Disney Sets May 2019 Release For ‘Star Wars: Episode IX’

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Star Wars” is coming back to the summer movie season.
The Walt Disney Co. on Tuesday announced that the Colin Trevorrow-directed “Star Wars: Episode IX” would fly into theaters on May 24, 2019, making it the first in the main trilogy to debut in the summer box office season, which kicks off at the beginning of May.
Both “The Force Awakens” and the upcoming “The Last Jedi” were December releases, as was the “Star Wars