Billy Dee Williams Spent ‘a Lot of Years’ Getting Yelled at by Angry ‘Star Wars’ Fans: ‘You Betrayed Han Solo!’

Another Star Wars project is on the way! Just a few weeks after the announcement of The Mandalorian and Grogu movie a new series is set to premiere on Disney Plus this summer! Star Wars fans will be eating well with so much new content coming in 2024! Including the third and final season of The Bad Batch! Hollywood News Daily is here to tell fans everything they need to know about this exciting news! ‘STAR WARS: THE ACOLYTE’ will release this Summer(via: @Collider) pic.twitter.com/ZDZuGIspYo— ScreenTime (@screentime) February 10, 2024Star Wars: The Acolyte will be set in the High Republic Era. This was a time way before the Prequel Trilogy when the Jedi Order was at the height of its power. The series will follow a Jedi Padawan and her master as they investigate a looming evil lurking in the outer rim.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Before Samuel L. Jackson became synonymous with the Marvel Cinematic Universe thanks to his decades-long role as Nick Fury, it was “Star Wars” that was the first Hollywood mega-franchise to open its doors for the beloved actor. Jackson played Jedi master Mace Windu in George Lucas’ “Star Wars” prequel trilogy, and it’s a role he appears quite eager to play again despite Mace being killed off in 2015’s “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith” after Anakin severs his hand with a lightsaber, and Emperor Palpatine electrocutes him and sends him flying out of a building window.

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has shared the release windows for both Assassin’s Creed Codename Red and Star Wars Outlaws.Speaking as part of the company’s most recent financial report, Guillemot confirmed Ubisoft were already looking forward to the 2025 fiscal year, which runs April 2024 to March 2025.“Moving forward, we’re gearing up for a very promising line-up for fiscal year 2025,” said Guillemot. He went on to confirm that Star Wars Outlaws, an action-adventure game set between The Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi, would be released before the end of 2024.“It should be a major milestone in the video game industry, especially given the undeniable appeal of this legendary franchise that will be coming for the first time to the Open World territory,” he added.Star Wars Outlaws was announced last year.

Today of their reunion. “It was like the kind of cocktail party where you just have these amazing conversations and you just leave filled up, like your cup’s more full than when you came in.”Meghan Markle who played paralegal Rachel Zane on the hit USA Network series, which ended in 2019 was not in the spot..In the commercial, directed by Zach Woods, the actor best known for his roles on HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley and NBC’s “The Office,” the “Suits” legal team ends up in Judge Judy’s magnificent courtroom.“I made a fool of myself,” Hoffman says about meeting the 81-year-old legal icon.

Enough time has passed that Ewan McGregor has fresh eyes to look back at his time making the “Star Wars” prequel films. He needs a new perspective because, apparently, a lot of his memories, specifically regarding the release of ‘The Phantom Menace,’ aren’t very positive.

Having had the term “toxic fandom” coined around their poor behavior, it’s no secret that some sectors of “Star Wars” fandom have been rather belligerent. Many were up in arms about Rian Johnson’s “The Last Jedi” and even J.J.

As we all know, after a long break from theaters and a pivot on Disney+ with TV series, Lucasfilm has ambitious plans to return “Star Wars” to cinemas. While “The Mandalorian And Grogu” might be the next “Star Wars” film to hit theaters (and if it does, the next available release date is May 2026), there’s also another one nipping at its heels.

The Traitors winner Meryl Williams has revealed she spent part of her winnings on forehead surgery, but warned the procedure is "not for the fainthearted". Meryl, 27, won the first series of BBC's The Traitors alongside co-stars Hannah Byczkowski and Aaron Evans, with the trio splitting the £99,000 prize fund between them. Meryl previously told how winning £33,000 enabled her to quit her customer service job, and she's now revealed that she spent part of her prize money on forehead reduction surgery, as she'd always "hated" her forehead.The star has a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia, which can lead to a large forehead after the growth of cartilage is affected by it.

