Negromancer News Bits and Bites for August 24th to August 30th 2014 - Update #15

NEWS:

From TheWrap:  Team behind 22 Jump Street to reboot old ABC television series, "The Greatest American Hero," for television.

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From DeadlineHollywood:  A&E cancels its most popular scripted television series, "Longmire."

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From DeadlineHollywood:  Emma Roberts is set for the horror-thriller "February."

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From TheHuffingtonPost:  See Miley Cyrus' bathing suit for the cover of V Magazine.  You can't swim with that!

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From the AP via Yahoo:  Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie reportedly, secretly married in the France on Saturday, August 23, 2014.

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From TheHollywoodReporter:  A complete list of winners at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards

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From the WashingtonPost:  Fix the Emmys?

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From PostandCourier:  Emma Stone set to make Broadway debut in "Cabaret."

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From TheTelegraph:  Idris Elba and Chiwetel Ejiofor renew awards "rivalry" at tonight's (Monday, August 25, 2014) 66th Primetime Emmy Awards.

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From TheVox:  "True Blood" never figured out what it wanted its vampires to be

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From YahooMusic:  Amber Rose's chain-link dress at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards

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From TheWrap:  Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy is not gone, nor is it forgotten.  It stole the August 22nd to 24th, 2014 weekend box office, according to early estimates.  It returns to #1 after spending two weeks at #2 behind Paramount's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot, which is at #2 for this weekend.  Guardians won the box office for its debut weekend, before the Turtles returned to cinemas.  Guardians is also the #1 box-office hit of the Summer 2014, moving past Transformers: Age of Extinction.

The teen-oriented, If I Stay, opens at #3, according to early estimates and could end up battling the Turtles for #2, when the finally tally comes about sometime Monday afternoon.  Sin City: A Dame to Kill For," a sequel to the 2004 film, Sin City, is likely a bomb with its $6.6 million debut.

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From BleedingCool:  With all the good news Marvel is getting, I thought that I'd bring back this classic bit of bad press.

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From TheWrap:  Five Freaky Facts about the Fractured Summer Box Office.

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From YahooCelebrity:  "Sleepy Hollow" actor, Orlando Jones, puts a powerful twist on the "ice bucket" challenge.  Call it "Bullet Bucket Challenge."


STAR WARS:

From HuffingtonPost:  Episode VII cast members take "ice bucket challenge," including Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford.


COMIC BOOKS - Movies and Comics:

From EW InsideMovies:  Marvel still trying to talk Joaquin Phoenix into portraying the title character in their planned "Doctor Strange" film.  It's a close call, apparently.

From Yahoo:  Images from the set of "Avengers: Age of Ultron."

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From CinemaBlend:  Rumors, spoilers, and speculation about "Captain America 3."

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From YahooMovies:  See Evangeline Lilly's "wasp-y" haircut for "Ant-Man."

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From The Hollywood Reporter via YahooMovies:  "Ant-Man" adds new cast members:  Rapper T.I., John Slatterly, Judy Greer, and Bobby Cannavale.


OBITS:

From Variety:  Actor, director, and producer, Sir Richard Attenborough died today, Sunday, August 24, 2014.  He was 90 years old.  In 1982, Attenborough won two Oscars for producing and directing the 1982 film, Gandhi.  [Sir Ben Kingsley won the best actor for playing the title role.]  Attenborough was probably best known for playing park creator John Hammond in the 1993 film, Jurassic Park, and in the sequel, The Lost World.

Attenborough's other directorial efforts included Cry Freedom, Chaplin, and Shadowlands.  In the 1960s, he won a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe for his acting.

Attenborough chronicled his 20 year struggle to make Gandhi (which won 8 Oscars) in the book, In Search of Gandhi.  Negromancer sends condolences to Attenborough's family and friends. R.I.P. Sir Richard.


TRAILERS AND PREVIEWS:

From 20thCenturyFox:  First official trailer for Alexandre Aja's The Pyramid.


MISC:

From GMA via Yahoo:  A great story about two men who were friends as boys in Ottawa, Canada, who found out six decades later that they were brothers.

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From TheVox:  This pie chart GIF shows how we have paid for music over the last 30 years.