Star Wars: Last News

Nick Frost is in talks to play Hagrid in the forthcoming Harry Potter series, according to reports.The TV series, based on the popular novels, is believed to begin filming this year. John Lithgow has confirmed he is playing Professor Dumbledore while Janet McTeer and Paapa Essiedu are also reported to play Professor Minerva McGonagall and Professor Severus Snape, respectively.Deadline reported that the British actor, famous for his work with Simon Pegg in The Cornetto Trilogy, is “nearing a deal” to play Rubeus Hagrid, a half-giant who is the gamekeeper and groundskeeper at wizarding school Hogwarts.

Carolyn Giardina In preparing for his role in Paramount’s upcoming thriller “The Running Man,” Glen Powell says his first call was to his mentor, Tom Cruise, who is also well known for his running style. Powell said on Thursday at CinemaCon that he was advised, “film yourself running as soon as possible.

EXCLUSIVE: Dash Mihok (Long Bright River, Ray Donovan) has launched Sigmatic, a boutique virtual production and technology company, and has set a film adaptation of M. William Phelps’ bestselling true-crime novel The Devil’s Rooming House among its first projects. Sigmatic acquired the rights to The Devil’s Rooming House, which tells the chilling story of Amy Archer-Gilligan — one of America’s most infamous female serial killers, and Mihok will helm the project in his directorial debut.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor The Force is with Chewbacca! Chewbacca’s bowcaster, used in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, has sold for $768,600. The item was one of 450 items for bidding by Propstore, a memorabilia company, at its Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction in Los Angeles. According to the item’s official description, the photo-matched bowcaster prop was used in every film of the original “Star Wars” trilogy, with restored dressing components.

Star Wars, has died at the age of 94.Best known for his work as the Emperor in 1980’s Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back, Revill passed away on March 11 at a care facility in Los Angeles after a battle with dementia, as told to The Hollywood Reporter by his daughter Kate.Revill’s voice was used for a key scene in the film between Darth Vader (James Earl Jones) and Palpatine, where Vader speaks to the Emperor via hologram. He was eventually replaced with the voice of Ian McDiarmid, who went on to play Palpatine in person, once the film was released on DVD in 2004.Speaking of the role in a 2015 interview, the actor said: “I got a call from the director, Irvin Kershner, who I’d worked with on A Fine Madness.“He needed a voice for the Emperor who would be only appearing as a holographic image.

Clive Revill, the star known for his roles in Star Wars, Transformers and Batman, has sadly passed away at the age of 94 after a long battle with dementia. His daughter Kate confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that he died on March 11 in a care facility in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles. Born in Wellington in 1930 to Eleanor, a homemaker and opera singer, and father Malet, a carpenter, Revill became one of New Zealand's most celebrated actors, boasting a career in stage and screen that spanned over six decades.

according to The Hollywood Reporter.Revill was born on April 18, 1930, in Wellington, New Zealand, and started working as an accountant before he “abruptly” decided to exchange financial documents for stage scripts.He transitioned into a theatrical actor in his early 30s and made his Broadway debut in the show “Mr. Pickwick” at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (formerly the Plymouth Theater).The versatile performer scored two Tony Award nominations in back-to-back projects in the early 60s.He was first nominated for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his character of Bob-Le-Hotu in “Irma La Douce,” but he lost to Dick Van Dyke in “Bye, Bye Birdie.”Two years later, he was nominated for “Best Actor” for his performance as Fagin in the musical “Oliver!”As the star was building a reputation for himself on stage, including appearing in the BBC’s “Sunday-Night Theatre” episodes, he rounded out his resume by acting in the 1957 television show “The Adventures of Robin Hood” and movies like “Kaleidoscope” and “Fathom” alongside Raquel Welch.Revill returned to the major awards circuit in 1972, when he was nominated for a Golden Globe award for his role as Carlo Carlucci in the film “Avanti!”One of the veteran character actor’s most renowned roles hit the big screen in 1980 when he voiced the Emperor in George Lucas’ widely popular franchise film “Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back.”Revill delivered the classic line, “There is a great disturbance in the Force.”According to the Dallas Observer, Revill was given three takes to record the film’s iconic line.

