Warwick Davis

The Gate (1987) Original Trailer There are a lot of movies about demons being accidentally unleashed upon our world, but only 1987's The Gate also features the following: young teen protagonists (one is played by Stephen Dorff, in his feature debut), nightmarish premonitions, a backyard pit that coughs up a cursed geode, evil incantations, heavy metal lyrics, Biblical verses, ghostly construction workers, human sacrifices, and adventures in babysitting. Watch on Tubi. The Gate (1987) Original Trailer There are a lot of…

Image: Trimark/LionsgateLionsgate is gearing up to bring Leprechaun out of the rainbow.Per the Hollywood Reporter, a new entry in the horror comedy series is in the works at the film studio. Felipe Vargas, who directed the 2020 short film Milk Teeth and is currently helming his feature debut Rosario, will direct a script from Mike Van Waes, writer of Disney’s incoming Lilo & Stitch reboot movie and the canceled The Crooked Man spinoff for the Conjuring movies. Producing the film will be Vertigo Entertainment, the…

Screenshot: LucasfilmGod bless you Crix Madine, for providing generations of action figures of politicians, diplomats, officers, and other general non-combatant Star Wars characters the gift of the ur-accessory when you can’t just give them a blaster. What is the stick for? Who knows, but Kenner and Hasbro certainly don’t mind it all these years later. Screenshot: LucasfilmGod bless you Crix Madine, for providing generations of action figures of politicians, diplomats, officers, and other general non-combatant Star…

“Scary teddy bears,” Emperor Palpatine himself, Ian McDiarmid, said. “The end of Palpatine.” The iconic actor behind Star Wars’ greatest villain was one of four actors to appear on the 40th-anniversary panel for Return of the Jedi at Star Wars Celebration 2023. McDiarmid was joined by Lando Calrissian’s Billy Dee Williams, Wicket the Ewok’s Warwick Davis and C-3PO’s Anthony Daniels. It was moderated by Fennec Shand herself, Ming-Na Wen.Spoilers of the Week: July 1stThough the actors were only on stage for half of the…

Image: Disney/LFL creditWillow will not return. Deadline reports that the Disney+ series that served as a sequel to Ron Howard’s 1988 Lucasfilm fantasy adventure will not be getting a second season on the streamer.Warwick Davis reprised his role as the title sorcerer in the eight-episode series, which picked up the adventures of his character from the film and explored the fate of magical chosen one Elora Danan—first introduced as a baby in the movie but played by Ellie Bamber in the series. The show was quirky (those…

Screenshot: LucasfilmAnyone who watched Lucasfilm’s new Disney+ show Willow won’t be surprised by this next sentence. The behind-the-scenes documentary, Willow: Behind the Magic, is only half-serious, much like the show it’s based on. Willow’s cast and crew give viewers a sneak peek behind the scenes of the making of the show, while also weaving elaborate tales about star Warwick Davis’ narcissism, toxic on-set antics, and more. None of which is true, of course, and all of which is funny, but it gives the documentary a…

The finale of Willow is upon us.Image: LucasfilmIt’s all come down to this. The first season of Willow ends next week and after a very juicy cliffhanger this week, we have no idea what’s going to happen. But, thankfully, we talked to the people who do.Before the Disney+ series premiered, io9 was given the season’s first seven episodes to watch before conducting interviews with the cast and crew. And after seeing the end of episode seven, “Beyond the Shattered Sea,” and knowing no one would ever spoil anything, we asked…

Time to do some magic, Willow.Image: LucasfilmWhere Willow the movie ended, the fourth episode of the show began. Nockmaar. Castle of the evil Queen Bavmorda. The place where Willow, Sorsha, and Raziel saved Elora Danon and thought they’d put an end to evil. Well, evil is coming back in the person of a possessed young prince, and the castle is ready for it.Episode four of the Disney+ series Willow is called “The Whispers of Nockmaar” and it began with the group, now fully reunited, entering the abandoned castle for a big…

Willow is back on Disney+Image: LucasfilmAt least they aren’t going to Sauron it. Willow, the Disney+ series that’s the long-awaited follow-up to the 1988 George Lucas/Ron Howard film, is finally here and during the first episode, a mystery emerged. One fans have been thinking about for decades. What happened to Elora Danan?Elora Danan, of course, is the baby from the first Willow: a young girl prophecized to defeat the evil Queen and who Willow and his friends swear to protect. A baby who, at the end of the movie, is…

Wicket in Return of the JediScreenshot: LucasfilmWhile promoting his new Disney+ series, Willow, which brings back a beloved character he first played in the 1980s, star Warwick Davis was asked about another beloved character of his from that era, Return of the Jedi’s Wicket the Ewok. Specifically: mockumentary Return of the Ewok, shot behind the scenes of the Star Wars film and never officially completed nor released.Speaking to Uproxx, Davis sounded enthusiastic about the idea of finally releasing the doc. Shot by Jedi…