Star Wars Baby Yoda is a choice Lucky break for Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, and Pedro Pascal that Disney is putting Jimmy Kimmel Live! back on the air, because it means at least for a little while, no one will expect them to do anything about Disney dropping the free speech ball. The teaser trailer for The By Sarah • Sep 23, 2025 11:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Gosling: K-pop Star Wars Production began on Shawn Levy’s standalone Star Wars movie, Starfighter, a few weeks ago. As previously mentioned, development on the project was accelerated as soon as Ryan Gosling signed on and you can tell what a priority it became since they were able to go into production less than By Lainey • Sep 18, 2025 11:56 am
TV Updates In Andor, the cost of freedom is everything Spoilers for Andor Captain America once said that the cost of freedom is high, but in Andor, a world without superheroes, where there are no magic space wizards coming to save the galaxy—as far as anyone knows—the cost of freedom isn’t just high, it’s everything. Everything By Sarah • May 14, 2025 12:17 pm
Business of Hollywood Intro for February 27, 2025 Dear Gossips, In 2012, Kathleen Kennedy was named co-chair of LucasFilm alongside George Lucas. Then, when Lucas sold his company to Disney, Kennedy was promoted to sole president of LucasFilm. Ever since then, Kathleen Kennedy has been the top dog at LucasFilm. Now, though, her reign is rumored to be By Sarah • Feb 27, 2025 09:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Gosling at Lightspeed This is a post about an upcoming Star Wars movie and, ordinarily, that checks two of Sarah’s boxes: movies, in general, and Star Wars specifically. Sarah, however, is busy, so I get to do the Star Wars business but it’s not really Star Wars business here, it’s By Lainey • Jan 22, 2025 02:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JAW the Hutt Continuing casting news, Jeremy Allen White will voice Jabba the Hutt’s son, Rotta the Hutt, in the upcoming Star Wars spin-off, The Mandalorian & Grogu (the news was first reported by Jeff Sneider). The film is the culmination of the story told thus far on the streaming series The By Sarah • Dec 10, 2024 03:14 pm
Star Wars New New New Star Wars Here we go again: Lucasfilm has hired Simon Kinberg to write and produce a new (new new) trilogy of Star Wars films, which will allegedly consist of Episodes X-XII of the franchise. These films may or may not be a continuation of the Skywalker Saga, Deadline’s Mike Fleming reports By Sarah • Nov 08, 2024 02:24 pm
Quiveration Manny Jacinto withdrawal The first season finale of The Acolyte dropped on Tuesday, known for the last few weeks as Horny Tuesday. They’ve not yet announced if The Acolyte will be renewed. But I’m sure they’ve been paying attention to the collective thirst that’s exploded online, especially after episode By Lainey • Jul 18, 2024 10:38 am
Quiveration Intro for July 9, 2024 Dear Gossips, It’s Tuesday. And right now, for a certain corner of the internet, Tuesdays are for Manny Jacinto. You know exactly what I mean if you’ve been watching The Acolyte. New episodes drop Tuesdays at 9pm ET/6pm PT. And for the last two weeks especially, social By Lainey • Jul 09, 2024 09:25 am
TV Updates Amandla Stenberg and Lee Jung-jae in The Acolyte I have long held that the Jedi are a bunch of killjoy nerds and the galaxy far, far away is better off without them, and finally, a piece of Star Wars media agrees with me. The Acolyte, a new series set in the Star Wars universe, takes place a century By Sarah • Jun 05, 2024 11:59 am
TV Updates Amandla Stenberg’s Star Wars fit The Acolyte premieres next week, the latest entry into New New Star Wars which looks back to a time before Skywalkers. It looks promising, and I can’t wait to see if creator and showrunner Leslye Headland found a story path for Star Wars free of Skywalkers and original trilogy By Sarah • May 29, 2024 01:21 pm
TV Updates The Acolyte Don’t Say “Skywalker” Challenge May 4th, also known as Star Wars Day because “may the fourth be with you” and all that, fell over the weekend, and I totally blanked on it. Star Wars as a narrative universe has so consistently failed to do anything interesting since its reemergence under Disney that I have By Sarah • May 08, 2024 09:24 am
Star Wars More new Star Wars stuff Star Wars Celebration took place over the weekend in London, a mini Comic-Con for the Force set, though all the big announcements were contained to Friday. Once you get through all the grandstanding, there’s not actually THAT much news, though Disney and Lucasfilm know how to make even the By Sarah • Apr 10, 2023 10:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A Taika Star War? Though Andor popped last year and The Mandalorian remains popular on Disney+, cinematic Star Wars has been a bit of a shamble since the 2019 release of The Rise of Skywalker. Or, really, since the 2017 release of The Last Jedi. In 2015, everyone was on board with The Force By Sarah • Mar 08, 2023 03:06 pm
TV Updates I am giving The Mandalorian ONE MORE CHANCE Television’s favorite daddy is back, and this time he’s out for revenge! The Mandalorian season three trailer dropped last night, ahead of the March 1 season premiere on Disney+, returning Pedro Pascal to the galaxy far, far away (along with stunt performers Lateef Crowder and Brendan Wayne, who By Sarah • Jan 17, 2023 11:29 am
TV Updates Diego Luna shines in Andor Rogue One is arguably the second-best film to come out of New New Star Wars (the best is The Last Jedi, argue with a wall). The middle of Rogue One is a goddamn mess, but it has a memorable ending and in just one film introduced a compelling gallery of By Sarah • Sep 22, 2022 02:01 pm