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Second True Detective Season 2 Trailer Adds To The Mystery [WATCH]

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A second trailer for True Detective Season 2 has been released, deepening the mystery of the upcoming season. While it does delve a bit deeper – by that I mean it has dialogue – this trailer makes sure to keep the finer points of the story under wraps.

Check out the second True Detective trailer here:

The original story surrounding the transit systemic California and the occult isn’t the direction of this second season of True Detective anymore, according to series creator Nic Pizzolatto. The official synopsis is as follows:

A bizarre murder brings together three law-enforcement officers and a career criminal, each of whom must navigate a web of conspiracy and betrayal in the scorched landscapes of California. Colin Farrell is Ray Velcoro, a compromised detective in the all-industrial City of Vinci, LA County. Vince Vaughn plays Frank Semyon, a criminal and entrepreneur in danger of losing his life’s work, while his wife and closest ally (Kelly Reilly), struggles with his choices and her own. Rachel McAdams is Ani Bezzerides, a Ventura County Sheriff’s detective often at odds with the system she serves, while Taylor Kitsch plays Paul Woodrugh, a war veteran and motorcycle cop for the California Highway Patrol who discovers a crime scene which triggers an investigation involving three law enforcement groups, multiple criminal collusions, and billions of dollars.

MacAdams looks to be the main character in this new True Detective, but certainly all involved will have crucial roles in the plot. Justin Lin is directing the first two episodes of this new story. Season 2 of True Detective kicks off Sunday, June 21 on HBO.

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BREAKING: Asa Butterfield Is Spider-Man

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According to Latino-Review Asa Butterfield is your next Spider-Man!

Marvel has entered into negotiations with Butterfield’s representative, but paperwork has yet to be finalized.

Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures Entertainment liked Butterfield from the start. Latino-Review has been sitting on the story since Friday but has just now confirmed the rumors.

There are no further details about Butterfield’s role in Captain America: Civil War. You can expect a set photo from Instagram or a Tweet any moment now.

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2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Set List

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Joan Jett, Green Day, Bill Withers and Ringo Starr are among the performer inductees when the exclusive HBO special 2015 ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION CEREMONY debuts SATURDAY, MAY 30 (8:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT). This year’s ceremony featured an exciting array of guests, including Dave Grohl, Miley Cyrus, Zac Brown, Tom Morello, John Mayer, Jimmie Vaughan, Karen O, Nick Zinner, Beck, John Legend, Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney.

The 30th annual induction ceremony took place April 18 at Cleveland’s legendary Public Auditorium, the venue for many historic performers, including Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and The Rolling Stones. The HBO special features some of the biggest names in music in celebratory reunions, moving tributes and heartfelt speeches from both presenters and inductees.

The HBO special features:
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Induction: Miley Cyrus
Performance: Joan Jett and the Blackhearts and Tommy James perform “Bad Reputation.” Dave Grohl joins the band for “Cherry Bomb.” Miley Cyrus then joins to perform “Crimson and Clover.”

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Induction: Peter Wolf
Performance: Zac Brown and Tom Morello perform “Born in Chicago.”

Bill Withers
Induction: Stevie Wonder
Performance: Stevie Wonder performs “Ain’t No Sunshine,” and is joined by John Legend for “Use Me.” Bill Withers then joins to perform “Lean on Me.”

Green Day
Induction: Fall Out Boy
Performance: Green Day performs “American Idiot,” “When I Come Around,” and “Basket Case.”

The “5” Royales
Induction: Steve Cropper

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Induction: John Mayer
Performance: Jimmie Vaughan and Double Trouble are joined by John Mayer, Gary Clark Jr. and Doyle Bramhall II for “Pride and Joy” and “Texas Flood.”

Lou Reed
Induction: Patti Smith
Performance: Karen O and Nick Zinner perform “Vicious,” and Beck performs “Satellite of Love.”

Ringo Starr
Induction: Paul McCartney
Performance: Ringo Starr performs “Boys.” Joe Walsh steps in to perform “It Don’t Come Easy.” Paul McCartney returns with Joan Jett, Miley Cyrus, Dave Grohl, Tom Morello, Zac Brown, Gary Clark Jr., Leon Bridges, Green Day, Karen O, Beck, Stevie Wonder, John Legend and Bill Withers to perform “With a Little Help from My Friends” and “I Wanna Be Your Man.”

Paul Shaffer and members of the CBS Orchestra served as backup band for several of the night’s performances.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation was established by legendary record executive Ahmet Ertegun and a group of music business executives to honor the artists who have defined rock and roll and have inspired and continue to inspire a generation. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. is the nonprofit organization that exists to educate visitors, fans and scholars from around the world about the history and continuing significance of rock and roll music. It carries out this mission both through its operation of a world-class museum designed by I.M. Pei in Cleveland, Ohio that collects, preserves, exhibits and interprets this art form and through its library and archives as well as educational programs. For further information, visit rockhall.com.

