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Both Ewan McGregor and the late Alec Guinness brought Kenobi back. There were more old friends inStar Wars: The Force Awakensthan we may have realized. And within this, we hear at least two familiar voices: Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda. At least as well as they could, Abrams says. You do hear a little bit of Yoda. You hear Luke yelling out, Nooo! from that moment inEmpire. And you hear Obi-Wan at the end say, Rey … these are your first steps, Abrams says....

While J.J. Abrams is plenty busy helping shepherd in a new era forStar Wars, that hasnt stopped him from diving into his next projects, and among them is a newly announced videogame. Abrams, as part of Bad Robot, announced a partnership with ChAIR, the developers of the mobile gaming hit seriesInfinity Blade.TitledSpyjinx, the game will offer RPG character building in a world filled with espionage. Though details about the game remain scarce, interested playerscan sign up for a closed betathat will launch in 2016....

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How does an original script you acquired get to be a movie under theCloverfieldbanner? J.J. ABRAMS:What happened was that we madeCloverfieldin 2008. We had this fun experience surprising people with that movie. Credit: ILLUSTRATION by FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA for EW Ive been hearing now for nearly eight years, When is the sequel coming out? When are you going to do a sequel? I was always surprised at how frequently people would talk aboutCloverfield....

Long before J.J. Abrams directed sequels toMission: ImpossibleandStar Wars, he could have spent some time in Toontown. And it happened because we were in a film festival and she read about us in the LA Times. So we, of course, said yes and did the repairs, Abrams recalled. Credit: Buena Vista/Everett Collection Years later I got to meet Steven. Jill Mazursky and I went into a meeting actually, it was for aRoger Rabbitsequel....

Natalie McGarry accused the ‘Harry Potter’ author of supporting trolls and misogyny on Twitter. Though McGarrys tweets no longer show up in her timeline, the original text can be seen below. EARLIER:Twitter feuds all around. Credit: Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images Finally, McGarry cited the actual tweet from October 2015. Rowling responded by saying she was praising the account for donating to her charity, Lumos. However, McGarry then accused Rowling of bullying....

Its no coincidence thatJ.K. Rowling and Harry Potter share a birthday. Thank you so much for all the birthday wishes! Credit: Luca Teuchmann/WireImage Im very fond of you lot, too. Elsewhere, Rowling posed withCursed Childs resident Hermione, Noma Dumezweni, for a photo. Noma gives the best birthday hugs, she wrote on Twitter. Rowling attended the opening gala forHarry Potter and the Cursed Childat the Palace Theatre on Saturday. Shesaidon the red carpet, I am so proud of this play....

And the second film will be quite different than the first, director David Yates tells us. The second movie introduces new characters as she builds this part of the Harry Potter universe further. Its a very interesting development from where we start out. Credit: Jaap Buitendijk The work is pouring out of her. Above is a new photo from the film, which shows Scamander taking aim at some unknown target....

One such person is Richard Carter, owner of the Mystical Moments shop in Huddersfield, England. You wouldnt believe how many real witches and wizards there are knocking about. You would be amazed, Carter said. Credit: Peter Mountain They know they can come here and reveal themselves without people thinking theyre mental. I dont have customers who have been Harry Potterfied. But I have not banned them from the shop, Carter told the paper....

Lets take a look back at the last week in J.K. Rowling. Who is Jack Thorne? The nextHarry Potterbook isnt quite a novel, as Rowling has gone to great lengths to point out. Credit: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP Instead, its a publication of theHarry Potter and the Cursed Childscript. Rowling called him the only other writer I wanted nearCursed Child! Rowling tweeted last week that shed have finished it months ago if it werent for her dog....

Luis Vielma worked on the Harry Potter ride at Universal, she tweeted with a photo of Vielma. He was 22 years old. I cant stop crying. Credit: Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images According to theOrlando Sentinel, he worked on the Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey ride. TheHarry Potterscribe also retweeted memories of Vielma from people who remembered meeting him at Universal. He was the guy in the breakroom you liked four seconds after walking in, Melissa A....

Been wondering how to mark Snapes birthday without starting an argument. Heres to him, the big hero/bully. He really was the best/worst, the authortweeted. Credit: Mary Evans/Courtesy Everett Collection Snape died for Harry out of love for Lily [Harrys mother]. Harry paid him tribute in forgiveness and gratitude, she wrote at the time. Rowling added, Snape is all grey. You cant make him a saint: he was vindictive & bullying....

J.K. Rowling took on Donald Trump with her latest tweet heard ‘round the world. he who must not be named, a.k.a. the most draconian, dastardly villain in all of literature well at least in Harry Potter’s wizarding world. Credit: Mike Marsland/WireImage But Rowling didn’t agree with the comparison. “How horrible,” Rowling wrote. “Voldemort was nowhere near as bad.” On Monday, Trump called for the “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States....

As she writes, both sides of the so-called Brexit debate have made monsters out of their opponents. I dont mean that in the sense of lying (although lies have certainly been told). Make America Great Again! Credit: Press Association via AP Images cries a man who is fascist in all but name, Rowling wrote. His stubby fingers are currently within horrifyingly close reach of Americas nuclear codes. He achieved this pre-eminence by proposing crude, unworkable solutions to complex threats....