Billy Joel will co-headline with Rod Stewart at Cleveland, OH’s Cleveland Browns Stadium.This one-off show will be the first time the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers have performed in concert together.And while fans can likely expect to hear the legends’ hits, the duo may also sneak a few new tracks in.Joel, 74, is dropping her first new song “Turn The Lights Back On” in 17 years on Feb. 1.As for Stewart, 79, he’s releasing “Swing Fever” with piano player Jools Holland and his band on Feb.

Star Wars fans gave him a tough time for “betraying” Han Solo.Appearing on Entertainment Weekly‘s Dagobah Dispatch podcast, the Lando Calrissian actor explained how his character’s actions in The Empire Strikes Back – which included making a deal with Darth Vader that lead to Han Solo being captured and frozen in carbonite – resulted in a backlash that extended into his real life.“When I would pick my daughter up from school, the kids would run up to me and say, ‘You betrayed Han Solo!’” Williams said. “I’d go on an airplane and the airplane stewards would say, ‘You betrayed Han Solo!’ I got that for a lot of years.”Williams said that he would try to reason with upset Star Wars fans, telling them: “Look, think about the whole situation.

Daisy Ridley has said the idea for her upcoming, Rey-led Star Wars film is “cool as shit”.The movie, which is set some time after the events of The Rise Of Skywalker and reportedly follows Rey as she attempts to rebuild the Jedi Order, will be directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.In a new interview with Variety, Ridley was asked how franchise’s first female filmmaker will impact the series.“The short answer is I don’t know. I’m excited to do the job, but not because Sharmeen is a woman,” she said.“Her documentaries are amazing. Her idea for the story is cool as shit.

Daisy Ridley may have starred in several films since the last “Star Wars” movie, 2019’s “The Rise Of Starwalker,” but for general audiences she’ll always be Rey. Is that for better or worse? Well, even diehard “Star Wars” fans aren’t thrilled that the heroine is the paternal granddaughter of Emperor Palpatine.

Tim Chan If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. For the amount of time we spend using our AirPods, we probably don’t spend nearly as much time cleaning them. But AirPods can — and will — get dirty, whether it’s from dust, dirt, ear wax, oils or just smudges from regular use.

Billie Eilish is Oscar-nominated for her Barbie song, but she couldn’t have done it without Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig!

“Star Wars” animation is always pointed to by diehard fans as some of the best storytelling the franchise has ever seen. And while “The Bad Batch” isn’t discussed as top-tier (at least from what has been told to me by big fans), it’s still probably better than a lot of what is happening in live-action.

Meghann Fahy‘s character is not set to return for a third season of The White Lotus. However, that doesn’t mean that we’ve seen the last of her.

Mama June Shannon’s teeth after her veneers appeared to be “rotten” in a recent TikTok. The 44-year-old “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” reality TV star showed off her chompers while documenting her trying different restaurants in Covington, Georgia, on TikTok.Her white teeth got progressively more stained as she enjoyed ice cream with sprinkles, gelatos, macaroons, and a pizza shop.“Here on the Coving Square, we’re going to show you what they’re all about,” she told the camera, putting her questionable mouth on full display. “We literally have shown support to small businesses here on the Square.

It’s not the ones you get that haunt you. It’s the ones you missed.

Star Wars, but had to pass on the opportunity.During an appearance on Wednesday’s (January 17) edition of The Tonight Show, the two-time Oscar winner recalled how she was approached to play the iconic sci-fi character, which would later become a breakthrough role for the late Carrie Fisher.Foster had to turn down the part, however, due scheduling conflicts with the original Freaky Friday film.“I was [offered the role], but I had a conflict,” she told host Jimmy Fallon. “I was doing a Disney movie, and I just didn’t want to pull out of the Disney movie because I was already under contract, so I didn’t do it.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Jodie Foster has shocked the “Star Wars” fandom by confirming she was offered the role of Princess Leia in “Star Wars,” which unquestionably would’ve changed the course of her career. The two-time Oscar winner told Jimmy Fallon on “The Tonight Show” that she was already locked into a contract for a Disney movie at the time and didn’t want to break it in order to join a galaxy far, far away. Foster did not reveal what Disney movie, but the timeline suggests it might’ve been “Freaky Friday,” which was released a year before “Star Wars.” “You’ve been in so many iconic roles, and we love what you do,” Fallon said during the show.