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Robbie Williams takes responsibility for his role in the darker chapters of his life. His unconventional biopic Better Man pulls no punches when it comes to his addictions and abuses.

Before taking on the global stage winning the Crystal Globe for Best Director at Karlovy Vary for her debut feature, Pierce, Nelicia Low represented Singapore on another international stage — fencing — for several years, including competing at the Asian Games in 2010.

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KISS’ upcoming avatar show will be like “Cirque Du Soleil meets Star Wars and a KISS concert”.The future production will be overseen by Pophouse Entertainment, the company behind ABBA’s ‘Voyage’ show, in which the Swedish pop group were represented by holographic virtual avatars on stage.Pophouse acquired KISS’ catalogue, brand name and IP in April, while the band first unveiled their ‘new era’ at the final show of ftheir farewell tour last December in Madison Square Garden. After leaving the stage, the band members’ avatars were revealed, and they went on to perform ‘God Gave Rock And Roll To You’.Shortly afterwards, the band’s co-founder Gene Simmons confirmed that the band’s virtual avatars will “get better”, and revealed that “about 200 million” dollars was being invested in the technology.Around the same time, KISS also shared a teaser clip revealing when fans will be able to see their avatars perform.

taped, and I spotted at least one panelist from “The View” — TV types who go into hair and makeup lumped in with we critics who cower in cubicles.The energy was nuclear. It had been a decade since “Revenge of the Sith” capped off Hayden Christensen’s sand-hating stint, and nerds were strapped in and ready to go.“A long time ago…” The room explodes. Every throwback and original-trio cameo gets thunderous applause.

Star Wars trilogy is in the works from X-Men: Dark Phoenix director Simon Kinberg.According to Deadline, the new films will carry on from the most recent trilogy that concluded with The Rise Of Skywalker in 2019. Episodes 10-12 will reportedly centre around new characters with a new storyline, although the return of familiar faces has not been ruled out.Kinberg, who served as a consultant on The Force Awakens, will write and produce the films with a director yet to be announced.

A new “Star Wars” film trilogy written by “X-Men” producer Simon Kinberg is in the early stages of development at Walt Disney, a source familiar with the matter said Thursday.Kinberg, who co-created animated series “Star Wars Rebels,” also will produce the movies alongside Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy.Disney has not released a “Star Wars” film in theaters since 2019’s “The Rise of Skywalker.”The new trilogy will begin with a fresh story and is not related to the Skywalker saga, the source said. No other details on the plot or the timeline were provided.“Star Wars,” created by George Lucas, is one of the most successful film franchises of all time.

Ford, 82, famously played Han Solo in George Lucas’ “Star Wars” franchise and the title character in the “Indiana Jones” films, which kicked off with Steven Spielberg’s 1981 blockbuster “Raiders of the Lost Ark.”“Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” (1984), “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), and “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” (2008) followed. In 2023, he made his grand return as the archaeologist in “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.”The Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge attraction is located at Disney World’s Hollywood Studios in Orlando, Fla., while Indiana Jones Adventure is in Adventureland at Disneyland Park in Anaheim, Calif.

As if George Lucas‘ 1999 Star Wars prequel wasn’t divisive enough, The Phantom Menace nearly ended on a complicated twist.

Daisy Ridley has opened up about the distress she felt following an 2019 interview in which she was asked about her “privilege” growing up compared to her Star Wars co-star John Boyega.Ridley starred as Rey alongside Boyega in three Star Wars outings, films The Force Awakens (2015), The Last Jedi (2017), and The Rise of Skywalker (2019).The comments, which were made in a Guardian interview, came after Ridley was asked by the interviewer about her “privileged” upbringing. The interviewer quizzed Ridley on “if she thinks it has been easier to be confident and navigate her celebrity because of the privilege in her life” including “boarding school and her upbringing.” Ridley attended Tring Park Performing Arts School in Hertfordshire on a scholarship.The interviewer went on to write that Ridley felt there was “little difference between her experience and that of her co-star John Boyega, who grew up in south London to British Nigerian immigrant parents.”Ridley said in the Guardian interview: “John grew up on a council estate in Peckham and I think me and him are similar enough that… no… Also, I went to a boarding school for performing arts, which was different.”Now, in a new interview with The Telegraph, Ridley has opened up about the comments, claiming that her words were taken out of context.She told the outlet: “I literally couldn’t sleep after that came out…because I felt like, honestly, it was a purposeful de-contextualising.

Assassin’s Creed games in the next five years.Gaming journalist Tom Henderson appeared on the XB2 Podcast recently and spoke about the future of Ubisoft. The studio recently announced a number of job cuts after a tough financial quarter due to the delay of Assassin’s Creed Shadows and the poor sales of Star Wars: Outlaws.According to Henderson, Ubisoft is “in a tricky spot at the moment” and is hoping to “capitalise on the franchise as much as possible.

