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Ahsoka Season 2’s Release Window
After worries of an imminent delay had begun to creep in, Disney+ has reconfirmed Ahsoka Season 2’s release window. The upcoming second season of Dave Filoni’s Rebels follow-up has long been assumed to be a part of Lucasfilm’s 2026 release plans. However, a recent update from the Star Wars studio, in which the series was left off Disney’s 2026 plans, led some to think it may have been bumped.
That does not seem to be the case, however, at least according to Disney’s latest update to the Disney+ streaming service. Ahsoka was recently placed in a new category titled “Coming Soon in 2026” on the Disney-owned streaming service.
This seemingly confirms that Ahsoka Season 2 will, in fact, be released sometime over the next 12 months…
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Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Was Not Well Received on Release
Star Wars: Hunters Release Date and Trailer
Find out when the kinetic battle arena game will come to our galaxy, check out the new trailer, and read an exclusive interview with Zynga art director Dominic Estephane.
By Dan Brooks
There’s never been a game set in the galaxy far, far away quite like Star Wars: Hunters. A team-based battle arena shooter from Zynga and Lucasfilm Games, Star Wars: Hunters — arriving June 4 for Android, iOS, and Nintendo Switch, which StarWars.com is excited to reveal — features fast-paced multi-player clashes across maps inspired by classic locales, from Hoth to Endor. But Star Wars: Hunters also introduces a new element to Star Wars storytelling with its brand of arena combat, a form of fight-entertainment; combatants, or “Hunters,” even play their own characters, resulting in ridiculously fun takes on Star Wars archetypes. (Two stacked Jawas in a trench coat? A droid that thinks it’s a Jedi? This is indeed the game we’re looking for.) With the arrival of a new cinematic trailer and pre-registration now open, StarWars.com spoke with Zynga art director Dominic Estephane about the game’s inspired character designs, the large influence of pro wrestling on Star Wars: Hunters, and the just-revealed announcing duo….
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 25th Anniversary Cinema Release Confirmed For May The 4th Weekend
The epic Darth Maul vs. Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon Jinn duel. The thunderous Boonta Eve Podrace. The battle of Naboo. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace is packed with moments best witnessed on the big screen, spooling back to the very beginning of the Skywalker Saga to depict Anakin Skywalker’s first encounter with the Jedi, the beginnings of the galactic civil war, and the menacing meddling of Palpatine. Well, good news: to mark 25 years since the film first hit cinemas in 1999, it’s coming back to cinemas later this year. Cue the fanfare!
This May the 4th weekend (so, from Friday 3 May), The Phantom Menace will be re-released in cinemas for a limited time, meaning you can revisit all your favourite moments as large and loud as George Lucas intended…
The Mandalorian & Grogu: Iger Confirms 2026 Release
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Royal Mint to Release Star Wars Coin Collection
Source: Yahoo Movies UK
By Mike Bedigan
A collection of commemorative coin designs will be released by the Royal Mint to mark the 40th anniversary of Star Wars: Return Of The Jedi.
It is the first time characters from the sci-fi series will feature on an official UK coin.
The third film of the original trilogy, starring Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford, was released in 1983.
Characters including friendly robots C-3PO and R2-D2 will be the first to feature on the 50p coins as part of the four-coin collection…
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew: Release Date, Cast and Plot
Source: Yahoo Movies UK
By Tom Chapman
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew is the latest live-action series to join the likes of Andor, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and The Mandalorian on Disney+.
Much like how the Marvel Cinematic Universe has pivoted from movies to Disney+ series, there’s a bright future ahead for the world of Wookiees and Wampas. Alongside The Acolyte and Ahsoka, Skeleton Crew promises to tell a new story away from the Skywalker Saga.
Read more: All the Star Wars movies and shows in development
Spider-Man’s Jon Watts is once again uniting with Homecoming writer Christopher Ford to assemble a rag-tag crew of heroes and villains, with a typically diverse cast set to make their mark on the franchise.
