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The Mandalorian season three has finally reached its conclusion. Just eight weeks after returning after a two-year break, the hit Disney+ series set in the Star Wars universe has wrapped up its third outing in dramatic fashion.

Director Barry Jenkins appeared at his first CinemaCon on Thursday to show off a trailer from Mufasa: The Lion King.  

Big news ahead of CinemaCon for Disney — and they’re not showing off their presentation until the last day of the exhibitor and studio love-in on April 11.

Robert Downey Jr. is widely known for his role in the Marvel franchise, but his long career includes much more than Iron Man alone. Downey Jr.

EXCLUSIVE: Some 20 years after it was took root in the imagination of Francis Ford Coppola, Megalopolis screened this morning for the very first time. Held at the Universal CityWalk IMAX Theater, the epic film screened for buyers, and had every distributor in attendance. Also in tow were family friends and filmmakers, a list included Angelica Huston, Nicolas Cage, Andy Garcia, Spike Jonze, Al Pacino, Jon Favreau, Colleen Camp, Roger Corman, Darren Aronofsky, Cailee Spaeny and cast members Shia LaBeouf and Talia Shire.

Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow‘s banter made it into Iron Man!

YouTube show “Hot Ones.” During Thursday’s episode, host Sean Evans, 37, asked Paltrow about remarks that “American Fiction” director Cord Jefferson made during his Oscars acceptance speech.“There are so many people out there who want the opportunity that I was given,” Jefferson said during the 2024 Academy Awards, adding that he understands that Hollywood is a “risk-averse” industry.“But a 200 million-dollar movie is also a risk,” he said, seemingly referring to superhero movies.“I absolutely understand where he’s coming from,” Paltrow said. “… If I look at the industry as a whole, this big push into superhero movies … you can only make so many good ones that feel truly original,” she continued.

Disney+‘s The Mandalorian saying “It became very popular to hate me and pick on me.”The former MMA champion turned actress played the lead role of Cara Dune in The Mandalorian, a role which was written by series creator John Favreau with her specifically in mind. Her stint on the series didn’t last long as roughly a year after the show’s premiere, Carano was fired from the show.She was let go from the Disney+ Star Wars spinoff series after making posts on social media that the company deemed “abhorrent and unacceptable”.

Carolyn Giardina Oscar frontrunner “Oppenheimer” collected another award on Saturday, with its sound team topping the feature competition of the 60th Cinema Audio Society Awards for sound mixing. The mixing team from “Oppenheimer” includes two-time Oscar-winning production sound mixer Willie D. Burton, who previously won Academy Awards for “Dreamgirls” and “Bird;” rerecording mixer Gary Rizzo, who won Oscars for “Dunkirk” and “Inception;” and rerecording mixer Kevin O’Connell, the 21-time nom who won an Oscar for “Hacksaw Ridge.” The winning team also included scoring mixer Chris Vogel and Foley mixers Tavish Grade, Jack Cucci and Mikel Parraga-Wills. “Oppenheimer” and CAS feature nominee “Maestro” are nominated for the Oscar in sound, alongside “The Zone of Interest” (which won the BAFTA in sound), “The Creator” and “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1.” In 2021, the Academy combined the Oscars for sound editing and sound mixing into a single award for best sound.

The surprise announcement this week of “The Mandalorian & Grogu” raised a ton of questions about the galaxy of Lucasfilm.

The Mandalorian was the first of the Disney Plus Star Wars TV shows. Now it will pioneer more uncharted territory as the first Disney Plus Star Wars show to get its own movie! Titled The Mandalorian & Grogu, This movie will seemingly take the place of Mando Season 4. Hollywood News Daily is here to tell you everything you need to know about this upcoming project! The Mandalorian & Grogu will be directed by Jon Favreau as well as Kathleen Kennedy and Dave Filoni on as producers for the movie.

Star Wars movie has been announced, titled The Mandalorian & Grogu. It is set to be directed and produced by Jon Favreau and will begin production later this year.It will be the first Star Wars movie since 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker, the $1billion movie which concluded the franchise’s original saga.

StarWars.com on Tuesday with the added info that Jon Favreau will direct with Favreau, Kathleen Kennedy, and Dave Filoni producing.The Mandalorian film, titled simply The Mandalorian & Grogu, will go into production in 2024.“I have loved telling stories set in the rich world that George Lucas created,” said Favreau on the site. “The prospect of bringing the Mandalorian and his apprentice Grogu to the big screen is extremely exciting.”“Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni have ushered into Star Wars two new and beloved characters, and this new story is a perfect fit for the big screen,” added Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm.Related: New trailer lands of The Mandalorian season three The film is just one of a bunch of features set in the Star Wars universe to be amping up into some sort of stage of production this year, including works from the likes of Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, James Mangold, and Dave Filoni.There are currently three series of The Mandalorian on the streaming service Disney +, and is just one of many successful Star Wars series that includes Ashoka, Obi-Wan Kenobi and The Book Of Boba Fett.Exciting times.

Jaden Thompson “Ahsoka” Season 2 is in development with creator Dave Filoni, Lucasfilm has confirmed. The news came with the reveal of the new “Star Wars” film “The Mandalorian & Grogu,” directed by Jon Favreau, which was unveiled Tuesday morning.

The Mandalorian is heading to the big screen soon.

Leave it to Lucasfilm to throw us a curveball when it comes to “Star Wars” films. Just when we were all set to speculate about the three films currently in development, led by the next film being Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s feature starring Daisy Ridley, Lucasfilm has gone ahead and turned everyone upside down.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Baby Yoda is headed to the big screen. Jon Favreau is directing a new “Star Wars” movie, titled “The Mandalorian & Grogu.” It will go into production later this year.

Well, the world of Lucasfilm just got a lot clearer. “The Mandalorian” season four? Nope, as we just reported, instead, Jon Favreau will be directing a movie tentatively titled, for now, “The Mandalorian and Grogu.” That’s a surprise movie because previously, we only knew of three movies in the works: one from Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (‘The Jedi Order’ film with Rey), one from James Mangold (the ‘Dawn Of the Jedi’ about the origins of the Jedi, and one from Dave Filoni (presumed to be “Heir To The Empire” which will be the finale of all the Disney+ stories with the Mandalorian on the big screen).

Everyone has a favourite Christmas film but at the top for a lot of people's list is the classic tale Elf. The film, starring Will Ferrell, James Caan and Zooey Deschanel, follows the naïve, oversized elf Buddy, a human raised by elves in the North Pole, as he journeys to New York City to find his long-lost biological father.

Jon Favreau‘s 2008 film “Iron Man” is usually referred to as the blockbuster that first kicked off Hollywood’s superhero movie craze (well, that one and “The Dark Knight“). But according to Pepper Potts herself, Gwyneth Paltrow, “Iron Man” wasn’t pitched to her as a sure-fire success.

Michaela Zee Robert Downey Jr. will not be returning as Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, according to Kevin Feige. In a recent Vanity Fair cover story about Downey Jr., the president of Marvel Studios addressed whether or not they would resurrect Iron Man/Tony Stark after his death in “Avengers: Endgame.” “We are going to keep that moment and not touch that moment again,” Feige said of Stark’s final moments in the 2019 film.

EXCLUSIVE: Independent Artist Group has signed Terrence Howard, the Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning actor known for roles in Hustle & Flow, Crash and Empire, for representation.