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Gary Collinson

Jon Favreau says The Mandalorian season 2 will premiere in Fall 2020

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Following hot on the heels of Friday’s season one finale, creator and showrunner Jon Favreau has taken to social media to announce that the second season of the live-action Star Wars series The Mandalorian is set to arrive on Disney+ in the fall of 2020. SEE ALSO: Disney’s Bob Iger on The Mandalorian’s ‘Baby Yoda’, […]

Disney’s Bob Iger on The Mandalorian’s ‘Baby Yoda’, says Jon Favreau isn’t a fan of the moniker

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While Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has done little to repair the fractured Star Wars fanbase, it hasn’t all been bad news for the franchise lately as Disney and Lucasfilm’s live-action Disney+ series The Mandalorian has been earning rave reviews from both fans and critics alike. The show’s biggest success however seems to be […]

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker closing in on $600 million heading into second weekend

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After a decent global opening of $373.5 million last weekend, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has enjoyed a healthy Christmas period, with the final chapter of the Skywalker Saga pushing its worldwide gross to $572 million heading into its second weekend. By close of play on Thursday, The Rise of Skywalker had earned $289.6 […]

J.J. Abrams on leaving questions unanswered in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

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Despite being billed as the final chapter of the 42-year-long Skywalker Saga, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker certainly left a number of questions unanswered – not least how Emperor Palpatine managed to survive (or return from) his ‘death’ in Return of the Jedi. While many of these will be answered in supplementary material such […]

Gal Gadot adapting controversial novel Borderlife for the big screen

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Deadline is reporting that Wonder Woman actress Gal Gadot is set to produce a feature film adaptation of Israeli author Dorit Rabinian’s controversial novel Borderlife, a.k.a All the Rivers. The book tells the story of a Jewish woman and a Palestinian man who meet and fall in love in New York. The novel was banned […]

Quentin Tarantino discusses his unmade Halloween 6 plans

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During an interview with Consequence of Sound, filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has revealed that shortly completing his directorial debut Reservoir Dogs, Miramax offered him the opportunity to write the script for Halloween 6 and tossed around some ideas for the slasher sequel before ultimately turning it down. “I was like, ‘Leave that scene where [the Man […]

Action thriller Agent Jade Black gets a poster and trailer

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High Octane Pictures has unveiled a poster and trailer for the upcoming action thriller Agent Jade Black, which is described as “Atomic Blonde meets La Femme Nikita” and stars Katie Burgess (Gremlin, The Jurassic Games) as a lethal government assassin and super spy; check them out here, along with the official synopsis… Rescued from the […]

J.J. Abrams on retconning Rey’s lineage in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

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The lineage of Daisy Ridley’s Rey was one of the big mysteries set up by J.J. Abrams in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, only for Rian Johnson to throw fans a curve ball in Star Wars: The Last Jedi by revealing that the aspiring Jedi’s parents were “nobodies” – filthy junk traders who sold her […]