Telling a story concurrent to Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian and following the fall of the Empire, eagle-eyed fans are looking for our first tease of the Skeleton Crew potentially rubbing shoulders with Din Djarin.
Here’s everything we know about Skeleton Crew so far…
‘Star Wars’ New Release Calendar Removes December 2025 Date…
…Adds Two Films in 2026
By Miguel Fernandez
Disney has announced that they will no longer be releasing a Star Wars film on December 19, 2025. Instead, they are planning on releasing two feature films in 2026, seven months apart, on May 22, 2026, and December 18, 2026.
The first film on that list will come out just three weeks after Avengers: The Kang Dynasty is released in theaters (Disney has also moved around Marvel’s release calendar). The company has not announced which movies will come out on each date. However, the most likely scenario is that this is the Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy-directed film they were targeting for 2025 and that due to the writers’ strike, they had to press Pause on for the moment. Meanwhile, the December date is likely the Dave Filoni-directed film that will culminate the overarching story told in The Mandalorian and spin-off shows during the New Republic era…
Ahsoka Disney+ Show Gets New Release Date Window
By Aeron Mer Eclarinal
A new report revealed a promising update about the release window of Ahsoka on Disney+.
The upcoming Star Wars series is set to bring back Rosario Dawson’s titular Jedi into the forefront after her memorable live-action appearances in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett.
While Disney already confirmed the show’s debut on Disney+ this year, its exact release date is unknown. However, an update could arrive sooner than later since its trailer will reportedly debut at Star Wars Celebration next month…
Lucasfilm Finally Breaks Silence of Ahsoka Series Release
Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures Books First Look, Release Date and Cast Revealed
By StarWars.com Team
Your little ones can soon take their first steps into a larger world of reading — with Star Wars.
StarWars.com and This Week! In Star Wars are excited to reveal a new series of books for kids based on the upcoming all-ages animated series Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures. The collection of titles has been designed for ages 3-5 and 3-7, and ranges from readers to Little Golden Books, all fully-illustrated in the art style of the show.
Young Jedi Adventures is the first full-length animated Star Wars series created for preschoolers and their families. These original stories will follow younglings as they are swept off into adventures, and start their journeys on the path to becoming Jedi Knights, learning valuable skills for our galaxy and the galaxy far, far away. The Jedi-in-training will tackle topics of compassion, self-discipline, teamwork, patience, and friendship. StarWars.com and This Week! In Star Wars also revealed the premiere date, cast, and new images from the series today.
Young Jedi Adventures will be part of the era known as the High Republic, set centuries before the events of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and currently being explored in the New York Times bestselling series of books and comics for all ages, Star Wars: The High Republic.
Get a first look at the Young Jedi Adventures books below, along with story descriptions and release dates!
This May the 4th will see the start of a new Star Wars adventure for fans of all ages.
Today, Disney+, Disney Junior, and Lucasfilm announced that Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures will premiere on Disney+ and Disney Junior on May 4, 2023, also known as Star Wars Day. Set during the High Republic era and the prime of the Jedi Order, the animated series follows Jedi younglings as they study the ways of the Force, explore the galaxy, help citizens and creatures in need, and learn valuable skills needed to become Jedi along the way…
Disney+ Announces Release Date For “Star Wars: Visions” Volume 2
Volume 2 Premieres Exclusively on Disney+ May 4
Today, Disney+ and Lucasfilm announced that the second volume of the animated anthology series “Star Wars: Visions” will premiere exclusively on Disney+ on May 4, 2023. Following on the Emmy Award®-nominated success of “Star Wars: Visions,” the newest volume will continue to push the boundaries of “Star Wars” storytelling, with nine new shorts from 9 studios from around the globe. Employing the most captivating animation styles from a variety of countries and cultures, the second volume offers a dynamic new perspective on the storied mythos of Star Wars.
