Fandom Friday 3/4/16

CONGRATULATIONS, LEO! 
Watch Leonardo DiCaprio get his precious Oscar engraved after his big win 

TV News

• Fox renews Bones for a 12th farewell season 
• Check out the trailer for Penny Dreadful Season 3 
• Netflix and Marvel have cast Game of Thrones’ Finn Jones in Iron Fist h
• The classic 90’s children’s game show Legends of the Hidden Temple will be revived as a made-for-TV movie 
• High School Musical 4 is coming to Disney Channel and casting is already underway 
• The Bachelor Ben Higgins confirms that he is engaged! But who did he choose? 
• Check out the all-new trailer for Orange is the New Black 
• Take a look at some of the hilarious bloopers for Jimmy Kimmel’s Post-Oscars show 
• Netflix’s Fuller House has been renewed for a second season 
• Fuller House star Jodie Sweetin is the first official contestant for Dancing with the Stars Season 22 
• Big Hero 6 is being developed for a TV series on Disney XD next year 
• Get a first look at the newest cast of Power Rangers 
• The magic will continue!  Once Upon A Time has been renewed for a Season 6!

Movie News

• Check out the all-new trailer for the highly-anticipated Pixar sequel Finding Dory 
• Take a look at the first trailer for Ghostbusters 
• Fifty Shades Darker has cast Teen Wolf’s Tyler Hoechlin as Boyce Fox 
• JJ Abrams hopes to include LGBT characters in Star Wars 
• Fox removes Channing Tatum’s Gambit film from its release date and adds two new films 
• Take a look at a new photo of Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy 
• Stephen King confirms that Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey will star in The Dark Tower 
• JK Rowling confirms that Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will be a trilogy 
• Daisy Ridley confirms that there will be no time jump in Star Wars: Episode VIII 
• Cynthia Nixon has given us hope for a possible third Sex and the City movie 
• A new Van Gogh movie will be made entirely of oil paintings 
• Take a look at the first photos for Tim Burton’s film Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Music News

• John Williams will join the Boston Orchestra to play the music of The Force Awakens 
• Sam Smith made a huge mistake when he thought he was the first openly-gay Oscar winner last weekend 
• New Zealand’s Flight of the Conchords announce a North American Tour 
• Foo Fighters’ drummer Taylor Hawkins confirms that the band is not broken up, but on indefinite hiatus

Theatre News

• Take a look at the full 42-player cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 
  
• Dancing with the Stars’ Derek Hough will not return for the next season -- he’s been cast in Broadway’s Singin’ in the Rain! 
  
• London’s production of Miss Saigon will be filmed for a cinema release 
  
• Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane reprise their roles as The Producers for a sketch about Donald Trump 
  
• A stage adaptation of The Dead Poets Society is in the works 
  
• A Broadway revised version of Side Show will get a premiere in London 
  
• The 1997 animated film Anastasia is getting the musical treatment 
  
• Check out the first photos of Laura Benanti and Zachary Levi in the revival of She Loves Me 
  
• Star Wars’ Oscar Isaac will play Hamlet in Brooklyn
  

Misc News

• Luigi’s Rollickin’ Roadsters, a new attraction at Disney’s California Adventure, will open March 7th in Cars Land 
  
• Netflix has decided to make that difficult binge-watching decision for you
  
• Congratulations to Dancing with the Stars’ Kym Johnson and Robert Herjavec on their engagement 
  
• Disneyland raises their prices according to peak and non-peak park days 
  
• Room’s Jacob Tremblay mistakes Anthony Mackie as The Falcon at the Spirit Awards and it’s adorable 
  
• Congratulations to Mean Girls’ Lacey Chabert on her pregnancy!  She’s not just a regular mom, she’s a cool mom! 
  
• Young adult author Louise Rennison (author of Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging) passes away at the age of 63 
  
• Cadbury Creme Egg McFlurries are coming to Australian McDonalds’ just in time for Easter 
  
• Lady Gaga’s moving Oscars performance helped former Bachelor contestant Jade Roper to tell her story 
  
• Take a look at the fan-made movie Severus Snape and the Marauders
  
• American Horror Story star Sarah Paulson confirms that she’s dating Holland Taylor
  
• Funko Pop! will release a line of presidential candidate figurines 
  
• RIP Tony Dyson.  The creator of R2-D2 has died at the age of 68 
  
• The Frozen stage musical at Disney’s California Adventure Hyperion Theatre will open on May 27