Last Friday morning, it snowed here in Upstate New York. By Friday evening, I was in Florida. I’d love to tell you that I have the kind of life of leisure and the wealth to just jet off to a warmer climate at the first sign of winter, but this trip had been planned long before this latest arctic blast descended upon most of the country. My timing just happened to be fortuitous, so while pretty much everyone I know was complaining about how freezing cold it was I was in flip flops and shorts, soaking up an 80+ degree weekend. It was glorious and a much needed getaway. But it wasn’t all sunshine and roses; I also had the worst Cuban sandwich of my life, which was unfortunate since I’ve been looking forward to having one since I saw Chef.
Of course, now that I’m back I’ve resumed being miserable; it’s still pretty cold, now I have the whole winter stretched out before me and all my stress from work was waiting for me when I returned. But for a little over 48 warm hours, I had the luxury of briefly running away from everything. I highly recommend it; it was nice while it lasted.
But enough slacking off; I took a few days off from the blog and pop culture, but now I’m back at it with today’s pop culture roundup. So keep yourself warm with some of the stories that you might have missed in the last week.
- Foo Fighters are going out on tour!!!!!! I’m already eyeing several dates.
- Peter Capaldi will be back for another season of Doctor Who.
- HBO has picked up Westworld to series. Anthony Hopkins to star.
- Game of Thrones Natalie Dormer did a Reddit AMA. She says that Ser Pounce was difficult to work with, which is goddamn heresy.
- Jon Stewart also did an AMA.
- CBS has cancelled The Millers.
- True Detective has added two more supporting actors.
- Chris Pratt will star in Cowboy Ninja Viking; I have no idea what that is, but it is now my new favorite movie.
- There may be at least three more Fast and Furious movies.
- Jude Law may play the villain in one of Guy Richie’s King Arthur movies. Capital idea!
- Martin Scorsese and Benicio Del Toro are developing a conquistador drama for HBO.
- Captain America: Civil War may have found its villain.
- Michelle MacLaren, who directed some of the best episodes of Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad, is in talks to direct the Wonder Woman movie.
- Bryan Cranston will voice the audiobook for You Have to F*cking Eat, the follow up to Go the F*ck to Sleep.
- FX is developing a series based on the Johnny Depp movie From Hell.
- Also heading to FX….Tom Hardy!
- Gilmore Girls will reunite at the 2015 ATX Television Festival in Austin.
- Bill Cosby’s lawyer has issued a statement over rape allegations.
- Netflix is delaying launching the comic’s special amid the controversy.
- In perhaps the greatest moment of promotion, James Franco and Seth Rogen will appear on Naked and Afraid.
- People has named Chris Hemsworth the “sexiest man alive.” They are not wrong, but Iron Man is going to be pissed.
- No surprise here…Katey Sagal will appear in hubby Kurt Sutter’s new FX drama.
- Even more funny people have joined the Vacation reboot.
- My interest is piqued – Tommy Flanagan (Sons of Anarchy) is heading to Revenge.
- Bono had a rough week – first airplane issues and then a bicycle accident.
- As a result, U2 had to pull the plug on their Tonight Show residency this week.
- Jimmy and the Roots pinched hit for U2 on Monday:
- U2 is releasing experimental films for very song on their new album.
- AMC theaters are offering an unlimited pass for Interstellar.
- Christopher Nolan has written a graphic novel to fill in the back story of the surprise Interstellar character.
- Community has cast Britta’s parents.
- Fox is developing an adaptation of an Austrian comedy. Rob Riggle to star.
- Christoph Waltz may play the villain in the new James Bond movie.
- A bunch of stars re-recorded “Do They Know Its Christmas” for charity; regardless, it is still a terrible song.
- Idris Elba and Neil Cross are adapting Luther for American TV.
- Jai Courtney may play Deadshot in Suicide Squad.
- Aaron Sorkin and Mark Gordon team up on Molly Bloom’s memoir on high-stakes poker.
- Vulture has make your own Sorkin monologue Mad-Libs.
- Pacey and Dawson…..reunited:
- The Jennifer Lawrence Dumb and Dumber To cameo was scrapped.
- Rosamund Pike in talks to join Charlie Hunnam in The Mountain Between Us.
- GQ interviewed Dave Chappelle as part of their Man of the Year issue.
- Expect to see more of Harvey Dent on Gotham, but not until next season.
- How popular is Serial? There is now a podcast about the podcast.
- A LEGO recreation of the 11th Doctor regeneration into the 12th Doctor:
- “Baby Got Back” was written about J. Lo.
- A Netflix Easter Egg lets you see the viewing histories of Arrested Development characters.
- A Duck Dynasty musical is heading to Vegas. That seems more like a Branson, MO show.
- Breaking Bad’s Jonathan Banks will appear in Lifetime’s Lizzie Borden series. Mike deserves better.
- A Jurassic World viral site has launched.
- Wired magazine applies physics to one of the climatic scenes from The Hobbit.
- CW has unveiled the first photos of Black Canary on Arrow.
- Complex interviewed Jerry Seinfeld and Wale.
- A new Usher song will appear in Honey Nut Cheerios boxes.
- David Spade and his Joe Dirt mullet are back:
- A new M. Night Shyamalan film will be out in 2015.
- NBC is developing a cruise themed comedy, Port of Miami.
- Lana Del Ray will have two new songs in Tim Burton’s new movie.
- Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D is coming to Netflix tomorrow. (11/20)
- Netflix may bring back Longmire. Fingers crossed!
- Kelsey Grammer is heading to Broadway.
- A 90s themed dance movie called Can’t Touch This is being developed.
- The Rock is doing stand-up now???
- After the disastrous The Lone Ranger, Armie Hammer resurfaces attached to a Nat Turner biopic.
