Tomorrow I’m hopping on a plane for a quick trip to Florida, which really couldn’t have come at a better time. I need a few days away and spending time with dear friends is good for the soul. So this will probably be the last blog post for the week as I finish packing and frantically cleaning my apartment in advance of friends cat-sitting. Nothing like waiting until the last minute.
I expect the blog to resume on Tuesday – hopefully with a review of the new Avengers film – but you’ll have the pop culture roundup to tide you over until I return. As usual, I’ve scoured the internet looking for nuggets of pop culture goodness. It’s been kind of a bleak week, given all that’s going on in the world, so we’re all probably in need of a little distraction. Enjoy!
- The new Muppets TV show will be a mockumentary aimed at adults.
- This week’s Captain Obvious award: Spike has renewed Lip Sync Battle.
- Runner up: Evan Peters keeps his perfect attendance streak alive by signing up for American Horror Story: Hotel.
- More important – why am I just finding out that Alexander Skarsgard is also in the cast?!?! (I’m going to be very annoyed if this info is wrong)
- Homeland is heading to Germany for the show’s 5th season, which raises the question of if they can still really call the show “Homeland.”
- Furious 8 is a go.
- Orange Is the New Black will have a character based on Martha Stewart. She did time in the same prison as the real life Piper.
- The original Iron Throne from Game of Thrones has been donated to Croatia, the stand-in for King’s Landing.
- Before he was Frank Underwood, Kevin Space auditioned for Tiger Beat magazine:
- Vince Gilligan and Disney are developing a Jack and the Beanstalk movie. Curious bedfellows.
- The cast member who is allegedly holding up a Friends reunion is the cast member who would probably most benefit from said reunion.
- Potential Full House feud brewing? John Stamos “calls bullshit” on the Olsen twins claiming that they didn’t know about the upcoming reboot. How rude!
- Lori Loughlin is in talks to reprise her role in the Full House reboot, which is not surprising since what else is she doing?
- Full House will get the unauthorized Lifetime movie treatment. That blog post will write itself.
- Chris Pratt continued to be charming during his Reddit AMA.
- This may be the greatest headline of the week: Mila Kunis sued for stealing chicken.
- Most of the cast of Gilmore Girls are reuniting – and you can watch it from home.
- Dave Chappelle’s show in Detroit did not go well.
- The creator of ABC’s Black-ish is writing the script for a Good Times movie.
- Kat Dennings now has the greatest voice mail message of all time:
- Sam Smith has had to cancel his tour because of a vocal hemorrhage.
- Adam Arkin will play a mob boss in the second season of Fargo.
- DVR alert – David Letterman: A Life on Television will air on CBS May 4th.
- Tom Cruise is rumored to be attached to the Disney comedy, Bob the Musical.
- Common will be in Suicide Squad….perhaps as Black Manta.
- I’m not completely sold on Jared Leto’s The Joker:
- Charlie Cox is game for a Daredevil movie.
- Chris Evans says that Avengers: Infinity War will take 9 months to film.
- Another reason to adore Mark Ruffalo:
- One of these actors may be your new Spider-Man.
- The guys who brought us The LEGO Movie will do an animated Spider-Man feature.
- Stanley Tucci is the latest edition to the live action Beauty and the Beast, a movie that I want to hate but it has such a good cast.
- Chris Columbus says that the Gremlins reboot is “in good shape.”
- Interesting rumor – a female 21 Jump Street spinoff from the Broad City writers.
- Guillermo del Toro’s Silent Hills project is probably dead.
- I’m guessing I will buy all of these Seinfeld figurines:
- Eriq La Salle will appear on the third season of Under the Dome.
- Native American actors walked off the set of Adam Sandler’s new movie over the jokes; Vanilla Ice (who plays Teddy Roosevelt in the film) defended Sandler.
- JK Simmons next project will be a series on Starz.
- John Hodgman made his final appearance on The Daily Show.
- The final 3 SNL hosts for the season will be Scarlett Johansson, Reese Witherspoon and Louis CK.
- Jim Gaffigan will play Madison Square Garden in December. He’ll be the 11th comic to headline a solo gig at the famous arena.
- D’Angelo is going out on tour.
- Cecily Tyson has joined Melissa McCarthy’s new comedy.
- Some people who do not understand how democracy (or Hollywood) works have started a petition to bring back a departed character to Grey’s Anatomy.
- Grey’s Anatomy has added Joe Adler to the cast.
- Fred Armisen has joined the cast of Zoolander 2.
- BET is bringing back Punk’d.
- Jeff Daniels is joining the Divergent series.
- IFC has greenlit a comedy starring David Krumholtz.
- The team behind the underrated film Obvious Child is making a comedy for FX.
- I generally think that this whole promposal thing is kind of silly, but this guy’s Parks and Recreation themed invite is fantastic:
- The Coen Brothers’ new film, Hail, Caesar, will be a musical comedy.
