Fandom Friday 3/18/16

Calling all Genovians: Garry Marshall and Anne Hathaway want to make a Princess Diaries 3!

TV News

• Freeform’s Switched at Birth will end after the upcoming fifth season 
  
• Mariska Hargitay and Chris Meloni had an adorable Law & Order: SVU reunion 
  
• Game of Thrones’ Peter Dinklage is hosting Saturday Night Live for the first time with musical guest Gwen Stefani 
  
• Check out the first teaser for Scream Queens Season 2 
  
• Freeform has renewed Shadowhunters for Season 2 
  
• Netflix casts Patrick Warburton (Seinfeld, The Emperor’s New Groove) as Lemony Snicket in A Series of Unfortunate Events 
  
• Kimmy Schmidt is back on April 15!  Take a look at the newest trailer for the Netflix original series The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt 
  
• Say hello to the next Bachelorette: JoJo Fletcher 
  
• Amaury Nelasco will reprise his role in the Prison Break revival on FOX 
  
• Two shows collide when The Flash visits Supergirl’s hometown of National City: take a look at the first trailer 
  
• Heathers is the latest classic that’s getting a TV reboot 
  
• The reboot of Xena: Warrior Princess will proudly showcase same-sex relationships 
  
• Vikings has been renewed for a Season 5 with The Tudors’ Jonathan Rhys Meyers joining the cast 
  

Movie News

• Check out Meryl Streep’s terrible opera singing in the first trailer for Florence Foster Jenkins 
  
• Take a look at the trailer for the next Tim Burton film, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children 
  
• Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg will reteam for Indiana Jones 5 in Summer 2019 
  
• The Four Horsemen reappear in the newest trailer for Now You See Me 2 
  
• Check out the first trailer for the remake of the classic film Ben-Hur 
  

Theatre News

• Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle may be helming a movie adaptation of Miss Saigon 
• Law & Order: SVU’s Mariska Hargitay will narrate the Hamilton Musical Book 
  
• Broadway baby Darren Criss and Betsey Wolfe killed it onstage at Carnegie Hall 
  
• Wicked has grossed $1 billion on Broadway! 
  
• Take a look at the cast of Hamilton celebrating #Bam4Ham and performing at the White House 
  
• Fun Home announces the stops on its national tour 
  
• The Charlie and the Chocolate Factory musical is finally on its way to the Great White Way! 
  
• Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda and Harry Potter star Emma Watson drop the beat about gender equality 
  

Misc News

• Congratulations to Once Upon A Time’s Emilie de Ravin on the birth of her daughter! 
• The cast of The CW’s One Tree Hill had an adorable reunion and documented it on Instagram 
  
• Marvel has launched a STEM science program for young girls 
  
• Star Wars breakout star and BAFTA winner John Boyega visited the Royal London Hospital to make a young child’s wish come true 
  
• Universal Studios Hollywood is opening a permanent Walking Dead attraction 
  
• Universal Studios Orlando will open a restaurant themed after Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory 
  
• SeaWorld San Diego has announced that they will no longer breed orca whales and will end their controversial orca shows 
  
• Watch Henry Cavill stroll Times Square in his Superman shirt and no one even notices