We’ve scoured the entertainment world to bring you the most important, most up-to-date information in the TV, movie and celebrity arena.
- The third season of Walking Dead premieres this fall, and the show has cast Treme actress Danai Gurira as Michonne. She already made a brief appearance in the show’s season 2 finale.
- Jamie Waylett, who played bully Vincent Crabbe in Harry Potter movies, was slammed with a 2-year prison sentence for his involvement in last summer’s riots in London.
- Dan Aykroyd posted on Facebook that he and Chevy Chase are in the very preliminary stages of writing a comedy movie. And by “very preliminary,” I mean they haven’t actually started yet, but are “about to start work” on a script.
- Actress Jenna-Louise Coleman has been hired to play Matt Smith’s new companion in Doctor Who. She’ll move in following the departure of Karen Gillan (Amy) and Arthur Darvill (Rory) later this year.
- Jessica Biel and Scarlett Johansson are set to star in Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, directed by Sacha Gervasi. The movie, set to start filming later this year, follows Hitchcock’s struggle to make Psycho a hit.
- It’s Reese Witherspoon’s 36th birthday today! In related news, there’s speculation that she may be pregnant with her and new husband, Jim Toth’s, first baby.
- Michael Bay has been getting a lot of heat lately for his plan to re-engineer the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. For his film, he suggests that the TMNT come from an alien race, instead of some ooze mutation. Though many have bashed him for the idea, one of the original co-creators, Peter Laird, says give the guy a break!
- The Hunger Games showings are already selling out. Fandango has already sold more tickets for this movie than Twilight tickets during its entire run. And top theater chains are reporting advanced sales of nearly $15 million.
- Fox is pulling I Hate My Teenage Daughter 2 weeks earlier than scheduled after reporting disappointing ratings. The six remaining episodes will air in the summer.
- The future of The Office is even more in question now that its writer-producer Paul Lieberstein, who also plays Toby on the show, is leaving the series to work on the Dwight Schrute spin-off. Rainn Wilson and Mindy Kaling are signed on to other shows, and Ed Helms and John Krasinksi have yet to sign new deals for the show’s ninth season.
