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New 'Game of Thrones' Promos Urge Fans to Declare Their Allegiance

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Game of ThronesIn the struggle for the Iron Throne, which House do you pledge allegiance to?

Three new promos for "Game of Thrones" season 6 pit Houses Stark, Lannister, and Targaryen against each other for fan support on social media. Each short video is more of a mood piece than a look at the new season, but they're still fun teasers. The one for House Stark features a torn banner, with Ramsay Bolton claiming Winterfell as his own. House Lannister's echoes with the eery septa chanting "Shame! Shame!" And in the House Targaryen promo, a Dothraki voice taunts Daenerys that she is "Queen of Nothing."

Watch them all below:
"Game of Thrones" returns with its sixth season April 24 on HBO.

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New 'Allegiant' Trailer Takes Tris Beyond the Wall

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AllegiantIn the world of the "Divergent" series, the wall separating the city from everything else was a barrier not to be crossed. Until Tris (Shailene Woodley) came along.

In the new trailer for "Allegiant," Tris, Four (Theo James), and motley crew of misfits ventures beyond the wall to discover the unimaginable. We get glimpses of the futuristic technology that lies out there, but will the people they meet save them — or destroy them?

"Tris, this is not the place we thought it was," Four urgently warns her. The last book in Veronica Roth's book series will be divided into two films, "Allegiant" and "Ascendant." Jeff Daniels joins the cast of the newest movie as Daniel, a leader of the group that takes in Tris and Four.

"Allegiant" opens in theaters March 18.

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15 Times Kelly Kapowski Put the Bae in Bayside on 'Saved by the Bell'

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Tiffani Amber Thiessen's Kelly Kapowski is the undisputed prom queen of the '90s. Whether the "Saved By the Bell" leading lady was cheerleading, starting a girl group, saying nope to dope, or passing up prom because her dad recently lost his job (aww), she was always being the totally rad girl of everyone's dreams. Those shiny voluminous locks, ridiculously high-waisted bikinis, and floral denim shorts are the stuff of TV legend. Here are 15 times Kelly Kapowski proved she was definitely one of Bayside's finest.

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'Avatar 2' Delayed Again, Won't Make Christmas 2017 Release Date

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The upcoming trio of sequels to James Cameron's "Avatar" have been delayed yet again, with news that "Avatar 2" will not make its scheduled 2017 release date as planned.

TheWrap reports that the planned Christmas 2017 release has officially been pushed, as Cameron continues prepping for the daunting shoot, which was to have taken place back-to-back-to-back to accommodate for releasing one film in each of three consecutive years. No new release date for "Avatar 2" has been announced yet.

This is the second time that the sequels have had to adjust their release schedule: "Avatar 2" was originally slated to hit theaters in December 2016, with "Avatar 3" and "Avatar 4" following in 2017 and 2018. After the first delay, that schedule was amended to 2017, 2018, and 2019.

According to TheWrap, Cameron remains committed to his ambitious shooting plan, and still intends to film the entire trilogy of sequels in one swoop in New Zealand. "Soundstage construction and some computer animation work is in the early stages, but a start date for filming has not been set," the site says.

The original "Avatar," released in 2009, remains the world's highest-grossing flick internationally, and it looks unlikely that "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" will overtake its daunting $2.8 billion haul. The only real challengers, it seems, are the "Avatar" sequels themselves; it remains to be seen, however, just when they'll make their long-awaited debut.

Stay tuned.

[via: TheWrap]

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Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth Are Engaged Again: Report

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Relativity Media's "Paranoia" Premiere - Red CarpetMore than two years after calling off their engagement, Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth are officially back together -- and it looks like they're engaged again, too.

Gossip outlets have been buzzing about the pair, who were recently spotting spending time together in Hemsworth's native Australia, where they attended a music festival and hung out with Hemsworth's family over the New Year's holiday. Since then, Cyrus has been seen out in public wearing her flashy 3.5-carat diamond engagement ring (and flaunting it on Instagram), sparking rumors that this reconciliation was about to get more permanent.

According to Us Weekly, it indeed has, as the couple is officially engaged again. Sources tell the magazine that Hemsworth, 26, and Cyrus, 23, are not only betrothed (and telling friends the news), but they're moving in together, too. Cyrus has reportedly been seen with boxes and a moving truck outside of Hemsworth's Malibu home.

