Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy spoke to Entertainment Weekly about the firing of Solo directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller. "I think these guys are hilarious," she said, "but they come from a background of animation and sketch comedy. And when you are making these movies, you can do that ... but it has to be inside of a highly structured process or you can’t get the work done."

Variety's Maureen Ryan recently crunched the numbers on the Star Wars creative teams. Of the 24 people hired to write, direct, or otherwise lead a Star Wars film, including upcoming projects, 23 were white men.

Reed's work is beautiful and intense. It tells not just a narrative story, but an emotional one. We would love to see what she would do with Star Wars. And yes, the fact that is a woman makes this prospect all the more exciting.

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Anita Hill, who bravely brought sexual harassment into the national conversation when she testified against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas in 1991, will chair Hollywood's newly announced Commission on Sexual Harassment and Advancing Equality in the Workplace.

Former Star Wars: Episode IX Director Colin Trevorrow was whisked in on the back of his sudden, dinosaur-fueled rise to fame, but it's hard to say that his departure was surprising. Not only have plenty of other directors met similar fates at the hands of Lucasfilm, but Trevorrow's only other major film to speak of was resoundingly panned. But new word on the real reason for his removal is at once a new piece of the puzzle and wholly unsurprising.

Star Wars Force For Change which teams with UNICEF Kid power and Starlight Children's Foundation, has had a huge impact this year.

Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy spoke with MTV News at Star Wars Celebration about the future of the franchise, both as it relates to the Skywalker Saga, and as it relates to the "anthology films." You can check out the full interview in the video after the jump.

Rejoice, Star Wars fans! Disney and Lucasfilm have released our first glimpse at the cast of the upcoming untitled young Han Solo anthology film!

Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy revealed that Saw Gerrera had a much bigger role in Rogue One, and may yet still pop up elsewhere in the greater Star Wars universe.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is already different from other Star Wars movies just for the fact that its story is more self-contained. While it deals with events within the continuity of the series, its main cast of characters have a self-contained, single-movie story. Other ways in which it differs from the rest of the franchise weren't always as certain, and it's a better movie for the changes that were made.

How did Lucasfilm end up with an executive team that "is more than 50 percent female.?"

Last week, Variety did an interview with Kathleen Kennedy, President of Lucasfilm, in which she made some interesting comments about what it would take for a woman to finally get to direct a Star Wars film—comments that were a bit disheartening. This week, in a different interview, Kennedy attempted to clarify those disheartening statements.

Musicians Flo & Joan put together a little ditty that sums up how they feel about 2016 so far. There's a whole lot of swearing.

Last week, we reported on an interview Lucasfilm's Kathleen Kennedy did with Variety about Rogue One and the upcoming Han Solo anthology film. We talked about what she had to say about those projects, but we didn't touch on another important part of the interview. The part where Kennedy talks about why there hasn't yet been a female director attached to a Star Wars film.

Who hasn't wanted to go through the Sailor Moon transformation sequence? Moreover, who didn't want to do that while figure skating?!

If those stills Jessica posted earlier didn't get you properly jazzed about the impending arrival of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, then maybe these little nuggets of information will! Because there are many ways in which this film will stand apart from its Star Wars brethren, but these could be the most jarring in the actual theater if you didn't know about them in advance. Thank goodness you have us. You're welcome.