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The Important News

Star Wars: Carrie Fisher’s scenes for Star Wars: Episode VIII were confirmed to be completed. Oscar Isaac teased that Leia and Luke will be reunited in Episode VIII. Saw Gerrera could appear in other movies in the future. Moviegoers chose Star Wars: Episode VIII as the most anticipated movie of 2017.

Wizarding World: Katherine Waterston claims she’ll be in all the Fantastic Beasts movies.

X-Men: Deadpool was rumored to be in Logan.

Sequels: Bad Moms is getting a holiday movie follow-up.

Biopics: Nicolas Cage will play Ronald Reagan in an unknown movie project. Ryan Gosling will play Neil Armstrong in First Man.

Box Office: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story won the holiday weekend but Sing did well, too.

Reel TV: Legends of Tomorrow will feature a young George Lucas as a character.

Theme Parks: James Cameron previewed a look and details about Disney’s Avatar world.

R.I.P.: Carrie Fisher passed away at age 60. Her mother, Debbie Reynolds, passed away at age 84.

The Videos and Geek Stuff

New Movie Trailers: Alien: Covenant, Ocean Waves and Beyond Skyline.

TV Spots: The Bye Bye Man.

Behind the Scenes Featurettes: On the script for Arrival.

Movie Images: Coco, Logan and Okja.

Redone Trailers: Logan in Lego, Spider-Man: Homecoming in Lego and retro-style Alien: Covenant trailer.

Mashups: Why Him? meets Breaking Bad, all of Tim Burton’s characters mashed into one creature and a new year’s celebration mashup.

Parodies: Darth Vader and Kylo Ren celebrate Christmas together, Kylo Ren reviews Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Ghostbusters gets a Pokemon Go type app.

Dream Casting: Eliza Dushku as DC’s Catwoman and Emma Stone as DC’s Poison Ivy.

Alternate Endings: It’s a Wonderful Life and Se7en.

Year-End Recaps: TCM’s In Memoriam video and a fake trailer for 2016: The Movie.

Movie Posters: All of this week’s best new posters.

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