Fandom Friday 6/19/15

 CONGRATULATIONS TO THE NEW NBA CHAMPIONS: THE GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS!!!!!!  #DubNation

TV News

• Can’t wait until Monday?  Watch the first six minutes of Teen Wolf Season 5! 
• Lifetime to air an unauthorized Beverly Hills 90210 tell-all 
• That Game of Thrones finale!  But is [spoiler] is really dead? 
• Neil Gaiman’s American Gods will be coming to Starz 
• New Zealander Martin Henderson is cast on Grey’s Anatomy as a replacement for Dr. McDreamy 
• Mark your calendars!  Once Upon A Time returns on September 27th with Emma Swan taking over as The Dark One 
• Brian Williams officially departs from NBC Nightly News and it marks the end of an era 
• Secrets and Lies casts Michael Ealy for season 2 
• Ashton Kutcher and Danny Masterson, who were costars on That 70’s Show, will reunite in a new Netflix original 
• Doctor Who’s Matt Smith will star in a new Netflix drama about Buckingham Palace 
• Jimmy Fallon and Alan Rickman had some fun with helium on The Tonight Show 

Movie News 

• Pitch Perfect 3 is announced with returning stars Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson!  Get ready for July 21, 2017 
• Disney announces a second Maleficent movie 
• Mark Ruffalo announces that he may be in Captain America: Civil War...at least according to Robert Downey Jr.  
• Jurassic World breaks records as the highest grossing opening weekend ever, raking in $511 million worldwide 
• Newcomer Katherine Waterston is cast as Tina, Newt Scamander’s wife, in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them  
• Forest Whitaker joins the cast of Star Wars: Rogue One 
• Pixar will unveil the first footage of the highly-anticipated Finding Dory at Disney’s D23 Expo in August 
• Star Wars screens for the first time in China
• Illumination (the studio that brought us Despicable Me and Minions) releases its first teaser trailer for its new movie The Secret Life of Pets 
• The trailer for Robin Williams’ final movie Boulevard is released
  
• A new poster for the upcoming Maze Runner sequel The Scorch Trials is unveiled 
• As quickly as the rumors started, the talk of a Princess Diaries 3 is shut down 

 Theatre News

• Broadway star Megan Hilty (Smash, Wicked) will play Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun 
• Tony Award nominee Ken Watanabe exits The King and I and two new kings will play opposite Kelli O’Hara 
• Corey Cott takes his final bow with Gigi on Broadway 
• Hamilton, a new Broadway musical fills its cast and begins rehearsals   

 Misc News

• Congratulations to the NBA Finals' MVP Andre Iguodala 
• 37 new emojis will arrive with the iOS9 update 
  
• Ed Sheeran continues to be one of our favorite people ever
  
• Legendary actor John Hurt (who played Ollivander in the Harry Potter series) announces his battle with pancreatic cancer 
• Congratulations to Benedict Cumberbatch and his wife Sophie Hunter on the birth of their son, the Cumberbaby 
• Donald Trump announces that he will be running for president?  And he wants Oprah to be his running mate
• Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson sideswipes a truck on his way to work and has a great story to tell about it 
• Chris Pratt’s raptor handling skills have quickly turned into a viral internet meme 
• Kevin Feige, the head of Marvel, congratulates Jurassic World on taking over the box office with Avengers crossover art 
• Funko Pop figures release a line of Outlander figurines 
• General Mills announces its plans to re-release Star Wars Cereal