Star Wars Celebration is coming home to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Star Wars
The massive Lucasfilm fan convention will hold its next edition in Los Angeles, timed to commemorate the release of the very first Star Wars movie, it was announced Sunday in Tokyo, Japan, the site of this year’s event.
A source close to Lucasfilm told The Hollywood Reporter that the Los Angeles Convention Center will likely play host to the 17th Star Wars Celebration. The venue previously held the fourth edition of Star Wars Celebration in May 2007, which honored the 30th anniversary of Star Wars.
The 2025 Star Wars Celebration returned the event to Japan for the first time since 2008, marking just the second time it has been held in Asia in its 25-year history. The Tokyo event was the fastest Star Wars Celebration to sell out, with over 105,000 guests in attendance, an 8 percent increase from the 2023 convention in London, according to Lucasfilm. Demonstrating the truly global appeal of the Star Wars franchise, 55 percent of this year’s guests came from the Asia-Pacific region, with 47 percent from Japan and an additional 31 percent from the U.S. Altogether, fans traveled to the event from 125 countries, compared to 64 countries for the previous edition.
The Tokyo Star Wars Celebration featured over 26 hours of franchise programming across 3 main stages, plus some 100 hours of fan panels and podcast content on supporting stages and convention spaces. Several major franchise announcements were made in Tokyo. Ryan Gosling made a surprise appearance with director Shawn Levy to reveal the name and release date for their upcoming spinoff feature, Star Wars: Starfighter. Jon Favreau, Kathleen Kennedy, Star Wars guru Dave Filoni, and stars Pedro Pascal and Sigourney Weaver also lit up the event on its first day by showing the first footage of The Mandalorian & Grogu, the Star Wars film spun off from Disney+’s hit The Mandalorian TV series.
Other highlights included Andor creator Tony Gilroy and stars Diego Luna, Kyle Soller, Adria Arjona, Genevieve O’Reilly, Alan Tudyk and Denise Gough premiering the first episode of season two of the critically acclaimed Disney+ series. And Hayden Christensen also drove the fans wild, turning up to Ahsoka panel and revealing that he will reprise his fan-favorite role of Anakin Skywalker for season two of that Disney+ show.
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