George Lucas
The Star Wars Moment That Made James Cameron a Director
Before he rewired Hollywood with Titanic, Avatar, and The Terminator, James Cameron was just a kid in a theater getting his mind blown by Star Wars. That blast of imagination didn’t just entertain him—it reset his sense of what stories could do and lit the fuse on a career that would change cinema.
December 31, 2025 10:55 am
Christmas Gets Weird: Star Wars, Pac-Man, Pee-wee and the Most Bizarre Holiday Movies and Specials Ever
From the notorious Star Wars Holiday Special to Pac-Man’s frosty misadventures and Pee-Wee’s sugar-rush spectacle, we’re unwrapping the 10 strangest Christmas movies and TV specials ever made—festive oddities you have to see to believe.
December 24, 2025 11:41 am
Harrison Ford Is Set to Receive a Career-Defining Honor After Six Decades Onscreen
Harrison Ford will receive SAG-AFTRA’s highest honor, the Life Achievement Award, at the March ceremony, celebrating more than six decades of industry-defining work and humanitarian contributions.
December 19, 2025 12:31 pm
Think James Cameron Is Hollywood’s Richest? Meet 4 Directors With Bigger Fortunes
James Cameron just joined the three-comma club: Forbes pegs his net worth at $1.1 billion, making the Avatar and Titanic mastermind only the fifth filmmaker ever to reach billionaire status.
December 15, 2025 5:11 am
The Unexpected Reason Leonardo DiCaprio Still Hasn’t Joined Star Wars Makes His Anakin Rejection Even Stranger
Leonardo DiCaprio almost became Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars prequels — then walked away. Inside the near-miss that might have reshaped a galaxy far, far away.
December 10, 2025 3:57 pm
The Original 1977 Star Wars Is Back In Theaters—Finally Settling Who Shot First
Queue up the John Williams fanfare!
December 6, 2025 12:17 pm
Lightspeed Return: Star Wars Rerelease Hits Theaters Earlier Than Expected
The Force is arriving early: Lucasfilm has bumped up the theatrical rerelease of Star Wars: A New Hope, bringing the 1977 classic back to theaters ahead of its planned 2026 50th-anniversary celebration.
December 6, 2025 12:17 pm
Move Over Snyderverse: Netflix’s All-Cash Bid for Warner Bros. Could Lure Christopher Nolan Back for The Dark Knight 4
Netflix jolts Warner Bros. second-round auction with a mostly cash offer zeroing in on Warner Bros. Studios and HBO Max, Bloomberg reports.
December 2, 2025 4:58 am
Is Star Wars Episode X Actually Happening? Here's What Disney Has Said
The saga isn’t over. Disney and Lucasfilm are developing Star Wars: Episode X, set to propel the galaxy far, far away beyond The Rise of Skywalker. Plot details are tightly under wraps, but the next chapter could pick up the fractured state of the galaxy and chart a bold new course.
November 28, 2025 2:25 am
Star Wars Godfather George Lucas Predicts Hollywood Reckoning as Big Studios Run Out of Imagination
At Cannes 2024, filmmaking icon George Lucas sounded the alarm on Hollywood’s next decade, hinting the future of cinema could be unrecognizable in a candid exchange with Brut France host Augustin Trapenard.
November 19, 2025 1:23 pm
Labyrinth Returns to Theaters: Here’s When You Can See David Bowie on the Big Screen
Labyrinth returns to theaters as The Jim Henson Company and Fathom Entertainment roll out special screenings of the 1986 fantasy adventure starring David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly, a Certified Fresh favorite holding a 77% Tomatometer on Rotten Tomatoes.
November 15, 2025 7:49 am
Guillermo del Toro’s Avatar 3 Verdict Will Surprise No One
Guillermo del Toro has already seen James Cameron’s Avatar 3, and—unsurprisingly—he’s raving about the threequel, stoking the hype as it barrels toward release.
November 10, 2025 2:51 pm
James Cameron Urged Guillermo del Toro to Watch This Anime Classic in the Early 90s
Legendary filmmaker lifts the lid on life under one roof with the Avatar director.
November 10, 2025 2:50 pm
Sydney Sweeney Is Reviving the 1960s Classic That Inspired Indiana Jones
Sydney Sweeney is teaming with Justin Lin for Apple’s reimagining of Philippe de Broca’s adventure classic That Man from Rio — the caper that helped inspire Steven Spielberg and George Lucas — and will executive produce as her feature Christy hits theaters next month.
October 29, 2025 12:47 pm
Sydney Sweeney Teams Up with Fast and Furious Director Justin Lin for That Man from Rio Remake
Fast and Furious filmmaker Justin Lin is reviving the 1964 adventure That Man from Rio, with Sydney Sweeney set to headline the globe-trotting caper.
October 28, 2025 1:07 pm
The Substance Leaves Horror Icon John Carpenter Cold
Genre fans embraced The Substance and Demi Moore’s performance nabbed an Oscar nod, but horror legend John Carpenter was having none of it, blasting the buzzy shocker from top to bottom.
October 28, 2025 1:33 am
Disney’s Star Wars Versus George Lucas’ Trilogy Box Office: Who Really Won the Profit Wars
A decade after George Lucas passed Star Wars to Disney, the saga has swung between runaway hits and divisive misses. We stack up the receipts to see who really ruled the box office—Disney’s modern juggernaut or Lucas’s trilogy.
October 25, 2025 8:11 am
The One Demand That Made Lucasfilm Turn Down David Fincher’s Star Wars Pitch
David Fincher nearly took his edge to a galaxy far, far away — until talks over his Star Wars pitch imploded over a bold demand, according to industry insider Jeff Sneider.
October 23, 2025 9:19 am
George Lucas Delivers His Final Verdict on Star Wars After the Disney Takeover
Disney’s Star Wars era has split the galaxy—now its creator may be calling a truce. After years of bristling at the franchise’s direction, 81-year-old George Lucas hints he’s finally made his peace.
October 18, 2025 9:42 pm
George Lucas on Disney’s Star Wars: Why He Stepped Aside — And What He Really Thinks
George Lucas ignited Star Wars nearly 50 years ago—but after selling Lucasfilm to Disney for over $4 billion in 2012, he’s kept his distance from the galaxy he created, a stance he reiterated in a recent interview.
October 18, 2025 11:37 am