‘The Acolyte’: Amandla Stenberg To Lead Disney+ ‘Star Wars’ Series

Austin Powers co-stars for a Super Bowl advert.In the advert for General Motors, Myers reprises his role as Dr. Evil alongside Seth Green as son Scott and Mindy Sterling as Frau Farbissina.Rob Lowe also returns as the younger version of Number 2 from the 1999 sequel Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. The older Number 2 in the original film, Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery, was played by Robert Wagner, who doesn’t make an appearance in the commercial.The advert sees Dr.

By In Inventing Anna, aspiring filmmaker/New York City hotel concierge Neff Davis controls access to the hottest restaurants, clubs, and event spaces for a few hundred hotel guests at any given time. But it's who has control over Neff every time she slides a $100 bill across her desk.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNBC hasn’t scheduled a new edition of its venerable “Tonight Show” after the Super Bowl, but viewers who stick around are going to see some new late-night antics courtesy of Jimmy Fallon.As part of an alliance with Samsung Electronics, Fallon will star in a 60-second post-game commercial, paying homage to movies as part of a tie in to the Super Bowl taking place this year in Los Angeles. In doing so, he will also highlight how Samsung’s Galaxy S22 Ultra uses features such as super steady video capturing, “nightography,” and more.“We are already doing traditional media advertising like 30 second and 15 second ads that we run, but we know the story comes through much more impactfully and in a much more resonant way when we tell a very contextual story,” says Janet Lee, who oversees marketing for Samsung’s mobile business in the U.S.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter“Death on the Nile,” the latest cinematic take on Agatha Christie’s famed murder mystery novel, is sailing to the top of box office charts.The star-studded whodunit, from Disney and 20th Century Studios, picked up $1.1 million from 3,280 North American theaters in preview screenings. Through Sunday, “Death on the Nile” is on track to collect $11 million to $14 million.Super Bowl Sunday, usually the biggest TV event of the year, has traditionally led to lighter movie theater attendance, and 2022’s matchup between the Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals looks to be no exception.

Scott Huver The success of HBO’s limited series “The White Lotus” is built on how deftly it examines the intricacies of human nature, with biting scripts by creator and director Mike White, and brilliant performances by its ensemble cast. Co-stars Murray Bartlett and Jennifer Coolidge agree that the experience of portraying characters who are battling existential crises, set against a backdrop of beauty, luxury and privilege, was unlike any other.“It’s really holding a mirror up to some of the ugliest sides of our nature in such a cutting way,” says Bartlett in a video conversation with Variety.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorRani Hancock, the recently appointed executive vice president and head of Columbia Records’ A&R department, took a bold and uncommon course into the music industry — uncommon for a woman, anyway. She studied to become a recording engineer at the prestigious Berklee College of Music.“I’d started out trying to be a musician but realized quickly that I was terrible at it,” she says.

Disney’s 20th Century Studios Kenneth Branagh movie Death on the Nile saw $1.1M in both Wednesday and Thursday previews, while Universal’s Jennifer Lopez-Owen Wilson romantic comedy posted $525K just from Thursday night shows.

If you loved Prime Video’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel fast, funny, brilliantly paced, richly hued comedy about a woman’s determination to be taken seriously in her craft, the wait is almost over and it’s so worth it. The Amazon streamer debuts the Covid-delayed Season 4 on Feb. 18, more than two years after we last saw Rachel Brosnahan and ensemble flitting across NYC, Miami and Paris. This time, executive producers Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino stuck to the Big Apple with expansive new sets at Steiner Studios and location shoots in Brooklyn, Queens, the West Village, all over Manhattan, spinning logistical limitation into television gold. Family dynamics took center stage, characters evolved and revolved around Midge as she transforms a Season 3 humiliation into angry resolve. “Every single show, I am going to say exactly what’s on my mind,” as per the trailer that dropped early this week.

A woman was left feeling "sick" after she was asked for "30 minutes of fun" in exchange for Liverpool FC match tickets.

