Ahead of the Dec. 19 theatrical release of Disney-Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live! will do a primetime special on Dec. 16. It will feature director JJ Abrams and cast members Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, Naomi Ackie, Kelly Marie…
The Walt Disney Co. is asking exhibitors worldwide to warn moviegoers thatStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker may pose a seizure risk to audience members with photosensitive epilepsy. The Disney/Lucasfilm fantasy film opens Dec. 20.
In an unusual move, Disney has sent a letter to theater owners and operators worldwide…
Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge, a new game show aimed at kids and hosted by Jar Jar Binks actor Ahmed Best, will premiere on the Disney+ subscription streaming service in 2020.
The live-action skills game show is a first for the Star Wars brand, which  is getting major Disney investment these days with J.J. Abrams’ T…
The mystery of the purloined Star Wars script has been solved: The Rise of Skywalker star John Boyega says it was his script that ended up recently — if briefly — on eBay. And the cleaner did it.
Appearing today on ABC’s Good Morning America, Boyega told host Michael Strahan that he’d left his script for Star Wars: The…
Anyone looking for a refresher on the entire Star Wars saga needn’t devote the four-day Thanksgiving weekend to the endeavor: Daisy Ridley rapped the history on last night’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Star Wars’ “Rey” rapped the saga as the NBC host did Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” cue card…
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…
We have seen the future of Star Wars, and it could be on the small screen.
The first live-action Star Wars TV series in the four-decade history of the storied brand launches today with The Mandalorian, which debuted with the entry of Disney+ into the streaming wars. No spoilers, but take a look at the video above for…
Disney has been touting its Disney+ streaming service as a potent collection of well-known brands, including Marvel, Lucasfilm and Pixar. It appears Starz is joining that list, at least in a very brief fashion and among only a subset of new subscribers to the platform, which launches next Tuesday.
As part of a broader…
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…
After Rian Johnson made Star Wars: The Last Jedi, he faced angry Star Wars fans on Twitter, including some who formed a petition to have Lucasfilm strike Johnson's film from Star Wars canon. Johnson funneled that experience into his new film, Knives Out. The all-star murder mystery has a character, Jacob Thrombey…
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…
