Daisy Ridley Talks Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s “Cool As Sh*t” Story Idea For Upcoming ‘Star Wars’ Film

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.

Two of the Stark siblings are reuniting, albeit not in “Game Of Thrones.” Deadline reports that Sophie Turner and Kit Harington will co-star in the upcoming gothic horror film “The Dreadful,” directed by “Lucky” and “V/H/S/85” director Natasha Kermani. The pic takes place in late medieval England, with the War Of The Roses as a backdrop.

There’s one question that has been on everyone’s mind since the explosive fourth season of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City wrapped: will the cast be able to top themselves next season?

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.

Ariana Grande is teasing a new episode of Billions Club!

EXCLUSIVE: In an arguable first for a Disney+ movie, Disney is contemplating a theatrical release for the Daisy Ridley starring, Joachim Rønning directed feature take of Glenn Stout’s Young Woman and the Sea after the picture scored quite well.

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.

Star Wars and Star Trek alum J. J. Abrams is set for the Cinema Audio Society‘s 2024 Filmmaker Award. The Lost double Emmy winner will be honored during the 60th anniversary CAS Awards on March 2 at the Beverly Hilton.

Hayden Christensen landed what was Hollywood’s biggest role at the time when he was cast as Anakin Skywalker in 2002′s Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, and he did so after beating out some serious A-listers for the role!

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Daisy Ridley spent her 20s on film sets, fighting Siths as Rey in the “Star Wars” trilogy and ironing out her alibi in Kenneth Branagh’s whodunit “Murder on the Orient Express.” So the actor marveled at experiencing the mundanity of office life in the indie drama “Sometimes I Think About Dying,” which premiered at last year’s Sundance and debuts in theaters on Jan. 26. She plays Fran, a lonely clerical worker whose morbid daydreams are more comforting than the world around her.

Masterpiece has dropped the first trailer for Alice & Jack, the UK TV series starring Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie) and Domhnall Gleeson (The Patient) on March 17. 

Laura Chinn’s feature film writing and directing debut hits close to the heart – her heart especially – in a semi-autobiographical story set in 2005 and inspired by her own growing pains at a dark time in her family’s life as her brother is dying of cancer and moved unknowingly into what turned out to be the same nursing facility, Suncoast, where Terri Schiavo was also a patient.

Melissa Barrera is looking back at her time on the popular horror franchise ‘Scream.’ The Hollywood star revealed that she will always be “proud” of reigniting the franchise in Scream V and Scream VI, becoming a total success amongst fans, and a box office hit, with Scream VI earning $108M.MELISSA BARRERA AND ANGUS CLOUD STAR IN THE UPCOMING VAMPIRE MOVIE ‘ABIGAIL’SUNDANCE 2024: 10 LATIN MOVIES TO KEEP AN EYE ONWATCH MELISSA BARRERA SING IN CLIP FROM HER NEW FILM ‘CARMEN’“I’m just so grateful on what I got to infuse in the franchise, and that’s something I’ll be proud of forever,” Melissa said to Deadline at Sundance, revealing that she had a positive experience, despite Spyglass moving on with a different storyline and characters.The Mexican actress also talked about her relationship with the ‘Scream’ cast, following their reunion at the Emmys in recent days, including Jenna Ortega, who played her sibling in the film. “If we’re ever in the vicinity of each other, we always find each other and that’s what happened at that event,” she explained to the publication.“When we find each other, we just want to spend the night with each other, and nothing is ever going to change that,“ Melissa said, adding that despite not working together anymore, they are ”family for life.”And while Melissa and the rest of the cast will not be coming back for ‘Scream,’ the actress continues to succeed in the horror genre, moving on with her upcoming vampire film ‘Abigail’ and ‘Your Monster,’ which is being shown at Sundance in Park City.Christopher Landon, who was set to direct Scream 7 had previously revealed that while he was excited for the project, it’s time to “move on.” “My heart did break for everyone involved.

How’s this for the most unlikely ensemble cast? Deadline reports that “SNL” alum Kate McKinnon and New Zealand comedic actor Jermaine Clement are the latest to join Jason Momoa in the Warner Bros. adaptation of “Minecraft.” The news comes just one day after Jennifer Coolidge joined the cast of the upcoming blockbuster. That’s quite the motley crew for one movie, which on paper looks like a good hang for all involved.

Matt Rife is starring in a new movie!

An iconic Salford pub is set to close ahead of a major refurbishment that will see it turned into an old-school English boozer.

In Netflix’s San Gabriel-based crime action–comedy The Brothers Sun, actor Sam Song Li plays Bruce Sun, a kind-hearted college student who dreams of being a master of improv despite his mother’s wishes for him to be a doctor. However, his life gets turned upside down upon the arrival of his long-estranged brother, Charles (Justin Chien), a cutthroat assassin who enlists the help of their mother, Mama Sun (Michelle Yeoh), to take down a dangerous crime syndicate. Throughout the eight-episode series, co-created by Byron Wu and Brad Falchuk, Bruce has to contend with learning that his family, unbeknownst to him, are major players in one of the most lucrative and dangerous gangster businesses in Taiwan.