‘The Acolyte’ Blasts Onto Disney+ With 4.8M Views In First Day Of Streaming

EXCLUSIVE: The back and forth over the prospect of a hot-button film on the formative years of Donald Trump is near done, and The Dish hears that backer Kinematics will soon be bought out of Daniel Snyder’s $5 million investment with a premium. Tom Ortenberg, who runs Briarcliff Entertainment and has overseen the distribution of films that included Fahrenheit 9/11, Best Picture winner Spotlight, Nightcrawler and many others, is getting close to acquiring the film for fall release.

The Struts have announced ‘The Grand Union’ UK and European tour with Barns Courtney – check out all details below.The Derby band are now gearing up to tour in the UK this September, where they’ll be stopping by cities such as Leeds, Manchester, and Newcastle before finishing their tour with a show at London’s Roundhouse on October 6.From there, they’ll also be visiting European cities like Paris, Berlin, Warsaw and Prague, with the EU leg of their tour concluding at Milan’s Fabrique on the 21st.The Struts will also be bringing Aylesbury’s Barns Courtney as their special guest for their UK/EU tour. Courtney has previously toured with the band for their headline American tour for their fourth album, ‘Pretty Vicious‘.Speaking about the tour, frontman Luke Spiller shared: “We are really looking forward to getting back out and bringing our best show to date alongside our longterm friend and partner in rock, Barns Courtney.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Producer Dominic Barlow, whose credits include “The Last Kingdom,” “Mr. Selfridge,” and “Discovery of Witches,” has teamed up with writer-executive producer Brendan Foley on “The Angolan Clan,” which will be pitched at Toledo, Spain-based TV forum Conecta Fiction & Entertainment.

Busted have revealed that they have been working on new music with former Bring Me the Horizon musician Jordan Fish.Speaking to Rolling Stone UK prior to their set on Friday (June 14), the ‘Year 3000’ singers shared that they have been working on “experimental” new music alongside Fish, with what is set to be the follow up to 2023’s ‘Greatest Hits 2.0’.“We’re currently in the process of writing a new album and we’ve been out in LA with Jordan Fish,” said Busted’s Charlie Simpson.He continued: “We’re doing some writing with him and we’ve got some great songs already. We want to try and get a whole bunch of songs that we can choose from because I think this next album is very important for Busted. We had such a great year last year and I feel like there’s a lot of love out there for Busted.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor At the Monte-Carlo TV Festival Saturday, Lee Jung-Jae, one of the stars of new Disney+ series “Star Wars: The Acolyte,” spoke with Variety about how he prepared for his role as Jedi Master Sol, the strengths of Leslye Headland, the show’s creator, as a showrunner, and the relationship between Sol and Amandla Stenberg’s characters.Lee, who won a Primetime Emmy for “Squid Game,” says that for 50% of “The Acolyte” role he drew inspiration from previous depictions of the Jedi Masters, and “for the remaining 50% I tried to find something that was appropriate to Sol – something that would only incarnate him.” He also consulted with an expert in “Star Wars” lore at Lucasfilm.In “The Acolyte,” the Jedi Masters are shown to be flawed. How does the show present this? “In ‘The Acolyte,’ what it tries to say is that anyone can make mistakes, but you have to accept the mistakes that you make, and put effort into correcting them or developing yourself, because any human being has some unstable thinking,” Lee says.

James May has said his tweet about Pride flags in London has been misinterpreted.

Naman Ramachandran London and New York-based film sales agency The Mise En Scene Company (MSC) has diversified, securing world rights to scripted series “Driven.” The show stars Rebecca Henderson, known for her roles in “Star Wars: The Acolyte” (Disney) and “Russian Doll” (Netflix), and Liza Colón-Zayas from “The Bear” (FX). Produced by O Positive Films in New York and created by David Shane, represented by 3 Arts Entertainment, “Driven” centers on Theodora “Teddy” Fischer (Henderson), an Uber driver and struggling post-post-modern novelist. Teddy’s life hits rock bottom after getting fired from an animated children’s show for a controversial episode and dealing with her wife’s departure.

Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves McConaughey are sharing their love and appreciation after 12 years of marriage. The fan-favorite celebrity couple is celebrating their anniversary with a sweet photo.

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Nick Jonas takes center stage in the trailer for his new movie The Good Half.

Selome Hailu “The Acolyte,” Disney+‘s newest Star Wars series, reached 4.8 million views in its first day of availability. This marks the streamer’s biggest series premiere of 2024 thus far, according to Disney.

Warning: Spoilers ahead Star Wars fans have been left reeling by the shock of a major name actor being killed off in the opening minutes of the new prequel series The Acolyte.The show is set 100 years before Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, and the first two episodes were released to streaming on Disney+ on June 4.The Acolyte has been created by Russian Doll’s Leslye Headland and it stars Amandla Stenberg (The Hate U Give, Bodies Bodies Bodies) in the twin lead roles of Osha and Mae. The two characters are raised by a coven of witches, led by Jodie Turner-Smith, and are separated by tragedy, with Osha training as a Jedi before lapsing, while Mae turns to the dark side.In the opening moments of the first episode, we see a mysterious woman enter a bar and kill the Jedi Master Indara, played by Carrie-Anne Moss.

Star Wars universe is continuing to expand. When “The Acolyte” premieres tonight on Disney+, June 4, the High Republic Era will make its way into live-action canon after years of canonical comics and novels. In “The Acolyte,” an investigation into a spree of murders pits a Jedi Master and his former Padawan against forces of evil long thought to be extinct within the galaxy.

The Disney movie Young Woman and the Sea is currently playing in theaters, but it’s only in limited release and not available everywhere. So, when will it be streaming?

Major IP and critical darlings are set to return this June. The big names include the latest entry to the Star Wars saga with “The Acolyte,” along with the much-hyped season two of the “Game of Thrones” spinoff series “House of the Dragon.” Elsewhere, there are the concluding chapters to season three of “Bridgerton,” along with the return of the Emmy Award-winning “The Bear.

No amount of rewatching, revisionism, and distance makes the leaden “Star Wars” prequels good, sorry (lord knows I’ve tried). But teeming with terrifically substantive ideas, just not convincing in the execution of any of them, the most juicy and complex legacy that George Lucas ever left “Star Wars” with—something the franchise always seems to flirt with and yet never fully embrace—is the notion of failure, and the Jedi Order as a deeply flawed and ultimately ruinous organization.

Bianca Censori is back to her signature ensembles. The Australian Architect was photographed in Italy, wearing another of her eye-catching revealing looks, causing commotion and making headlines, after reuniting with her husband Kanye West, following her trip to Melbourne, Australia, where she met with her family.Bianca Censori reunites with her parents in Australia: Kanye West did not show upBianca Censori received lavish gift from Kanye West, but it was seemingly taken awayBianca Censori meets Kanye West in Florence after her Australian getaway without himThis time, Bianca was spotted in Prato, Italy, alongside the rapper, wearing a white bodysuit.

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EXCLUSIVE: Global TV and film studio Sister is gearing up for a string of projects to hit the small and big screens and today might well see the launch of its most daring.

It’s not all doom and gloom at the global box office as a handful of films reached milestones this week. 20th Century Studios/Disney’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes has topped $300M worldwide, while Paramount’s IF and Sony/Alcon’s The Garfield Movie crossed the $100M mark.