The Mandalorian
‘Twisters’ Director Lee Isaac Chung Talks Steven Spielberg’s Big Assist and How ‘Star Wars’ Helped Him Land the Job
In early 2019, Twisters director Lee Isaac Chung had come to terms with the fact his filmmaking career might be over. He’d already recognized the writing on the wall a year earlier and decided to pen a semi-autobiographical script known as Minari, but everything would soon change in February 2019. That’s when Plan B agreed […]
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Gina Carano on Getting Sacked From Star Wars and Her Grudge Match With Disney
In late 2018, Gina Carano — a pioneering mixed martial arts champion who successfully transitioned to acting in Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 film Haywire — was blissfully staring up at the stars. They weren’t actual stars, but digital facsimiles projected onto a massive, domed screen — all part of a groundbreaking new effects technology from Industrial […]
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11 of Pedro Pascal’s Most Memorable TV Shows and Movies
It’s hard to imagine a world before Daddy Pascal Pedro Pascal was a household name. But, before landing his breakthrough role on Game of Thrones as Oberyn Martell, the actor had several one-off roles in TV shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and CSI. While Oberyn Martell was featured […]
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‘Star Wars’: Mandalorian Movie a Go With Jon Favreau Directing
Grogu is heading to the big screen. The Mandalorian & Grogu, a new film to be directed by The Mandalorian creator Jon Favreau, is a go at Lucasfilm and is expected to film later this year. Favreau, Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy and Lucasfilm chief creative officer Dave Filoni will produce the feature, which the studio said […]
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Shawna Trpcic, ‘The Mandalorian’ and ‘Ahsoka’ Costume Designer, Dies at 56
Shawna Trpcic, the Emmy-nominated costume designer who worked on the Star Wars series The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett and Ahsoka, has died. She was 56. Trpcic died suddenly of an unknown cause in Palm Desert on Wednesday, her daughter, Sarah, told The Hollywood Reporter. “Shawna was one of Hollywood’s pre-eminent science fiction costume […]
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‘Ahsoka’: 15 Key Episodes From Previous ‘Star Wars’ Series to Watch Before the Disney+ Premiere
If you’ve seen only the Star Wars live-action movies and none of the TV series, you may not know who Ahsoka Tano is. The former Jedi was Anakin Skywalker’s padawan during the Clone Wars, set after the events of Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones and before Star Wars: Episode III — […]
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‘The Witcher,’ ‘Secret Invasion’ Disappoint as Some Creatives Blame Fans
The Witcher showrunner Lauren S. Hissrich promised to give fans “the most heroic sendoff” in season three for departing star Henry Cavill. Instead, the Netflix fantasy’s eagerly anticipated final three episodes of the season, released last week, literally had Cavill’s Geralt of Rivia recovering from injuries in bed (before rousing himself for a final fight). […]
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‘The Mandalorian,’ ‘Rings of Power’ and ‘The Last of Us’ Sound Pros on Creating the Clicks and Screams of Aliens, Orcs and the Infected
The Last of Us (HBO/MAX) HBO’s The Last of Us — based on the popular video game set in a postapocalyptic world — required the sound team to come up with the vocalizations for the infected and clickers. Sound supervisor Michael J. Benavente explains that the sounds had to remain loyal to the game while […]
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Spies, Killers and Internet Daddies: Pedro Pascal, Kieran Culkin and the THR Drama Actor Roundtable
It was a Saturday afternoon in late April, and the writers strike was looming, if not inevitable. Still, the six men gathered in L.A. for The Hollywood Reporter’s annual Drama Actor Emmy Roundtable showed no signs of panic. In fact, The Old Man’s Jeff Bridges and Dahmer’s Evan Peters were busy sharing breathing exercises, while […]
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‘Beef’ Jumps to No. 1 Overall in Streaming Rankings
Netflix’s Beef displaced The Night Agent as the top overall streaming title for the week of April 10-16. Beef, starring Ali Wong and Steven Yeun, drew 1.59 billion minutes of viewing time for the week, up 65 percent from its premiere week. The series also sparked controversy when past remarks about sexual assault by co-star David […]
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‘Beef’ Makes Strong Debut on Streaming Charts
Netflix’s Beef enjoyed a strong first week in Nielsen’s streaming rankings, coming close to the billion-minute mark in viewing time. The Night Agent cooled off some but spent a third week at No. 1 overall, and The Mandalorian improved for the second week in a row. Beef, starring Ali Wong and Steven Yeun, drew 962 […]
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How ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3 Brought Cohesion to the Star Wars Timeline
[This story contains spoilers for The Mandalorian “Chapter 24: The Return.”] On Wednesday, The Mandalorian season three finale wrapped up Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) and Bo-Katan Kryze’s (Katee Sackhoff) journey to reclaim Mandalore for the displaced and scattered Mandalorian people. In the process, it helped drive home that the series is bringing a narrative focus […]
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