Curated playlist
Films produced by Kathleen Kennedy
- The Mandalorian and GroguThe Mandalorian and Grogu had its world premiere at TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on the 14th of May 2026. It was the first Star Wars film to open in theaters since The Rise of Skywalker seven years earlier. The journey to that…
- A.I. Artificial IntelligenceA.I. Artificial Intelligence arrived in theaters on the 29th of June 2001, carrying the weight of two filmmakers' visions and nearly three decades of troubled development. Stanley Kubrick had first acquired the rights to Brian Aldiss's…
- Star Wars: StarfighterStar Wars: Starfighter had Tom Cruise operating a camera for a lightsaber duel during production. That scene was staged in a boggy marsh. For its director, Shawn Levy, the franchise carries a weight he has described as 'nothing is as…
- Star Wars: The Last JediStar Wars: The Last Jedi is dedicated to Carrie Fisher, who played General Leia Organa and died on the 27th of December 2016. Written and directed by Rian Johnson, the film is the second installment of the Star Wars sequel trilogy,…
- Rogue OneRogue One: A Star Wars Story ends with two lead characters trapped in a citadel on Scarif, unable to escape a demolition beam. Felicity Jones plays Jyn Erso, a detained renegade recruited by the Rebel Alliance to find her missing father.…
- Star Wars: The Rise of SkywalkerStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker carried a net budget of about $490.2 million. That made it the second most expensive film ever produced. The price tag hints at how much was riding on one movie. J. J. Abrams directed the film. He was…
- Star Wars: The Force AwakensStar Wars: The Force Awakens arrived in theaters on the 18th of December 2015, carrying a weight that almost no film in history had to bear. Thirty-two years had passed since Return of the Jedi closed out the original trilogy. A generation…
- Star Wars sequel trilogyThe Star Wars sequel trilogy begins with a confession George Lucas made in 1976, before the first film had even opened. He told Mark Hamill, who plays Luke Skywalker, that he was planning three or four entire Star Wars trilogies. He even…
- Solo: A Star Wars StorySolo: A Star Wars Story premiered in Los Angeles on the 10th of May 2018. It carried a budget of nearly $300 million, one of the largest ever committed to a single film. The film tells the origin story of Han Solo and Chewbacca, set ten…
- Lincoln (film)Lincoln, Steven Spielberg's 2012 biographical drama, opens not with a battle or a speech but with a political puzzle: how does a president end slavery when the courts might undo his most important act? Daniel Day-Lewis plays Abraham…
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of DestinyIndiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny reached theaters in 2023, decades after Paramount Pictures signed a deal in 1979 for five Indiana Jones films. James Mangold directed this fifth entry, working from a screenplay he wrote with David…