Fandom Friday 1/22/15

TV News

• The house is full in the new Fuller House teaser 
• Jimmy Fallon and the residents of Sesame Street participated in an adorable Celebrity Photobomb on The Tonight Show 
• Matthew Perry will still be a part of the Friends reunion! 
• Netflix has already renewed The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt for a third season! 
• Neil Patrick Harris has been cast as Count Olaf in the Netflix series A Series of Unfortunate Events 
• The Originals casts a new vampire in New Orleans
• Netflix is developing a Daredevil spinoff starring The Punisher 
• Netflix’s Black Mirror casts two new characters 
• PBS picks up Victoria starring Jenna Coleman 
• Legends of Tomorrow casts Jonathon Schaech as Jonah Hex

Movie News

• Christian Bale exits the Enzo Ferrari biopic due to health concerns 
• Ten years after its success, the cast of Disney’s High School Musical return for a reunion telecast 
• Zac Efron and Seth Rogen team up in the first trailer for Neighbors 2 
• Take a look at the newest trailer for Suicide Squad 
• The release date for Star Wars - Episode VIII has been pushed back seven months 
• Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, and Ray Fisher talk Aquaman, The Flash, and Cyborg 
• After the flop that was Terminator: Genisys, a second Terminator film has been pulled from the schedule 
• Take a look at our newest feminist icon, Wonder Woman
• Sony shuffles release dates for Jumanji, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, and Spider-Man 
• James Cameron pushes back the release date for Avatar 2….again
• Doctor Strange casts The Martian star Benedict Wong as the superhero’s sidekick 
• Grant Gustin, the star of CW’s The Flash, sticks up for fellow Flash Ezra Miller 

Theatre News

• Broadway’s Tuck Everlasting rounds out its cast 
• Didi Conn (the original Frenchy) will appear in FOX’s Grease! Live 
• Check out the first #Ham4Ham performance with Lin-Manuel Miranda featuring the legendary composer Alan Menken 
• A Hamilton documentary will air on PBS this fall 
• Ken Watanabe will return to The King and I on Broadway 
• The classic Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats is getting a revival on Broadway 
• Wicked announces a new all-star cast 
• The stars of Grease! Live introduce us to their characters 
• Broadway baby Darren Criss to replace Jeremy Jordan in Broadway Today at Carnegie Hall

Misc News

• The world says goodbye to another icon, Glenn Frey of The Eagles 
• Rowan Blanchard, the young star of Disney’s Girl Meets World comes out on Twitter 
• JK Rowling reveals what she told the late Alan Rickman about his character, Severus Snape 
• Marvel features “Iron Max”, a young boy battling hemophilia, in an issue of Iron Man 
• A little girl and her father just got Disney to change their rules about their marathons 
• A bride and her service dog have gone viral with an adorable photo from her wedding day 
  
• Seth Rogen, Bradley Cooper, and others try their hand at auditioning for Clueless 
  
• Toymakers were specifically directed to exclude Rey in Star Wars merchandising 
  
• The #OscarsSoWhite controversy continues to unfold as Jada Pinkett Smith and Spike Lee vow to boycott this year's show
  
• The president of The Academy, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, releases a statement about the #OscarsSoWhite controversy 
  
• Congratulations to Louis Tomlinson on the birth of his son 
  
• Both your ALNM hosts rejoice!  Star Wars Tsum Tsums are coming! 
  
• Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry and Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant make the NBA All-Star Team
  
• More possible details arise about Disneyland’s Star Wars Land expansion 
  
• Freeform paid tribute to the late Alan Rickman during an airing of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince