
Star Wars Celebration 2025
Fans of all ages from all over the world will come together to celebrate the cultural phenomenon, Star Wars. Star Wars Celebration revels in the excitement of new movies, television shows, books, art, and comics while also commemorating the vast history of the Star Wars universe. Star Wars Celebration has something special for every kind of Star Wars fan!
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Chiba City, Japan
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Star Wars Celebration 2025 Spotlight

Andor star on why Cassian makes the ultimate sacrifice in Rogue One: “There’s something romantic behind every revolution”
At Star Wars Celebration 2025, Andor's Diego Luna shed some light on how the television show helped him understand his character's sacrifice
Jules Chin Greene

The six Star Wars movies Lucasfilm says is still in development, and the six they avoided talking about at Star Wars Celebration 2025
These's aren't the Star Wars movies you're looking for - or are they?
Chris Arrant

Just like the best parts of Star Wars, Andor season 2 episode 1 shows how easy it is to give in to fascism
Star Wars has always been about rebellion, but Andor season 2 is set to show us how easy it is to give into fascism.
Trent Cannon

Finally, fans get a chance to join the Clone Wars for themselves (with special secret missions) in upcoming Star Wars Zero Company video game
If you've always dreamed of showing off your strategic and tactical genius, Star Wars Zero Company is the game you've been looking for (and it's arriving in 2026).
Graeme McMillan
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Follow along live to the official Ahsoka panel from Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025!
Join creator Dave Filoni and some "surprise guests" (Rosario Dawson, is that you?) to talk about the past, present and future of Star Wars' Ahsoka live from Star Wars Celebration 2025.
Trent Cannon

Follow along live to the official Andor season 2 panel from Star Wars Celebration 2025 in Japan!
Andor star Diego Luna, creator Tony Gilroy, and more reveal the full scale and scope of Star Wars: Andor season 2 - the finale of the hit streaming series - at Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025.
Trent Cannon

Follow along live to the Mandalorian & Grogu movie panel from Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025!
Live from Star Wars Celebration 2025 in Japan, its the official The Mandalorian & Grogu movie panel with Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, and more.
Trent Cannon
Star Wars Celebration 2025 Feed

Andor star on why Cassian makes the ultimate sacrifice in Rogue One: “There’s something romantic behind every revolution”
At Star Wars Celebration 2025, Andor's Diego Luna shed some light on how the television show helped him understand his character's sacrifice
Jules Chin Greene

The six Star Wars movies Lucasfilm says is still in development, and the six they avoided talking about at Star Wars Celebration 2025
These's aren't the Star Wars movies you're looking for - or are they?
Chris Arrant

Just like the best parts of Star Wars, Andor season 2 episode 1 shows how easy it is to give in to fascism
Star Wars has always been about rebellion, but Andor season 2 is set to show us how easy it is to give into fascism.
Trent Cannon

Finally, fans get a chance to join the Clone Wars for themselves (with special secret missions) in upcoming Star Wars Zero Company video game
If you've always dreamed of showing off your strategic and tactical genius, Star Wars Zero Company is the game you've been looking for (and it's arriving in 2026).
Graeme McMillan

Star Wars' Andor series was a joke on the set of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story according to Diego Luna, then years later it became real
Andor star Diego Luna believed Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was a one-off, then it would be "back to normal"
Graeme McMillan

"It really works!" Star Wars' Rosario Dawson has a new favorite cosplay mashing up her Ahsoka and DC Wonder Woman roles
Rosario Dawson knows what it takes to look like Ahsoka Tano, and she's got a team helping her make it happen
Graeme McMillan

Return to Mos Eisley in a Star Wars meets Studio Ghibli anime coming as part of Visions Volume 3
We've just had our first look at the most adorable episode of Star Wars: Visions Volume 3 and we can't wait to see more of Billy and Yuko.
Trent Cannon

I just saw the coolest lightsaber design ever at Star Wars Celebration, and we'll all get to see it in The Duel sequel coming in Star Wars Visions Volume 3
The standout episode of Volume 1 is back as The Ronin returns for Star Wars: Visions Volume 3
Trent Cannon

Fortnite's next Star Wars event Galactic Battle will include Darth Jar Jar, as well as the Mandalorian, Luke Skywalker and... a Death Star?
Fortnite x Star Wars: Galactic Battle begins May 2
Graeme McMillan

Studio Ghibli's Shinya Ohira is doing a Star Wars anime this year, and from what we've seen it changes the way we look at Stormtroopers
The legendary Akira and Studio Ghibli animator is bringing his chaotic, surreal animation style to Star Wars and we love it.
Trent Cannon

