Gadot-starrer to screen. “Versions of this article seems to be everywhere and not true. There was no ‘war’ with warner bros. over ww,” Jenkins said on Twitter. “I’m talking about 10…

Wonder Woman 1984 has been delayed due to the pandemic, and it might not be the kind of theatrical big-screen release for which it was planned, and the way it is hitting multiplexes and home screens via HBO Max day-and-date is controversial to say the least, but the movie itself is a lot of fun. That is not to say…

Editors Note: As chairman/CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment in the era of Titanic, X-Men, Independence Day and Braveheart, and producer of the Oscars and Oscar-nominated films like Hacksaw Ridge and Coraline, Bill Mechanic has been part of the fabric of the film industry his whole career. He thought he had seen every…

Warner Bros/DC's Wonder Woman 1984 begins offshore rollout today in such markets as Indonesia, Portugal and the UK — though on a very limited basis in the latter where London cinemas have been re-shuterred as the capital moves into a Tier 3 Covid lockdown. In total, there will be 32 markets open through Friday with…

After launching the Wonder Woman franchise, Patty Jenkins is ready to go to a galaxy far, far, away. She has been tapped to direct a new Star Wars movie Rogue Squadron for Disney and Lucasfilm. The announcement was made during the Disney earnings presentation Thursday. This will be the next Star Wars film to be…

Before WarnerMedia’s decision last week to move Warner Bros’ entire 2021 feature film slate to HBO Max along with their theatrical releases, the company made the same move with its DC tentpole Wonder Woman 1984. The sequel to the 2017 hit will still premiere in cinemas on December 25, but now also at home via…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has won an auction for an epic that will have Gal Gadot wearing the crown of a real wonder woman of history. Wonder Woman helmer Patty Jenkins will direct Gadot in Cleopatra, a period biographical drama scripted by Laeta Kalogridis. This is the first major project package won by Paramount…