Zooey Deschanel’s Jess will have her work cut out for her when she’s forced to meet her latest boyfriend’s ex in an upcoming episode of Fox’s New Girl. It was recently announced Jess would find a love interest in one of her students’ fathers. He’s an older gentleman by the name of Russell and will be played by the delightfully handsome Dermot Mulroney. Of course, being a single parent usually means there’s another parent out there waiting in the bushes for a chance to slit your throat for daring to think you could replace her as the mother of her child!

Whoa, I’m sorry. That got a little intense.

As reported by EW, Jeanne Tripplehorn was cast as Russell’s ex-wife. Sadly, there is no name to go with the face at this time. It’s okay though because Tripplehorn will be more remembered for her actions than whatever her name ends up being. She will not play nice with Jess, although at this juncture we cannot say for sure what she will do to Jess besides be a total bitch (pardon my French). Maybe my focus is wrong, but I cannot help but wonder how this will affect Russell’s kid. I’m sure it’s not fun to see mommy attack your daddy’s new girlfriend. Actually, the whole situation just seems ready to traumatize the poor child in some way.

Mulroney will be making his first appearance in two weeks with Tripplehorn set to appear in two episodes that follow. Here’s hoping she doesn’t mess up Jess too much.

Criminal Minds is lining up a couple of guest stars for an upcoming episode that is shaping up to be one to remember, especially if you find teenaged killers to be extra disturbing. Not wanting to just hire any young actor/actress for the roles needing to be filled, Criminal Minds looked for two of the best in the business. Kyle Gallner (Veronica Mars) and Madeleine Martin (Californication) were the two chosen to be a part of the crime series’ 19^th episode. Now let’s dive into what will make the episode so memorable.

According to TV Guide, Gallner and Martin will be playing siblings with a shaky past. Their deceased mother suffered from some pretty serious delusions. At this point it is not known exactly what she believed, but it was very clear she past those beliefs down to her children. Now, this next part is entirely conjecture of my own making: I think the siblings, James and Lara, will believe so strongly in their mother’s delusions that they will kill for them or because of them. I’m willing to bet their mother believed some pretty violent stuff, perhaps even demonic. If that is the way the episode is going, doesn’t that sound like an interesting premise?

Directing the episode will be Matthew Gray Gubler, who normally plays Spencer Reid. This will be his third time in the director’s chair on Criminal Minds. He’s done well so far. I see no reason to think he won’t knock this out of the park as well.

Robert Pattinson is the star of a brand new film poster. That’s right, there is new promo art for Bel Ami surfacing today. I can’t say that there is a great big difference between the new poster and the one we unveiled previously. Has someone run out of creative juice?

Either way, the official synopsis came along with this new image, thanks to Heyuguys.co.uk. It reads this way:

Bel Ami is the story of Georges Duroy (Pattinson), who travels through 1890s Paris, from cockroach ridden garrets to opulent salons, using his wits and powers of seduction to rise from poverty to wealth, from a prostitute’s embrace to passionate trysts with wealthy beauties, in a world where politics and media jostle for influence, where sex is power and celebrity an obsession.

Alongside the Twilight Saga‘s Mr. Pattinson are co-stars Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Christina Ricci, and Colm Meaney. This is a UK poster. I don’t hate it. The deep reddish purple is kind of nice. The design just isn’t much different from the last one we saw. You can leave your own thoughts below.

Speaking of his co-stars, you may have seen Thurman in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief as Medusa. She’s also filming Playing the Field, Movie 43 and Savages with Blake Lively, John Travolta, and Taylor Kitsch. Christina Ricci was a voice actress for Alpha and Omega and aside from Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, part two, due this November, Robert Pattinson is also expected in David Cronenberg’s thriller, Cosmopolis.

The Hunger Games film is one of the most anticipated movies of 2012. Here at Boomtron we’ve kept a finger to the rabid pulse of the latest project developments and today is no different. Our cast members are ready for their close ups, so prepare yourselves to meet Katniss, Peeta, Effie, Rue, Cato, Clove, President Snow, Gale, Cinna, Haymitch, Seneca Crane, and Caesar Flickerman. That’s right, we have the latest pics of the actors of The Hunger Games in character.

It was SlashFilm that delivered a pair of new IMAX banners and these peaks at the cast to adoring fans.

Oh my, is that a match stick in Cinna’s very capable hands?

Actor Alexander Ludwig brings to live Cato, a District 2 Tribute known as a Career. That means he’s actually looking forward to competing and to killing other youngsters inside the Games. He’s been bred for survival and combat is like second nature. Clove is the female Tribute from District 2. She’s acted by Isabelle Fuhrman. That’s quite a nasty smile she’s wearing, too.

Also in these shots you’ll take in Effie Trinket as portrayed by Elizabeth Banks. Her hair isn’t pink in this shot, it is more of a lime green instead, with matching Capitol make up and clothing to boot. And if the world didn’t learn Laim Hemsworth’s name when he starred in The Last Song opposite Miley Cyrus, or when he snagged a very hot spot among the cast members of The Expendables 2, due out August 17th, then the Games will make him known to many a young adult female simply because Gale is quite a likeable heartthrob and the other side of the love triangle that includes Katniss and Peeta.