The shorts included in “Star Wars: Visions” Volume 2 were created by the following international animation studios: El Guiri (Spain), Cartoon Saloon (Ireland), Punkrobot (Chile), Aardman (United Kingdom), Studio Mir (South Korea) Studio La Cachette (France), 88 Pictures (India), D’art Shtajio (Japan), and Triggerfish (South Africa). D’Art Shtajio’s short was created in collaboration with Lucasfilm Ltd. (United States).
“The reaction to the first volume of ‘Star Wars: Visions’ blew us away. We were delighted that this project inspired and resonated with so many people,” says James Waugh, “Star Wars: Visions” executive producer and Senior Vice President Franchise Content & Strategy at Lucasfilm. “We always saw ‘Star Wars: Visions’ as a framework for celebratory expressions of the franchise from some of the best creators working today. Animation is in a global renaissance, and we’re constantly staggered by the amount of creativity pushing the medium forward. With Volume 1, the imaginative minds of Japan’s anime industry were on full display. With Volume 2, we expanded our canvas to take audiences on a global tour of some of the most talented creators from around the world. We’re so proud to be able to reveal the line-up of studios we’ve assembled. Every short is incredible, full of heart, scope, imagination, and the values that make stories distinctly ‘Star Wars’ — all while opening up bold new ways of seeing what a ‘Star Wars’ story can be.”
Waugh executive produces “Star Wars: Visions” Volume 2 along with Jacqui Lopez and Josh Rimes.
Details on each short and filmmaker follow:
Title: “Sith”
Studio: El Guiri
Writer-director: Rodrigo Blaas
Rodrigo Blaas is an Emmy Award®-winning director who has spent more than 20 years in animation. After co-founding Stromboli Animation in 1997, Blaas joined Blue Sky Studios in 2000, working on the feature film “Ice Age,” before transitioning to Pixar Animation Studios. There, he worked on such projects as “Finding Nemo” (2003), “The Incredibles” (2004), “Ratatouille” (2007) and “Wall-E” (2008) and on the Oscar®-nominated short film “La Luna” (2011). More recently, Blaas partnered with Guillermo del Toro to develop the award-winning series “Trollhunters,” served as creative director for Mikros Animation Paris and, in 2021, created El Guiri Studios in Madrid with his partner, Cecile Hokes. He also wrote and directed 2009’s award-winning short film “Alma.”
Title: “Screecher’s Reach”
Studio: Cartoon Saloon
Director: Paul Young
Paul Young is a co-founder of Cartoon Saloon, an IFTA winner and Oscar®, Emmy® and BAFTA nominee. He produced the animated features “My Father’s Dragon,” “WolfWalkers,” “The Secret of Kells,” “Song of the Sea” and “The Breadwinner” as well as award-winning TV series including “Puffin Rock,” “Dorg Van Dango” and “Viking Skool.”
Title: “In the Stars”
Studio: Punkrobot
Writer-director: Gabriel Osorio
Gabriel Osorio majored in Fine Arts at Universidad de Chile, later specializing in 3D animation. After working in commercials, movies and television series, he founded Punkrobot Studio. Since 2008, he has directed projects for children’s television including “Flipos,” “Muelin y Perlita,” “Soccer Girls” and television spots. In 2016, his short film “Bear Story” became the first Latin American project to win an Oscar® in the animated short category.
Title: “I Am Your Mother”
Studio: Aardman
Director: Magdalena Osinska
Magdalena Osinska is an award-winning director who has been with Aardman for eight years. She has directed stop-motion, CGI, 2D and live-action commercials including Wallace & Gromit’s “The Great Sofa Caper” and “Share the Orange.” Osinska directed development of the children’s series “Joyets” and has also directed films including “Spirits of the Piano” and “Zbigniev’s Cupboard.” A graduate of the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, UK, as well as the Polish Film School in Lodz and Art College in Warsaw, Osinska is currently developing the feature film “Jasia,” based on her grandmother’s memories of WWII Poland.
