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TV News

• Orange is the New Black season 4 adds three new characters to its roster 
• Joy Behar to return to The View
• Violett Beane will play Jesse Quick, a new speedster to join The Flash Season 2 
• Check out the first new photos from the sets of Arrow Season 4 and The Flash Season 2 
• Demore Barnes will join the cast of The Flash Season 2 as Henry Hewitt, a new Firestorm villain 
• Teen Wolf Season 5B has begun filming, but can we wait until January to get all our questions answered?
• Executive Producer Jeff Davis teases potential returning characters to Teen Wolf Season 5B 
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert announces his first guests: George Clooney, Amy Schumer, Elon Musk, and the Uber CEO 
• The trailer for Gotham Season 2 prepares us for the rise of the villains 
• The CW’s new animated series Vixen releases its first teaser trailer 
• Sleepy Hollow promotes Joe Corbin (played by Zach Appleman) and Daniel Reynolds (played by Lance Gross) to series regulars for Season 3 
• Mr. Robot finale delayed out of respect to the murdered Virginia reporters 
• Game of Thrones Season 6 welcomes back two characters who were previously presumed dead 
• Take a look at the first 10 photos from American Horror Story: Hotel featuring Lady Gaga, Kathy Bates, and Finn Wittrock 
• A new still from the new season of The Originals gives us a first look at Klaus’ sire Lucien 

Movie News 

• Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer are co-writing and co-starring in a new comedy together….and it seems like comedic perfection! 
• Wes Ball, director of The Maze Runner, will direct a new film about Norse mythology entitled Fall of Gods 
• A comedic drama about the house that inspired Up is in development.  It will tell the story of the owner of the house, Edith Macefield, and her unwillingness to leave her beloved house in the face of retail giants attempting to buy her out 
• Kristen Stewart will play an actress playing Coco Chanel in a new movie directed by Karl Lagerfeld 
• Haley Bennett joins Emily Blunt and Rebecca Ferguson in the adaptation of The Girl on the Train 
• French actress Lea Seydoux joins the cast of Gambit alongside Channing Tatum 
• Check out the new Star Wars: Episode VI - The Force Awakens still featuring Adam Driver’s Kylo Ren 
• Check out the new Mockingjay Part 2 banner which depicts Katniss standing atop a fallen statue of President Snow while some of her allies stand nearby 
• The release date and bonus features for the Jurassic World DVD have been revealed 
• Take a look at Nina Dobrev’s first post-Vampire Diaries project and watch the trailer for The Final Girls 
• Nintendo may start making its games into movies 
• Pierce Brosnan says producer would not allow a gay Bond 
• The Avengers choose their sides in the new promo art for Captain America: Civil War 
• Hannibal star Mads Mikkelson may be playing the villain in Doctor Strange 
• The newest Star Wars teaser trailer shows John Boyega’s Finn wielding a lightsaber
  
• Director Ridley Scott steps up to the helm of Prometheus 2
• Neil deGrasse Tyson hosts the newest in-universe TV spot for The Martian
• Hannibal star Mads Mikkelsen will reportedly have a very important role in the Star Wars spin-off Rogue One
• Supergirl's Melissa Benoist and Outlander's Sam Heughan will costar in a new British dramedy
  

 Misc News

• Niall Horan confirms that One Direction will be taking a “much needed” break...but could it be the same “break” that N*Sync is on? 
• In related news, many Directioners fall for a satirical letter from a fake Joey Fatone to One Direction
• Jimmy Kimmel comes up with some hilariously bad puns regarding One Direction’s break 
• Kevin Bacon will star in the stage play adaptation of the Alfred Hitchcock classic Rear Window 
• The One Tree Hill cast reunited last weekend and it was amazing! 
• Funko! Pop announces a holiday edition of Dancing Groot 
• Taylor Swift and special guest Lisa Kudrow play the Friends' classic  “Smelly Cat” on the Los Angeles stop of Taylor's 1989 Tour 
• This fan-made trailer re-imagines Harry Potter as the villain of the series 
• A new fan theory about Friends character Phoebe Buffay may change the way we think about the classic sitcom forever
• Target premieres a commercial for a new gender-neutral Star Wars toy
• New best friends Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer danced on Billy Joel's piano during his concert at Chicago's Wrigley Field