‘The Mandalorian’ team shares “ugly” early designs of Baby Yoda

Taylor Swift might just be one of Avril Lavigne’s biggest fans.

Just hours after Deadline reported that Netflix is pausing all of its production and acquisitions work in Russia, the company’s co-founder, chairman and co-CEO Reed Hastings announced a $1 million donation to an organization providing emergency relief to Ukraine.

Maksim Chmerkovskiy had an emotional reunion with wife Peta Murgatroyd as he returned home Wednesday from Ukraine. Chmerkovskiy boarded a Finnair flight to the United States after making it to Warsaw, Poland on Tuesday as Russia continues to attack Ukraine. Chmerkovsky and Murgatroyd were photographed embracing after he landed at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).

Ciara and Russell Wilson are officially authors now with the debut of their first children’s book, Why Not You?. Released by Random House, the picture book for readers ages 4-8 builds on the mindset the celebrity couple was raised with and that led them to be superstars on the field and on the stage.“For me it was in the words. My parents spoke life into me,” Ciara tells ESSENCE of the upbringing that inspired the book.

A collection of Russian film distributors and industry executives have braved potentially dangerous consequences by calling for an end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Sox Entertainment, the production and distribution company of former top CBS distribution executive Scott Koondel, has acquired the 2001 Imax concert movie All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live!. The film, produced two decades ago for theatrical distribution exclusively on IMAX, will be taken to the marketplace shortly, targeting global streamers. All Access has never been exposed to digital platforms; the film is available for broadcast and streaming for the first time after a 10-year distribution moratorium.

FX’s Snowfall started off its fifth season strong, hitting series highs with its two-episode debut.

mansion located on its very own island has been mocked online after people pointed out one off-putting flaw.The 2.3 acre property on Bald Eagle Lake in Saint Paul, Minnesota has been put on the market for $6.6million (£4,926,000) and has been shared across social media in recent days.Despite having five bedrooms, nine bathrooms, its own hovercraft and six garages, many have said the placing of two obstructive poles in the middle of the kitchen table means they wouldn't want to own it. The two poles are positioned asymmetrically on the white table and take up the space of an entire chair, potentially blocking people sitting together from seeing each other fully.One unimpressed Instagram user pointed out the "posts going through the kitchen table", accompanied by an emoji of a man facepalming.Another joked "the columns in that table aren’t getting enough hate", with someone similarly quipping "it's the two posts through the dining room table for $6.6 mil that does it for me".Responding to a post that asked who would want to live in the 'dream home', one person wrote: "I can't w[ith] the table and columns in the kitchen."An online listing from estate agent Landucci Homes however would make out that this a far more desired property than the comments suggest, with one part reading: "One of the most sought after Trophy properties in the Twin Cities, this home offers an experience like none other.

Courteney Cox is spilling the tea on the elaborate way she first started to date Snow Patrol’s Johnny McDaid.

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Marilyn Manson has filed a lawsuit against Evan Rachel Wood over allegations of abuse she leveled against the shock rocker in February 2021.According to lawsuit filed on behalf of Manson — whose real name is Brian Warner — by his attorney, Howard King, the singer alleges that Wood and her romantic partner, Illma Gore, engaged in a «conspiracy» meant to «publicly cast Plaintiff Brian Warner, p/k/a Marilyn Manson, as a rapist and abuser.»The lawsuit claims the allegations leveled against Manson by Wood are «a malicious falsehood that has derailed Warner’s successful music, TV, and film career.»The suit also makes specific claims regarding the supposed conspiracy, and alleges that Wood and Gore «impersonated an actual agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation by forging and distributing a fictitious letter from the agent, to create the false appearance that Warner’s alleged “victims” and their families were in danger, and that there was a federal criminal investigation of Warner ongoing.»The lawsuit further claims that this was done as part of an effort to convince other women of coming forward with false allegations against the musician.«For at least the last two years, Gore and Wood have secretly recruited, coordinated, and pressured prospective accusers to emerge simultaneously with allegations of rape and abuse against Warner, and brazenly claim that it took ten or more years to 'realize' their consensual relationships with Warner were supposedly abusive,» the lawsuit claims.The suit further alleges that the pair «provided checklists and scripts to prospective accusers» and claims that Gore «hacked Warner’s computers, phones, email accounts, and/or social media accounts; created a fictitious email account to

