Fandom Friday 7/24/15

TV News

• Emily Swallow (The Mentalist) has been cast in Supernatural Season 11 
• The Flash will be suiting up in a new costume for Season 2 
• As this round of The Bachelorette comes to an end, rumors fly about the next Bachelor: possibly fan-favorite Ben Higgins?
• Get ready for the trainwreck known as Bachelor in Paradise! 
• Echo Kellum and Alexander Calvert are cast as Mr. Terrific and Anarky, two recurring characters for Arrow Season 4 
• That’s right, America.  Miley Cyrus is the host of the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards 
• NBC to reboot Xena: Warrior Princess  
• Robbie Amell and Lauren Ambrose join The X-Files as agents 
• Jeffrey Dean Morgan wants to return to Supernatural after a decade.  Other fan favorites set to return in Season 11  
• Khloe Kardashian gets her own talk show.  Because that’s what we need on television.  More Kardashians.  
• Watch Jon Stewart’s final Daily Show interview with President Barack Obama 
• Watch the pilot for ABC’s reboot of The Muppet Show 
• Disney Channel’s original movie The Descendants covers and butchers Beauty and the Beast classic “Be Our Guest” 
• Arrow casts Sons of Liberty's Jimmy Akingbola as Baron Blitzkrieg for Season 4
• Naomi Campbell joins the cast of American Horror Story: Hotel 
• Teen Wolf’s Papa Argent, J.R. Bourne, and Star Trek: Voyager alum Jeri Ryan join the cast of Arrow Season 4 as a new villains  

Movie News 

• Benicio del Toro is in talks to play Star Wars: Episode VIII’s villain  
• Disney is planning a live-action Sword in the Stone film from the writer of Game of Thrones 
• Chris Columbus is interested in directing more Harry Potter films that are set after the events of The Deathly Hallows 
• Check out the first full-length Mockingjay: Part 2 trailer!  
• Kevin Feige discusses the plot of Captain America: Civil War 
• Disney to tease Captain America: Civil War, The Force Awakens, and, most importantly, Finding Dory at D23 Expo 
• James Horner’s final film score will be The Magnificent Seven 
• These are your Magnificent Seven: Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Lee Byung-hun, Luke Grimes, Wagner Moura, and Matt Bomer 
• Enter to win a role in the next Star Trek movie (which Idris Elba was finally confirmed to be in via dance off) 
• Rumors swirl that 50 Shades Darker has cast Charlize Theron and Henry Cavill 
• We’ve reached a new low: Sony has an Emoji movie is in the works 
• Jaimie Alexander spills that Lady Sif plays an important role in Thor: Ragnorok, and that there will be references to the film in Captain America: Civil War 
• The new trailer for The Scorch Trials gives you a glimpse of The Cranks and Janson 
• Jurassic World sets its sequel for June 2018 
• Space Jam 2 could finally happen with basketball star LeBron James  
• Take a look at Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy) as King Arthur in Guy Ritchie’s upcoming film  

 Misc News

• Country star and coach of The Voice Blake Shelton announces his divorce from Miranda Lambert 
• Daniel Radcliffe proves he can rap in this video taken of him at a karaoke barin California
• Amy Heckerling, the original director of the 90’s classic Clueless, is developing a jukebox musical version of the beloved movie 
• Daniel Radcliffe tries his hand at a “normal” job and acts as receptionist for Nylon Magazine 
• Caitlyn Jenner takes home the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYs and everyone complaining needs to listen to her speech and stop talking  
• Rob Gronkowski refuses to name something that can be deflated on Celebrity Family Feud 
• Surfing champion Mick Fanning fights off a shark during competition.  Seriously. 
• Nicki Minaj uses her Twitter to point out racial inequality at the VMAs and Taylor Swift takes it personally. Then the media blows it out of proportion. 
• Joey Fatone, Nick Carter, and AJ McLean team up for a film that could just be a continuation of the music video for "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" 
• Ed Sheeran and Bruno Mars start a fake Twitter war mirroring Nicki Minaj and Taylor Swift 
• 6-year-old Avery Huffman received a very special phone call from Princess Anna of Arendelle after Kristen Bell learned the little girl had an inoperable brain tumor.