MOVIES WITH BIG AL: Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker, Cats

STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER (Sci-Fi)

WHAT'S IT ABOUT?The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once more in the final chapter of the Skywalker saga.

WHO'S IN IT? Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, Domhnall Gleeson, Lupita Nyong'o, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Oscar Isaac, Keri Russell, Billy Dee Williams

TRIVIA: 

• Anthony Daniels (C-3PO) is the only actor to appear in all nine Star Warsmovies.
• Carrie Fisher was supposed to have a big role in Rise of Skywalker, but she died in 2016.
• The final trailer was released on October 21st, 2019, on what would have been Carrie Fisher's 63rd birthday.
• J.J. Abramsis only the second person to direct multiple Star Warsmovies. The first was George Lucas.

CATS (Musical)

WHAT'S IT ABOUT? A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life.

WHO'S IN IT? Idris Elba, Ian McKellen, Rebel Wilson, Judi Dench, Taylor Swift, James Corden, Ray Winstone, Jennifer Hudson, Jason Derulo

TRIVIA: 

• The Cats stage production, created by Andrew Lloyd Webber, debuted in 1981 in London.
• It ran on Broadway from 1982 to 2000, and was the longest-running show in Broadway history at the time.
• The musical is based on the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot.
• The movie includes a new song, "Beautiful Ghosts," written by Taylor Swift and Lloyd Webber.