Hemsworth first popped the question to Cyrus back in May 2012, after meeting on the set of 2010's Nicholas Sparks drama "The Last Song." They called off their engagement in September 2013.

Congrats (again!) to the happy couple! As an added bonus, here are Miley and Liam reminding us why they are so freakin' adorable together.



[via: Us Weekly, People, Miley Cyrus]

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Charlotte Rampling Calls Oscars Diversity Focus 'Racist to Whites'

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GERMANY-EU-FILM-FESTIVALVeteran actress Charlotte Rampling finally earned her first Oscar nomination last week, for "45 Years," after decades in the film industry. Unfortunately, Rampling has officially marred that achievement by speaking out against the push for a more diverse Oscars slate, claiming that it's "racist to whites."

In an interview with French radio station Europe 1 (as translated by The Guardian), Rampling was asked her thoughts on the #OscarsSoWhite backlash, and the planned boycott of entertainers including Spike Lee, Will Smith, and Jada Pinkett Smith.

"It is racist to whites," Rampling said of controversy.

As if that wasn't enough, the actress continued trying to explain her (apparently quite long-winded) thoughts on the subject:

"One can never really know, but perhaps the black actors did not deserve to make the final list," added Rampling. Asked if the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences should introduce quotas, a proposal which no current advocate of increased diversity has mooted, she responded: "Why classify people? These days everyone is more or less accepted ... People will always say: 'Him, he's less handsome'; 'Him, he's too black'; 'He is too white' ... someone will always be saying 'You are too' [this or that] ... But do we have to take from this that there should be lots of minorities everywhere?"

When the interviewer explains that black members of the film industry feel like a minority, Rampling replies: "No comment."

Maybe the best time for that "no comment" response should have been at the beginning of the interview, yes?

The Academy has pledged to make an effort to be more inclusive in the future, and may be ready to act on that promise as soon as next week by making sweeping changes to its nomination process. One proposed idea was instituting a voting cutoff for Academy members who have not been active in the film industry for a certain period of years, though that change is unlikely due to anticipated backlash from older members.

According to a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Rampling herself is a member of the Academy, "and many other members publicly share her sentiments." Maybe sweeping change isn't so imminent after all.

[via: Europe 1, The Guardian, Glenn Whipp]

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13 Times Dana Scully From 'The X-Files' Was the Sassy Skeptic of Our Dreams

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On "The X-Files," Agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) is many things: a medical doctor, an FBI agent, and, most importantly, a lady who can lay on the snark when Agent Mulder just won't shut up about UFOs and aliens.

These are our 13 favorite sassy Scully moments.

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Cate Blanchett to Play Norse Villain in 'Thor: Ragnarok': Report

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2016 Weinstein Company And Netflix Golden Globes After Party - ArrivalsCate Blanchett may have just landed another Oscar nomination for the drama "Carol," but the actress has an even more buzzworthy prospect on the horizon: A starring role in a Marvel tentpole flick. Blanchett has been rumored for weeks to be joining the cast of "Thor: Ragnarok," and now, there may be some clues as to who she's playing.

First came word that Blanchett would be one of the female leads of the flick. Then, earlier this month, Mark Ruffalo -- who's set to reprise his Hulk role in "Thor 3" -- let it slip that she would be playing a villain. And Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige also teased that the film would be very different from the first two "Thor" movies, and take place primarily in the cosmos.

Using those clues, the folks over at Geek.com have pieced together that Blanchett is probably playing a character called Hela, the Norse goddess of death. Here's the scoop from the site:

Sources have confirmed with Geek.com that the big bad of Thor: Ragnarok will be Hela, the Marvel comic book character who is the ruler of Hel and the realm of Niflheim. Considering Ruffalo let slip that Blanchett will play a baddie, it's probably safe to assume that she'll assume the role of Hela. She'll be her normal comic book self, complete with her cloak and power over the dead souls of the Nine Realms. Hela will make it to Asgard, where she'll be in cahoots with Tom Hiddleston's Loki, current motives unknown.

Geek.com has a bunch more spoiler-y details for how Hela could factor into the larger Marvel Phase 3 plan (including "Avengers: Infinity War"). It certainly sounds like a juicy role befitting an A-list star, and Blanchett's acting chops and ethereal looks are a powerful combination that make her a natural choice to play an all-powerful Norse villainess.

