‘The Book of Boba Fett’ Red Carpet Postponed Due to COVID Concerns

Hollywood icon Sir Sidney Poitier has passed away at the age of 94.

Sidney Poitier, the pioneering actor and director who became the first bankable Black leading man in Hollywood, has died at age 94, according to the Bahamian Minister of Foreign Affairs.Poitier, who was born in the U.S. but grew up in the Bahamas, broke multiple racial barriers in his decades-long career, including when he became the first Black actor to win the Academy Award, for his role in 1963’s “Lilies of the Field.”From his first film performance, playing a doctor who treats a bigoted white man in 1950’s “No Way Out,” he blazed a trail by refusing to play roles that traded on racial stereotypes.

In case you missed it, Quentin Tarantino is starting his own podcast, according to The Verge, reported during the holiday break. Considering all the two, three-hour podcast appearances on places like The New Beverly, and Empire podcasts, this isn’t much of a surprise (and QT’s hinted at this before).

HBO Max has canceled the January 8 red carpet Los Angeles premiere of James Gunn’s anticipated HBO Max series Peacemaker amid a surge of the Omicron variant. We hear the decision was made before the holidays out of an abundance of caution as Covid cases skyrocketed.

The Los Angeles tour production of Hamilton now playing at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood had to shut down its performances Friday and through the Christmas weekend because of breakthrough Covid-19 cases among the cast, a blow to those who might have gotten tickets in their stockings this morning.

“The Book of Boba Fett”Wednesday, December 29, Disney+While we don’t have a new season of “The Mandalorian” this year (that’ll happen sometime in 2022), we do have the next best thing: a spin-off centered on fabled bounty hunter Boba Fett (Tamuera Morrison) and his compatriot Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen), as Fett takes the throne vacated by Jabba the Hutt on Tatooine.

Slamdance Film Festival is going completely virtual in 2022. The start of the festival will be delayed by a week and now run from January 27 till February 6.W Magazine’s Best Performances party was postponed.

Disney’s red carpet premiere for Star Wars spin-off series The Book Of Boba Fett has been postponed due to concerns around the coronavirus.As omicron variant infections spike, Disney has delayed the premiere from January 4 at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood to February 8 – for an event that will celebrate the show’s season finale instead.In a statement released to Variety, a spokesperson for Disney said: “Out of an abundance of caution, we will be postponing the Boba Fett fan event.

Hollywood is slowly starting to see more and more postponements and cancellations due to the latest COVID-19 variant wave with regard to Omicron.

Deadline has confirmed that Disney+’s red carpet Hollywood premiere for Star Wars spinoff series The Book of Boba Fett has been delayed from Jan. 4 at the El Capitan Theatre to Feb. 8. This is all because of Covid concerns in the face of the spiking Omicron variant.

Disney+ is sharing a sneak peek at its anticipated new series, which marks the return of one of the most enigmatic characters in the original “Star Wars” movies: bounty hunter Boba Fett.

Andrew Wallenstein President and Chief Media AnalystA man who made a career out of telling powerful people in Hollywood what they don’t want to hear is now telling everyone what that was like.Kevin Goetz, founder and CEO of audience research firm Screen Engine/ASI, has written a book, “Audience-ology: How Moviegoers Shape the Films We Love,” with Darlene Hayman that looks back on three decades of using test screenings to help studios and other clients fix their films before release.That often

When it comes to Disney+‘s ‘Star Wars’ shows, there’s a lot of exciting stuff on the way, “Obi-Wan Kenobi” and “Andor” among them. Now, the latest one is almost here: “The Book Of Boba Fett” premieres just in time for the new year.