John Boyega asked JJ Abrams for some growth for his Star Wars character Finn, who was “doing a lot of falling.”Boyega starred in three Star Wars outings, films The Force Awakens (2015), The Last Jedi (2017), and The Rise of Skywalker (2019) – with the first and last of the sequel trilogy being directed by Abrams.When Abrams returned to direct The Rise of Skywalker, Boyega had one request – Finn needed more character growth. Speaking on his panel at Emerald City Comic Con earlier this month, he said: “I was doing a lot of falling in Star Wars. I was always falling.

controversial “Snow White” remake during her appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Monday.The 23-year-old actress revealed that she was cast in the Disney film before the world saw her performance in 2021’s “West Side Story” directed by Steven Spielberg.“I actually got a really glowing recommendation from Steven Spielberg to Marc Webb, who directed ‘Snow White,'” Zegler shared on the late-night ABC show.“And I also got a text from Steven kind of alluding to the fact that I had gotten the part before I found out,” she said. “I wished him a Happy Father’s Day and he texted me a bunch of apple emojis as a response.”Zegler joked that Spielberg, 78, “was giving Taylor Swift easter eggs” about her casting in “Snow White.”The Golden Globe winner’s audition for the film was done in extreme secrecy.“With all these Disney things, it’s like Marvel, Star Wars, Disney live-actions, you have no idea what you’re reading,” she explained.

Star Wars: Hunters, a free-to-play squad shooter, is being shut down less than a year after it first launched.Originally announced back in 2021 before it was eventually released last June, Star Wars: Hunters saw teams of four players battle it out in a number of familiar locations, including the ice planet of Hoth, the forest moon of Endor, the Death Star and the sandy world of Tatooine.Players could also pick from a range of specially-created characters including a Wookie with a “penchant for disarming droids and his opponents”, a righteous Mandalorian, a “dark side warrior”, a gun-wielding Stormtrooper and a droid that has been programmed to believe it is a Jedi.After launching for Nintendo Switch and Mobile, a PC launch was set to take place earlier this year but after a playtest on Steam in December, that was pushed back. Developer Zynga has now confirmed the PC launch has been scrapped altogether, and the Star Wars: Hunters will be shut down entirely later this year.“After careful consideration, we want to let you know that the final content update for Star Wars: Hunters on all platforms will be on April 15th,” Zynga said in a statement.

EXCLUSIVE: John Wick and Nobody franchise scribe Derek Kolstad‘s Planet Death from Bad Idea and Lunar Distribution has sold 655,000 copies before hitting store shelves, a milestone for an independent comic book and the best sales since 1992’s WildC.A.T.s #1 from Jim Lee.

UK VFX house Jellyfish Pictures has suspended all operations and is currently exploring options for either a sale or large scale investment. 

Star Wars universe, according to producer Rick McCallum.Speaking on the Young Indy Chroniclers podcast, McCallum discussed Star Wars: Underworld, which could have ended up costing billions of dollars had the concept come to fruition.McCallum said he remembers himself and Lucas having “over 60 scripts” for the show with “the most wonderful writers in the world” working on it, and said of the scripts, “These were dark, they were sexy, they were violent.”He said of the show, “I mean, it would have blown-up the whole Star Wars universe … And Disney definitely would’ve never offered to buy Star Wars from George. It’s one of the great disappointments of our life.”The show was planned to connect to the video game Star Wars: 1313 – this was also cancelled – and John Williams was in line to score the entire series.Star Wars: Underworld is reportedly set to cost $40million per episode, a sum on the higher end even now, let alone over a decade ago.

