Fandom Friday

Our thoughts and prayers are with the friends and family of Star Trek’s Anton Yelchin.  A tragic accident ended his short life earlier this week.  He was 27 years old.  Rest in peace, Anton.

TV News

• This fall, new episodes of CW shows will no longer be posted to Hulu
• The Flash Season 3 is officially doing the Flashpoint storyline
• Penny Dreadful has been surprisingly cancelled
• More recent Bachelorette cast-offs join Chad Johnson, Nick Viall, and the rest of the gang on Bachelor in Paradise this summer
• Arrow Season 5 adds a Walking Dead star as the newest villain
• Archer has been renewed for three more seasons on FX
• Former Bachelor Ben Higgins and his fiancee Lauren Bushnell will be a part of a new reality series airing on Freeform
• Once Upon A Time’s Jamie Chung joins Gotham Season 3 as Valerie Vale
• Wonder Woman herself, AKA Lynda Carter, joins the cast of Supergirl Season 2 as the President
• Will Chase and Audrey Peeples will not return for Nashville Season 5 on CMT
• Scream Queens Season 2 is #TeamJacob as they add Taylor Lautner to the cast
• Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan Tatum are bringing a Step Up drama series to YouTube

Movie News

• Star Wars and Harry Potter alum Domhnall Gleeson will portray author and Winnie the Pooh creator A.A. Milne in an upcoming biopic
• Leonardo DiCaprio will testify in a lawsuit against his film The Wolf of Wall Street
• Finding Dory breaks records with a $136.2M opening weekend and introduces Baby Dory in an adorable new clip
• Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston has been cast as Zordon in the Power Rangers reboot
• Check out Gal Gadot and Jon Hamm in the first trailer for Keeping Up With The Joneses
• The story continues with new books and shorts in Frozen: Northern Lights
• Star Wars breakout star John Boyega joins the Kathryn Bigelow movie about the Detroit riots
• Idris Elba tweets out our first glimpses of the movie adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower
• New details surface about the characters of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, including confirming the appearance of Darth Vader!
• Comedian Hannibal Buress joins the cast of Spider-Man: Homecoming
• A synopsis, logo, and the movie’s villain has been revealed for the Justice League movie

Music News

• Childish Gambino will debut new music with “Pharos”
• Justin Bieber fell off the stage during his Purpose Tour while adjusting his pants
• Broadway stars release “What The World Needs Now Is Love” for Orlando
• Lin-Manuel Miranda debuts on Periscope and reveals lots of Hamilton news, including that we will all eventually get to see the original cast perform
• Check out the Fall Out Boy and Missy Elliott cover of the Ghostbusters theme
• In a move we never saw coming, One Direction’s Harry Styles is officially going solo

Theatre News

• Hamilton’s Phillipa Soo will lead Broadway’s Amelie
• School of Rock’s Sierra Boggess will headline Phantom of the Opera in Paris
• Monopoly the Musical is headed to Broadway and we’re just as confused as you are
• Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth has joined the cast of Hairspray Live! as Velma Von Tussle
• PBS will air a special about the making of the Broadway phenomenon Hamilton
• Nashville’s Will Chase will take over for his former Smash co-star Christian Borle in Something Rotten! on Broadway
• Shuffle Along will end its run on Broadway on July 24th when its star Audra McDonald also leaves the show

Misc News

• Congratulations to Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne and his wife Hannah Bagshawe on the birth of their first child!
• Congratulations to Katherine Heigl and Josh Kelley on the announcement of their third child together!
• Here’s everything coming to Netflix in July
• JK Rowling sent her condolences and flowers to Luis Vielma’s funeral
• You’ll soon be able to dine at a Golden Girls themed cafe in New York City
• Someone created a custom Pop Figure for the late Potterhead Luis Vielma who lost his life in the Pulse Shooting in Orlando last week
• Justin Timberlake pays tribute to his Alpha Dog co-star Anton Yelchin
• Selma Blair was removed from a flight on a stretcher after a mid-flight outburst
• You don’t have to wait in the five-hour-long line to experience a virtual ride on the new Frozen: Ever After ride at Epcot in Disney World
• James Corden and Selena Gomez take Carpool Karaoke to new heights on a roller coaster
• Calling all Disney Nerds!  Read the first chapter of Tales from the Haunted Mansion!