The Mandalorian

Disney+ premiered the latest trailer for Season 3 of “The Mandalorian” last night, giving fans a glimpse at what the bounty hunter and his tiny companion will get into this…

Disney+ releases full trailer for ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3

Disney announced today the long-awaited third season of “The Mandalorian,” which will debut on March 1 on Disney+. The company had previously said that the third season would debut in…

‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3 will premiere on March 1

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The first season of “The Mandalorian” last year wasn’t just a great show, it was the result of an entirely new paradigm in film and TV production. Stagecraft, the enormous…

ILM shows off the new Stagecraft LED wall used for season 2 of ‘The Mandalorian’

“The Mandalorian” just wrapped up its second season on Disney+, with an action-packed and surprise-filled finale. In many ways, it feels like a seamless continuation of the first season’s storylines,…

Original Content podcast: ‘The Mandalorian’ season two goes deep into Star Wars mythology

Google has been all about the fun little augmented reality Easter Eggs lately, with a bevy of search terms triggering Halloween-themed AR experiences back in October. Ghosts! Jack-o-lanterns! Dancing skeletons!…

Googling for ‘Baby Yoda’ will bring him into your living room via augmented reality

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Google has teamed up with Disney and Lucasfilm to bring the Star Wars streaming series “The Mandalorian” to augmented reality. The company announced this morning the launch of a new…

Google brings ‘The Mandalorian’ to AR in its new app

The U.S. Space Force obviously won’t be able to train most of their service people in actual space, so the relatively new arm of America’s defense forces has tasked Slingshot…

US Space Force is getting an immersive space sim training tool built in part by the VFX studio behind ‘The Mandalorian’

Disney has released the first trailer for the second season of The Mandalorian, and it actually provides a lot of plot detail via voice-over of a conversation behind main character…

Watch the first official trailer for The Mandalorian Season 2, premiering October 30 on Disney+

“The Mandalorian” is returning to Disney+ with new episodes starting on October 30. The Star Wars spin-off series (created by Jon Favreau) was the biggest original offering when Disney+ launched…

‘The Mandalorian’ launches its second season on Oct. 30

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How ‘The Mandalorian’ and ILM invisibly reinvented film and TV production

“The Mandalorian” was a pretty good show. On that most people seem to agree. But while a successful live-action Star Wars TV series is important in its own right, the way this particular show was made represents a far greater change, perhaps the most important since the green screen. The cutting edge tech (literally) behind…

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How ‘The Mandalorian’ and ILM invisibly reinvented film and TV production

The last episode of the first season of Disney’s ‘The Mandalorian’ is available to stream on Disney+ today, and showrunner Jon Favreau wasted very little time confirming when we can…

‘The Mandalorian’ returns for Season 2 on Disney+ in fall 2020

Since it’s a holiday week for those of us in the United States, we’ve put together an (even more) unstructured episode of the Original Content podcast. Among other things, this…

Original Content podcast: Reasons to be thankful for streaming and Star Wars

Who could have guessed an adorable, big-eyed baby Star Wars alien would have generated a ton of demand for toys? Apparently not Disney, which today started to sell merchandise based…

Disney’s cringe-worthy Baby Yoda merch goes on sale

Disney’s shift to streaming is officially underway with this week’s launch of Disney+, along with its flagship show, the Star Wars series “The Mandalorian.” On the latest episode of the…

Original Content podcast: Disney’s ‘Mandalorian’ is never boring

There’s probably no more hotly anticipated series from any new streaming service than “The Mandalorian” on Disney+ — and now the good folks at Disney have given us a new…

ZOMG there’s a new ‘The Mandalorian’ trailer (now with more Werner Herzog)