Marg Helgenberger has signed on to return to the CSI franchise. She is set to star in Season 2 of CBS’ CSI: Vegas, reprising her role as Catherine Willows from the original CSI. I hear Helgenberger will be a series regular with a one-year deal.

EXCLUSIVE: Peacock will double down on its animated kids programming slate, unveiling a number of new and returning titles including two follow up series to DreamWorks Animation’s Megamind and Abominable.

Valentine's Day isn't going to be all roses for everything in Weatherfield.

From her early work in kids programming to now being one of the most recognizable stars on the planet, the world seems to have fully embraced Zendaya for years now. And her star is only growing, as she appears in bigger and more respected projects.

A cleaning professional has claimed that there is a more efficient way to vacuum the house and that we've been doing it wrong until now.The expert says that using a different technique can improve the end result, save time and also avoid getting hair tangled round your hoover.The advice was shared by a TikTok account in a video that started by demonstrating exactly how much hair can get trapped in the hoover nozzle. Clean Happy Co's Lisa then explained her way of making sure long hair is removed from the carpet prior to vacuuming.

A few days ago at one of the biggest stages for video games in the world the 2021 Game Awards Festival a new star wars game trailer was shown for the first time. The Game will be called Star Wars: Eclypse and will take place in the High Republic era.

Stellan Skarsgård is an actor that has popped up in nearly every recent major franchise. Whether it’s the beloved Eric Selvig of the Marvel Cinematic Universe or the dreadful and ominous Baron Harkonnen in “Dune,” you’ve likely seen his face on your screen rather recently.

Book Of Boba Fett, the upcoming Mandalorian spin-off series, has been compared to The Godfather by one if its stars.The Star Wars show follows bounty hunter Boba Fett (Temuera Morrison) and mercenary Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen) navigating the galaxy’s underworld when they return to the sands of Tatooine to stake their claim on the territory once ruled by Jabba the Hutt and his crime syndicate.The Mandalorian was regularly compared to classic western films such as The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly and The Magnificent Seven; the Disney+ show wore these western influences on it sleeve, as well as its allusions to samurai cinema.Speaking in a new interview, Wen – whose character Fennec Shand first appeared in Mandalorian season one episode ‘The

Netflix has revealed the cast for upcoming horror series The Fall Of The House Usher.The series is the next project from Mike Flanagan, who created Netflix’s The Haunting Of Hill House, The Haunting Of Bly Manor and this year’s Midnight Mass.Describing the show on Twitter, Flanagan wrote: “This miniseries is a modern remix of some of the most iconic works of Edgar Allan Poe.“To tell this epic tale of greed, horror, and tragedy, we have assembled the largest ensemble cast in the history of Intrepid Pictures.”Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon) will lead the cast as Roderick Usher, described as the “towering patriarch of the Usher dynasty.” He’ll be joined by Carla Gugino, who previously starred in The Haunting Of Hill House and The Haunting Of Bly

Back in 2019, Disney Plus released a show that would go on to be one of the most popular shows in the world and for some restored their faith in the Star Wars franchise. The Mandalorian took the world by storm and would pave the path for many more new Star Wars shows on Disney Plus.

Last December, Lucasfilm made a surprise announcement that they would be developing “The Acolyte,” a brand new “Star Wars” series for Disney+. Set during The High Republic, “The Acolyte” would take place within a new era, hundreds of years before The Skywalker Saga, that is central to a whole new line of novels, video games, and comic books.

Zynga has released the first look at gameplay for its upcoming competitive multiplayer title, Star Wars: Hunters.The “Enter the Arena” trailer below showcases the 4v4 battles players can expect to experience in the final game, along with a brief introduction to each of the eight playable characters.Originally announced in February 2021, the free-to-play game is set after the fall of the Galactic Empire – that’s after Return of the Jedi to anyone who hasn’t memorised a fictional chronology – and sees players controlling bounty hunters in arena battles.