- Alan Cumming and Kristen Chenoweth will host the 2015 Tony Awards.
- Here are the list of nominees. Very happy for Hand to God, which I loved.
- John Cameron Mitchell, who was phenomenal in Hedwig and the Angry Itch, will be honored with a special recognition Tony.
- The Heidi Chronicles, starring Elisabeth Moss, will close on Broadway.
- An Anastasia musical will hit the stage early next year.
- Rose Byrne has launched an all-female production company.
- A Lizzie McGuire reunion happened (no Gordo though):
- Stephen Hawking uses theoretical physics to make One Direction fans feel better about Zayne’s departure.
- USA has canceled Sirens.
- A traveling Avatar exhibition will open in the autumn of 2016.
- This Reddit theory about why the Dursleys were so horrible to Harry Potter might be crazy enough to be true.
- Amazon has ordered a pilot from Sacha Baron Cohen.
- E! will air a docu-series on Bruce Jenner and his transition to life as a transgender woman.
- Robert Downey, Jr. released an album in 2004.
- Tyler Perry will play a mad scientist in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sequel.
- Britney Spears and Iggy Azalea are performing together at the Billboard Music Awards.
- Uproxx celebrates some of the best guest stars from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
- Hayley Atwell had to go to the DMV in her Peggy Carter costume and has the driver’s license to prove it:
- One of Paul Walker’s cars from The Fast and Furious will be auctioned off.
- Marvel has unveiled a womenswear line inspired by Avengers. I think I’ll pass.
- The Marvelous DB is a handy tool for learning more about the characters of the Marvel universe.
- X-Men’s Iceman has been outed in the comic books.
- Here are the inaugural nominees for the World Video Game Hall of Fame.
- The rich are about to get richer – Nickelodeon has acquired the rights to the Olsen twins’ vast collection of series and movies.
- Hulu will soon have all episodes of Seinfeld available to stream.
- Nic Cage spent his money on some ridiculous stuff before he went bankrupt.
- The reboot of The Osbournes is DOA.
- A bunch of cartoons from my childhood – including Jem and the Holograms – will stream on Vimeo.
- E.L. James’ hubby Niall Leonard will write the screenplay for the Fifty Shades of Grey sequel.
- The films based on the final two books of the trilogy are slated for February 2017 and 2018.
Time for some trailers….
- A NSFW trailer for Ted 2:
- The final (!) season of Aqua Teen Hunger Force:
- Johnny Depp as Whitey Bulger in Black Mass:
- Season 2 of Girl Meets World:
- A new Terminator: Genisys trailer from Japan:
- Barely Lethal:
- HBO’s Nightingale with David Oyelowo:
- Aloha with Bradley Cooper and Emma Stone:
- The final Mad Max: Fury Road trailer:
- Starz ballet limited series, Flesh and Bone:
- Look for a new album from Nas this summer.
- Earl Sweatshirt has released a surprise EP.
- Killer Mike gave a lecture last Friday at MIT.
- Nelly is releasing a country album.
- The EPSY Awards will air on ABC instead of ESPN.
- Frank Langella will be back on The Americans.
- It’s a Robin Hood renaissance – four movies about the character are in development. That’s about four too many.
- A new Dragon Ball series is in the works.
- Mariah Carey dropped a new single:
- You can now play The Shining as an Atari game.
- BBC’s drama about the creation of Grand Theft Auto will be called Game Changer.
- Here’s a list of the 2015 Daytime Emmy winners.
- Blog favorite Jimmy Fallon was among the 2015 Webby Award winners.
- Turns out Salvador Dali and Walt Disney were pals.
- Clay Aiken has a surprising celebrity crush.
- Of possible interest to some readers – Hilary Duff is now on Tinder.
- MTV is getting back into the late-night talk show business.
- John Oates is writing a memoir.
- Sandra Bullock is People magazine’s Most Beautiful Woman of 2015.
- Justin Bieber- prom crasher.
- The veteran actress Jayne Meadows has passed away at 95.
- Former child star Sawyer Sweeten (Everybody Loves Raymond) took his own life. He was 19.
- The Partridge Family’s Suzanne Crough has passed away. She was 52.
- Jack Ely, the singer of “Louie, Louie” has died.
- Actors (and vampires) Nikki Reed and Ian Somerhalder got hitched last weekend.
- Donald Faison and wife Cacee Cobb welcomed a baby girl.
As always, we end with the mashups and supercuts…..
- A Marvel Universe film tribute:
- William H. Macy – cinema’s #1 loser:
- This fan edit joins the events of Captain America: Winter Soldier and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D:
- Disney classics reimagined as 90’s hip-hop jams:
- Back to the Future meets Star Wars: The Force Awakens:
- Sesame Street does an obligatory Avengers parody:
- A Cars/Fast and Furious mashup:
- And finally Too Many Kings – A Game of Thrones/Too Many Cooks mashup:
