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The official Facebook page for the Star Wars movie franchise celebrated “Trans Day of Visibility” on Wednesday by unveiling the recently created characters Terec and Ceret, who are “trans non-binary Jedi Knights.”

English actress Daisy Ridley said she is not returning to social media for her mental health, citing statistics that link social media to anxiety, which she says is “terrifying.”

The Walt Disney Co. is defending the host of its “Star Wars: The High Republic” show after she came under fire for making disparaging comments about white people, including accusing white women of “upholding white supremacy.”

Jeremy Bulloch, the British actor best known for portraying bounty hunter Boba Fett in the original Star Wars trilogy, has died. He was 75.

The money is in streaming. It cost about half as much to release a movie on streaming because there’s no promotion costs. And that monthly streaming money is a golden goose that pays off every single month. Welcome to a whole new world.

The Los Angeles Police are on the lookout for a disgruntled construction worker who allegedly fired a shot at Star Wars actress Billie Lourd’s estate.

LONDON (AP) – Dave Prowse, the British weightlifter-turned-actor who played Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, has died. He was 85.

A five-year-old boy who heard about the wildfires ravaging Oregon told his grandmother he wanted to help the firefighters on the front lines, so he donated a Baby Yoda doll to them.

Former MMA champion and “Star Wars: The Mandalorian” star Gina Carano is continuing her fight against the leftist cancel culture that has tried to paint her as a hater of transgender and gay people. The left’s latest attack on the actress came after she refused to add “pronouns” to her Twitter bio to satisfy radical transgender activists’ demands.

LONDON — Black actor John Boyega has stepped down from his role as a global ambassador for perfume brand Jo Malone after the company decided to hire a Chinese actor to replace him in an ad he created.

British perfume brand Jo Malone has apologized to Black actor John Boyega of “Star Wars” fame after cutting him out of the Chinese version of a cologne commercial he helped create.

“Star Wars” star John Boyega accused producers of the Disney-backed franchise of “pushing” minority characters “to the side” in the latest trilogy while developing “nuanced” storylines for the movies’ white characters.

British-Nigerian actor and star of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, John Boyega, joined Black Lives Matter activists in London to protest against the death of George Floyd in the United States.

A recent post from the Disney+ Twitter account has led to anger from Star Wars fans who believe that the company is attempting to take ownership of the popular #MayThe4th hashtag.

Actor and longtime industry dialect coach Andrew Jack, who had a role in “Star Wars” film franchise, has died at 76 from coronavirus complications.

So what’s going so horribly wrong at the box office, you ask? In a word: Woketardism.

In a recent column for the Washington Post, Stanford Ph.D. student Jeffrey Chen made the case that the Star Wars franchise “reinforces our prejudices” through its soundtrack.

Disney has a huge, huge problem on its hammy, left-wing hands.

Star Wars actor Mark Hamill has deleted his Facebook account over the social media site’s refusal to fact check political ads on its platform. According to Hamill, Mark Zuckerberg “values profit more than truthfulness” as demonstrated by his decision not to censor political ads. Facebook says its policy is based on the “principle that people should be able to hear from those who wish to lead them, warts and all, and that what they say should be scrutinized and debated in public.”

What kind of lunatic puts such a thing in a Star Wars movie?

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Star Wars was still rising in the last weekend of the year, while Little Women broke big at the box office. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker brought in $72 million over the weekend to remain

Disney has removed a lesbian kiss from their latest installment of the “Star Wars” series, “The Rise of Skywalker,” in Singapore, bending to the country’s strict rules surrounding LGBT content.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina college student hailed by police as a hero for preventing more injuries and deaths after a gunman opened fire in a classroom has now been immortalized as a Jedi by the production company for the Star Wars franchise.

“Star Wars” actor Jake Cannavale trashed the latest installment in the iconic franchise, “The Rise of Skywalker,” declaring it an “absolute f**king failure” embodying the “overall laziness” of the latest trilogy.

(AP) — Not much has caused a disturbance in the “Star Wars” galaxy quite like Rian Johnson’s “The Last Jedi,” an erratic but electric movie that, regardless of how you felt about it, was something worth arguing about.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker isn’t boring. It’s just dumb and flat and so understandably eager to undo all that The Last Jedi damage, it feels like we’re starting over.

With 127 reviews in, The Rise of Skywalker has the second-worst reviews of any Star Wars movie in the franchise’s 40-year history.

Each day closer to the wide release of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” I’m getting more and more certain that it’s going to be a train wreck.

Overall, though, if you take in the full scope of reactions, these are mixed reviews, not the 100 percent gushing Disney was aiming for.  

Los Angeles (AFP) – Obsessed Star Wars fans with sleeping bags and a portable movie projector have started camping outside Hollywood’s Chinese Theatre, more than a week before the blockbuster begins playing.

Why does Kathleen Kennedy still have a job? 

Star Wars actor Billy Dee Williams Says Disney made a bad decision in promoting Lando Calrissian in 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story as a pansexual character in a romantic relationship with a droid.

Parents really resent this stuff. It forces them to have to explain human sexuality to their children, to puncture a crucial piece of that innocence, long before they should have to.

Advance ticket sales for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker are “not overly robust,” reports the far-left Deadline.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker director J.J. Abrams has hinted that LGBTQ fans will be “represented” in the upcoming installment of the iconic franchise, but stopped short of saying whether the film will feature a gay character.

“Star Wars” actor Billy Dee Williams has described himself as gender fluid, explaining that he sees himself as both masculine and feminine.