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Disney's Star Wars Episode VII

Director J.J. Abrams (also directed the new Star Treks, Alias, Lost, Fringe, and various Mission Impossibles) has interviewed Jesse Plemons, who played Todd in Breaking Bad, for a part in the new Star Wars.

Lucasfilms has created a specialized focus group to create the new and official Star Wars canon. The group is called the Lucasfilm Story Group for Star Wars and is made up of various Star Wars experts and writers such as Pablo Hidalgo (writer of Star Wars content and publisher of nine Star Wars novels that will be considered for canonization) and Leland Chee (who maintains Star Wars databases and logistic information).

Fan Favorite Boba Fett will receive a spin-off stand-alone movie in the near future. Jon Schnepp of AMC Movie News confirmed this but did not state his source.

Man of Steel 2

So far, we have Batman and Superman (obviously) heading into the Batman vs. Superman movie, but also Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman and now it seems either Jason Mamoa from Game of Thrones or Josh Holloway from Lost. 

With all these heroes in one movie, it's pretty certain that it will be made to segway right into the Justice League movie coming out soon after.

World of Warcraft Movie

Yes, they are making a World of Warcraft movie. Will it be any good? Who knows? At least Duncan Jones is directing it, and he did a phenomenal job with Source Code, so i have hope. So far, we know Dominic Cooper is in it, who played Howard Stark in the first Captain America movie. He claims that the story has a very human component and will be deeply emotional, so I hope that is true as it comes around in March 2016.

How to Train Your Dragon 2

Finally! After they released a tiny mini-movie for Christmas and then another movie-like disc that turned out to just be a bunch of episodes put together, they are finally doing a sequel to How to Train Your Dragon. We don't know much about it yet, but we do know that dragons and humans are coexisting quite well still, and it's been five years since the first movie. Hiccup and Toothless go out looking for new lands and places but discover an "ice cave" and a "dark rider" and have to fight for peace (always ironic).

I, for one, am extremely excited. I've been waiting for this for a long time.

Avatar 2-4

We've known for a while that Avatar 2, 3, and 4 will have a lot to do with water and that Sam Worthington (Jake Sully) and Zoe Saldana (Neytiri) both are coming back for all three, but now we know they'll have kids! How exciting!