Mortimer’s: Moments in Time” by documentary filmmaker Robin Baker Leacock, restaurateur Robert Caravaggi and photographer Mary Hilliard (available March 22 on Amazon) looks back at an era when socialites, celebs and the city’s most powerful people mixed over cigarette smoke, bull shots and vodka on the rocks.One of New York’s best-remembered bygone boîtes, Mortimer’s opened in March 1976 at 75th and Lex in a utilitarian space that fast became the de rigueur dining dive of the nascent Studio 54 set — including C.Z. Guest, Farrah Fawcett and Iman.

Star Wars actor John Boyega has shared a Black Lives Matter message from Yoda.With the help of some graffiti, the statue of Yoda outside LucasFilm’s headquarters in San Francisco has been updated to share what would be the Jedi Master’s support for the movement.The statue was tagged with ‘Matter black lives do’, mimicking how the beloved character would say Black Lives Matter.Boyega shared the post on his Instagram page after inspiring others with his passionate speech during a protest in London last week.Following the death of George Floyd, protests have erupted across the world demanding justice.Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, died after white police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck for over eight minutes.Luminous

tweeted a photo of a statue of Yoda, the green alien who served as Skywalker’s Jedi teacher in the sci-fi series, with a spray-painted message: “Matter, Black Lives Do.”“Luminous beings are we… ALL,” Hamill wrote on the post.It’s not the first time the actor, who has been vocal in his solidarity with protesters, has channeled Star Wars to make his point.On Monday he tweeted out a photo of Star Wars-themed posters on the side of the building which show Floyd in the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi, another of Skywalker’s fictional teachers.The three posters show Floyd’s face wearing Kenobi’s hooded robe, each with a quote from the fictional Jedi master proclaiming his invincibility.“Strike Me Down, I Shall Become More Powerful, Than You Can Possibly

Though the production delays of major films such as “Mission: Impossible 7,” “The Matrix 4,” “Avatar 2,” and the various projects at Marvel Studios seem to be getting a lot of headlines due to the COVID-19 pandemic, TV is probably in a worse spot. With seasons of series already wrapped up for the year, pretty much all new installments of shows have been delayed due to the pandemic, leaving networks and streaming services without much to offer this fall.

Disney+ show The Mandalorian will arrive on time, despite the coronavirus pandemic causing delays throughout the TV and film industries.Favreau, who acts as showrunner for the acclaimed Star Wars spin-off series, first promised the new season for October 2020 at the end of last year.Speaking on a virtual panel for the ATX Television Festival, Favreau reassured fans when asked whether the show would be impacted by the pandemic.“We were lucky enough to have finished photography before the lock down,” Favreau said.“Thanks to how technology-forward Lucasfilm and ILM [VFX and animation studio Industrial Light And Magic] are, we have been able to do all of our visual effects and editing and post production remotely through systems that had been

The all-virtual ATX Television Festival is going on throughout the weekend, and one panel brought out the directors behind the first season of Disney+ “Star Wars” series “The Mandalorian”.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterATX Television Festival had a stacked panel for Disney+’s The Mandalorian with show creator, executive producer and writer Jon Favreau as well as show directors Dave Filoni, Deborah Chow, Rick Famuyiwa, Bryce Dallas Howard and Taika Waititi.From the get-go, Favreau had an idea of how he wanted to frame the Star Wars spin-off.  Says Favreau in the pre-recorded panel: “It was specifically doing a version of Star Wars that felt small and felt like it reflected the genres that influenced George [Lucas] originally: space adventure, westerns, samurai films, WWII adventure films — those are the genres that inspired the tropes.” He added, “These were at once original, but also a reflection of our cinematic

John Boyega has shared a passionate rally cry at today’s Hyde Park demonstration in London, in response to the death of George Floyd in the US.

Arguably the cutest character from television and film from the past year was the unnamed creature from “The Mandalorian” that fans dubbed Baby Yoda.