Pop Culture Odds and Ends – Welcome to September Edition

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I don’t know how this happened, but it’s September already. Wasn’t it just the 4th of July? This last month of summer has just flown by; I thought that I had a lot of time to do everything left on my summer bucket list and that is apparently not in the cards. I love autumn, but I don’t know if I’m quite ready for the barrage of new television that is on the horizon. I could have used a few more weeks of the lazy, hazy days of summer. I didn’t even take a summer vacation!

But time marches on, just as the world of pop culture. I’ve search the interwebs far and wide to bring you the best that pop culture has to offer. So while we enjoy these last final days of summer, get yourself caught up on all the pop culture that you may have missed.

• BFFs Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer danced on a piano during a Billy Joel concert. I’m available if they need a third friend.

• There’s a new Game of Thrones theory that is rocking the Internet (spoilers).

• Expect a new Adele album in November. *happy dance*

• Saturday Night Live has added a new featured cast member.

• The musical guests for SNL have been announced.

• The moment between Nicki Minaj and Miley Cyrus at the VMAs was allegedly not staged.

• Steve Carell will replace Bruce Willis in Woody Allen’s next film.

• We may get two seasons of American Horror Story in 2016.

• AHS has reportedly filmed its “most disturbing scene ever” which is saying a lot.

• Jessica Lange is in talks to return to American Horror Story.

• The lemonade stand run by Jerry Seinfeld’s kids was shut down by the cops.

• Jon Hamm is in talks to co-star in the film adaptation of the award winning play Marjorie Prime.

• Justin Bieber is doing a week-long residency on The Tonight Show.

• Hulu has renewed Difficult People for a second season. Huzzah!

• Some fun facts about Peter Dinklage.

• Mads Mikkelsen could play a villain in Doctor Strange.

• Tom Hardy – secret Dubsmash master:

 

 

 

• Kurt Sutter is working on a Sons of Anarchy spinoff that will focus on The Mayans.

• A new Pearl Jam album is coming in 2016.

• The Coach revival at NBC is officially DOA.

• If you use the Waze app, Stephen Colbert will give you directions.

• The New York Times has a story on Colbert.

• A judge cited Jon Oliver’s Last Week Tonight in her ruling.

• Terrence Howard’s role on Empire may be scaled back due to his personal issues.

• Presidential hopeful Kanye West will play his entire 808s & Heartbreak album at a one night only show at the Hollywood Bowl.

• I am disappointed in my performance on this Quentin Tarantino superfan quiz.

• Lena Dunham is now a short-story author.

• Hannibal creator discusses what would have happened in the 4^th season.

• Under the Dome will end after this season.

• Jim Belushi has been cast in the Urban Cowboy pilot.

• Dave Grohl – still awesome:

 

• Nicholas Hoult will play J.D. Salinger in a biopic.

• The Roots remake has cast Malachi Kirby to play Kunta Kinte.

• TV Land has renewed The Jim Gaffigan Show and Impaster.

• The fate of Stannis Baratheon in the Game of Thrones books may differ from his fate on the HBO series (spoilers).

• The second week of guests for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is as strong as the first.

• Mary Lynn Rajskub will appear on Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

• Betty White will appear on Bones next season.

• Josh Gad will play Roger Ebert in Russ & Roger.

• Of possible interest……

So…Guess who'll be appearing on @FallonTonight Sept 9th? You have one guess. (Ignore clues below.) -TeamJT pic.twitter.com/xElBByGHDZ

— Justin Timberlake (@jtimberlake) September 1, 2015

• Amazon is developing a series based on the movie Galaxy Quest.

• Chris Evans will fight for custody of his niece in the drama Gifted.

• Justin Timberlake and Jonathan Demme are collaborating on a concert film.

• Vin Diesel will be back as Groot for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.

• Lots of great people will be stopping by this season of Drunk History.

• Liam Hemsworth will appear on ABC’s The Muppets.

Time for some trailers…..

• Will Smith in Concussion:

 

• New Star Wars teaser:

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• Longmire, season 4:

 

• A new teaser for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah:

 

• Scream Queens:

 

• All Things Must Pass, a documentary about Tower Records:

 

• The final season of Downton Abbey:

 

• Keanu Reeves in Knock Knock:

 

• Nicolas Cage in Pay the Ghost:

 

• Love the Coopers:

 

• MTV’s The Shannara Chronicles:

 

• Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel in Youth:

 

• Jack Black in Goosebumps:

 

• Homeland season 5:

 

• Bill Murray in Rock the Kasbah:

 

• He Named Me Malala:

 

• Fox has wisely given their new drama The Frankenstein Code a new title.

