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‘Star Wars: Ahsoka’ Season 2 Trailer: Disney+ Series Back After Nearly 3 Years

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August 15, 2026

It’s been quite a while since viewers were immersed in the Disney+ Star Wars series Ahsoka, going on three years, actually. New episodes won’t arrive until 2027, but the first trailer premiered Friday at D23 in Anaheim. Check out the clip and new poster below, along with a first-look photo above.

Season 2 continues the story of Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) and her extraordinary journey beyond the known galaxy. As Ahsoka and her Jedi apprentice Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo) travel across a mysterious and perilous world to find their way home, their friends must face the powerful Grand Admiral Thrawn (Lars Mikkelsen) and his sinister allies, who seek to plunge the New Republic into war.

The cast also includes Rory McCann as evil former Jedi Baylan Skoll (taking over for the late Ray Stevenson, who played the character in Season 1) and Hayden Christensen returns as Anakin Skywalker — a role he played is the Star Wars prequels and TV series Obi-Wan Kenobi — along with Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Eman Esfandi and Ivanna Sakhno.

Ahsoka won a 2024 Emmy for Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes and had four other nominations in crafts categories.

The Season 1 finale, which aired way back in October 2023, saw Grand Admiral Thrawn (Lars Mikkelsen) make the jump to hyperspace via a space loop, where Ezra (Eman Esfandi) stowed away, while Ahsoka (Rosario Dawson) and Sabine (Natasha Liu) were marooned in the green tundra tumbleweeds of Peridea in a galaxy far, far away. Thrawn’s m.o. is to reassemble the Empire aka “The Thrawn campaign,” which was a series of military and political maneuvers by the blue man to restore the Empire and implode the New Republic.

Dave Filoni created and writes the series, which returns for Season 2 early next year on Disney+.

Erik Pedersen contributed to this report.

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Jodie Foster & Walton Goggins Join ‘Hexed’

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August 15, 2026

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It was announced at D23 tonight that Jodie Foster and Walton Goggins are joining the voice cast of Walt Disney Animation’s Hexed.

The Oscar winner, who began her career at Disney in Candleshoe and Freaky Friday, said “I have never voiced a character in a Disney film until now.” She is playing Queen Celeste, the main baddie witch in the pic.

“What kind of part would a guy like me play?,” the Justified Goggins told the filled Honda Centre. It turns out that Goggins is playing a three-eyed green cat who dons a pink coat, Beef Roger, who is a witch’s sidekick. He winds up befriending Hailee Steinfeld’s young teen protagonist who has witch powers. She fends off against a gaggle of witches.

The movie has the prized Disney Thanksgiving box office opening slot, dated on Wednesday, Nov 25.

The Jason Hand-Josie Trinidad-Fawn Veerasunthorn directed movie follows an awkward teen and her Type-A mother learn her peculiarities might be magical powers, transforming their lives and revealing a hidden magical realm.

The voiceover cast includes Hailee Steinfeld, Alan Tudyk, Rashida Jones, Stephen Fry, CeeLo Green and Tracey Ullman.

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Kieran Culkin To Lead Voice Cast Of Walt Disney Animated Movie ‘Clay’

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August 15, 2026

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Walt Disney Animation Studios has a new original film in the works, Clay, which will head to theaters in 2028 with Kieran Culkin leading the voice cast.

The project was announced at Disney’s Entertainment Showcase at D23 on Friday night. Oscar and Emmy winner Culkin will voice the protagonist, Flip, who might be a little in over his head, said Walt Disney Animation chief Jared Bush.

“We have a rich history of stories that celebrate inspiring mentors and their aspirational students. So, with that in mind, we asked ourselves one very important question: What if the next Disney mentor stunk?” he explained. “And he does, and his name is Flip, and he has chosen to be his village’s next great mentor and is assigned his first student — a literal ball of clay born that very moment, named Mushi. So, like all inspiring mentors, Flip runs away in the middle of the night, only to discover that Mushi is inescapable and pure chaos, and now out in the wild, Flip must keep Mushi alive on a journey through a fantastical forest.”

The pic will release November 2028.

Culkin is probably best known for his Emmy-winning role as Roman Roy on HBO’s Succession. He won an Oscar for A Real Pain.

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‘Frozen 3’ First Look Teases Anna’s Wedding, New Villain & More

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August 15, 2026

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The filled Honda Center tonight got a look at Frozen 3 and let’s just say, there is quite a lot in store.

First of all, are those wedding bells, we hear? Indeed, they are! Kristen Bell confirmed at Disney’s Entertainment Showcase Friday night that Anna will be marrying her “mountain man” Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) in the upcoming threequel, of course with her sister by her side.

Speaking of, Idina Menzel was also on hand to tease the world of Frozen has gotten “a little bit more mysterious” since audiences were last in Arendelle. In fact, the story will quickly take these characters very far from their home to face another threat.

Footage shown in the room featured Anna and Kristoff, on their wedding night, coming upon Elsa out on the dock studying a mysterious stone that appears to open a portal to a very snowy dimension, which Menzel called “a frozen land more wild and dangerous than anything Elsa has ever created.”

When they step through what appears to be some sort of portal, they’re quickly confronted by a new character…who clearly isn’t looking to make nice. Audiences in the room at the Honda Center didn’t get a glimpse at the new character’s face, but it appears to be a woman with short, black hair and a wicked cape.

The leading ladies debuted some new music from the film. And, it wouldn’t be Frozen without Olaf. Josh Gad joined Bell and Menzel on stage to sing about the snowman’s one true love, Samantha.

Two years ago at D23 Disney showed off some concept art for the threequel in the $2.76 billion grossing, 2x Oscar winning franchise.

Filmmaker Jennifer Lee said back then, “there were a lot of questions coming out of Frozen 2…it will take two films to answer them.”

The art was of Elsa and Anna separately on horses heading toward a white palace in a summery horizon. Olaf was on the back of Anna’s horse. Specifically, Elsa was riding the water spirit Nokk. A mysterious horned shadow figure appeared in the river behind them. The implication was that the duo were journeying behind Arendelle and the Enchanted Forest to a new mystical realm, heading toward a floating palace which many have interpreted as a place where we’ll learn more about Elsa’s powers.

Frozen 3 comes out on Nov. 24, 2027.