This year’s special marks the fourth year HBO has presented the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, and is the first year in a recently announced three-year deal to present the ceremony. The network also presented the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 25th anniversary special in 2009 and a concert spectacular celebrating the opening of the museum in Cleveland in 1995.

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David Letterman’s Final ‘Late Show’ Guests Announced

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Next week is the final three David Letterman Late Show and CBS announced the guest list.
On Monday, Tom Hanks and Eddie Vedder.
Vedder will perform with Paul Shaffer.

On Tuesday, Bill Murray will bring his over the top antics.

CBS did not list any guests for Letterman’s final show on Wednesday ,but describes it as “an hour filled with surprises.”

The Late Show airs at 11:35 p.m. on CBS.

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CW Goes Bold With “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow” Trailer

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How is it possible that the CW is creating a better DC Universe than its film counterpart. DC’s Legends of Tomorrow is the boldest concept that the CW has put worth. My hope is that the fans support this show because the possibilities are endless.

Time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter must assemble a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat to the planet…and to time itself. DC’s Legends of Tomorrow is coming soon to The CW.

Make sure to watch till the end and see the true Atom.
DC's Legends of Tomorrow

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Raymond Reddington And The Blacklist Have More Tales To Tell

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Titan Comics announced the launch of The Blacklist, based on the successful television series.

Hitting stores on July 22, 2015, Issue #1 comes with two covers to collect: an original painted cover of Raymond ‘Red’ Reddington from fan-favorite artist, Alice X Zhang (Doctor Who) and a photo cover with an iconic image of Red. The Blacklist comic will also be available to read on personal digital devices.

The comic series is penned by Nicole Phillips and drawn by Beni Lobel (Constantine, Batman: Arkham Unhinged) and developed in conjunction with The Blacklist TV series from Sony Pictures Television. The first arc (Issues 1-5) will feature stories which expand upon the events of the TV series and feature all the major characters from the show, including the formidable Raymond ‘Red’ Reddington, played by James Spader, along with characters Lizzie (Megan Boone), Donald Ressler (Diego Klattenhoff), Dembe (Hisham Tawfiq) and others.

“A true extension of the television series, The Blacklist comic will take you on a journey deep into the dark world of international espionage, conspiracies, and intrigue on a global scale and explore new dimensions of the characters that have captured the audiences worldwide,” said David Leach, The Blacklist comic editor.

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Film Review: “Mad Max: Fury Road”

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Minimalist in characterization and dialogue, over-the-top and bombastic in direction and action choreography, Mad Max: Fury Road is exactly the sort of masterfully schizophrenic film making that fans of George Miller’s original trilogy of “Mad Max” films would and should expect in a new entry in the iconic series. Unlike so many sequels that take too long to produce and thus arrive far too late to add anything of value to the series, Fury Road takes advantage of modern film making techniques to ratchet the intensity up an insane notch while retaining the tone and spirit of the original films. There’s no mistaking that what we’re seeing is the same dystopian world and the same “Mad Max” Rockatansky that Miller introduced us to decades ago.

It’s just gotten a whole lot bigger and scarier.

Max looks a bit different this time, too, but only on the outside. Played by Tom Hardy this time, “Mad Max” is still the haunted, solitary figure driven only the need to survive that Mel Gibson last portrayed twenty years ago. Tormented by visions of past failures and lost loved ones, he steers his way clear of people and settlements, but sometimes people who want what little he still has come looking for him. Though certainly a formidable target, Max at the very start of the film finds himself overwhelmed and taken prisoner by fanatical servants of the warlord Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne), who rules the lives of thousands from the top of “The Citadel”, a massive fortress carved out of massive rock formations jutting like knives out of the desert wastes. Immortan Joe controls the lives of his followers by hoarding things like water, shelter, and women, but his most important element of control is belief. His most fervent followers, the “War Boys” are fully indoctrinated in the cult he’s built around himself, with his divinity and divine right to rule at its heart — they gleefully live for the chance to drive and die carrying out his will, for in doing so they hope to earn a place in a better afterlife.

But one of his top lieutenants, the Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron), sees through the lies. She makes off with her massive War Rig carrying Immortan Joe’s most prized “possessions” — the beautiful, perfect “wives” he keeps locked in a vault to breed his future heirs — and leads his murderous minions on an epic chase across hundreds of miles of wasteland, hoping to keep them all alive long enough to reach safety. Max, now the captive of a particularly zealous War Boy named Nux (Nicholas Hoult), finds himself literally a hood ornament chained to one of the dozen armed-to-the-teeth pursuit vehicles chasing after the traitor and her stolen “property”, forced to watch as the War Boys try to run their prey down any way they can.

