Fandom Friday 5/12/15

RIP Sir Christopher Lee
He is best known among us nerds as Saruman from Lord of the Rings and Count Dooku from Star Wars.

TV News

• Sean Maguire and Rebecca Mader have been promoted to series regulars for season 5 of Once Upon A Time
• The Flash adds a new love interest and a new superhero into the mix for season 2
  
• Will Ferrell’s and Kristen Wiig’s Lifetime movie A Deadly Adoption gets its teaser trailer.  Are we sure this isn’t a joke though?
  
• Gwen Stefani returns for Season 9 of The Voice
  
• Lily Salvatore (Annie Wersching) isn’t finished wreaking havoc on Mystic Falls. She’ll return for a major story arc in season 7 of The Vampire Diaries
  
• Raven-Symone is named the new host of The View
  
• Melissa Rivers to take over Fashion Police from her late mother Joan
  

Movie News

• The highly-anticipated first trailer for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 has been released!
  
• Meryl Streep really CAN do it all in the new trailer for Ricki and The Flash
  
• Matt Damon gets stranded on Mars in the trailer for his new movie The Martian
  
• Ashton Kutcher’s show Punk’d will be relaunched as a film series.  Yeah, we thought we were getting Punk’d too.
  
• New Ant-Man footage is released in the IMAX trailer
  
• Could they have changed the appearance of C-3PO in Star Wars - Episode VII: The Force Awakens?  New merchandising around the world suggests it
  
• Eddie Redmayne speaks out about joining the Harry Potter franchise
  
• Jeremy Renner can’t decide when the new Captain America: Civil War poster asks us “Whose Side Are You On?”
  
• The first trailer for Disney’s Zootopia has us rethinking our place in the world.
  
• The new posters for Ant-Man shows how the microscopic superhero measures up to his iconic allies
  
• Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur movie adds soccer legend David Beckham
  
• Chris Hemsworth joins the Ghostbusters remake as the team’s receptionist
  
• A Lonely Island movie is coming?!
  
• Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart show off just how close the two best friends are at the premiere for Mr. Holmes
• Chiwetel Ejiofor joins the cast of Dr. Strange as Baron Mordo
  

 Misc News

• Missed the Tony Awards?  Check out the full list of winners  and all the amazing performances!
  
• JK Rowling confirms the existence of a Wizarding School in the United States
  
• Apple announces iOS9
  
• Grey, the novel that tells Fifty Shades of Grey from Christian’s perspective mysteriously disappears.  I suspect my co-host Christina
  
• Andrew Lloyd Weber’s School of Rock musical casts Alex Brightman (Big Fish) as its Dewey Finn
  
• LAX unveils its $229M upgraded terminal that is “paparazzi-proof”
  
• What will happen to suspended NBC news anchor Brian Williams?
  
• The OC alum Rachel Bilson shares her first Instagram photo: an adorable ode to her daughter Briar Rose and her baby daddy Hayden Christensen
  
• Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is adorable when he leads a two-year-old to think she’s pulling an airplane on the set of San Andreas
  
• Gigi, the Broadway musical starring High School Musical’s Vanessa Hudgens and Newsies on Broadway’s Corey Cott, will take its final curtain call this weekend
  
• Amy Schumer photobombs a New York City couple’s engagement photos