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According to a now deleted Disney Movie Insiders post, the release date for the Star Wars: Ahsoka Disney Plus series has been revealed to be August 31! This is in line with reports coming out of last month’s Star Wars Celebration that the 8-episode limited series would be premiering sometime in late summer. It’s not all happy news for the series, unfortunately, as veteran sci-fi actor, Ray Stevenson, who portrays turncoat Jedi Baylon Skoll, passed away this weekend at the age of 58, while shooting a film in Italy.

Disney has started removing dozens of series, specials and direct-to-streaming movies from both Disney Plus and Hulu. The move, which was announced during the May 10 Disney earnings call, is part of an effort to cut costs and refocus content curation to maximize profitability. The list is extensive, but a notable standouts is Willow, which finished its season in January, and has not been available for a full 6 months.The Willow series, along with many others on the list, were never released to physical media and are essentially lost to the void. Early backlash from the announced purge has already saved a few titles including the documentary Howard and Marvel series MPower and Marvel’s Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever.

Fast X crossed the finish line in first place at the box office this weekend with a reported haul of $67 million, domestically. This was enough to overtake reigning champ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 in its third weekend. Vin Diesel also confirmed that a spin-off film is currently in development with an all female lead cast.

A teaser trailer for the upcoming sci-fi film The Creator had dropped. Coming to us from Rogue One and the 2014 Godzilla director, Gareth Edwards, the film stars John David Washington and tells the story of a future humanity at war with artificial intelligence that is bent on destroying human life. The film will debut on September 29th.

After releasing a teaser that debuted a full year ago with Top Gun: Maverick, Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1 has dropped its official first trailer. The first part of the two part film series will hit theaters on July 12th.

Paramount Films and AppleTV+ have debuted the first trailer for Martin Scosese's Killers of the Flower Moon. The film, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Di Niro, Jesse Plemons, Lilly Gladstone, and Brenden Fraser will premiere in theaters on October 6th and will be distributed during an unspecified streaming release on AppleTV+ as well.

Chiwtel Ejiofor who played Baron Mordo in Doctor Strange has closed a deal to star opposite Tom Hardy in Venom 3.

Eddie Murphy is in final talks to play Inspector Clouseau in an upcoming reboot of Pink Panther, described as a live action/CGI hybrid buddy cop film.

A new teaser officially announced the revival of beloved sci fi animated series Futurama is set to debut on Hulu on July 24th.

MCU Rumors: Industry insiders are reporting that Jeff Loveness, who wrote Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and was in line to write Avengers: Kang Dynasty is no longer writing the film. Insiders are also reporting that Emma Stone was originally offered the role of Sue Storm in the MCU, but turned it down due to salary disputes. Neither of these reports have been confirmed by anyone attached to Marvel Studios.

Ridley Scott's upcoming Gladiator sequel continues to round out it's cast. Barry Keoghan, who was attached to the film in the early phases has exited. May Calamawy who starred as Layla in Moon Knight among others has joined the cast.

Tati Gabrielle, best known for her work in The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and You has joined the cast of the upcoming sequel to the 2021 film Mortal Kombat and will play the character of Jade.