Of course, as with all things Marvel, nothing is officially official until an announcement is made. Stay tuned.

[via: Geek.com, ET, Empire/ComicBookMovie]

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Oscars 2016: Why the #OscarsSoWhite Boycott Only Scratches the Surface

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Anyone who thinks the Oscars are trivial, that they're just about privileged people who live in a bubble giving each other golden trophies, wasn't paying attention this week.

The #OscarsSoWhite controversy has only grown more shrill and bitter in the week since the Academy announced its second straight slate of all-white acting nominees. Not only have numerous stars weighed in, but so have politicians, including presidential candidate Donald Trump and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio. So the discussion over the lack of diversity at the Oscars has affected the real world outside the Dolby Theatre -- as it should.

The underlying issue here is bigger than the Oscars, which only represent the end of the process. As many prominent movie folk have noted, from Spike Lee to Viola Davis to George Clooney, the problem is at the beginning of the process -- when the studios decide which stories to tell and whom to hire to tell them. Increase diversity there, and you'll increase it among the movies and individuals in the pool of eligible nominees.
Why does it even matter? Because black people, like everyone else, want to see people like themselves on screen and hear their own stories told. Because people of color also buy more movie tickets per capita than white people do, so you'd think Hollywood would try to do more to cater to its customer base. Because the success of black stars like Will Smith and Denzel Washington overseas -- where most of the box office comes from -- should have long ago put a stop to the industry belief that it's a waste of resources to make films about black people since foreign audiences won't pay to see them. And because Hollywood movies are not just one of America's most successful exports, but also represent the face (and faces) that America presents to the world, so why shouldn't the movies look more like America?

That's where the Academy comes in, since the Oscars are Hollywood's way of presenting its most positive image of itself. Just two years ago, when "12 Years a Slave" and Lupita Nyong'o won big, the message of the Oscars seemed to be: America's diversity is such a source of strength that it even allows us to take an uncompromising look at the ugliest part of our history. What's the message this year?

Right now, at least, it's one of strife and embarrassment. Jada Pinkett Smith was the first star to suggest a boycott, though she and husband Will are insisting that their non-attendance is about the larger shutout, not Will's own snub for "Concussion." Not sure if anyone believes that, especially after the dis from Will's former "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" co-star Janet Hubert. Whether or not the Smiths are sincere, the spat has made their boycott about ego and celebrity gossip, and less about the underlying issue.

Ego may also have trumped good intentions in the case of music legend and former Oscar ceremony producer Quincy Jones. While dismissing the effectiveness of a boycott, he also threatened to walk, saying the Academy had asked him to be a presenter this year but that he'll only do it if he's allowed to address the diversity issue for five minutes. Let's hope he meant in private and not onstage; given how long the show runs every year, the Academy is unlikely to allow anyone to do anything for five straight minutes -- especially not give a political speech.
Special chutzpah points go to supporting Actor nominee Mark Ruffalo. First, he suggested that he was mulling the idea of joining the boycott; which performers of color should have been nominated in his place, this year and last, he didn't say. Then he tweeted that he actually would attend, in support of the sexual abuse victims whose stories he helped tell in "Spotlight." So he almost got to be the first actual nominee and the first white person to join the boycott, but he also gets to stay and not miss his potential winning moment, with a politically unassailable excuse. No doubt someone will scold him for playing one marginalized group against another, but for now -- well played, Ruffalo.

The outcry has been so loud that even Academy CEO Dawn Hudson and Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs have been forced to make diplomatically worded pronouncements expressing their disappointment over the homogeneity of the nominations and promising institutional changes while taking care not to disparage the achievements of the nominees.

No doubt the Academy overseers want to stem the talk of a boycott, and maybe they've succeeded. So far, the only people who've said they aren't coming are the Smiths, director and Academy documentary board member Michael Moore, and Spike Lee, who has said that, just because he's not coming doesn't mean he's urging anyone else to boycott.
Lee's behavior seems paradoxical, and not just because the filmmaker won an honorary Oscar last November for his groundbreaking body of work -- meaning that, had he shown up on February 28, there would actually be one black honoree recognized at the ceremony. But also because last year, when questioned about #OscarsSoWhite, he took the long view, citing how posterity had judged his Academy-snubbed 1989 movie "Do the Right Thing" (above) a classic while deeming that year's winner, "Driving Miss Daisy," a patronizing trifle. His argument last January was that true validation doesn't come from an award but from history. But after a second year of #OscarsSoWhite, he seems to have changed his mind.

