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Amandla Stenberg has broken her silence on the cancellation of The Acolyte, following what she called a “rampage of vitriol” from fans. After Lucasfilm previously opted not to proceed with a second season of the Star Wars spin-off series, the actress explained why the show’s abrupt cancelation was…

UPDATED with full lineup: Disney has revealed the full scope of its D23 fan event for 2024, and it is truly massive. The company announced at CES this year that it would break new ground this year with its biennial fan convention, streaming portions of it on Disney+ for the first time and expanding…

Ahsoka composer Kevin Kiner discussed his Star Wars influences for the Disney+ series at Deadline's Sound & Screen Television live-music event. He also revealed an homage to Star Wars composer John Williams in episode 5. "I kind of do this Williams lick," Kiner said during a panel discussion. "I know…

A month after Disney and Lucasfilm filed paperwork to have Gina Carano's wrongful-discharge and sex-discrimination suit tossed out, the fired Mandalorian star has kicked back to keep her Elon Musk-supported legal action off the mat. “After admitting that they discriminated against Carano for her perso…

"Disney had enough." In a filing Tuesday night to dismiss Gina Carano’s wrongful-discharge and sex-discrimination lawsuit over being fired from The Mandalorian, the Mouse House states that the former MMA fighter lost her Star Wars series job in 2021 because her decision “to publicly trivialize the…

Beau Willimon (Andor) has been tapped to co-write Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi (working title) alongside the film’s director James Mangold, Deadline can confirm. First announced at last year’s Star Wars Celebration in London, the project will take place 25,000 years before any Star Wars story we’ve…

Has it been that long? George Lucas’ Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace is getting a 25th anniversary re-release by Disney on May 3. That’s in time to celebrate Star Wars day, May the 4th. As part of the "The Phantom Menace" screenings, fans will be treated to an exclusive look at…

George Lucas has come out in support of Disney and CEO Bob Iger as the company wages a bitter proxy fight against activist investor Nelson Peltz, who is making a run for two seats on the company’s board. In a statement issued this morning, Lucas said: “Creating magic is not for amateurs. When I sold…

Sam Mercer, who produced seven M. Night Shyamalan films including The Sixth Sense, headed Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light & Magic and was location manager on several classic 1980s pics, has died. He was 69. His wife Tegan Jones told Deadline that Mercer died February 12 of younger-onset…

When it comes to fired The Mandalorian actress Gina Carano and Elon Musk, revenge against the Walt Disney Company is served piping hot, even if it takes a bit of time and tries to snare Pedro Pascal and Mark Hamill. Three years after ex-MMA fighter Carano was axed by the then Bob Chapek-run Disney…

Daisy Ridley is set to reprise her role of Rey Skywalker in an upcoming Star Wars film directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. In a new interview, Ridley is expressing her excitement over the project and teasing that the story is going in a “different direction.” “So I thought about it for a little…

Lucasfilm on Tuesday broke the news of a new Star Wars film, The Mandalorian & Grogu, to be directed and produced by The Mandalorian creator Jon Favreau. Details as to the plot of the film are under wraps, but it will commence production sometime this year. In addition to Favreau, producers of the…