Star Wars: The Ninth Jedi is getting spun off into its own standalone special with Production IG after Visions' success
The Disney+ series will launch with 'Star Wars Visions Presents: The Ninth Jedi' in 2026
Graeme McMillan

Star Wars Visions Volume 3 release date: Sequels to fan-favorite episodes, brand new stories, more
Get ready for new animated adventures from a galaxy far, far away this October with Star Wars Visions Volume 3.
Graeme McMillan

How Darth Jar Jar and LEGO Star Wars helped Ahmed Best fulfill a Star Wars ambition of 20 years
When Star Wars lore got rewritten, Ahmed Best finally had the chance to do something he'd wanted to since Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Graeme McMillan

Star Wars veteran Ahmed Best on getting offered "the coolest five minutes in Mandalorian history": "It's about time"
Best went from playing the butt of everyone's joke as Jar Jar to saving baby Grogu in The Mandalorian
Graeme McMillan

"The dinner party from hell": Star Wars Andor dark power couple Kyle Soller & Denise Gough dish on one of their top 3 favorite scenes from the show
The mother-in-law is coming to visit Andor's Imperial power couple, and its going to get comedically crazy.
Chris Arrant

Ahsoka season 2 teases a massive Star Wars military battle, as Thrawn goes head to head with Admiral Ackbar
Two of Star Wars greatest military minds facing off against each other? It must be a trap... not that Ackbar would know anything about that, of course
Graeme McMillan

Hayden Christensen is returning to Star Wars for Ahsoka season 2 - but is it as Darth Vader or Anakin Skywalker?
Anakin Skywalker's coming back for Snips in Star Wars: Ahsoka season 2
Chris Arrant

Ahsoka's Dave Filoni and The Mandalorian's Jon Favreau are in a custody battle over the Star Wars "toys" in their various Lucasfilm projects
"I’m the little brother who doesn’t get to play with the lightsabers," complains the Mandalorian's Jon Favreau
Graeme McMillan

Ryan Gosling's Starfighter just overtook Daisy Ridley's New Jedi Order project to map the Star Wars future post-Rise of Skywalker
Inside the fight for the future of Star Wars
Chris Arrant

I saw episode 1 of Andor season 2 at Star Wars Celebration Japan, and it's everything you want it to be
Big action. Hints of comedy. The casual planning of a planetary genocide. Everything a great Star Wars story needs.
Trent Cannon

Andor season 2 premiere throws out unexpected references to classic Star Wars ship design and The Force Awakens
Hey, want to watch part of Andor's second season premiere before it debuts on Disney+? We've got you covered
Graeme McMillan

Star Wars' Mon Mothma actor Geneveive O'Reilly has waited 20 years to stand up to the Empire, and with Andor season 2 she feels she finally has "this moment"
Geneveive O'Reilly is the longest-tenured Star Wars actor on the Andor series, and she's finally stepping up for her climatic scene
Chris Arrant

Andor and Hit Man star Adria Arjona teases a "really beautiful" relationship in season 2 of the critically acclaimed Star Wars series
What is going on between Bix and Andor? Something beautiful, according to Adria Arjona.
Graeme McMillan

The breakout character from Star Wars: Andor season 1 is going to disappoint fans by being her true, evil self in the show's final outing
Fans of Imperial officer Dedra might be upset when she goes from frustrated 'girl boss' to an outright fascist, according to the actor who plays her
Graeme McMillan

Cassian Andor & K-2S0's first meeting (and the droid's birth) gives Diego Luna & Alan Tudyk the giggles ahead of Star Wars' Andor season 2 reveal
The best duo in Star Wars (no, not C3-PO and R2-D2) is back in Andor season 2, and no-one is happier than the actors themselves
Graeme McMillan

Star Wars: Rebels benefited from a surprising amount of "latitude" from Disney shortly after their purchase of Lucasfilm
Dave Feloni, how has helped make some of your favorite Star Wars animated series, explains that Disney were surprisingly happy to let them experiment with the show they wanted to make.
Trent Cannon

The way Star Wars portrays clones and stormtroopers shows a more subtle bit of storytelling than we ever gave George Lucas credit for
The concept of individuality in among clone troopers and the stormtroopers under the Jedi and the Empire is one of the best bits of Star Wars, in our opinion.
Trent Cannon

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace's villain returns yet again in Maul: Shadow Lord animated series
The one-time Darth will return one more time in the new animated series sometime in 2026
Graeme McMillan

The Star Wars: Mandalorian & Grogu movie is the Disney+ show with the time taken to get it perfect, teases creator Jon Favreau
"We have to turn around within a year to get each season of The Mandalorian done — here, we have many years," Favreau said at Star Wars Celebration Japan.
Graeme McMillan

