Star Wars

The franchise is in serious trouble, not only at the box office, but at what has always been the most lucrative and no-brainer part of the Star Wars brand — toys.

NEW YORK (AP) — In 1964, Stanley Kubrick, on the recommendation of the science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, bought a telescope.

Film industry giants Disney and Netflix are threatening to boycott the state of Georgia over its new “heartbeat” abortion law, but have continued and even stepped up filming in countries in which abortion is entirely illegal or highly restricted.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca in the “Star Wars” films, has died.

“Avengers: Endgame” made over a billion dollars worldwide in its first weekend, shattering just about every record the Hollywood publicity machine bothers to keep. That’s because Endgame is more than just Part 2 of a single story, but the culmination of a 22-film series (plus a few short films and loosely-connected TV shows) that racked up almost $20 billion in combined ticket sales.

Disney has closed its $71 billion acquisition of Fox’s entertainment business, putting “Cinderella,” ″The Simpsons,” ″Star Wars” and “Dr. Strange” under one corporate roof.

The French Fencing Federation is taking advantage of the cultural behemoth franchise Star Wars to promote their venerable sport.

Star Wars star Mark Hamill pushed back against comparisons between President Donald Trump or former Vice President Dick Cheney and Darth Vader, pointing out that the latter eventually “saw the errors of his ways.”

Star Wars actor Mark Hamill says that it is time for women to “take charge completely” of politics because centuries of male-dominated rule government has led to “poor results.”

Every tool the people use to express their opinion has come under attack by elites.

This week’s cancellation of a feature film starring the bounty hunter character Boba Fett tell us just how much trouble the Star Wars franchise is in.  

A writer for Marvel comics and the Star Wars extended universe has been fired from his job after posting a number of explicit tweets attacking Republicans and the GOP over the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh.

A university report claims “Russian trolls” are responsible for the widespread negative reactions to Star Wars: The Last Jedi, despite admitting there is no evidence for this.

Star Wars star Oscar Isaac seems to hope that his Poe Dameron character will be portrayed as having a “fluid” sexuality.

The new Jumanji franchise, that unexpectedly flourished against box office under-performer Star Wars: The Last Jedi last year, just announced Jumanji 3 will open on December 13, 2019,  just one week prior to the opening of Star Wars: Episode IX. So much for Star Wars being the 900 pound gorilla. 

Disney is eager to fire and replace Kathleen Kennedy over her disastrous handling of the Star Wars franchise, reports Grace Randolph of Beyond the Trailer.

Disney’s Star Wars spinoff movies have been put on hold due to the box office failure of Solo, reports Collider.  

“Ocean’s 8,” the female-led overall of the starry “Ocean’s” franchise, opened with $41.5 million at the box office, taking the weekend’s top spot from the fast-falling “Solo: A Star Wars Story.”

Star Wars: The Last Jedi actress Kelly Marie Tran deleted all of her posts on Instagram following alleged harassment from Star Wars fans who did not like Tran’s character in the movie.

Disney murdered the Muppets with left-wing politics, and now the studio is allowing Kathleen Kennedy to kill Star Wars — a franchise that was once so bullet-proof and buried in audience goodwill, it survived the Lucas prequels.

Alden Ehrenreich has been given the unenviable task of stepping into the shoes of Harrison Ford, and please forgive my manners as I make an issue of the fact that Ehrenreich is noticeably too short, way too short to step in the shoes of anyone who is not a member of the Lollipop Guild.

Hollywood screenwriter Jonathan Kasdan says the iconic Star Wars character Lando Calrissian is a pansexual, meaning the suave smuggler is sexually attracted men, women, and anything else in George Lucas’ Disney-owned galaxy far, far away. 

In a lengthy interview with Variety, Margaret Atwood, the celebrated author of The Handmaiden’s Tale, hinted that she thought Star Wars’ destruction of the Death Star in 1977 was a foreshadowing of the bombing of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001.

On Monday’s edition of CNN’s “AC360,” Leon Panetta, who served as Chief of Staff for President Clinton and Secretary of Defense and Director of the CIA under President Obama, stated that over the weekend, President Trump had a group of

Left-wing activists and journalists took to Twitter Thursday to complain about Disney hiring popular filmmaker and white male Jon Favreau for a new Star Wars series on International Women’s Day.

Watch all the movie and TV trailers that aired during the Super Bowl: Star Wars, Mission: Impossible. Jurassic World, Avengers, Skyscraper…

With movie attendance dropping to a 24 year low, there was no good news for the film business in 2017, not even for Star Wars.

A 69-year-old Air Force veteran and ultimate Star Wars fan got his final wish to see Star Wars: The Last Jedi in theaters on Saturday.

AMSTERDAM, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Nearly half of humans believe in alien life and want to make contact, a survey in 24 countries has found, in what researchers said helps to explain the lasting popularity of the “Star Wars” franchise 40 years after the first movie was screened.

After several high-profile exits by previous “Star Wars” directors, Lucasfilm is turning to the filmmaker who helped resurrect the franchise in the first place.