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J.J. Abrams Won’t Direct ‘Star Wars: Episode 9,’ Luke Skywalker Drew Him To ‘The Force Awakens’ A slew of new goodies fromStar Wars: The Force Awakenshas hit the web today, fromnew photos of our new heroes and villains, to juicy new details onAdam Driver’sFirst Order bad guy Kylo Ren. Now some details about the future of the newStar Warstrilogy have surfaced. J.J. Abramshas confirmed that he will not come back to directStar Wars: Episode IX, though as we know from an earlier interview, he will beexecutive producing the second and thirdinstallments of this new trilogy....

Jon Favreau Explains His Decision To Not Direct ‘Iron Man 3’ Tuesday’s most polarizing piece of news was the fact thatJon Favreauwould not be directingIron Man 3. On his Twitter, Favreau said “It’s true, I’m directingMagic Kingdom, notIron Man 3. I’ve had a great run with Marvel and wish them the best.” But Twitter can only say so much. The man behind the first twoIron Manfilms,Elf, the upcomingCowboys & Aliensand my favorite movie of all time,Swingers, sat down with theLos Angeles Timesto explain in more than 140 characters why he’s leaving Tony Stark behind andwhat his plans are forMagic Kingdom....

Judd Apatow Co-Writing Iraq War Dramedy With ‘Redeployment’ Author Phil Klay [Updated] After chronicling the love lives of romantically ambivalent men from every conceivable angle,Judd Apatowis branching out this year by chronicling the love life of a romantically ambivalent woman inTrainwreck. Now his latest new project will take him much further afield, all the way to the front lines of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. Apatow is currently working on an adaptation ofRedeployment*,Phil Klay’s National Book Award-winning short story collection about American soldiers at war and at home....

Let Superheroines Be Muscular, Dammit! The firsttrailer for “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law,” the latest Marvel and Disney+ series, introduces audiences to Jennifer Walters, the hot-shot lawyer and cousin to Bruce Banner who becomes another green-hued muscled superhero. Tatiana Maslany of “Orphan Black” fame is in the leading role, CGI-d to a taller height with some added arm and calf definition for good measure. The effects were criticized but there’s still time for the showrunners to add finishing touches to She-Hulk’s look, which is one of the most interesting in the Marvel-verse (imagine if one of the women in “Law and Order” was close to seven foot tall and the color of grass but still wore a power suit with a pencil skirt)....

Mark Hamill Shaves His Luke Skywalker Beard, Teases Its Glorious Return For ‘Star Wars: Episode 9’ During the production ofStar Wars: The Force Awakens,Star Warsfans kept an obsessive watch over the status ofMark Hamilland his beard. This wasn’t the first time a passionate fandom followed an actor’s hair for clues about what to expect from their character in the future. During the same period,Game of Thronesaficionados breathlessly watched as Kit Harington’shair wasn’t shorn, leading everyone to rightfully assume that the seemingly late Jon Snow was making a return....

Mark Romanek To Direct ‘Norco’ Mark Romanekhas been plenty busy in the past few years, but he hasn’t actually released a movie since 2010’sNever Let Me Go. Happily, he looks ready to get back into the feature filmmaking game withNorco, a bank robbery thriller based on true events. More on the Mark RomanekNorcoproject after the jump.THRreports Romanek is in final talks with MadRiver Pictures to directNorco, which has a script byAdair Cole....

Movie Theater Attendance Hits 20-Year Low We caught a lot of great movies in 2014, but it seems many other people did not. Preliminary estimates indicate that just 1.26 billion cinema tickets were purchased in 2014 — which sounds like a lot until you realize it’s the lowest number since 1995. Meanwhile, movie ticket prices continue to rise but they can only do so much. Box office revenue is down about 5% from 2013, the lowest year-to-year decline in nearly a decade....

MoviePass Troubles Continue, Might Need $1.2 Billion To Become Profitable Another day, another dent in MoviePass’s armor. The movie theater subscription service’s parent company, Helios and Matheson Analytics, has launched a $164 million bond sale in an attempt to stay alive, and a new report says they could need more than $1.2 billion (!) of additional capital to maintain MoviePass’s growth and eventually become profitable. Below, we have a few fool-proof suggestions for how they can raise that money....

Netflix Will Exclusively Stream The CW’s Shows Including All Your Favorite DC Comics Shows Netflix and The CW have announced a new partnership. For the next few years, Netflix will exclusively stream The CW’s content, including this year’s Archietelevision showRiverdale. Under this deal, eight days after theRiverdaleseason finale airs the entirety of season one will be ready to watch on Netflix, and the same goes for The CW’s other programs....

New ‘American Gods’ Season 2 Photo Reunites The Cast American Godshas undergone some surprising behind-the-scenes changes since season 1 ended. Now,American Godsseason 2 is ready to begin production, and the first look at the reunited cast has arrived. See the first image fromAmerican Godsseason 2 below. I want only the best forAmerican Gods. The first season was great, and in many ways even improved on Neil Gaiman’s novel. But all has clearly not be well behind-the-scenes....

New ‘ThunderCats’ Series On The Way And Some Fans Are Reeeally Not Happy Some things are very sacred to certain people. Like the 1985 animated children’s seriesThunderCatsfor instance. In some people’s minds,ThunderCats, a cartoon about catlike humanoid aliens with swords, is as sacrosanct as Michelangelo’s painting on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Now, a newThunderCatsseries,ThunderCats Roar, is on the way and some people are very, very Mad Online™. RememberThunderCats? They’re back, in new series form....

No Time To Die Just Had The Biggest Opening Night Of Any James Bond Movie “No Time to Die” is finally hitting theaters in North America this weekend, and things look very good in the early going for Mr. Bond, as Daniel Craig’s fifth and final outing as the iconic MI6 spy opened to record numbers in Thursday previews. This signals we could have yet another blockbuster en route to shattering expectations come Monday morning, which is good news all around....

Oh, Look, Actual Arrested Development Movie News: Script Is Half Done I half suspect that if the movie news sphere ever goes six months without ‘reporting’ on the nascentArrested Developmentmovie, the entire internet will collapse upon itself. So in the interest of digital safety, here’s the latest in a series of half-updates that now spans several years. We’ve heard for some time that Mitch Hurwitz was about to start writing the film, and that he was working on it....