Michael Fassbender fought to the death with Gina Carano in Haywire, he has played the Marvel Comics villain Magneto, a sex addict in Shame, and historical figure, Carl Jung, in A Dangerous Method. Next up, he’ll team with the eminent author, Cormac McCarthy.

You read it right here when we delivered the news that McCarthy, author of The Road and No Country for Old Men, skipped the novel writing process to churn out a brand new script called The Counselor. We now know who will direct and who will star in the upcoming picture.

According to Deadline, Ridley Scott will direct the thriller, which Michael Fassbender has signed on to star in. This constitutes a re-team up for the pair who are also director and star of Prometheus, the so-called Alien prequel.

The Counselor will put Fassbender into the role of a “respected lawyer” who toys with doing some drug business on the side and then gets in over his head.

Next up, filmmakers will have to cast the villain. Sounds exciting to me. Deadline said actors like Jeremy Renner, Bradley Cooper and Brad Pitt were a few ideas thus far. Mr. Pitt’s career is said to have really began when Ridley Scott cast him in Thelma & Louise.

NBC’s Community is where the laughs are. The Dan Harmon series is also a reality thanks to folks like Joe and Anthony Russo of Arrested Development. It follows the unlikely every men and women who attend and work at Greendale Community College. Joel McHale stars and the smart mouthed Jeff Winger, a laywer unlucky enough to have his entire degree revoked. Doh! You know you love it, and it should be coming back to the airwaves soon.

According to Dan Harmon’s official Twitter account, “What you call 8:00, we call home. Community returns to Thursday nights on March 15th.” You heard the man. The comedy should kick off again, starting on the Ides of March.

That means the legendary Chevy Chase will return as the old fart, Pierce; Gillian Jacobs returns as Britta; Yvette Nicole Brown is still Shirley; Danny Pudi is still the loveable Abed; Alison Brie returns as Annie; Donald Glover is still full of himself, er, I mean Troy; and last but not least, the always awkward Ken Jeong is still Señor Chang. ¡Qué bueno!

Season 3 is just 10 episodes old thus far. Luis Guzmán was a guest star. During Season 2 guest stars included Betty White, Drew Carey, and John Oliver.

Whenever I hear about casting for Doctor Who (now on Series 7), my mind starts thinking up all the possible British stars that could be appearing. In this latest casting news, we are told the newest actor from the United Kingdom to run into the Doctor will be none other than Mark Williams, best known to the North American continent as Arthur Weasley of the Harry Potter film series. That’s right folks; Arthur Weasley and the Doctor will be on the same screen together. Cue synchronized nerdgasm in three. Two. One. Splurg.

That was gross. And now we move on. Digital Spy shared the news, but the story originally came from Grace Jenkins and her Twitter account. Jenkins lives in Church Road, Penarth where Series 7 was most recently filming. “Living room has been cruelly disfigured so they can film Doctor Who in it,” said one of her tweets. “Rory and Amy Pond’s wedding photos are now on my living room wall and will be all weekend as they’re filming Monday [February 20].” Mark Williams was spotted on set during filming for what will end up being Episode 2 of the series. Filming took place inside Jenkins’ home where she was able to snap a picture with Williams. She is one lucky duck if I do say so myself. I’m quite certain I would do anything to get a picture with the guy who played Colin Creevey in Chamber of Secrets let alone Arthur Weasley!

As we all know, Matt Smith will continue to play the Doctor beyond this series, but this will be the last series to feature Amy (Karen Gillan) and Rory (Arthur Darville).

In the seventh part of The Kindly Ones, the growing sense we’ve had that Lyta’s story and Dream’s will intersect climactically is solidified by this chapter’s many parallels and apparent omens. 

Ominous parallels and forboding omens.

Forced to find a simile for this chapter’s structure, I’d hem and haw a while, then, reluctantly (because of impossibility, because of imperfection) say Part 7 is like a quilt, and every few pages we get a new square, and all the squares are threaded together with the strings of past stories. (You have noticed by now, I’m sure, that each chapter except for the prologue and Part 6 begins with a string across the first panel.) The past stories are stories out of histories and mythologies, and, more and more, past Sandman tales. There is, for me at least, a sense of gathering — gathering characters, gathering plots, gathering stray props and loose ends and spare change.

The quilt metaphor falls apart, of course, when we think about the gravity all this gathering creates, the sense of accumulating momentum toward a — well, toward what, exactly? A climax? A resolution? An end? A new beginning? (A New Hope! Rumors of George Lucas trying to insert Jar Jar Binks into The Sandman are, my sources assure me, entirely without basis in fact. As Dream says to Odin: “Only a fool listens to rumors.” Also, I had a dream last night in which The Sandman himself assured me that Han shot first. Dreams are better than rumors.)

The gravity and momentum, the perception of movement toward Something Big is a powerful undertow through the narrative, one that causes me to want to mix every metaphor I find — our quilt now has gained not only certain Newtonian properties, but oceanic qualities, too! (In dreams, quilts equal mass times wave actions.)

