‘The Acolyte’ Creator Leslye Headland Signs With CAA

The internet is abuzz this week about the fifth episode of the “Star Wars”/Lucasfilm series, “The Acolyte,” from writer/director Leslye Headland. And for good reason, but we’ll get to that in a second.

Jack Dunn When assistant fight coordinator Lu Junchang conducted lightsaber training for “Star Wars: The Acolyte,” the actors often demanded “more danger” from the stunt team, urging them to swing the prop sabers faster and closer to their faces. “Some actors will say, ‘Get closer, I want more danger.’ [Lee Jung-jae] on set always said, ‘More danger, please,'” Junchang recalls. “I get worried because if we get too close it’s not safe but, he kept saying, ‘More, more, more.'” For Junchang and the rest of “The Acolyte” stunt team, taking the cast from Jar Jar Binks to Jedi Master was no easy feat.

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Disney+ appears to have redeemed Star Wars fans with the latest instalment of The Acolyte.

EXCLUSIVE: Kristy Woodson Harvey, the New York Times, USA Today and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling author of eleven novels including The Summer of Songbirds and Under The Southern Sky, has signed with Rain for representation.

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.

Leslye Headland, creator of the new Disney+ series Star Wars: The Acolyte, will make her Broadway debut this fall with the Second Stage Theater production of her play Cult of Love. Trip Cullman (Lobby Hero, Choir Boy) will direct.

The Marvel-to-DC pipeline appears to be heating up as Pom Klementieff teases her next super role.

The Acolyte star Amandla Stenberg has written and released a song in response to a racist backlash against the Star Wars prequel show.The show is set 100 years before Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, and the first four episodes are streaming now on Disney+.It was created by Russian Doll’s Leslye Headland and stars Stenberg (The Hate U Give, Bodies Bodies Bodies) in the twin lead roles of Osha and Mae.

Amandla Stenberg, star of The Acolyte, is calling out “intolerable racism” and released a song to express their sentiments.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer More than four years after leaving CAA for WME, Miley Cyrus has once again signed with CAA for representation in all areas. Cyrus’ return to CAA comes 15 years after she moved her TV and movie career from UTA over to CAA, which had already repped her for music.

CAA on Thursday announced its signing of Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, actress, and author Miley Cyrus for representation in all areas.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Tanner Adell, one of the artists at the forefront of the new wave of Black country music, has inked a new recording contract with Love Renaissance, aka LVRN Records. Adell had been independent since splitting with Columbia Records last year, and her profile increased exponentially when she was one of the artists featured on Beyoncé‘s blockbuster “Cowboy Carter” album this spring, leading to an influx of interest in Adell’s recent catalog, like the signature song “Buckle Bunny.” LVRN is an Atlanta-based label and management company whose roster includes such artists as Summer Walker, 6LACK, DVSN, Spinall and TxC.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor SPOILER WARNING: This story mentions major plot developments in episode 4 of “The Acolyte,” now streaming on Disney+. Who is that mysterious masked Sith master in “The Acolyte?” Costume designer Jennifer Bryan knows, and her lips are sealed. She’s not spilling any secrets as to whether any guess is right or wrong.

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.

Katcy Stephan Orbital Studios, a film and television production studio specializing in end-to-end virtual production services, has signed with CAA. Orbital Studios leverages cutting-edge technology to create dynamic virtual environments that blend with real-world performance.

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.

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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.