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(Photo: Getty/LucasFilm)"The Clone Wars" may be over, but "Star Wars" fans can rest easy – they'll be able to get a regular dose of animated Jedi action again starting next year.

Disney has announced that a new animated "Star Wars" series, "Star Wars Rebels," will be premiering in the fall of 2014. The series will kick off with a two-hour movie debuting on the Disney Channel, and the following episodes will be aired on Disney XD.

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Despite the fact that the details of superhero movies are more secretive than the most elite branches of the government these days, Joss Whedon has given ‘Avengers’ fans an early gift by putting an end to the speculation and confirming the identities of the villains in the sequel. Ladies and gentleman, your “Avengers 2” baddies are…Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch.

The very busy writer/director had recently teased that two new characters, specifically a brother-sister act would be entering the “Avengers” fray, but Whedon did not reveal that said duo would be the troublemakers in the next movie until he spoke with IGN about the subject.

“You know, they had a rough beginning,” Whedon said of Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch. “They’re interesting to me because they sort of represent the part of the world that wouldn’t necessarily agree with The Avengers. So they’re not there to make things easier. I’m not putting any characters in the movie that will make things easier.”

So who exactly are these

Benedict Cumberbatch poses with fans at the UK Premiere of 'Star Trek Into Darkness' (Photo: Getty)
You may be aware that "Star Trek Into Darkness" antihero Benedict Cumberbatch has a growing legion of fans. What you may not know is his devotees are distinctly fragmented between self-respecting Cumberfans and a group that has labeled themselves "Cumberb----es."

The latter group has a relatively popular Twitter account on which they have been defending their name following recent controversy.

Cumberbatch himself has recently piped up about the Cumber-"B"-word faction after having made light of their existence to other press outlets (including our own).

Guess which one is Benedict Cumberbatch's natural hair color (Photo: WireImage)He has successfully stolen the spotlight from his ensemble cast mates and blushingly touts his growing fan base of so-called Cumberpeople.

With the enormous amount of buzz that has been bestowed upon the star villain in "Star Trek Into Darkness," along with a four more films coming out this year, Benedict Cumberbatch is truly the man of the moment.

The 36-year-old actor first grabbed the attention of "Star Trek" reboot director J.J. Abrams as the leading man on the hit BBC show "Sherlock." And while he seems relatively fresh on the scene in the U.S., Cumberbatch has been entertaining British audiences since he was a boy in London performing Shakespeare plays in school.

Director Edgar Wright (Photo: Michael Buckner, Getty Images)

In under a decade, director Edgar Wright has established himself as a major director with a trio of funny, exciting, and visually inventive movies: "Shaun of the Dead," "Hot Fuzz" and "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World." Now he's collaborating with his old pal and screenwriting partner Simon Pegg again for "The World's End," the third chapter of their "Blood and Ice Cream" trilogy.

Also starring Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine, and Eddie Marsan, "The World's End" tells the story of a group of old friends attempting to recreate an epic pub crawl from their youth, only to find an even more epic event is going on around them.

We'll have the exclusive premiere of the new trailer for "The World's End" this coming Wednesday, and to get ready for it, we'll be taking questions from fans that Edgar Wright will answer. Leave your question in the comments, or tweet to @YahooMovies with the hashtag #TheWorldsEnd. We'll post Edgar's answers on Tuesday.

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(Photo: Paramount)Burning Question: The new "Star Trek" movie has stirred up an old debate I have with my friends: are transporter beams ever going to be possible or not?
— M. Dunne

Let's not stop our nerd-out there. Let's go full-on dweeb for a second. And why not? "Star Trek: Into Darkness" debuted this week.

To answer your question — and discuss other "Star Trek" technologies ranging from tricorders to photon torpedoes — we wrangled David Saltzberg, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles — and an advisor for the sitcom "The Big Bang Theory."

That's right. We're giving you yet another "Big Bang"-on-"Star-Trek" mashup. Bazinga me up, Scotty.

We asked Saltzberg about your particular hangup first — transporter beams.

"We've known since the 19th century that light has pressure," Saltzberg points out. "You can make tweezers out of light. People actually are using light to grab things."

In other words: A transporter sometime in the future? Not a completely crazy idea.
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