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Film director Jamie Christopher, who was best known for working on the Harry Potter franchise, has died at age 52. Christopher has worked on some of the most popular moves of the 21st century, including all eight of the highly popular Harry Potter movies, multiple Star Wars movies, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Fith Element and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness - just to name a few. Christopher reportedly died due to heart complications in Los Angeles on August 29.

With the latest Star Wars series being two episodes deep, many may wonder who Grand Admiral Thrawn is. Thrawn’s name has been dropped multiple times in the first two episodes. He was even mentioned in the opening text crawl.

The Lord Of The Rings trilogy has been voted the best film music by the UK public.Howard Shore’s soundtrack took the number one spot on a list of the top 100 film scores compiled by Classic FM, which received over 10,000 votes. The winner was revealed on Monday (August 28) on the radio station by presenter Jonathan Ross.Speaking about the win, Shore said: “Many thanks to all the Classic FM listeners.

Rebel Moon film have opened up on how they feel about Zack Snyder‘s sci-fi film franchise no longer being attached to Star Wars.Last week, Netflix released the trailer for Snyder’s Rebel Moon, confirming its December 22 release date on the platform. December’s film, titled Rebel Moon: A Child of Fire, will be the first of two films in the franchise.

Hannah Waddingham says she will no longer be hosting the BBC Fantasy, Myths And Legends Prom at the Royal Albert Hall, out of solidarity with the ongoing Hollywood actors’ strike.The actress and singer, known for her performance in the Bafta-winning Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso, said she was “respectfully” stepping down. In a post on social media shortly before the event, she wrote: “Hey guys, I very sadly won’t be able to host tonight’s @‌bbcproms ‘Fantasy, Myths and Legends’. “It will be a magical night, but due to my ongoing support for the @‌sagaftra strike, I must respectfully step down.

Naman Ramachandran Emmy -winning actor Hannah Waddingham (“Ted Lasso”) will present the Fantasy, Myths and Legends Prom at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Aug. 28. The event is an evening of orchestral works from film, television and gaming, from titles including “Harry Potter,” “Star Wars,” “The Lord of the Rings,” “Game of Thrones” and “World of Warcraft.” The BBC Concert Orchestra led by their new chief conductor, Anna-Maria Helsing, will be joined by mezzo soprano Felicity Buckland and The Huddersfield Choral Society.

Diego Luna has a hit with “Andor.” The Disney series is an expansion of the “Star Wars,” first introduced on the film “Rogue One,” which starred Felicity Jones and Luna himself. Following the series’ success, Luna has talked about the project and why it was vital for him to be involved as a producer before taking on the role of the lead star. Emmys: Pedro Pascal is the first Latino to land nomination in Drama category since 1999Diego Luna, Selena Gomez and more Emmy snubsLuna calls “Andor” a project where the whole team was deeply involved in making something that was good and important aside from being succesful.

With Star Wars: Ahsoka’s first two episodes airing Tuesday night, fans are left with some important questions about the characters in this show. Fans who are new to the Star Wars franchise may be confused about who some of these characters being name-dropped are. To be more specific, who exactly is Ezra Bridger? What do you need to know before watching Ahsoka? Hollywood News Daily has you covered.

EXCLUSIVE: Actress Barbara Bain, star of the British sci-fi series Space: 1999, is preparing to board an upcoming documentary about the Eagle, the famed spacecraft at the heart of the show that ran from 1975-1977.

