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Lucasfilm Story Group creative executive Pablo Hidalgo revealed their official name during an interview with StarWars.com earlier this summer. Hidalgo isn't surprised by how social media buzz has grown in favor of these inquisitive creatures: "Ever since that roadside scavenger let out that belch outside Jabba's palace in Return of the Jedi, the idea that there's an entire[...]

Disney has announced that it is moving its material to its own streaming service but it would have to get 32 million subscribers to break even.

Force Friday is tonight/tomorrow, and while it is very exciting to get new Star Wars products, those of us who collect merchandise from our beloved galaxy far, far away face a dilemma every year now: just how much do we need? This year, like the first Force Friday and Rogue Friday, Lucasfilm has decided to keep[...]

But these things didn't exist decades ago when the original Star Wars films started to take off. Friday afternoon at San Diego Comic-Con, Craig Miller, Lucasfilm's original director of fan relations, took con attendees back in time to a period where showing your Star Wars love was a very different endeavor[...]

Bleeding Cool reporter Erin Wilhelm writes: Lucasfilm Publishing brought some of their most popular and prolific authors to SDCC to talk about their work and what is to come in the months before the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Ben Blacker (Star Wars: Join the Resistance) talked about his Join the Resistance series for middle grade[...]

The difference this time around is timing. For The Force Awakens, the behind-the-scenes clip premiered during the film's presentation at San Diego Comic-Con, but this year, Lucasfilm and Disney are using D23 to deliver the majority of their Star Wars updates And, I'm actually a bit shocked it took them this long[...]

Revealed online in time for the Disney D23 Expo at Anaheim, a set of brand new posters for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, including Rey, Finn and General Leia

The publisher will release a Star Wars: The Force Awakens graphic novel geared toward young readers, part of Disney's Star Wars: The Last Jedi promotion, in August. The comic is written by Allesandro Ferrari with art from "a group of Disney artists," also responsible for young reader graphic novel adaptations of the first six Star Wars[...]

It's gratifying to be asked to lend my voice to the [Star Wars] universe." On Thursday, Lucasfilm officially announced that Howard was being brought on-board to complete filming after media sources reported that studio president Kathleen Kennedy fired previous directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller because the duo were adding too much of a comedic aspect[...]

Lucasfilm announced only moments ago that Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ron Howard (The Da Vinci Code, Frost/Nixon) has been named as the new director of the Untitled Han Solo Film In a statement posted on the Star Wars website, Lucasfilm had this to say: "At Lucasfilm, we believe the highest goal of each film is to delight,[...]

Who is Kirak Infil'a? Well, Darth Vader is looking for a fight. That is, to all sense and purposes, the plot of the new Darth Vader series by Charles

Deadline Hollywood is reporting that Lucasfilm is parting ways with Untitled Han Solo Film directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, citing "different creative visions" as the reason A statement posted on the studios website by Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy confirmed the news earlier this afternoon: "Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are talented filmmakers who have assembled an[...]

Next May, Lucasfilm will bring us the next standalone Star Wars film, an untitled movie focusing on a young Han Solo Alden Ehrenreich plays the titular character — well, we assume he's titular, as the film is technically still untitled Woody Harrelson also has a role as Solo's mentor, and Donald Glover will play a[...]

Lucasfilm simply hasn't decided yet, and they don't really need to, since they've got still Star Wars: The Last Jedi set to come out, a Han Solo solo film, and then Star Wars: Episode IX So when Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy was asked about it in an interview with Vanity Fair, she responded: Yes We haven't[...]

In a new interview in the June issue of Vanity Fair, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy and Director Rian Johnson continued to dance around the topic of The Last Jedi and what that title may mean to the film Kennedy herself points out that the title is an intentional one: "That's actually what's interesting about the title,[...]

They also announced that the first figure to be released on the vintage Kenner-inspired card would be chosen in a fan poll, and that is when the trouble started. There is a contingent of Star Wars fans that has decided that since Lucasfilm decided to move all of the pre-EU (Expanded Universe) content under a Legends[...]

As much as Lucasfilm would like to keep things under wraps until the film comes out, their media partners are the ones who usually end up spoiling things, whether it is a toy reveal, a book spoiler, or in this case, an advertisement for a video game. In an advertisement found from Gamestop in Ireland, we[...]

A few weeks back, a major rumor hit the net claiming that Disney and Lucasfilm were planning to announce an Obi-Wan Kenobi solo film starring Ewan McGregor at Star Wars Celebration, the continuation of a rumored Obi-Wan film that's been mutating for years Star Wars Celebration has come and gone, and there's been no announcement,[...]

"You're not going to be sitting in a chair and watching the story happen, you're going to be standing in it."Amidst a heavy slate of Star Wars news on every front this weekend at Star Wars Celebration, Lucasfilm and Walt Disney Imagineering took the stage to reveal a few details on the eagerly-anticipated Star Wars[...]

  Well, for months we have begged and pleaded for anything, literally any glimpse of Star Wars The Last Jedi, the new saga film coming out this

This comment on Game Rant's coverage of the trailer is a late-comer to the field, but pretty solidly sums up the argument these disgruntled fans are making. Further down on that thread was this one, which added transphobia to the field: Now, I know the last two Star Wars films – The Force Awakens and Rogue One – featured women[...]

And it was mentioned awhile back when they were first revealed, and curiously never fixed. Here is a look at the Blu-ray cover: Notice anything off about

We're just telling you how it works, for several paragraphs, before getting to the meat of the story, in an admittedly suspicious coincidence. According to the website, an unidentified source with insider knowledge of upcoming Star Wars plans claims: Kathleen Kennedy and the rest of Lucasfilm fully intend to make an Obi-Wan movie set between Revenge of the[...]

If you are ever lucky enough to visit Lucasfilm, one will greet you in front of the building These don't change hands too often, and one lucky person walked away with this at a whopping $8250. #gallery-6 { margin: auto; } #gallery-6 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-6 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-6 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in[...]

Announced today on The Star Wars Show and StarWars.com, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story will be coming home on Digital HD on March 24th and Blu-ray on April

My favorite Star Wars character is Obi-Wan Kenobi. In recent years, they have made a ton of Kenobi products, but they have usually been the Ewan McGregor

Back in January, our very own Rich Johnston told you to keep an eye on Marvel Comics Star Wars #49, which has the title The Last Jedi right on the cover.

Earlier this week news was emerging that seemed to imply that Disney and Lucasfilm has been in negotiations with the family of Carrie Fisher regarding the possible future use of  her likeness Now it seems that things have gotten to a point that Lucasfilm felt the need to step in and make a public statement via[...]

Director Colin Trevorrow and Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy were reported to meet last week to discuss the future of Princess Leia in the Star Wars franchise. Via ComicBookMovie BBC TV show Newsnight explored the concept of digitally recreating actors with CGI for movies and television ads, and in the course of a larger discussion about the ethics[...]

Novelizations, visual guides, young readers, books for any and all Star Wars fans flood the shelves and we devour them to learn as much as we can about our favorite galaxy far, far away. One such book this year is Galactic Maps from Disney Lucasfilm Press What could have been a simple visual guide through the[...]