Summer 2019 will be a showdown for Hollywood's biggest franchises

Yesterday, Disney announced that it was shuffling its release schedule to move Star Wars: Episode IX — the last film in the main “sequel trilogy” — from December 2019 up to May 24th, 2019.Now, at first glance, this is pretty pedestrian news. Films get moved around all the time, whether that’s due to trying to avoid competitors, taking more time on editing or special effects, or just the realities of Hollywood politics. But this particular move is somewhat strange.Af