- Rock of Ages is closing on Broadway.
- Nightcrawling, as depicted in the Jake Gyllenhaal movie, is a real thing.
- TBS has renewed American Dad.
- Lee Daniels will direct Demon House.
- Robert De Niro will re-team with Jennifer Lawrence for Joy. Could Bradley Cooper be far behind?
- James Corden, the new host of The Late Late Show, will appear on Letterman.
Trailers
- Another promo for Peter Pan Live!:
- Netflix’s Marco Polo:
- A new Avengers 2 trailer:
- A look at Rainn Wilson’s new series for Fox, Backstorm:
- A new trailer for Fifty Shades of Grey:
- A trailer for the new Peanuts Movie:
- Adam Sandler in The Cobbler:
- A new promo for It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia:
- Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2:
- The DUFF, which is a complete waste of the great Mae Whitman:
- Sorry Betty White…TV Land has canceled Hot in Cleveland.
- James Wolk to star in Zoo for CBS this summer.
- Netflix has ordered the royal drama, The Crown.
- NBC will reboot Frequency with the showrunner from Supernatural.
- See how you do on this space movie quiz.
- Neil Patrick Harris and hubby David Burtka star in an ad campaign for London Fog:
- A new Ghostface Killah album is coming in December – one week after the new Wu-Tang Clan record drops.
- Funny or Die might be for sale.
- You can download the screenplays for some possible Oscar contenders.
- AMC has passed on the comedy We Hate Paul Revere.
- The cast of Reno 911 appeared on @midight in character.
- Waka Flocka Flame received 60,000 applications for the position of being his blunt roller.
- DirecTV customers will be able to see the Black Mirror Christmas special with Jon Hamm.
- Mystery Science Theater 3000 might be heading to PBS.
- New York Times Magazine interviewed Willow and Jaden Smith; it’s a little weird.
- One Direction was on Sesame Street:
- The Annie soundtrack is now streaming on Spotify.
- Anthrax’s Scott Ian will play a walker on The Walking Dead.
- NBC is bringing back Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous will Nick Cannon for some reason.
- Chris Pratt was obviously the right choice, but Glenn Howerton almost got the lead in Guardians of the Galaxy.
- Guardians also almost had a different ending.
- A PT Barnum musical starring Hugh Jackman is moving forward.
- It’s Wayback Wednesday (not a thing), so here’s Jon Stewart and Conan O’Brien from 1994:
- Oxford Dictionaries names vape as the word of the year. We have clearly lost our way as a society.
- Underoos are back….for adults?
- Pop culture real estate of the week: The mansion from The Godfather is on the market.
- Comic Hannibal Buress is reviewing restaurants now.
- Metallica kicked off their The Late Late Show residency by playing the first song they ever recorded:
- This sounds like the set-up of a joke: Taylor Swift, Kate Upton and Amanda Seyfried walk into a Knicks game.
- Bruce Jenner and his son crashed a $500,000 car.
- TNT has cancelled Perception….a show that I’ve literally never heard of.
- Daniel Day-Lewis was knighted by Prince William.
- Kristin Bell and Straight No Chaser team up for an instant holiday classic:
- Could there be a sequel to Running Man?
- X-Men: Apocalypse will focus on Magneto and Mystique’s romance.
- Some interesting actresses are being considered to take over the role of Jean Grey in the newest X-Men installment.
- The next LEGO based video game will probably be Jurassic Park related.
- Expect more female characters in The LEGO Movie 2.
- An original illustration of Winnie the Pooh and company could nab over $200,000 at auction.
- Lee Pace will pop by The Mindy Project.
- Also going up for sale – Marilyn Monroe’s love letters from Joe DiMaggio.
- Here’s Michael Douglas and his stunt double of 26 years:
- Disney is opening a Toy Story themed hotel.
- A new Jonathan Franzen book will be out in 2015.
- Anna Kendrick may join Ben Affleck in The Accountant.
- Bradley Whitford has joined Showtime’s Happyish.
- James Gandolfini will be inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame, which is apparently a thing.
- The Cake Boss was arrested for DWI.
- Sesame Street turns 45, so Ernie got a colonoscopy on Conan:
- There is a legal dispute with Maurice Sendak’s estate and a Philadelphia museum over the late writer’s book collection.
- The medical examiner has ruled on what killed Joan Rivers. Sounds totally avoidable.
- The coffee mug bong from The Cabin in the Woods might be a real thing.
- Marc Anthony got married.
- Solange Knowles got married over the weekend and did an adorable dance routine with her son.
- Community showrunner Dan Harmon got married over the weekend and the wedding sounds awesome.
- British actor Warren Clarke (A Clockwork Orange) passed away at 67.
- Dropkick Murphys cancelled a concert after their tour bus killed a pedestrian.
- The creator of Battlestar Galactica and Knight Rider has passed away.
- Congrats to Happy Endings/Marry Me star Casey Wilson, who is pregnant with her first child.
- R.A. Montgomery, the writer and publisher of Choose Your Own Adventure books, has died
As always, we end with the mashups and supercuts
- Sam Smith meets vintage New Orleans jazz:
- A Battlestar Galactica/Top Gun mashup:
- Parodying the Matthew McConaughey Lincoln commercial never gets old:
- This impressionist does a parody of Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass” as various cartoon characters:
- Watch Benedict Cumberbatch do 11 celebrity impressions in under a minute:
- A supercut of Freddy Krueger’s most memorable kills from the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise.
- A mashup of space movies:
- Seth Meyers does a pretty solid Sorkin parody:
- Foxcatcher + The Fantastic Mr. Fox = one creepy trailer:
- A supercut of He-Man’s best one liners:
- Not to be outdone, best cops one liners:
- And finally, Breaking Bad meets……Frozen?