Star Wars fans have one key gripe about the first two episodes of Ahsoka, involving a certain character’s survival.At the end of the show’s first episode, Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo) is stabbed in the stomach during a lightsaber duel with Shin Hati (Ivanna Sakhno).While it appeared as if she had been killed, Sabine is seen alive in a hospital bed in the next episode – with no explanation as to how she survived.This isn’t the first time a Star Wars character has survived a seemingly fatal lightsaber wound. In the Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi, Third Sister Reva (Moses Ingram) survives a stab wound from Darth Vader, while the Grand Inquisitor (Rupert Friend) is similarly brought back to life following a lightsaber injury.Darth Maul was also revived in Star Wars: The Clone Wars despite being cut in half in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.Following Sabine’s survival in Ahsoka, many have since pointed out the inconsistencies with past deaths in the Star Wars franchise – namely Qui-Gon Jinn’s (Liam Neeson) death after he’s stabbed in the stomach by Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace.“I don’t know how I feel about yet again someone getting stabbed in the stomach by a lightsaber and surviving,” one viewer wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.Another added: “Besides Sabine getting stabbed in the abdomen and surviving, the two episodes were solid.

Spoiler Alert: The following contains details about the first two episodes of Disney+/Lucasfilm’s Ahsoka, “Master and Apprentice” and “Toil and Trouble”.

There’s arguably been a disturbance in the Force that has disrupted its balance for years now. Some may argue the trouble goes back to 2012 when Disney bought Lucasfilm.

There’s arguably been a disturbance in the Force that has disrupted its balance for years now. Some may argue the trouble goes back to 2012 when Disney bought Lucasfilm.

Ahsoka Tano! A very prominent name in the Star Wars canon, and for good reason. From being Anakin Skywalker’s padawan to fighting the most powerful Sith Lords of her time. Ahsoka is finally getting her own TV series! Hollywood News Daily has everything fans need to know before watching Star Wars: Ahsoka.One of the biggest questions is when does Ashoka take place? Thanks to Star Wars: The Mandalorian we have a pretty solid idea.

Robert De Niro celebrated his 80th birthday with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, including Leonardo DiCaprio and longtime collaborator Martin Scorsese.The actor marked the milestone birthday with a special dinner in New York on Thursday (August 17) alongside family and close friends, including his girlfriend Tiffany Chen, who he recently welcomed his seventh child with.As reported by People, the dinner itself took place at Italian restaurant Locanda Verde in Tribeca’s Greenwich Hotel, which is owned by De Niro.Others who attended include Paul McCartney and his wife Nancy Shevell, The Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola, Star Wars creator George Lucas and Christopher Walken. You can check out some images below.Former governor of New York Andrew Cuomo was also seen in attendance, alongside David Blaine, Bette Midler and Jane Krakowski.Debi Mazar, who starred alongside De Niro in Goodfellas, shared a photo on Instagram to celebrate his birthday.

Disney+ series Ahsoka appears to have leaked a surprise about the return of a Star Wars character. Spoilers below.The new Star Wars series, which is set for release on streaming on August 22, sees Rosario Dawson reprise her role as the titular Jedi after making her live-action debut in The Mandalorian season 2.The series follows Ahsoka as she wanders the galaxy in search of the villain Thrawn (Lars Mikkelsen, reprising his voice role from Rebels).

Jaden Thompson It’s not every day a director works on a series with a built-in legion of multigenerational fans ready to binge each episode and dissect every scene. Deborah Chow, who helmed all six episodes of Disney+’s “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” experienced exactly that. The limited series, which Chow also executive produced, centers on the titular Jedi (Ewan McGregor) and former mentor to Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader (Hayden Christensen) and is set between the two “Star Wars” trilogies.

The Mandalorian season 2 (the character originated from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars).The upcoming series follows Ahsoka as she wanders through the galaxy in search of the villain Thrawn (Lars Mikkelsen, reprising his voice role from Rebels). Other cast members include Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Natasha Liu Bordizzo.The first two episodes of the series were screened to critics ahead of the show’s official release, and the early reactions have been overwhelmingly positive.“Ahsoka is epic!” tweeted GamesRadar+’s Molly Edwards.

Chances are you’ve seen a “Star Wars” movie. Still, even if you haven’t, you know such basics things like the tagline, “in a galaxy far, far away…” (which actually has four ellipsis points in it, despite the incorrect grammar), you’ll know who George Lucas is, Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker and probably Yoda.

These days, “Star Wars” hopefully works on two levels. There’s top-level engagement for broader fans that just like the Lucasfilm brand and what it stands for, and again, these days, there’s a deeper level of commitment for the more hardcore fans that know all the ins and outs of “Star Wars” beyond just the movies.

Disney+‘s upcoming Star Wars series Ahsoka has been released, and teases the return of Hayden Christensen’s Anakin Skywalker.In the teaser trailer, titled ‘Force’, a shot of Anakin Skywalker from 2022’s Obi-Wan Kenobi series flashes across the screen before Skywalker’s voice is heard giving advice to Ahsoka.“In this war, you will face more than just droids. As your master, it’s my responsibility to prepare you.

Star Wars character, Ahsoka, was inspired Gandalf from The Lord Of The Rings.The actor is reprising the role of the former Jedi Padawan for the upcoming Ahsoka series on Disney+, having previously appeared as the character in a couple of episodes of The Mandalorian.In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Dawson discussed how she and series creator Dave Filoni were particularly interested in examining Ahsoka’s growth from a Padawan into a leader.The upcoming series is set after the events of the animated Star Wars Rebels finale, in which Ahsoka, dressed all in white, returned from the ethereal Force dimension known as the World Between Worlds. It was this sort of imagery and development that prompted Dawson and Filoni to draw parallels with Gandalf from J.R.R.

Andy Serkis has a strange relationship with the “Star Wars” franchise. Originally, he was brought on to play the voice and motion capture for the new big-bad of the film franchise, Snoke.

The latest celebrity to join Strictly Come Dancing 2023 was snuck into the BBC studios in a Traitor's-style cloak to avoid detection ahead of their cast announcement.

Star Wars The Mandalorian Season 3 has come and gone, now we are all looking to the Ahsoka series. We might want to hold off a little longer on that though, as new rumors are suggesting that The Mandalorian Season 4 may become a movie. What could this mean for Pedro Pascal’s Disney Plus show? Star Wars seems like it may be going back to its film roots.

Mark Hamill has called for Twitter users to boycott the site in protest against Elon Musk’s rebranding of the platform to X.On Sunday (July 30), the Star Wars actor encouraged users to stop tweeting entirely on Tuesday (August 1). “This will only be effective if EVERYONE refrains from tweeting (X-ing?) on August 1st a/k/a #TweetlessTuesday,” he wrote on the platform.“Let’s show the owner the POWER OF THE PEOPLE.

Star Wars has finally confirmed the identity of the masked lightsaber wielder from the Ahsoka trailers. According to the official Star Wars website, the character’s name is Marrok. While they wear the armor of an Inquisitor, that life is long behind them.

Star Wars movies.The director said in a new interview that he takes issue with “mass things being shoved on me” and knowing “so much about them and the characters” without ever actually having watched them.He told The Believer: “I have particular things I will never see. I will never see any ‘Star Wars’ films, because I resent that I know so much about them and the characters.“Why is all that in my head when I’ve never actually seen one, you know? Why do I know about R2-D2 and Darth Vader and all these things when I’ve never even seen any ‘Star Wars’ film?”He continued: “I’ve never seen Gone With The Wind and I never will, just because I feel like it’s forced on me and it’s some kind of corny thing.”The Dead Don’t Die filmmaker added that he’s “not hierarchical” but he is less drawn to big, commercial works.“But because I really, deeply love the craft of filmmaking, I, of course, like masterful filmmakers’ work. But I watch all kinds of stuff,” he said.

There are still a lot of questions surrounding the future of “Star Wars” on the big screen. Even though Lucasfilm announced a trio of new films earlier this year, it’s difficult to imagine a world where they all get made, especially given how the studio has developed and canceled films before production quite a lot.

Justin Simien is having a busy weekend. Not only did his most recent feature film, the big-budget “Haunted Mansion” film from Disney, debut in theaters, but there was also news that he was being replaced by Donald And Stephen Glover as writers of the “Lando” series coming to Disney+.