Fandom Friday 7/17/15

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Happy 60th Birthday, Disneyland!!
“As long as there is imagination in the world, Disneyland will never be complete.” 
                                                                        - Walt Disney, opening day speech, July 17, 1955

Check out this year's Emmy nominations!

TV News

• The Twin Peaks revival has been pushed back to 2017
• FOX casts Broadway hottie and Graceland star Aaron Tveit as Danny Zuko in Grease! Live and ALNM’s Christina flips out
• The first trailer for season 5 of Homeland is here!
• Once Upon A Time casts Elliott Knight and Joana Matrass as Merlin and Guinevere
• Arrow casts Neal McDonough (Justfied, Captain America) as Damien Darhk, a new series regular for Season 4
• Check out the first look at MTV’s new series The Shannara Chronicles starring Austin Butler (The Carrie Diaries), Manu Bennett (Arrow), and John Rhys-Davies (Lord of the Rings)
• Watch the first trailer for American Horror Story: Hotel when Lady Gaga checks in
• NBC digs Hannibal's grave out and moves its air date to Saturday's
• Bran is back in Game of Thrones Season 6, according to his actor Isaac Hampstead-Wright
• The Vampire Diaries casts three bad-ass women as villains for Season 7
• Sleepy Hollow casts Mrs. Ian Somerhalder, Nikki Reed, as Betsy Ross for Season 3
• TLC finally cancels 19 Kids and Counting after it was revealed that Josh Duggar abused his own sisters
  
• The X-Files teaser trailer is here with your first looks at Scully and Mulder
• The Originals casts Jason Dohring (Veronica Mars) for Season 3
• Sleepy Hollow and Bones will crossover this fall
  

Movie News

• Alison Sudol and Dan Fogler join the cast of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
• The first set photos of the new cast of Ghostbusters show these butt-kicking ladies in their costumes and the reboot of the Ecto-1
• A new trailer for Saoirse Ronan’s film Brooklyn is released
• Chris Evans (Captain America) and Sebastian Stan (Bucky Barnes) are rumored to make appearances in Ant-Man. This comes after Anthony Mackie (Falcon) and Hayley Atwell (Agent Peggy Carter) have already been confirmed to make appearances in the film
• Ryan Reynolds assures everyone that a Deadpool trailer is being released online soon
• Tilda Swinton confirms she's a part of the cast of Doctor Strange
• Watch the first trailer for Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's movie Sisters 
• Dan Aykroyd says he'll be making a cameo in the all-female reboot of Ghostbusters
• Disney announces a live-action prequel to Aladdin starring the Genie.....but it just won't be the same without Robin Williams!
• A new trailer for Pan was shown at Comic-Con last weekend
• Check out the first look at Oscar Isaac's villain Apocalypse in the upcoming X-Men movie
• Michael Cera (Arrested Development, Juno) is cast as the voice of Robin in the Lego Batman movie 

MIsc News

• JK Rowling is better than all of us as she geeks out about Wimbledon and defends Serena Williams
• Johnny Depp visits an Australian children’s hospital dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow to the delight of the little patients
• Jennifer Hudson surprises the grooms at the wedding reception of the first same-sex couple to be married in her home state of Texas
• Broadway baby Jonathan Groff calls out Madonna for texting throughout his entire performance in Hamilton
• The casts of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Agent Carter are engaged in an all-out Dubsmash war
• Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice star Jesse Eisenberg gets in big trouble for comparing his Comic-Con experience to genocide
• Chris Evans gets in on the fun of the Marvel Dubsmash War
• Emma Stone finally speaks out about whitewashing in Aloha
• Rumer Willis to head to Broadway for her debut in Chicago