Disney’s famous flywheel came to life for the general public Saturday as studio executives, Imagineers and talent gathered on a SXSW stage to illustrate world building of beloved franchises as they move from TV and film to theme parks and back.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Music producers and composers behind titles such as “The Mandalorian” and “Jurassic World” have come together to launch Master Works Alliance, a new trailer music agency. Music producer and score mixer Kyle Biane, business executive Wendi Williams and composers John Samuel Hanson (“Star Wars,” “Marvel” and “Harry Potter” franchises) and David Travis Edwards will represent top music publishers and premium trailer music houses through the agency.

The Monkey director Osgood Perkins says he has no desire to make a James Bond movie now that the franchise has been acquired by Amazon.In a recent Reddit AMA, the horror director was asked by a fan: “Are you open to directing a Bond movie/trilogy? If so, who would you cast as your version of Bond?”Perkins simply replied: “No, because fuck Jeff Bezos.”It comes after billionaire Bezos previously appeared to publicly support President Donald Trump, writing that it was “an honour” to attend Trump’s second inauguration in 2025. “Excited to collaborate on accelerating innovation and supercharging the American economy,” Bezos commented at the time.While Perkins ruled out Bond because of Bezos, he did disclose another iconic franchise he’d be happy to join – Star Wars.Perkins wrote that his ideal film, if budget was no object, would be “the collected dreams and nightmares of Darth Vader told as short stories.”Other projects on the director’s list include “a totally made up biopic about a real person, a neo-futuristic Freudian Western, [and] a movie about someone famous who died young and their experience of the afterlife.”Perkins went on to explain that his visual style was influenced by his favourite films.

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith is coming back to cinemas to celebrate the film’s 20th anniversary later this year.The third film in the saga’s prequel trilogy saw Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) complete his fall to the dark side, as the epic conclusion to the Clone Wars established the character of Darth Vader and the dominance of the evil Galactic Empire.A press release on the Star Wars official website read: “To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the premiere of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, the final film in the prequel trilogy, Episode III will be re-released in theatres on April 25, 2025, running in select U.S. theatres and international territories for one week only.

Star Wars fans have reacted online to the news that Kathleen Kennedy will be stepping down from her role as President of Lucasfilm.A report from Puck News has said the executive, who has overseen the studio since it was purchased by Disney in 2012, will retire at the end of the year. Her tenure has seen three main franchise instalments: The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and The Rise Of Skywalker; as well as spin-offs Rogue One and Solo.She also expanded the universe into the TV realm, with spin-off series The Mandalorian, Andor, Skeleton Crew and others making their way to the Disney+ streaming service.Kennedy leaves behind a complicated legacy which has seen some of the biggest box office successes in franchise history but has also divided fans with the direction of some of the latter films in the Star Wars Sequel trilogy.On X (formerly Twitter), one fan posted: “Star Wars will finally be free from her reign as Emperor”, while another added: “Kathleen Kennedy destroyed the Star Wars franchise.

Star Wars series Andor is out now, ahead of its release on April 22 – watch it here.The 95-second clip showcases the returning character K-2SO, played by Alan Tudyk, who appeared in the 2016 movie Rogue One but didn’t feature in Andor’s first season. Also making an appearance is Saw Gerrera (Forest Whitaker), who returns after appearing in two episodes of season one.There’s also a glimpse of Ben Mendelsohn as villain Orson Krennic, who was killed in Rogue One – with Andor being a prequel, he’s able to return.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic How sunny and well-meaning and therapeutically feel-good is the new autism drama “The Unbreakable Boy?” It’s a movie in which the dad, played by Zachary Levi, has an imaginary best friend. It’s a movie in which the local church is run by a Matthew McConaughey sort of dude named Preacher Rick (Peter Facinelli), who’s so down with his downtrodden flock that he himself is a recovering alcoholic who admits he sometimes doesn’t like to go to church. And it’s a movie in which the title character, an owlish 13-year-old named Austin (Jacob Laval), isn’t merely autistic.

creative control of the James Bond franchise from the Broccoli family, who have been in charge since 1962’s “Dr. No,” sent fans into a rage, and then a deep depression.I didn’t spot a single story or social media post that was happy with the news.