Today Lucasfilm gave us a surprise first look at the next Star Wars animated series—not an ongoing successor to The Bad Batch as it enters its
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I’ve seen Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace more times than I’m comfortable admitting, and I’m pretty sure Anakin doesn’t run around with a yellow l
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So-called activist investor Nelson Peltz, who’s aiming to win two Disney board seats, has stirred up some controversy by calling out Disney’s recent era of “woke” strategy through diversifying its slate of films at Marvel Studios.
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Timothy Zahn’s Heir to the Empire trilogy is, even now, still the definitive Star Wars text to many people beyond the films—one that we still see the reach and influence of to this very day, considering Disney and Lucasfilm are setting the stage to
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The Phantom Menace isn’t the only Star Wars movie being re-released in theaters this spring. Theaters like AMC and Alamo Drafthouse will be playing all nine mainline movies in a 20-hour marathon.
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Typical Empire. It hears its name on a building or a state and it just swoops in there and takes it over.
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Star Wars’ next live-action project is one of its most ambitious yet—a series that will bring a previously unexplored era to the small screen, and with it darkness.
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David Lynch’s Dune might just be the ultimate “what if?” movie, especially in a world where Denis Villeneuve’s take is the biggest film at the box office right now. So when you get unseen creepy baby talk uncovered for the first time in decades, by god, you take it. Check out that, why Oscar-winner Godzilla Minus One…
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In a perfect world, Patty Jenkins’ latest film, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, would just about now be wrapping up its box office run.
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Star Wars products love a theme moment—Force Friday, Triple Force Friday, whatever the Force Friday