Star Wars' mysterious Knights of Ren have a new female leader. Meet Tava Ren
Kylo Ren is vying for control of the Knights of Ren with a new Star Wars big bad named Tava Ren
Chris Arrant

Star Wars brings its real-life Galaxy's Edge theme park droids into fiction with The Mandalorian & Grogu
A galaxy far far away still has some need for synergy, as the BDX droids from Disney Parks' Galaxy's Edge are added to 2026's Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu
Graeme McMillan

From Alien to X-Wing: Sigourney Weaver will be an X-Wing pilot and Rebel leader in Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, teases Dave Filoni
The legendary actress will play someone who understands the stakes of the Rebellion, apparently
Graeme McMillan

Disney & Lucasfilm are quietly planning a 50th anniversary Star Wars movie that's focused on all-new characters
Star Wars turns 50 in 2027, and there's a new movie coming for the occasion
Chris Arrant

Longtime Star Wars fan Ryan Gosling sees 2027 Starfighter movie as a chance to "shine a light" into a part of the Star Wars Universe we haven't seen before
Ryan Gosling's been wanting to work with Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy for years, then he got offered to do a Star Wars together
Chris Arrant

I never realized how much I wanted to see Star Wars' Thrawn in a shoujo-style manga until now
Lucasfilm is bringing Timothy Zahn's Thrawn novel to manga.
Chris Arrant

Cal Kestis is back as Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is getting its own comic
We all need more Cal Kestis in our lives.
Chris Arrant

Lucasfilm launches its first-ever Kickstarter to revive Star Wars: The Manga
Star Wars and Dark Horse Comics are giving this whole Kickstarter thing a try
Chris Arrant

The Star Wars: Starfighter movie will be the first Star Wars movie since 1977 that's not a sequel, a prequel to anything before - and Shawn Levy & Ryan Gosling are keying into that
Promising new characters, new adventures, and a new period of time, Star Wars: Starfighter is aiming to be its own thing in the Star Wars universe.
Chris Arrant

How do you write a show like Star Wars' The Mandalorian? First, you need a lot of action figures says Jon Favreau & Dave Filoni
The writing process behind The Mandalorian is pretty much what you did as a kid, except on a larger scale
Graeme McMillan

Star Wars' Pedro Pascal knew that audiences would love The Mandalorian even before shooting started - here's why
What convinced Pascal that the show was destined to be a fan favorite? He loved the storyboards, he said
Graeme McMillan

Screw CGI! Lucasfilm has built a life-size Walker for Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu so it looks cooler in IMAX
Who needs CGI when you can build an IMAX-friendly walker for real?
Graeme McMillan

Ryan Gosling to reveal the future of Star Wars past Episode 9 with Starfighter (and we have a release date!)
Ryan Gosling will star in the first movie set post-Rise of Skywalker, out in 2027
Graeme McMillan

Follow along live to the official Ahsoka panel from Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025!
Join creator Dave Filoni and some "surprise guests" (Rosario Dawson, is that you?) to talk about the past, present and future of Star Wars' Ahsoka live from Star Wars Celebration 2025.
Trent Cannon

Follow along live to the official Andor season 2 panel from Star Wars Celebration 2025 in Japan!
Andor star Diego Luna, creator Tony Gilroy, and more reveal the full scale and scope of Star Wars: Andor season 2 - the finale of the hit streaming series - at Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025.
Trent Cannon

Follow along live to the Mandalorian & Grogu movie panel from Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025!
Live from Star Wars Celebration 2025 in Japan, its the official The Mandalorian & Grogu movie panel with Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, and more.
Trent Cannon

Star Wars finally dives deep into pod racing 25 years after The Phantom Menace with Beyond Victory, debuting at Celebration Tokyo
The new VR experience (and Marvel comic book!) will be available for fans at Star Wars Celebration Tokyo in April
Graeme McMillan

A comic con surival kit, from convention experts to you ahead of San Diego Comic-Con, New York Comic Con, and more
Here it is - the ReedPop insider's con survival guide. Accumulated and documented over years of con travel by numerous people here at ReedPop, this isn't the basics - this is the #protip of all pro tips on making your con travels easier.
Chris Arrant

Comic Con Essentials: If you're going to a comic con, you'll need this (and this, and this)
It's dangerous to go alone - take this! A comprehensive guide of things to bring to a comic convention
Lauren Sisselman

Mark your calendars for Star Wars Celebration 2025 in Japan!
Star Wars Celebration returns to Japan in 2025
Graeme McMillan