Title: “Journey to the Dark Head”
Studio: Studio Mir
Director: Hyeong Geun Park
Rising star Hyeong Geun Park had already made a name for himself when he entered the Korean animation industry in 2017, thanks to his strong drawing and animation sensibilities. He has directed animation for dozens of cinematic game trailers and has since expanded into animated series, working on projects including “Dota: Dragon’s Blood: Book 3” (2022) and “Lookism” (2022). “Journey to the Dark Head” is the first title he has executive produced from start to finish.
Title: “The Spy Dancer”
Studio: Studio La Cachette
Writer-director: Julien Chheng
Julien Chheng is CEO of Studio La Cachette, an Emmy Award®-winning French animation studio he co-founded in 2014 with fellow Gobelins school’s alumni Oussama Bouacheria and Ulysse Malassagne. Chheng was trained in visual development at Disney and has worked as a character animator on acclaimed 2D animated features “The Rabbi’s Cat,” “Mune” and the Academy Award®-nominated “Ernest and Celestine.” In 2021, he won an Emmy Award® as animation executive producer of “Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal,” for which he also served as animation supervisor. In 2022, Chheng directed with Jean-Christophe Roger the Cesar-nominated feature “Ernest and Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia.”
Title: “The Bandits of Golak”
Studio: 88 Pictures
Director: Ishan Shukla
Ishan Shukla started his career as a CG artist in Singapore. For more than a decade, he spearheaded projects ranging from TV commercials to series and music videos. His 2016 animated short, “Schirkoa,” was long listed for the Academy Awards® after receiving dozens of awards and playing at 120 international festivals, including SIGGRAPH Asia where it was named Best in Show. He then set up his own animation studio to work on adult-oriented animated feature films including a feature-length version of “Schirkoa,” set to hit festivals in summer 2023.
Title: “The Pit”
Studios: D’art Shtajio and Lucasfilm Ltd.
Writer-director-executive producer: LeAndre Thomas
Co-director: Justin Ridge
LeAndre Thomas is an award-winning writer and director from Oakland, Calif., whose most recent film won Best Director at the Pasadena International Film Festival. In addition to his independent films, Thomas is a part of the franchise studio team at Lucasfilm Ltd. where he has worked for more than 11 years being credited on recent titles such as “Light & Magic,” “The Mandalorian,” “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” “Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi,” and many more.
Justin Ridge executive produced the Emmy®-nominated series “Star Wars Resistance.” His credits also include “Star Wars Rebels,” “Storks,” “The Cleveland Show,” “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” and “Avatar: The Last Airbender.”
Title: “Aau’s Song”
Studio: Triggerfish
Writer-directors: Nadia Darries and Daniel Clarke
Nadia Darries is a director, animator and co-founder of Goon Valley Animation, with an avocation for songwriting. Born in the Cape Flats in South Africa, Darries has worked on high-end animated film and motion design as an animator, project manager, creative director and director since 2015. Her experience includes animating at Triggerfish Animation Studios on the award-winning BBC films “Stick Man,” “Revolting Rhymes” and “Highway Rat.”
Daniel Clarke is a Cape Town-based director and artist working in animation, film and illustration. He started his career in animation in 2008 at Triggerfish Animation Studios, where he has served as production designer, art director and director on projects such as the feature film “Khumba,” BBC’s “Stick Man” and “The Snail and the Whale.” In 2018, along with James Clarke and Daniel Snaddon, he completed the graphic novel “Kariba.”
“Star Wars: Visions” Volume 2 streams exclusively on Disney+ beginning May 4, 2023.
Mandalorian S3 Trailer Gets Imminent Release Date
Fans will get a new glimpse at Season 3 of The Mandalorian when a new trailer is released in a few days.
Footage from the upcoming season of the Star Wars hit series on Disney+ has already been previously released, teasing that Pedro Pascal’s Din Djarin could be at odds with Katee Sackhoff’s Bo-Katan Kryze as he returns to the wastelands of Mandalore.
