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Rangers of the New Republic No Longer in Production
In her interview with Empire magazine, Kathleen Kennedy essentially confirmed that Rangers of the New Republic is dead. The series was announced a little under a year ago at Disney’s Investor Day event, and little has been said about it since. When Gina Carano’s contract with The Mandalorian�...
Read MoreREVIEW: Encanto (2021)
I haven’t been dreading Disney’s Encanto, but I wasn’t excited for it either. It’s an original story directed by Byron Howard (Tangled) and Jared Bush (Zootopia) that features new music by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Sounds great, right? I try not to put too much stock in trailers, but the marketing...
Read MoreREVIEW: Hawkeye – Episode 2 “Hide and Seek”
“Hide and Seek,” the second part of Hawkeye’s premiere twofer, takes one step forward and two steps back. It’s a big improvement in the acting department, but it’s also a meandering drag with a silly sidequest for Clint and plodding melodrama for Kate. And it gives us our first indication ...
Read MoreREVIEW: Hawkeye – Episode 1 “Never Meet Your Heroes”
Hawkeye, Marvel’s latest Diseny+ series aimed at replacing one of their beloved heroes with a new… sorry, I mean expanding their already expansive cinematic universe in new and exciting ways, has dropped. (In doing so, it’s made me break my tradition of avoiding Christmas-related activities ti...
Read MoreKathleen Kennedy on Kenobi, Sequel Trilogy Characters
In an Empire exclusive for their upcoming Book of Boba Fett-themed issue, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy spoke about the upcoming Kenobi series and the fate of characters from her Star Wars sequel trilogy. Of Kenobi’s returning stars, Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen, Kennedy had this to...
Read MoreDisney Stars Praise Monsters While Attacking Rittenhouse
The days following the end of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial have seen pretty much the reaction we all expected. Because everything, even a murder case, has to be political nowadays, the right and left have gone to their corners and taken a side – or, more accurately, continued to champion their side....
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