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The Mandalorian‘s second season came to an end nearly a month ago, but the buzz and excitement around the finale continues to unfurl well into the new year. Directed by Ant-Man helmer Peyton Reed, The Mandalorian season two finale sees new faces of the Star Wars franchise come together with the classic characters that…

EXCLUSIVE: After penning Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and serving as head writer and exec producer on the upcoming Disney+ series Loki, Michael Waldron is looking to stay in business with Walt Disney Studios in a big way. Sources tell Deadline Waldron has been set to write a new Star Wars feature film…

Spoiler Alert: This story has major spoilers for the season 2 finale of Disney+’s The Mandalorian.  Mark Hamill praised Disney+’s ability to keep a secret on Saturday when he reacted to The Mandalorian’s season two finale. The sophomore finale for the Star Wars spin-off series sees the return of some beloved and major…

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, authors of Star Wars novels received royalty checks for their work. But that practice apparently ended around 2012. Now, the empire is poised to strike back, as a group action by authors of the Star Wars adaptations and other franchises are going public. They claim that…

Deadline heard there was going to be a Boba Fett Disney+ spinoff series, but Lucasfilm left it off the lineup of Star Wars shows it revealed last week at its sprawling Disney Investor Day. However, at the end of the post-credit sequences in the Season 2 finale of The Mandalorian that dropped last night, it was…

Jeremy Bulloch, the British actor best known for his performance as Mandalorian warrior and bounty hunter Boba Fett in the original Star Wars trilogy, died on Thursday. He was 75. The news was confirmed by a post on Bulloch’s Facebook page — which is private — and also by Daniel Logan, the younger actor who played the…

Disney laid down a marker on Thursday for everyone in the streaming space. The company announced a massive new slate of shows and movies for Disney+, including 20 Star Wars and 20 Marvel projects. But amidst the tidal wave of 42 new projects announced, there were at least two glaring omissions. Click on the video…

Disney unveiled dozens of new films and TV shows for Disney+ during its investor day Thursday and confirmed several others. Here is a rundown of what is headed to the streamer in the coming weeks, months and years. The list is split up by division — ranging from Lucasfilm, Marvel and Pixar to Disney Animation…

It might not entirely be Bob Chapek's Disney yet, but Thursday’s virtual Disney Investor Day event made it clear that Baby Yoda is boss. Pulling out every trick, IP and franchise in the book, the nearly four-hour extravaganza emphasized that Disney is almost all about streaming less than a year after Disney+ launched…

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…

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…

“The most beautiful thing of all,” Ewan McGregor said today about the return of Hayden Christensen as Darth Vader in the upcoming Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi, part of Lucasfilm’s Star Wars franchise. McGregor made the comment in an Obi-Wan Kenobi featurette played during Disney Investor Day where Christensen’s…