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The Motion Picture Sound Editors unveiled winners Sunday night at the 67th Golden Reel Awards at the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles. The annual ceremony recognizing outstanding achievement in sound editing presented awards in 23 categories encompassing feature films, long-form and short-form television, animation…

Baby, meet Daddy. The Mandalorian showrunner Jon Favreau has tweeted out a charming shot of Star Wars creator George Lucas holding a Baby Yoda. Lucas seems bemused by the doll, which is part of the Disney merchandising machine line of licensed toys that will be out later this year. The toys were delayed because…

The Visual Effects Society has unveiled nominations for its 18th annual VES Awards, which honor VFX work in film, animation, TV, commercials and video games. Winners will be revealed at a ceremony January 29 at the Beverly Hilton. Disney’s CG redo of the The Lion King and 20th Century Fox’s Alita: Battle Angel lead…

SPOILER ALERT: This video contains details of some of the greatest series that TV had to offer this year. In fact, it lists series that Deadline's Chief TV Critic thinks are the Top 5 New Shows of 2019. You have been warned.  Happy New Year and welcome to the roaring twenties, 21st century style. Coming off a decade…

On the day of the release of the season 1 finale, The Mandalorian creator and showrunner Jon Favreau has confirmed the second installment of the Disney+ series will launch in fall 2020. Favreau revealed the news Friday on Twitter. Season 2 of <a…

"You know, big things coming for yer boy," a very chatty and sometimes coarse Baby Yoda bragged to Saturday Night Live's Michael Che tonight – going very off the family focus of Disney+ Fresh off the news that Mattel, Hasbro and others have toys and merchandise for sale next spring or the breakout star of the recently…

Hasbro’s Baby Yoda toy figures will be ready in time for the holidays – Easter maybe, Memorial Day likely. The toy maker unveiled its Cabbage Patch-anticipated line of four Baby Yoda figure styles today, offering kids (and keep-the-cellophane adult collectors) the opportunity to preorder the cuteness for an expected…

The world seems obsessed lately with Baby Yoda from The Mandalorian, the buzzy hit for Disney+. So, naturally, that fascination was ripe for ribbing on South Park. Tonight’s show focused on efforts by Scott Malkinson to get a streaming service in order to win the heart of a local girl. The only problem: his old man…

A week after Disney+ launched to great fanfare and amid claims of security breaches, Kevin Mayer today pulled back the Mouse ears a bit on the subscriber tsunami that hit the streaming service on Day 1 and the resulting widespread technical glitches. "We were very surprised by the size and the magnitude," the head of…

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…

UPDATED with closing stock price, analyst comments: Disney stock soared more than 6% to an all-time high after the company revealed Wednesday that its new streaming service, Disney+, has already drawn 10 million sign-ups. That number, which the company ascribed in a press release to “extraordinary consumer demand,&#8221…

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…