But this is a “Mad Max” movie. You know he won’t stay a captive for very long.

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Since George Miller last visited the dystopian wastelands of his “Mad Max” films 30 years ago with Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, his work has influenced an entire sub-genre of action films built upon imagining the struggle for existence after an apocalypse, the collapse of order and reason, and the depths of depravity reached by mankind on the brink, without hope of a better tomorrow. Everything from the classic Japanese manga and anime Fist of the North Star to Tank Girl to two separate and distinct Kevin Costner box office busts, 1995’s Waterworld and 1997’s The Postman, owe a debt to what Miller and his star, Mel Gibson, delivered on screen with the tales of Max Rockatansky.

Now, with Miller’s long-awaited return to the genre, he makes a pretty good case for the idea that he alone should be allowed to make movies like this. For almost its entire two-hour running time, Mad Max: Fury Road is naught but a very long and elaborate chase scene, featuring short pit-stops for terse dialogue exchanged in order to transition from one leg of the chase to the next. The characters here are more archetypes than fully-realized human characters, given colorful names such as “Furiosa”, “Rictus Erectus”, “Splendid”, and “Capable”, and set against one another and the bleak landscape with their epic struggle meant fully to be an allegory for the fight to hold on to hope in a world that often rewards compassion with savagery and greed. There’s nothing subtle here, no attempt at nuance whatsoever. It’s all pedal-to-the-metal, twisted steel and explosions, blood, death, and sand, punctuated by the occasionally meaningful glance or slight gesture to indicate that humanity is still present in this most inhumane of places.

And yet, despite none of it really being new, it all still works marvelously, thanks to Miller’s mastery of the material and his sense of spectacle and scope. You might think you’ve seen stuff like this before, but you’ve never seen it brought to life this way, and almost all of it with practical sets and effects. There’s a modernity to the feel of the production thanks to what cast and crew can do these days with camera location and positioning, and also with 3D, but for the most part what this production achieves it achieves through good old fashioned stuntwork, pyrotechnics, and imaginative production design.

As for the actors in front of the camera in the midst of all those speeding cars, raining explosive spears and sand flying in all directions, they give audiences just what’s needed to provide a beating heart to all the mayhem. Hardy, as always, delivers an on-point performance that should remind audiences of the Mel/Max of old while still bringing his signature gravitas and bearing. Theron is his equal as the stoic, battle-weary Furiosa — the two performers find a simply synergy in their scenes together, portraying two characters with a lot in common in terms of what they’ve lost and what they’re seeking in what’s left of the world. Hoult also stands out in the early going as the fanatical Nux, though his character arc takes a bit of a maudlin turn by the midpoint and after that doesn’t register much. The performers playing the “wives” certainly stand out visually, swathed in white, looking relatively pristine against the backdrop of all that desolation and depravation, and among them Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (Transformers: Dark of the Moon) shines brightest, but the script gives them each just enough to do to keep them from being just walking, talking scenery, and so no presence feels wasted.

All in all, it’s tough not to regard Mad Max: Fury Road as a triumph in every measurable sense. It may not appeal to particular audiences due to all that blood and bedlam and lack of depth, but to those who know what they’re walking into and welcome it, it’s quite possibly the cinematic experience of the year thus far.

Mad Max: Fury Road
Starring Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Riley Keough, Zoë Kravitz, Abbey Lee, Courtney Eaton. Directed by George Miller.
Running Time: 120 minutes
Rated R for intense sequences of violence throughout, and for disturbing images.

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Complete 2015 Fall Television Schedule

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Get your DVRs ready, this is what your Fall television schedule looks like. What do you think will be the biggest hit and what show will get canceled first?

MONDAY
8 p.m.
The Voice (NBC)
Gotham (Fox)
Dancing With the Stars (ABC)
The Big Bang Theory (CBS) // SUPERGIRL (CBS)*
CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND (CW)

8:30 p.m.
LIFE IN PIECES (CBS) // SUPERGIRL (CBS)**

9 p.m.
MINORITY REPORT (Fox) // LUCIFER (Fox) (midseason)
Scorpion (CBS)
Jane the Virgin (CW)

10 p.m.
BLINDSPOT (NBC)
Castle (ABC)
NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS)

TUESDAY
8 p.m.
The Voice (NBC)
GRANDFATHERED (Fox)
THE MUPPETS (ABC)
NCIS (CBS)
The Flash (CW)

8:30 p.m.
THE GRINDER (Fox)
Fresh Off the Boat (ABC)

