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What better way to start out the 17th - yes, seventeenth - season of South Park than with a brand new introduction video! It's mostly the same with different animation, but the clip does open with Kenny's gravestone. Might this mean we will have a season 17 without him?
Three new posters for Ender's Game have been released, and they look just as hackneyed as you would imagine for a big-budget, sci-fi film. With no focus on the movie's concept, the posters do their best to create a clumsy collage of all of the film's big-name actors, almost laughably displayed in the perfect combination of blue and orange. Previous posters for the movie have fallen into the blue/orange trap as well, but at least their designs were moderately different than every sci-fi one-sheet you've ever seen.
Today we have the first photo from indie comedy That Awkward Moment, showcasing its well-dressed stars: Zac Efron, Michael B. Jordan, and Miles Teller. The film, previously titled Are We Officially Dating?, is directed by Tom Gormican (based on his screenplay) and tells the story of Efron, Jordan, and Teller's characters, who make a pact to remain single, and consequently I assume, almost surely fall in love.
To anyone who's longed to watch Johnny Depp portray "the Wolf" of classic fairytale lore, your wait will be over in 2014. And no, not to be directed by Tim Burton, but by Rob Marshall in Disney's upcoming live action adaptation of a Tony Award-winning musical, Into The Woods. For those uninitiated by their little sister's middle school production, Into The Woods is a Stephen Sondheim musical comedy that mashes up the stories of multiple Brothers Grimm fairytales.
Fangirls, fret not; though Benedict Cumberbatch has left Guillermo del Toro's upcoming horror film, Crimson Peak, he's officially been replaced by a similarly talented and adored Brit: Tom Hiddleston. The actor, who can be seen this November in Thor: The Dark World, is joining the cast alongside of Charlie Hunnam, Jessica Chastain and Mia Wasikowska.
Director Roland Emmerich is indeed making Independence Day 2, which is very tentatively scheduled to release approximately 20 years after its predecessor. Emmerich has stated that about half of the original cast - including Jeff Goldblum, thank God - will be returning, though he wouldn't want Will Smith to get top billing, thus overshadowing the rest of the cast. But according to Emmerich in a recent interview he did with Digital Spy, "anything can happen." Smith and Emmerich are back in talks about the film, and the possibility that ID2 will star Will Smith is back on the table.
After six campy, delicious seasons of vampire sex and violence, HBO's True Blood is finally coming to an end with season seven, which will consist of only ten episodes, just like season six. The show's major leads, Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Ryan Kwanten, Sam Trammell, and most noteworthy, Alexander Skarsgård, are all scheduled to remain on True Blood through the end.
Iconic director and co-founder of Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki, will retire from feature film directing, according to an announcement that has been issued at the Venice Film Festival's press conference room. The statement was not made by Miyazaki himself but by Studio Ghibli president Koji Hoshino. Miyazaki's latest and last film, The Wind Rises, is currently competing at the festival.
Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson were mere children when they auditioned for The X Factor in 2010, with the exception of Louis, who was just 18. These boys literally have been working ever since the day they tried out, hardly sleeping, travelling the world, and forming fierce friendships. According to One Direction: This Is Us, they have barely seen their families as they’ve aged into adulthood – and this is what’s so riveting about this documentary, which is also known as 1D:3D.
Louis Leterrier, director of Now You See Me, will be directing the film's sequel that was announced earlier this month, in case you were worried that some new director would step up and make the plot less complicated. Leterrier, who also directed 2008's The Incredible Hulk and Clash of the Titans, won't be writing the sequel but will be involved with the overall story.