In his announcement on Instagram that he would sit out this year's ceremony, Lee did acknowledge that change needs to happen in Hollywood boardrooms in order for it to happen at the Oscars.

So how, then, will an Oscar boycott help?
No one calling for a boycott has been able to explain that; nor has anyone who is calling for host Chris Rock to step down. Even Tyrese Gibson, who's the most prominent star urging Rock to join the boycott, has expressed reservations. He notes that Leonardo DiCaprio is his friend, and if "The Revenant" star finally wins his first Oscar, as he's widely expected to do, the award will seem tainted by the controversy.

Tyrese's misgivings introduce a rich irony: the sense that any white winner this year will have to wonder whether he or she won based on racial preference, not just merit. That, after all, is the mirror version of the argument many have been making, that the protest is unjustified because maybe there just weren't enough worthy black performances, this year or last. That argument assumes that all the white nominees did get in on merit alone, that there's no reverse affirmative action at work.

Maybe they did, but it's unlikely because the Oscars have never been entirely about merit. There are always other considerations, including Hollywood politics, money, and the simple fact that there are always more worthy candidates than nomination slots. (That's why the awards are so hard to handicap.)

But the argument that snubbed black actors shouldn't complain because white actors get snubbed too doesn't hold water. The late Alan Rickman was widely acknowledged to be one of the finest actors in the English language, yet he never got one Academy Award nomination. Who can say why? But at least the reason wasn't that the Academy didn't have enough white male members to make sure he wasn't overlooked, and it wasn't that Hollywood wasn't making enough movies with white male characters for him to enjoy a proper showcase for his talents.
Under Boone Isaacs, the Academy has been working to diversify its membership for the past four years. And on Thursday came the news that the Academy may institute some rule changes, perhaps as soon as next week, that could eventually create a more inclusive slate, such as fixing the number of Best Picture nominees at 10 (instead of a variable number between five and 10) and increasing the number of nominees in the acting categories.

Of course, there will be complaints at first that this is just watering down the awards by making them less exclusive. But again, the Oscars have never been solely about excellence anyway, and similar complaints made back in 2009 when the Academy first expanded Best Picture beyond five nominees have long since been ignored and forgotten by all.

The real problem with the proposed rule changes is that they address only the symptom, not the cause. That's something that Hollywood will have to address far away from the red carpet, and not just during the one time each year when the whole world is paying attention.

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'Hunger Games' Star Jena Malone Pregnant With First Child

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'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2' World Premiere In BerlinActress Jena Malone is starting 2016 off with an exciting announcement: She's pregnant with her first child.

The 31-year-old "Hunger Games" star shared the news on social media, when her boyfriend, photographer Ethan DeLorenzo, posted a pic of the actress cradling a sizable baby bump. He captioned the sweet snap, "My family. @jenamalone and my child to be."

My family. @jenamalone and my child to be.

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Malone followed up DeLorenzo's post with her own Instagram photo, also taken by DeLorenzo, and also featuring her showing off her adorable bump. The actress included a poem in the caption that she says she wrote several years ago about her own mother, and "the woman I was reaching to become" as a mother herself.


"It's with two feet firmly on the ground and a heart swelling in an ocean of love that I'd like to share the new shape I am becoming to hold the greatest dream of them all," Malone added.

Congrats to the happy couple!

[via: Ethan DeLorenzo, Jena Malone]

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Aubrey Plaza Facts: 8 Things You (Probably) Don't Know About the 'Dirty Grandpa' Star

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Aubrey Plaza is best known for playing the sarcastic April Ludgate on TV's "Parks and Recreation," but these days she's headed to the big screen in the new raunchy comedy "Dirty Grandpa." So take this chance to learn some fun facts about her before she becomes a full-blown movie star.

From her medical scare in college to the hot celeb she couldn't remember, here are eight facts about Aubrey Plaza you (probably) don't know. VH1 Big In 2015 with Entertainment Weekly
[Source: IMDB, What Culture, Huffington Post]

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Quiz: Is This a 'Law and Order: SVU' Plot or Not?

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Are you a "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" superfan? Prove it by testing your knowledge of the show's outrageous storylines. Can you tell if these plots are real or not?

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