Season 3 is scheduled to hit Disney+ on March 1, so marketing is starting to ramp up more as the release date nears. Fans of the galaxy far, far away will be able to get a fresh look at the upcoming season as an entirely new trailer has been confirmed to drop within the next week…
Disney+ Announces Historic Finale for Bad Batch Season 2 Release
Star Wars will take a new direction with the release of The Bad Batch during its run on Disney+, making history in the process.
Fans recently got their eyes on the first trailer for Season 2 of The Bad Batch thanks to an unexpected post on the main Disney+ website, showing the fandom what Hunter, Wrecker, Omega, and the team will have to face across the galaxy. This season will even include a couple of classic Star Wars clones like Commander Cody from the original trilogy and Captain Rex from The Clone Wars, touching on plenty of Star Wars story threads from the 21st century.
The show is set to arrive on Disney+ shortly after the new year begins, complete with the first two episodes both arriving on the streaming network on January 4.
But while a two-episode premiere is far from uncommon during Disney’s streaming era, The Bad Batch will take a more unique route with the release of later episodes as well…
Cable TV Release for Andor
Select episodes of Andor will be shown on cable television channels for Thanksgiving and ahead of the show’s season finale.
While Andor on Disney+ is both a prequel and spin-off to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the series led by Cassian Andor’s Diego Luna has been a Star Wars project like none other.
In addition to its unique formulaic structure, lightsabers and Skywalkers have been noticeably absent; and in their place, Star Wars’ most mature, complex, and intelligent content to date.
Despite being a critics’ darling, Andor has struggled in terms of viewership. But that all could change when the Star Wars series breaks the mold once more in a historic release beyond that of Disney+…
Jedi Fallen Order 2 Gets Release Update
Earlier this year, fans were treated with the first glimpse at Respawn Entertainment and Electronic Arts’ Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order followup, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. The sequel to 2019’s Star Wars epic has fans itching to get back into control of protagonist Cal Cestis as is “challenged in ways that we haven’t seen” before.
Survivor debuted with a teaser trailer back at Star Wars Celebration in May and instantly had fans diving into a flurry of questions. Who was in the bacta tank? Why is Cal bearded? Was that the Grand Inquisitor?
But the biggest question of all was when is this next-gen game coming? No official release date has been announced for the title, but rumors (and internal EA documents) have pointed to it hitting store shelves sometime before March 2023. However, the radio silence surrounding the project has gamers around the world worried that the Star Wars epic could be the victim of a delay, something insiders are saying seems unlikely….
Star Wars Acolyte Release Date: New Updates
The Acolyte is one of the many small screen entries of Star Wars on its Disney+ slate. Although the anticipation of fans has been mostly directed at Ahsoka and The Mandalorian, there’s a lot to be excited about in the upcoming series, such as its exploration of the dark side of the Force.
Russian Doll co-creator Leslye Headland will serve as showrunner of the series. In addition, The Acolyte is being described as an action thriller with martial arts elements and it is said to be female-centric.
While a release date has not been set in stone, behind-the-scenes photos from The Acolyte revealed that the Star Wars series is beginning preparations for its production.
Now, a more concrete update has emerged….
Andor S2 Gets Release Update
The first season of the latest Star Wars streaming series, Andor, is very fast approaching. Arriving this week, the show stars Diego Luna as the Rebel Alliance captain and centers on how he became the man audiences met in 2016’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Of course, Season 1 of Andor is only one side of the coin. A Season 2 has indeed already been greenlit by Lucasfilm and Disney, although details on that second round of episodes remain under wraps.
The second half of Season 1 will feature a series of time jumps that occur every few episodes which will lead viewers straight into the story of Rogue One. But when exactly will Season 2 arrive on Disney+? Showrunner Tony Gilroy responded with a potential timeframe….
Bad Batch S2 Gets New Release Date?
Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 2’s release frame is in a state of flummox. Lucasfilm originally announced the sophomore run to the hit animated series would debuted this fall during Celebration, with all indicators pointing a September 28 premiere. But the plan has seemingly changed, as the series was omitted from the September lineup of Disney+ releases.
Nearly every Star Wars streaming title not named The Mandalorian has had a scheduling reshuffle, and The Bad Batch appears to be no exception. With Andor being pushed back to a three-episode premiere on September 21, many have speculated that Lucasfilm is holding Bad Batch back a bit to create more separation between the year’s final shows.
But that delay could far more significant than anyone expected. A new rumor suggests that The Bad Batch‘s second season may not be happening in 2022 at all, but rather on the flip side of the new year….
Digital Capture and Release
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Digital Capture and Release
January 17, 2002 – Digital Capture
To average moviegoers, the technical details of image acquisition, color-timing and image output are the farthest thing from their minds as they become engrossed in cinematic storytelling. To ILM’s HD Supervisor Fred Meyers, however, they are of prime concern. His work does better serve the story in the end, as the common distractions of the film medium — scratches, pops, reel changes, mismatched colors — increasingly become a thing of the past.
Meyers’ involvement with Episode II started on the image acquisition side — getting a reliable method of capturing images in a digital medium. His role has now expanded to post-production. “I was tasked with engineering the digital HD camera systems for all the principal photography,” explains Meyers. “Now, that has translated back into ILM, with miniature, motion control, blue and greenscreen elements that we’ve shot. We’ve taken all the technology and the camera systems, done some enhancements to them from last summer, and translated that into the photography here at ILM.”
In traditional film, effects artists developed a formula for adjusting the speed of the camera to convey the proper sense of scale in the final image. Large objects or environments tend to have slower, more ponderous motion. To simulate that, the film was over-cranked at a higher speed so that when projected back at a regular 24 frames-per-second, the motion was slowed down.
The HD camera shot at a consistent 24 frames-per-second rate. To simulate speed effects, ILM turned to software solutions. “We’ve pulled a whole bunch of tricks out of the CG graphics realm that have been used to simulate both high and slow speed photography,” explains Meyers. “We have applied those to the HD cameras in a way that allows us to take individual frames and manipulate them, combine them, or skip frames out in a way that simulates longer exposures that would have been done traditionally with film cameras and motion control. We’ve done that in a way such that we get the motion blur, and we get the equivalent of increased or longer exposure times. ”
Digital Release
The image quality of Episode II is now far more malleable than could ever have been achieved with traditional film. As the movie continues down the postproduction pipeline, ILM is blazing new territory by becoming a digital lab, handling concerns that would previously been taken care of in photochemical laboratories.
Tests of delivering an HD image onto film stock for projection have been underway for years, but the theatrical release of the teaser trailer marked a crucial benchmark for the production. It was the first time that the digital images of Episode II would be put to film in full resolution.
“This is a real-time digital lab that includes the color-timing components, manipulation components, and far more capabilities than would be available in a normal lab,” says Meyers. “The teaser trailer was the first time when we had a real-time, full resolution RGB component system all the way to the film recorder. The film recorders don’t run real-time, but the process of creating the master files that get recorded to the film recorder is real-time. It’s interactive too, so that any changes that need to be made can be done right there. The ability to see your final material projected with the changes real-time is also brand new.”
Star Wars: Bad Batch Season 2 Gets Discouraging Release Update
Bad Batch Season 2 Delayed?
Disney+ has officially posted the service’s September 2022 release slate, and there is one glaring omission: The Bad Batch Season 2….
Star Wars: Andor Release Dates Of Every Episode Officially Announced
Disney has released the official release dates for every episode of its upcoming Star Wars series Andor on Twitter. After the first three episodes premiere on Wednesday, September 21, there will be one episode per week over the following nine weeks.
The premiere dates are as follows:
- Episode 1: September 21
- Episode 2: September 21
- Episode 3: September 21…