The sense of movement toward Something Big is heightened by the difficulty of defining what that Something Big is. We’ve gotten acclimated to anti-climaxes and resonantly ambiguous resolutions in The Sandman, and the best bet right now might be to take a term from the 1955 film Kiss Me Deadly and call the impending sense of conclusion-or-not a Great Whatsit. 

But with a Great Whatsit, we might end up on a beach at the end of the world.

The design of the last few pages of this chapter highlights all of the effects I’ve mentioned so far. Lyta’s story occurs in the bottom panels, while the top 2/3rds of each page give us other stories. Lyta has found, or been found by, the Furies. This event is literally the story beneath the other stories. And then, on the last page of the chapter, it takes over, after all the ravens have left the Tower of London and a kingdom is destined to fall. 

Dark, menacing colors and figures. A panel in which Lyta stands in a doorway a bit like John Wayne at the end of The Searchers (the story of a man crazed with vengefulness, genocidal). Tentacles of hair and blood. Grotesque night-blue figures seeming at first to offer no help in Lyta’s quest, then revealing the one truth that will put them on her side: “He did kill his own son.”

Six single-syllable words: he did kill his own son.

How can this end well?

How can this end?

Impossible questions to answer just yet, so let me divert you, instead, with one of my favorite sentences in The Sandman so far, from the top of the penultimate page of this chapter, a vision of Hell: “A makeshift barge made of dead flesh is slowly poled down a river of cold semen.”

Dead flesh and cold semen. (A fine name for a punk band, no?) Detritus of a rotting afterworld and a failed beforeworld.

(How can this end well?)

It is interesting to me, too, that the Furies appropriate the language of feminism, and quite reasonably, too, in decrying the name Lyta uses for them. “Not the Furies, my Lobelia. That’s such a nasty name. It’s one of the things they call women, to put us in our place…” And then a panel with floating words: Termagant, vixen, shrew, virago, witch, bitch. ”Do we,” one of the women asks, “look furious to you?”

Indeed. The words for powerful men are so much nicer than the words for powerful women. There are so many fewer insults to hurl at strong men than strong women. Our language associates strength with men, it’s normal, it’s fine, they’re like that, those boys, they’ll be boys, what do you expect — but in words and mythologies, women with chutzpah and gusto and authority are often set up to “get what they deserve”, and what they deserve, of course, is to be shown their place.

Cold semen. Dead flesh.

(How can this end?)

He did kill his own son.

<—Go back and read Sandman Meditations: The Kindly Ones part 6

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Lucy Lawless is leaving Capua! At least temporarily. The co-star of the awesomely bloody and often savage Starz series Spartacus: Vengeance (see also Blood and Sand and Gods of the Arena) is moving on to the Top of the Lake. The seven-part television miniseries will not only include Lawless but also Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss, and Oscar winner Holly Hunter.

According to TVLine the miniseries which is co-directed and co-written by Jane Campion (The Piano), follows Detective Robin Griffin (Moss) as she searches for a missing twelve year old pregnant girl who happens to be the daughter of a local drug lord played by Peter Mullan. The series comes from the Sundance Channel in partnership with BBC Worldwide and will be set in the mountains of New Zealand. Lawless happens to already be in New Zealand as she films the third season of Spartacus: Vengeance which is why she may have agreed to participate in Top of the Lake. Lawless also hails from New Zealand so it is not exactly unfamiliar territory for her.

Campion, who is also originally from New Zealand, added: “I am in love with the intense beauty of southern most New Zealand and am excited to be setting a story in this end of the world paradise. To be able to tell the story …gives myself and my brilliant team a chance to make something truly absorbing and memorable.”

Sundance which is most notably known for films, has been slowly branching out into scripted television. Network executives recently announced its first original scripted series, Rectify which is about the struggles of a death row inmate who is released after nineteen years in prison when DNA exonerates him of the rape and murder of a young girl. As Sundance branches out from their normal programming they have also dipped their toes into the miniseries format which has earned them a Golden Globe for the series Carlos. Sundance also partnered with ITV Studios on the scripted drama Appropriate Adult which starred Dominic West (300) as the real-life British serial killer Fred West – and no folks, there is no relation.

Although they have not specified what part Lawless will be playing in the miniseries audiences may have to wait until Top of the Lake is released State side before they know. However, Holly Hunter will be playing G.J., a guru from a local women’s camp. One other name readers may recognize when they watch this series is David Wenham who played Faramir in Lord of the Rings. Wenham’s role also has not been revealed but it seems he is to play a villain in this series which will be a nice change for the actor.

Top of the Lake is already in pre-production and has begun filming this month. There is no release date for the US yet but the miniseries is expected to debut some time this year. Until Top of the Lake is released, we can all get our Warrior Princess fix from Spartacus: Vengeance.

Find out which of your favorite characters from HBO’s Game of Thrones are now featured on their very own dashing Season 2 character posters. Can any secrets be revealed by examining these posters carefully? You tell me.

