Fandom Friday

Firstly, RIP Leonard Nimoy.  You will be missed.

TV News

• America’s Next Top Model Cycle 21 contestant Mirjana Puhar found dead in her boyfriend’s apartment earlier this week as a victim of a triple homicide including her boyfriend and mutual friend. 
• DC Comics is potentially developing a new spinoff of Arrow and The Flash featuring a team up of The Atom (Brandon Routh), Captain Cold (Wentworth Miller), Dr. Stein (Victor Garber), and Black Canary (Caity Lotz).

• The Flash casts The Walking Dead’s Emily Kinney as Bug-Eyed Bandit
• Congratulations to Ryan and Naya Rivera Dorsey!  The Dorseys announce that they are pregnant with their first child.
• How to Get Away With Murder is renewed for a second season
• CBS’ Supergirl series adds Grey’s Anatomy’s Chyler Leigh and Homeland’s/Selfie’s David Harewood, as well as former Superheroes Dean Cain and Helen Slater
• Lady Gaga joins American Horror Story Hotel
• A new recurring character named Corey will make his debut on Teen Wolf’s season 5 episode Condition Terminal
• DWTS Season 20 cast includes Riker Lynch (singer, known for Glee and pop band R5), Willow Shields (Prim Everdeen in The Hunger Games movies), Nastia Liukin (Olympic gymnast), Michael Sam (NFL football player), Rumer Willis (actress and daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis) , Redfoo of LMFAO, and Patti LaBelle (R&B singer/songwriter), just to name a few

Movie News

• Eddie Redmayne follows his Oscar win with lending his voice to Ryan in the upcoming Thomas the Tank Engine movie.  Will also be playing the lead in The Danish Girl as Lili Elbe.

• Harrison Ford signs on for Blade Runner sequel
• Alien 5 is happening!  It will star Sigourney Weaver and pick up where Aliens left off, erasing half of the series’ canon
• Arnold Schwarzenegger will return for the sequel to the upcoming Terminator: Genisys.  The sequel will also feature bigger roles for the former Doctor Matt Smith and recent Oscar winner J.K. Simmons
• The Lego Movie Sequel gets a director: Rob Schrab of Parks and Recreation
• Ninja Turtles and Divergent screenwriter to reboot Tomb Raider
• British actor Ben Hardy joins X-Men: Apocalypse
• Viola Davis confirms she is Amanda Waller in Suicide Squad

Misc News

• A Lord of the Rings inspired theme park modeled after The Shire will open in Rincon de la Victoria, Spain. 
• DC Comics’ Catwoman comes out as bisexual in the comic’s latest issue