Star Wars character Obi-Wan Kenobi was originally supposed to die in The Phantom Menace, a new interview has revealed.As part of the celebrations for The Phantom Menace’s 25th anniversary, a new interview with concept and storyboard artist Iain McCaig (via StarWars.com) revealed that director George Lucas originally had very different plans for Obi-Wan Kenobi at the end of the film.A further twist came via the fact that the characters of Ewan McGregor – who played Kenobi in the film – and Liam Neeson, who played Qui-Gon – were swapped around, meaning Neeson was originally slated to play Obi-Wan.McCraig explained: “For a time, the older Jedi was named Obi-Wan and the younger Jedi was named Qui-Gon. It was very poignant that at the end, as Obi-Wan dies and Qui-Gon defeats Darth Maul and stays with his Master as he passes away, he not only takes on his Master’s quest, but he takes on his name.

Peaky Blinders writer Steven Knight has reportedly departed the upcoming Star Wars film that is set to revolve around Daisy Ridley’s Rey.Knight’s involvement was first announced in March 2023, when it emerged that he would be writing the screenplay for the movie, replacing Damon Lindelof and Justin Britt-Gibson, who had themselves left the project.Variety reports that the film is intended to pick up the story after the events of Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker (2019), and will follow Rey’s efforts to open her own Jedi Academy. With this setback, however, it is unlikely the film will enter the production stage until the second half of 2025 at the earliest.NME has approached Knight’s representatives for comment.The film is still slated to be the directorial debut of Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, who directed episodes of the Disney+ series Ms. Marvel, and has picked up two Oscars for Best Documentary Short Film.There is not a Star Wars film set for release until Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian and Grogu in May 2026, which, if it arrives on time, will bring to an end a seven-year gap.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic From the deep, quickening heartbeat of “Jaws” to the astral opening blast of “Star Wars,” the music of John Williams not only earns its place among the most iconic film scores of all time, but it also proves memorable enough to carry with us out of the cinema. So effective are his themes that to hum just a few notes of a Williams score is to be caught up in the same emotions you felt gazing up at the big screen in the first place, watching Superman take flight over Manhattan or Elliott and E.T.

Ellise Shafer Tom Holland‘s Spider-Man is getting back behind the camera in no time. During an appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Tuesday night, Holland confirmed that his fourth “Spider-Man” movie is happening — and even has a production start date. “Next summer, we start shooting.

Al Pacino is opening up about turning down a role in Star Wars following his success from The Godfather.

Kelly Marie Tran, Benedict Wong and Jimmy O. Yang have been set to star in Rock Springs, a new film written and to be directed by Two Sentence Horror Stories creator and Expats scribe Vera Miao.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Disney is set to launch a new PC and console video game set in its “Tron” universe next year. From Devolver Digital’s Big Fan Games, Bithell Games and Disney Games, “Disney Tron: Catalyst” is described as “a thrilling, story-driven isometric action game” that continues the story of Arq Grid that was first introduced in Bithell Games’ 2023 puzzle game “Tron: Identity.” Per the game’s official description, “In ‘Disney Tron: Catalyst’, players are introduced to Exo, a highly resilient and resourceful program with an incredible ability to initiate time loops.

Harrison Ford has revealed that he once worked as a chef before his acting career took off.Speaking on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night (October 9) the Star Wars and Indiana Jones actor said that he worked as a chef “for relatively short periods of time, until they found out about me and fired me”.“My first job was I cooked at a hospital. I don’t know what I told them but they gave me a knife and a bunch of carrots, and I cut this part of my finger off within minutes,” he explained.“But the sew-your-finger-back-on department was right down the hall, and right after that was where they fire you for lying about [his cooking skills].”He also recalled that he once worked as a cook on a yacht.Ford continued: “I was working on a yacht that was owned by the youngest bank president in Chicago at the time.

The Acolyte star Jodie Turner-Smith has criticised Disney for not defending the show’s stars amid a racist backlash.The Star Wars series, which is set around 100 years before the prequel movies, premiered on Disney+ back in June – though was recently cancelled after one season.However, some of the show’s stars were subjected to racism amid its release, with Amandla Stenberg previously sharing a song in response to abuse she had received. The star later admitted that the series’ cancellation was “not a huge shock” for her, especially after the cast was targeted with a “rampage of vitriol”.Turner-Smith, who played Mother Aniseya – the leader of the coven of witches that raised Stenberg’s characters Osha and Mae – has claimed that Disney’s silence amid the racist backlash was “unfair”.“They’ve got to stop doing this thing where they don’t say anything when people are getting fucking dog-piled on the internet with racism and bullshit,” she told Glamour.

wrote on Facebook.“Bobby opened the door to his home and backyard to everyone that either needed a place to stay or to train for a job.”In “Back to the Future,” Yerkes served as a stunt double for Christopher Lloyd in the iconic scene that saw him slide down a clock tower cable in the hit 1985 cult favorite.In “Star Wars,” the stuntman flew as intergalactic bounty hunter Boba Fett in the 1983 film “Return of the Jedi.” The stunt was filmed in his backyard.“Bobby knew my parents before I was born and knew me as a kid growing up in the circus,” Williams continued in her tribute.“At one time, long before me, my dad and Bob performed in a flying trapeze act together in the circus. As a kid I remember visiting his backyard.