In this game, you either win or you die. Fans know that all to well. They’ll also recognize the characters featured in today’s art, which has come from the show’s official Facebook page. Many of the one-liners printed on these new posters are fairly romantic. Well, there is one dark one. Arya Stark seems to have murderous intent.

Your favorite fantasy drama returns April 1st at 9 PM only on HBO. Here at Boomtron we are your Game of Thrones hot spot. You met Tyrion Lannister’s young squire, Pod, right here. You even got a sneak peak at an emotional upcoming scene for Daenerys. We’ll continue to bring you the latest.

Here is the official synopsis for the coming second season:

Summers span decades. Winters can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun.

It will stretch from the south, where heat breeds plots, lust and intrigues; to the vast and savage eastern lands; all the way to the frozen north, where an 800-foot wall of ice protects the kingdom from the dark forces that lie beyond. Kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars, lords and honest men…all will play the Game of Thrones.

Never has there ever been such a build up to a show as there has been for Legend of Korra. Fans have been latching on to every rumor and leaked video clip out there in hopes of getting a glimpse of when the highly anticipated series will be released. In fact the most talked about thing for Legend of Korra is when it will debut for eager fans to watch.

Courtesy of Nick.com we have the latest update as to when the series will be finally released. Plastered at the top of their forum is the following; “With the Hundred Year War long over, benders live harmoniously with non-benders in a bustling steampunk paradise called Republic City. Meanwhile, a bull-headed but incredibly talented 17-year-old Avatar named Korra is growing into her powers in Southern Water country. But how long can the peace really last, and what will happen when Korra escapes to the city and these worlds collide? You’ll find out when Korra comes to Nick this Spring, but until then, keep on top of all the The Last Airbender: Legend Of Korra gossip, right here!” Did you see that folks? Nickelodeon has thrown in there that Korra will be out this spring!

The spring release date comes as a surprise to fans as previous rumors indicated Korra would be out on Nickelodeon in mid 2012. So most were expecting a summer release when the spring rumors came in to circulation. The change in date is not unusual for Nickelodeon as there have been several dates thrown around for Korra’s release. Some had even fueled a 2013 release which fans who have been waiting since the ending of The Legend of Aang  in 2008 did not like all that much.

Creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko had initially intended to end the series as it was in 2008, however the success of Avatar the Last Airbender: The Legend of Aang lead Nickelodeon to ask for more episodes. Instead of adding on to the current series, they created The Last Airbender: Legend of Korra which fans have been foaming at the mouth to see ever since its inception. Korra, by the way is NOT Aang’s daughter but the next incarnation of the Avatar with abilities to drawn on the skills and knowledge of past Avatars – including Aang.

Whether Legend of Korra will be out in spring of 2012 only Nickelodeon really knows. Aside from their post in the Nick forums there has been no confirmation of the date. Korra fans are probably some of the most patient ones out there. There has been no outbursts of nerd rage due to the changing release dates which is quite impressive. One can only wonder how long they will last though especially if this latest rumor of a spring debut turns out to be yet another falsehood. Nickelodeon can only string everyone along for so long before something snaps and viewers either lose interest in the series, or stop caring altogether.

NBC is sticking with what they know for this falls pilot season. They are returning to the Law & Order creator – Dick Wolf – for a new series pilot called Chicago Fire. Set in Chicago the action-driven drama is about the complex and heroic men and women of the Chicago Fire Department. There has been relatively little buzz on the show and its cast aside from the news that Eamonn Walker will play the captain of the squad. Now fans have something else to gab about as NBC reveals its latest Chicago Fire casting news.

Deadline reports that Taylor Kinney has landed the lead role in the Chicago Fire pilot, as Kelly Severide. Severide is the leader of an elite group of firefighters who respond to the most dangerous fires or rescue operations. The character is being described as an adrenaline junkie and a man with the drive to jump into the most dangerous situations. The pilot was written by Michael Brandt and Derek Haas and will be directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff. Executive producers of the series are Wolf, Brandt, Haas, Peter Jankowski and Danielle Gelber.

Kinney is returning to NBC after his brief  nine episode interlude with The Vampire Diaries where he played Mason Lockwood, a naughty werewolf who was eventually killed off by Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder). Kinney went on to guest star in two episodes of the Showtime series Shameless. Although Kinney may not have made too many waves with his current acting portfolio, he certainly has been in the spotlight for dating the infamous Lady Gaga.

Gaga and Kinney first met on the set of her music video for You and I back in September, in which Kinney played her love interest. From that point the two have been seen all over Hollywood together. The twenty-five year old pop superstar and the thirty year old actor have stirred up some controversy over their relationship. Kinney’s ex-girlfriend Brittany Sackett states that she found out about Lord and Lady Gaga’s romance while Sackett and Kinney were still together. Sackett also indicated that Kinney is only dating the songstress to improve his own fame and status in Hollywood, she describes him as “fame hungry.”

Regardless of his reasons for dating Gaga, Kinney is now a rising star in Hollywood. Snagging a lead role in a Dick Wolf creation might guarantee you an acting gig for 10 years! Even if the show is not picked up by networks, Kinney is beginning to reach leading man status which will surely translate to more offers down the road.