• Michael B. Jordan may play a vampire in the film adaptation of the comic book Blood Brothers.

• Steven Pasquale is the new male lead on CBS’ Doubt.

• Grumpy Cat will get her own wax figure at Madame Tussauds.

• Chris Messina will co-star with Ben Affleck in Live by Night.

• This Dark Knight theory posits that the Joker was actually the hero.

• Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert DeNiro will reteam in Wizard of Lies.

• Vincent D’Onofrio is directing a gritty Western.

• Timothy Olyphant and Britt Robertson will appear in the comedy Mother’s Day.

• Robert Pattinson will play an astronaut in a sci-fi movie.

• Michael Jordan’s uniform from Space Jam is going up for auction.

• Sounds like the Richard Pryor biopic with Mike Epps and Eddie Murphy is finally happening.

• Nobody is biting on that $5 million Wu-Tang album.

• Folks in Seattle can have a Mad Max: Fury Road Uber experience.

• John Leguizamo appears in Justin Bieber’s new video:

 

• Daniel Dae Kim (Lost) will star in a movie about escaping North Korea.

• ABC has ordered a new ballet dramedy that is not Bunheads.

• Bryce Dallas Howard and Matthew McConaughey will star in Gold.

• President Obama will pick up some survival tips from Bear Grylls while visiting Alaska.

• Zac Efron’s We Are Your Friends had one of the worst box office openings ever.

• Christina Applegate will play Rob Lowe’s ex on Fox’s The Grinder.

• Armie Hammer will join Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal in Nocturnal Animals.

• A lot of familiar faces will appear in Christopher Guest’s Mascots – with some notable exceptions.

• Netflix has decided not to renew their deal with Epix; Epix will now have a deal with Hulu.

• Here’s all the stuff appearing and disappearing from Netflix in September.

• J.K Rowling wished Harry Potter’s son good luck at this first day at Hogwarts:

I'm in Edinburgh, so could somebody at King's Cross wish James S Potter good luck for me? He's starting at Hogwarts today. #BackToHogwarts

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) September 1, 2015

 

• This week in pop culture real estate: The mansion from The O.C. is on the market.

• Despite a previous renewal, USA has cancelled Complications.

• The same thing happened to VH1’s Hindsight. I guess renewals don’t mean as much as they used to.

• William Shatner is releasing a book next year in tribute to Leonard Nimoy.

• Joaquin Pheonix and M Night Shyamalan may reunite on a new project.

• TBS has ordered two more seasons of American Dad.

• The SpongeBob Squarepants musical will premiere in Chicago before heading to Broadway.

• Jack Black will lend his voice to an audiobook.

• ABC is developing a series that marries Romeo and Juliet with “global jihad.”

• Charlie Sheen has volunteered his services as Donald Trump’s running mate.

• Oh! Heavenly Dog is the latest movie to get a reboot.

• Man of Steel 2 is rumored to be on permanent hold.

• T-Pain sings the National Anthem:

 

• Spike Lee will receive an honorary Oscar.

• Carrie Brownstein is going out on a book tour and bringing along some famous friends.

• Mariah Carey wrote a children’s book based on “All I Want for Christmas is You.”

• Judge Joe Brown was jailed for being in contempt of court.

• Robin Wright and Ben Foster have called off their engagement again.

• Horror film director Wes Craven passed away at 76. Celebrities paid tribute.

• Kyle Jean-Baptise, the first Black Jean ValJean in Les Miserables, has passed away at 21.

• Poland has scheduled Roman Polanski’s extradition hearing for September.

• Lucy Liu is the proud mama to a baby boy.

As always, we end with the mashups and supercuts……

• Hannibal with the Friends theme is a different show:

 

• A mashup of Katy Perry and The Weeknd:

 

• Donald Trump as Disney villains:

https://instagram.com/p/7Ddkg2wYWH/?taken-by=sainthoax

 

• Some sports related mashups. First up Pittsburgh Pirates and Family Matters:

 

• The Chicago Cubs meets Perfect Strangers:

 

• Kelly Clarkson kills this cover of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene”:

 

• Here’s Supernatural’s Jensen Ackles singing Lynyrd Skynyrd:

 

• The Dirty Suicide Squad:

 

• Disturbed covers Simon and Garfunkel:

 

• Straight Outta Compton: Ben Folds Edition:

 

• Donald Trump + Deadpool = Trump Pool:

 

• “Bad Dreams” (a Taylor Swift/Beck mashup):

https://vimeo.com/137276005

 

• A Sopranos/Seinfeld mashup:

 

• What if Joffrey was the hero of Game of Thrones?

 

• And finally, Taylor Swift and Lisa Kudrow perform “Smelly Cat”: