Fandom Friday 8/21/15

TV News

• Take a look at Team Arrow’s new lair for Season 4 
• NBC signs up for a DC Comic workplace comedy entitled Powerless 
• Watch the opening scene for Once Upon A Time Season 5 
• Check out the OUAT Season 4 blooper reel!
• Amy Schumer, Miley Cyrus, and Tracy Morgan will all be hosting Saturday Night Live this October 
• Mama Smoak returns to the newly-renamed “Star City” in Arrow Season 4 
• Peggy Carter herself, Hayley Atwell, wants to be the next Doctor!  And Christina might explode from joy if she gets the gig. 
• Levi Miller (about to make a splash as the titular character in the new Pan film) has been cast as Carter Grant, the son of Calista Flockhart’s Cat Grant on Supergirl 
• Jeff Davis, what’s wrong with you?!  The Teen Wolf creator may have just written the saddest breakup in TV history on this week’s episode entitled “Lies of Omission” 
• Len Goodman leaves his post as judge of Dancing with the Stars after 20 seasons 
• The Real Housewives of Atlanta casts its first transgender cast member 
• Jon Stewart’s successor settles in as the new anchor in the first promo for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah 
• Nina Dobrev thanks her Vampire Diaries fans with a heartfelt speech at the Teen Choice Awards 
• SyFy Channel cancels Haven 
• 14 years after it was originally supposed to air, a Friends deleted scene (which was originally omitted after the events of 9/11) from Season 8, Episode 1: “The One Where Rachel Tells….”, resurfaces on the internet 
• MTV releases a behind-the-scenes look at The Shannara Chronicles 
• Ming-Na Wen and Blair Underwood hint at the possible departure of Agent May from S.H.I.E.L.D. in the upcoming season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 
• ABC orders Marvel’s Most Wanted, a pilot starring Adrianne Palicki’s Mockingbird 
• Get the 411 on the newest Disney princess headed to Storybrooke in Once Upon A Time’s Season 5, Brave’s Merida 
• Check out two new trailers for American Horror Story:Hotel that shows you what happens behind closed hotel doors  
• Alfre Woodard (True Blood, Star Trek) is currently in talks to join the Netflix original, Marvel’s Luke Cage 

Movie News 

• Orlando Bloom will return for Pirates of the Caribbean 5 
• Benedict Cumberbatch gives the Vulcan salute while promoting Doctor Strange 
• Here’s your first look at Chris Hemsworth in the new Ghostbusters film 
• Check out the first trailer for Carol where Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara fall in love in the 1950s 
• Harry Potter and Professor X shine in the first trailer for Victor Frankenstein 
• The first look at Star Wars: Rogue One is released 
• Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow has been announced as the director for Star Wars: Episode IX 
• Matt Damon’s crew wants to #BringHimHome in the new trailer for The Martian 
• Rebecca Ferguson (Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation) is cast in The Girl on the Train 
• A post-apocalyptic Zorro reboot is now officially in development 
• The newest Spider-Man, Tom Holland, has been cast in The Lost City of Z alongside Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller, and Robert Pattinson
• Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is the star of the upcoming live-action adaptation of Disney’s Jungle Cruise attraction and it actually sounds like something Kelly might want to see 
• The screenwriter for Thor: Ragnorok has been tapped to rewrite the script for Sony’s He-Man 
• Clive Owen has been cast in Valerian with Cara Delevingne and Dane DeHaan 
• James Foley could be the new director for Fifty Shades Darker and FIfty Shades Freed 
• The newest clip from The Scorch Trials ask us whose side we’re on 
• Tyler Bates returns as the composer for Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 2  
• Hugh Jackman is in talks to join Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence’s The Odyssey 
• Take a look at the first behind-the-scenes images from Star Trek Beyond with Simon Pegg and Chris Pine 
• The new ads for The Scorch Trials shows the virus The Flare as an adorable children’s PSA 

 Misc News

• Congratulations to Joseph Gordon-Levitt and his wife Tasha McCauley on the birth of their son! 
• Congratulations to Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux on their marriage!  ….we think…. 
• Congratulations to Julianne Hough on her engagement to NHL boyfriend Brooks Laich 
• Congratulations to Glee's Heather Morris and her husband Taylor Hubbell! Baby #2 is on the way! 
• LEGO releases a perfect Wall-E replica 
• Ellen DeGeneres gives an inspiring acceptance speech at the 2015 Teen Choice Awards 
• Disney Records to release a star-studded album entitled We Love Disney with Disney classic songs sung by Gwen Stefani, Ariana Grande, Jason Derulo, Fall Out Boy, and many more
• Darren Criss creates a Coachella-esque music festival called Elsie Fest with friends Aaron Tveit, Lea Salonga, Laura Osnes, and the company of Starkid Productions performing! 
• During the Sarajevo Film Festival, the European film industry agreed to sign a declaration for gender equality 
• The cast of Suicide Squad gave each other real tattoos!  That sounds incredibly dangerous 
• Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green have announced their separation after 11 years together, five of those spent married 
• Zayn Malik and Calvin Harris are in a Twitter war after Calvin came to the defense of his lady-love, Taylor Swift 
• One Direction’s Liam Payne is being called homophobic after comments made at a recent concert about their song “Girl Almighty”.  And we thought you were the quiet, Chris-Kirkpatrick-type, Liam! 
• Rachel Bilson shares an adorable family photo of fiance Hayden Christensen blowing bubbles for their 9-month-old daughter Briar Rose Christensen 
• Liv Tyler shares the first photos of her son Sailor 
• Kelly Clarkson sings Tinder profiles on Jimmy Kimmel Live
• In a still developing story: Former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle faces up to five years in prison and five years of supervisory release for child pornography and rape charges brought against him 
• Gotham gets the Funko Pop! treatment (.....and HOW is there not a Teen Wolf line yet?!) 
• Regal Cinemas has begun doing bag checks before entering the theatre in light of recent theatre shootings 
• 19 Kids and Counting’s Josh Duggar admits to using the website Ashley Madison 
• JK Rowling supports the Harry Potter theory that Dumbledore is the personification of Death 
• A photoshopped image of Princess Diana meeting Princess Charlotte surfaces on the internet 
• The casts of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Agent Carter set the terms for DubSmash War II 
• JK Rowling blames Tom Felton for the sex appeal of Draco Malfoy 

News from Disney's D23 Convention

• Star Wars Land is coming to Disneyland in Anaheim, California
• Toy Story Land is coming to Disney’s California Adventure in Anaheim, California
• Avatar Land is coming to Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Orlando, Florida
• Disneyland Shanghai has some awesome plans for the new theme park
• Check out the first poster for the live-action Jungle Book which hits theatres April 2016 
• Surprise guests and teaser posters delight fans at D23: everything from Moana to Zootopia brought Disnerds joy all weekend
• Disney announces Hyperspace Mountain, a new Star Wars overlay for the Space Mountain attraction at Disneyland 

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And the Fandom Emmy Awards winners are. . . . . 


Outstanding Drama Series: 
Supernatural

Outstanding Comedy Series:
 Friends

Outstanding Animated Series: 
Avatar: The Last Airbender

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series: 
Aaron Tveit as Mike Warren, Graceland

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series: 
Hayley Atwell as Agent Peggy Carter, Agent Carter

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series: 
Cory Monteith as Finn Hudson, Glee

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series: 
Zooey Deschanel as Jessica Day, New Girl

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: 
Dylan O’Brien as Stiles Stilinski, Teen Wolf

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: 
Serinda Swan as Paige Arkin, Graceland

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series: 
Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson, How I Met Your Mother

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series: 
Sofia Vergara as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, Modern Family

Outstanding Reality-Competition Program: 
The Voice

Outstanding Guest Actor/Actress in a Drama Series: 
Michael Raymond-James as Neal Cassidy/Baelfire, Once Upon A Time

Outstanding Guest Actor/Actress in a Comedy Series:
Grant Gustin as Sebastian Smythe, Glee

Outstanding Comedy Series Ensemble Cast: 
Friends starring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer

Outstanding Drama Series Ensemble Cast: 
Graceland starring Vanessa Ferlito, Brandon Jay McLaren, Manny Montana, Daniel Sunjata, Serinda Swan, and Aaron Tveit

Outstanding Variety/Talk Series: 
The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon

Outstanding Variety/Talk Host: 
Ellen DeGeneres

Outstanding Variety/Talk Guest Host: 
Justin Timberlake on Saturday Night Live

Outstanding Opening Title Sequence: 
Game of Thrones

Outstanding Male Multi-Fandom Performance: 
Sebastian Stan as Carter Baizen (Gossip Girl), Jack Benjamin (Kings), Jefferson/The Mad Hatter (Once Upon A Time), and TJ Hammond (Political Animals)

Outstanding Female Multi-Fandom Performance: 
Katie Cassidy as Laurel Lance/The Black Canary (Arrow, The Flash), Juliet Sharp (Gossip Girl), Brooke (New Girl), and Ruby (Supernatural season 3)

Fandom MVP: 
Misha Collins