Be still our thumping hearts. This week you can score brand spanking new images from the upcoming blockbuster, Snow White and the Huntsman right here on Boomtron. The fantasy film is sure to be epic. It stars Charlize Theron, Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth and Sam Claflin as the mysterious prince. All four actors appear in today’s hot images.

The evil queen isn’t just wicked, she’d beautiful. She’s the fairest in the last, after all, until Snow White threatens that title. In this image you can see she has a crown, a dress, and a pretty up-do all befitting of a treacherous and powerful queen. Theron was perfectly cast, don’t you agree? The textures that surround her are lovely and posh, and yet seem prickly to the touch.

Our good prince, who may not be so good, if the Huntsman is the positive force in this re-telling, has somewhat long tresses, and a quiver full of arrows on his back. I can’t wait to see what role he plays in the tale.

As for Kristen Stewart, you can see her in an easily recognizable shot with a certain apple or you can catch how amazing the set is with her standing alone in the middle of it. You can also spy Chris Hemsworth and Theron getting into character.

From the official synopsis we learned Joe Roth, the producer of Alice in Wonderland and producer Sam Mercer from The Sixth Sense have teamed up with director Rupert Sanders to make this picture a reality.

Because just one wasn’t nearly enough, AMC has decided to put out another teaser for Mad Men Season 5, with this one featuring more of the series’ stars, like the always enjoyable Christina Hendricks. Unfortunately, we are still not treated to any new scenes. Instead we are fed a slew of old scenes (what else would you expect if nothing is new?), but I have a sneaking suspicion the scenes used were specifically chosen for a reason.

As was with the last teaser, this video (first shown on TV Guide) is intercut with titles letting us know things such as “Adultery” and “Jealousy” are back. We could take those at face value and not dig any deeper, but then that would make this teaser rather boring (as boring as Mad Men can get, which isn’t very boring at all). I recommend letting your imagination fly and create as many theories as possible, whether they are well thought out or borderline insane, it’s a lot of fun to speculate.

Seeing as Don (Jon Hamm) is the star of the show, let’s assume the adultery and jealousy are about him, or people affected by him. If adultery is indeed back, then is it possible his engagement to Megan doesn’t mean that much? Don has made attempts to clean up his act in the past, but every time has found his way into yet another woman. Woman’s pants I mean. And could Betty (January Jones) be the jealous one after hearing of her ex-husband’s engagement? Perhaps Don slides backwards and begins sleeping with Betty again. Who knows!

When I started watching “No Pressure” I was very much aware it could turn into a giant disaster. It was dealing with such a touchy subject (Ted revealing he loves Robin) that if it wasn’t handled properly it could have ruined the flow of the season. Thankfully, How I Met Your Mother stuck the landing and delivered one of the best, if not the best, episode of this season. There were big laughs and even bigger moments of a less than funny nature. Most importantly, it left me with the feeling the writer’s actually do know where they’re taking this story, which for me is a hugely important thing a writer should know. The worst season of HIMYM, Season 5, was what it was because you could feel how unsure the writers were of the direction they were going. Looking back on Season 7 up to this point I can confidently say it all works together.

The biggest problem to deal with is justifying how Ted could just be in love with Robin out of the blue. I’m okay with the storyline, it just needs to make sense. And it did. Ted acts as the audience surrogate, voicing how crazy he it that he could he really be in love with Robin, but Marshall assures him he is. He reminds Ted of Christmas, when Robin was upset and Ted cheered her up by making a light show in their living. Why would he do that for someone he didn’t love (Marshall agrees Ted would have done it for him too, but let’s face it; they’re in love as well). That was all the justification I needed to be sold on this idea.

Things just feel right when Josh Radnor is allowed to be the star of the show. He does such a good job of portraying the various Teds the show has introduced. There’s Awkwardly Nervous Ted (“I go camping in secret!”), Douche Ted (“I have some sonnets to write.”), and Romantic Ted. One second he can be hilarious, the next he’s melting your heart. It’s a shame he’s not utilized like this more often.

That’s not to say the other actors don’t carry their weight this episode. Marshall and Lily bring some serious funny to the table (love their over excitement at betting on their friends’ lives). As always Barney steals practically every scene he’s in (running over the tables at the bar? That was some seriously well thought out physical comedy). But I think out of everyone, Marshall impressed me the most. Not because he was funny (he was), but because of how serious he became with Robin toward the end. Ted claims to be okay with not ending up with Robin, but Marshall can tell he’s hurting. As his best friend, Marshall goes to Robin and tells her she needs to move out. That hit my like a ton of bricks. It was the way he said it. He was being gentle, but he was dead serious. It was wonderfully subtle acting from Jason Segel.

Of course, things aren’t quite over just yet. Marshall tells Lily she hasn’t necessarily one their best that Ted won’t end up with Robin, suggesting their story hasn’t quite wrapped up yet. And Barney still has a part to play in all this despite claiming to be done with Robin as well. All things seem to be headed toward a big mess involving all three of them. My fingers are crossed that whatever happens is handled as beautifully, and hilariously, as “No Pressure” was.

Although the film may already be in production, the cast for Ender’s Game continues to grow in numbers as they add yet another familiar face to the ranks. Nonso Anozie will be playing the part of Sergeant Dap in the film version of Orson Scott Card’s best-selling novel Ender’s Game – a science-fiction masterpiece in which children are pitted against one another to save the human race from extinction.

Deadline reports that in addition to Anozie, Stevie Ray Dallimore (Joyful Noise) will be portraying Ender’s father – John, and Andrea Powell (One Tree Hill) will be Ender’s mother – Theresa. The three will be starring opposite heavy-hitters Harrison Ford, and Ben Kingsley, as well as Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin and Oscar nominated Viola Davis (The Help). The coveted role of Ender has gone to British actor Asa Butterfield. The movie adaptation was done by X-Men Origins: Wolverine director, Gavin Hood who will be directing Ender’s Game as well.

Set in Earth’s future, Ender’s Game is the story of a young boy named Andrew “Ender” Wiggin who is the third child of a family in a world that only allows two per household. As the third child, Ender is specially licensed to exist, and is sent off to battle school at a young age – a school for the brightest on Earth who have the traits to become leaders and to win battles. All the children accepted in to battle school are continuously pitted against one another in mock battles which take place in their orbiting space station, all of which is in preparation for an alien invasion that may wipe out all of humanity.

Although Anozie is cast as Sergeant Dap, this will not affect his stint in the second season of Game of Thrones where he plays Xaro Xhoan Daxos. It has been a big year for Anozie who can most recently be seen as Burke in The Grey, alongside Liam Neeson. He was also in films such as Nanny McPhee Returns (Sgt. Jefferies) and as Artus in last year’s reboot of  Conan the Barbarian.

Ender’s Game will begin production in New Orleans this month and has an expected release date of March 15, 2013.

When Wonder Woman was scrapped, whatever happened to the leading lady, Adrianne Palicki? Well, according to today’s headline, we shouldn’t shed any tears for her loss. When one door closes, another opens. In Palicki’s case, two great big doors open, and one door represents an opportunity at making people laugh. The comedy is called Coffee Town.

Variety delivered the news that our would be super heroine has just wrapped an action project of another kind. She’s the female lead in Paramount’s upcoming blockbuster, G.I. Joe: Retaliation. Talk about scoring big after Wonder Woman went belly up! Now that the big one is a wrap, she’ll next begin work along side co-star Glenn Howerton in the Coffee Town, which is described as a college humor picture.

Brad Copeland of the genius series, Arrested Development, wrote the script of Coffee Town and has made the project his feature directorial debut. There is also the element of “workplace comedy” involved, which is always popular. Ben Schwartz, Steve Little and singer Josh Groban co-star with Palicki and Howerton.

In the story, three thirty-somethings unite when they realize they can’t be free-loaders any longer. It sounds ironic that they get to work when they realize they’ll have to get to work. Get it? Palicki will act as Becca, a nurse who loves coffee and the potential love interest for Howerton’s character.

Palicki is familiar from her stint on Friday Night Lights. And get this. Another project of hers is the upcoming Red Dawn re-make. Her co-stars in that one are hotties Chris Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson. Interestingly enough, Chris’s brother, Liam, co-stars with Hutcherson in The Hunger Games movie.

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Get ready to be bitten by the bug. The Amazing Spider-Man is hoping to infect the masses with Spider mania. Will you be a victim? Today’s clip may just hook you in Andrew Garfield’s web.

This week The Amazing Spider-Man hits us with its first official film clip. This is momentous and you can watch the video right now! It comes from the seemingly underground style website, Mark of the Spider-Man. Clever marketing, yes? In the snippet you’ll watch as Peter Parker tries to make it past Gwen Stacy’s door man for a visit with his love interest. Notice Peter’s backpack as it poses a problem for him.

This time around Peter is more involved in the mystery of his missing parents than in previous films. He discovers a briefcase that belonged to his father, and this item puts him on a collision course with The Lizard. Was that a spoiler? I mean it is Dr. Curt Connors, rather, his father’s former partner, who Peter meets at Oscorp. Dun dun dun.

I like many elements we’ve been seeing in film trailers. I’ll be excited to see how realistic The Lizard turns out on the big screen. I’m still a little skeptical that Andrew Garfield was the right choice to win new fans of the Marvel hero.

The film is directed by Marc Webb and hits theaters on July 3rd.

March 4^th will see the return of Belle, as played by Lost’s Emilie de Ravin, on ABC’s Once Upon a Time during the episode “Dreamy.” We last saw Belle in the February 12^th episode, “Skin Deep,” where she fell in love with Rumpelstiltskin in a reimagining of Beauty and the Beast with Rumpel in the role of the Beast. In the fairytale world, Rumpel rejected her and he was led to believe by the Evil Queen that Belle had killed herself, when in reality she lived. In Storybrooke, Regina had Belle’s counterpart locked away in a secret basement underneath the hospital.

In “Dreamy” Belle will return in the fairytale flashbacks, though it’s not quite clear if they take place before or after her time spent with Rumpel. She doesn’t appear to be too sad, but this version of Belle is supposed to be a princess and yet, as we can see from the promo images below, she’s very clearly in a tavern. I’m leaning towards thinking this takes place after “Skin Deep.” Also in the scene are Snow White’s dwarves, who get to know Belle. Everyone appears to be having a grand time!

The episode won’t be focused on Belle however. The star of the episode is Grumpy and his Storybrooke counterpart, Leroy. Grumpy will find himself in the midst of forbidden love with a fairy by the name of Nova (guest star Amy Acker). In Storybrooke, Mary Margaret and Leroy help the nuns sell candles for the Miner’s Day festival. Leroy ends up making a promise to one of the nuns, Astrid (Nova’s counterpart), but may not be able to keep it.

Photo Credit: ABC/JACK ROWAND

It’s been awhile since we’ve heard anything from Kurt Sutter, the creator of FX’s Sons of Anarchy, but he has at last returned to the Internet with some inside information regarding Season 5 of Sons of Anarchy and some of the new faces we’ll be seeing when the show returns. Before he gets into the good stuff, Sutter briefly expresses his amazement the show is getting a fifth season. If you’ve been following the news for Sons then you’re likely aware the show was also renewed for a sixth season. We are guaranteed new episodes of Sons of Anarcy for at least two years. That’s a good feeling.

On his blog, Sutter Ink, Sutter reveals the writers have regrouped and already begun plotting the new season’s big arcs, though everything is loosely defined. The first episode has already been planned out and Sutter plans to write it this weekend. The hope is to have four scripts completed before production stars, which would likely be mid-May. All the actors’ options have been picked up, so everyone will be returning. Along with all the familiar faces, Sutter teased work had begun on some new characters, mentioning four specifically. Hold on to your hats.

The only new character given a name is Damon Pope, who’s daughter, Tig, was killed at the end of Season 4. The rest of the characters simply have vague identifiers. One wears a patch we have never seen before, while another is a “hard, curvy and very sexy” type of person. I’m assuming it’s a woman. The last new character carries a platinum .45 with a walrus tusk handle. He’s a dangerous guy, but really he just wants to be loved.

HBO’s True Blood cast is getting younger! The American television series which was created and produced by Alan Ball has just cast the final member of True Blood’s highest vampire governing body, the Vampire Authority, or “The Authority” as it is so lovingly referred to by the vampires in Bon Temps.

The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that child actor Jacob Hopkins will join the True Blood cast playing the role of Alexander Drew, a Chancellor of the vampire governing body. Drew who is described as an impetuous vampire who likes to taunt those around him, was turned at the tender age of 9. I guess this is a vampire that Sookie won’t get to sleep with.

Watch the Royal TRUE BLOOD Season 5 tease!

As a member of “The Authority” Drew is likely going to be one of the ancient vampires, one who could very well be older than Erik Northman’s (Alexander Skarsgard) sire, Godric (Allan Hyde). In vampire mythology, age equals power, meaning the older the vampire, the greater the power, so in this case, the mini evil running around will likely be loaded up with every vampire power known to man and cause lots of havoc in Bon Temps and surrounding areas.

At one time or another just about every vampire story out there will toy with the ultimate evil being a child. Hoping that the younger and more innocent they look the more disturbed the viewers will be with the outlandish and quite often despicable things the child will do. Being a huge fan of True Blood, I had hoped that the turning of teenaged Jessica Hamby (Deborah Ann Woll) would have been the line in the sand, but they’ve drawn a new line with the youngest ancient vampire on the show. So will viewers be troubled by the character? Or will they shrug it off and chalk it up to the usual vampire “stuff”?

True Blood season 5 will air on HBO in June.

If I was to describe “Triggerfinger,” I would liken it a balloon. From the very beginning, the balloon is being inflated, getting bigger and bigger. It reaches a point where the size is so big it must be about to pop, and you’re anticipating that moment more than anything else. Instead of hearing that satisfying, and potentially frightening, explosion of rubber and air, the balloon is slowly deflated until all the air is gone. That was how I experienced The Walking Dead this week. Right from the get go, the tension was at an all time high and I expected it to continue through out the entire episode, building toward an epic cliffhanger. That was not the case in this situation.

“Triggerfinger” picked up right where we left off last week, with Rick having just killed Dave and Tony. Everyone recognizes Rick’s actions as a necessary evil in a changed world. Everyone except the rest of Dave and Tony’s group, who heard the gunshots and have come to investigate. Once Rick makes their presence known and explains the situation, they find themselves pinned down by vengeful gunfire. Meanwhile, Lori wakes up in her crashed car with a walker pressing his face through the broken the windshield, desperate to reach her. This may have been the only time I’ve enjoyed Lori this season. She doesn’t panic and scream for help; she remains calm, focused on her objective and kills the walker.

On the farm, the remaining members of the group begin to realize Lori is missing, and Daryl finally tells someone Lori wanted to go into town to get Hershel. Carol pleads for Daryl to not isolate himself and to be a part of their messed up family, but he isn’t about to open his heart again so soon after Sophia’s death. Things move smoothly and from here in all the main storylines, with the tension building quite nicely. But once everyone makes it back to the farm the balloon starts to deflate. It’s a giant letdown to have all this action and suspense and then just drop it all. There are still some great scenes, particularly the final one where Lori and Rick discuss Shane’s state of mind, but they simply pale in comparison to the majority of the episode.

I was a big fan of Hershel, who has been going through a rapid transformation from a man who believed the walkers could be cured to suggesting leaving a fallen man behind. He’s not completely cold though. When he shoots one of the attackers you can see on his face how much it bothered him. And then when the walkers came to eat him, Hershel lingered on the gory scene before him, likely feeling the guilt for having killed that man. He’s still a good guy at heart, he just is rethinking his priorities. He agrees to crudely amputate another injured attacker, though he does try to leave him behind when they become surrounded by walkers. Thankfully Rick rips the boy’s leg from the spike it’s impaled on and they all get out alive. When they get back to the farm, Hershel does his best to save the leg, despite the boy’s attempt to kill them.

Everything that happened in town was top-notch, while the farm scenes were decent enough. It’s hard to enjoy anything when you have Lori freaking out over every little thing. Shane was right to lie to her about Rick returning to the farm, even if his motivations were entirely selfish. The only time Lori had anything worthwhile to say was letting Rick know that Shane thinks she and the baby are his and will kill a living human to protect his property. That was good note to end the episode on, with Rick realizing just how deranged Shane has become. Now he has two problems to deal with; the injured boy, who may lead his group to the farm, and Shane’s growing insanity. Things may have deflated considerably, but I’m no less excited for the direction the show is headed.

With his last appearance in the Season 6 episode, “Remember Me as a Time of Day,” Chad Michael Murray is at last returning to One Tree Hill to take part in the series final season. He makes his sole appearance in this Wednesday’s episode, “Last Known Surroundings.” I’m sure long time fans of the series will lose their minds when he shows up on screen. If I were you I would record the episode as his part will be quick and before you know it he’ll be gone again.

As you all know, Nathan has recently gone missing, which is the event that prompts Murray’s Lucas to return to Tree Hill. He seeks out Haley in order to help her through this trying time. He does his business, says hello to his family and then he’s off again. You can check out the promotional images for the episode, which are extremely Murray heavy. They show him interacting with Haley and the kids before taking off to parts unknown. It looks like he may just have the one scene, but that would be terrible and I hope he sticks around for the majority of the episode.

If he really is only in one scene then I have to say he’s a terrible brother. Nathan disappears and he can’t be bothered to help for more than just a quick stop over? They better have a good reason for him leaving. Also, I hate his hair. “Last Known Surroundings” airs Wednesday, February 22^nd.

Game of Thrones Season 2 is still a couple of months away, but you can spend the meantime immersing yourself in the myriad bonus content supplied by HBO. They’ve always been good at dishing out extra videos and behind the scenes content to appease the masses of fans that will chomp at the bit for even the tiniest of teases. The latest video put out by HBO takes a brief three-minute look into what goes into being an extra on Game of Thrones.

As seen on the show’s Facebook page, which is filled with all the latest videos and information regarding Season 2, the video features interviews with GoTs crew members who deal with the extras the most. Colin Azzopardi, the crowd assistant director, lets us know the majority of the extras are simply fans of the show that want to be a part of the machine that has churned out such a magnificent series. Unfortunately, to be part of that machine means putting up with some intense conditions.

According to Tara Van Zyl, the wardrobe supervisor, the extras have to up on set at 5 AM to get their make up and costumes ready. They all have to come in a whole day before just to so they can be fitted for their costumes, which are mostly made from scratch by the way. There’s a lot of waiting involved with being part of the background, but make no mistake; the extras are still a very important part of what makes the world of Westeros seem real.

Ever since her photo shoot for Playboy, Lindsay Lohan has seemed to be making serious efforts to clean up her image, with her latest exercise in responsibility placing her as host of Saturday Night Live. This past Saturday, Maya Rudolph, a former cast member of the sketch comedy show, hosted. During one of the commercial breaks Lohan was announced as the host for the March 3^rd episode, along with musical guest Jack White.

This isn’t Lohan’s first time on SNL, which EW.com kindly reminds us. In the mid-2000s she hosted a whopping three times, of course that was during her clean phase. I’m interested to see if she’ll be able to poke fun at herself and the trouble she’s found herself in over the last few years. If she does go with the self-deprecating humor, will it be funny or just sad? I’m leaning towards it being just a little sad. It will draw a chuckle, but it would likely be followed by a frown. I genuinely hope Lohan intends to clean up her act. SNL might be a good place to start. In the past she’s had a good relationship with the show. Not only has she hosted before, but she also starred in Mean Girls with former SNL member Tina Fey (she also wrote Mean Girls).

When she gets up to do her opening monologue, she’ll have very little to talk about besides her legal troubles and photo shoots. She hasn’t done any film work since her role in Machete.