9 p.m.
HEARTBREAKER (NBC)
SCREAM QUEENS (Fox) // New Girl (Fox) (January)
Agents of SHIELD (ABC)
NCIS: New Orleans (CBS)
iZombie (CW)

9:30 p.m.
THE GUIDE TO SURVIVING LIFE (Fox) (January)

10 p.m.
BEST TIME EVER WITH NEIL PATRICK HARRIS (live, through November) (NBC)
Chicago Fire (premieres in November) (NBC)
QUANTICO (ABC)
LIMITLESS (CBS)

WEDNESDAY
8 p.m.
The Mysteries of Laura(NBC)
ROSEWOOD (Fox)
The Middle (ABC)
Survivor (CBS)
Arrow (CW)

8:30 p.m.
The Goldbergs (ABC)

9 p.m.
Law & Order: SVU (NBC)
Empire (Fox)
Modern Family (ABC)
Criminal Minds (CBS)
Supernatural (CW)

9:30 p.m.
Black-ish (ABC)

10 p.m.
Chicago P.D. (NBC)
Nashville (ABC)
CODE BLACK (CBS)

THURSDAY
8 p.m.
HEROES REBORN (NBC)
Bones (Fox)
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)
8-11 p.m. Thursday Night Football (Sept. 17-November) (CBS)
8 p.m. The Big Bang Theory*
The Vampire Diaries (CW)

8:30 p.m.
LIFE IN PIECES* (CBS)

9 p.m.
The Blacklist (NBC)
Sleepy Hollow (Fox)
Scandal (ABC)
Mom* (CBS)
The Originals (CW)

10 p.m.
THE PLAYER (NBC)
How to Get Away With Murder (ABC)
Elementary* (CBS)

FRIDAY
8 p.m.
Undateable (live) (NBC)
Masterchef Junior (Fox)
Last Man Standing (ABC)
The Amazing Race (CBS)
Reign (CW)

8:30 p.m.
PEOPLE ARE TALKING (NBC)
DR. KEN (ABC)

9 p.m.
Grimm (NBC)
World’s Funniest (Fox)
Shark Tank (ABC)
Hawaii Five-0 (CBS)
America’s Next Top Model (CW)

10 p.m.
Dateline (NBC)
20/20 (ABC)
Blue Bloods (CBS)

SATURDAY
7-10:30 p.m. Fox Sports Saturday: Fox College Football (Fox)
8-10 p.m. Crimetime Saturday (CBS)
8-10 p.m. Dateline Saturday Night Mystery (NBC)
8-11 p.m. Saturday Night Football (ABC)
10-11 p.m. 48 Hours (CBS)
10-11 p.m. Saturday Night Live (Classic encores) (NBC)

SUNDAY
7-7:30 NFL on Fox (Fox)
7-8 p.m. America’s Funniest Home Videos (ABC)
7-8 p.m. 60 Minutes (CBS)
7-8:20 p.m. Football Night in America (NBC)
7:30-8 p.m. The OT/Bob’s Burgers (Fox)
8 p.m. The Simpsons (Fox)
8-9 p.m. Once Upon a Time (ABC)
8-9 p.m. Madam Secretary (CBS)
8:20-11 p.m. Sunday Night Football (NBC)
8:30 p.m. Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Fox)
9 p.m. Family Guy (Fox)
9-10 p.m. OIL (ABC)
9-10 p.m. The Good Wife
9:30 p.m. The Last Man on Earth (Fox)
10-11 p.m. OF KINGS AND PROPHETS (ABC)
10-11 p.m. CSI: Cyber*

*Starting in November after football

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Pitch Perfect 2: Elizabeth Banks Avoids German Incident

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Elizabeth Banks was on Jimmy Kimmel Live and she talked about the difference this time around as the director of Pitch Perfect 2. She also is a good American diplomat as she avoids insulting the Germans.

Pitch Perfect 2
After a humiliating command performance at Lincoln Center, the Barden Bellas enter an international competition that no American group has ever won in order to regain their status and right to perform.

The film features Elizabeth Banks, Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, Ester Dean, Hana Mae Lee, and Alexis Knapp.

Pitch Perfect 2 will be in theaters on May 15, 2015 from Universal Pictures.

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CBS’ Supergirl Hits A Home Run In First Trailer

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Where Jem and the Holograms failed us yesterday, CBS’ Supergirl hit all the right notes that makes us love the Superman franchise.

It’s not a bird. It’s not a plane. It’s not a man. It’s Supergirl. In the new drama from the world of DC Comics, Superman’s cousin, Kara Zor-El, embraces her superhuman abilities and becomes the hero she was always meant to be. This Fall on CBS.

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