Entertainment Link-Off: Edge of the Earth

Lyndsy-Fonseca-Bello-2013_4This weekend marks the release of the comedy We Are the Millers and the sci-fi actioner Elysium. Good time to marathon some movies! Anyway, let’s start off the ELO with Lyndsy Fonseca this week. You can catch her on the CW series Nikita and occasionally see her pop up on How I Met Your Mother. She’ll also be appearing in Kick Ass 2, opening next week.

After the jump, Finding Dory is getting some quick edits, Americans are too dumb to understand a sci-fi action movie, Paranormal Activity is back with a vengeance, The Lone Ranger’s cast and crew blame the movie’s misfortunes on a certain group of people and watch Patton Oswalt’s Star Wars rant… animation style!

Finding Dory is still several years away from making the big screen but the orca controversy at Sea World has already led to a slight tweak in the film’s ending. (NY Times)

Looks like Jay Leno will be handing over The Tonight Show to Jimmy Fallon in February 2014. Given that Leno is still quite popular, will this handover turn into another Conan part deux? (Variety)

Now You See Me was just recently released in Australia, but it has been out for quite some time back in North America. The film was quite the sleeper hit and it looks like Lionsgate wants to do a sequel. Hollywood can never leave “good enough” alone. (Slashfilm)

The cast of Expendables 3 is taking shape. Bruce Willis is out, but Mel Gibson and Antonio Banderas is in! (Collider)

Boon Joon-ho’s sci-fi action thriller Snowpiercer is getting a bit of a tweak by Harvey Weinstein because Americans may be too stupid to understand his film. (IF.com)

Darn, spoke too soon! Paranormal Activity might not be back this year, but it’ll have 2 releases next year. (Shock Til You Drop)

With all the flops lately, looks like Jerry Bruckheimer’s power is starting to shrink. (The Wrap)

According to the cast and crew of The Lone Ranger, it flopped not because it was a bad movie, it was because of the movie critics. (Yahoo)

Damon Lindelof is tired of all the “destruction porn” in summer blockbusters. (Vulture)

Thanos was never meant to be the next villain for The Avengers sequel. (Slashfilm)

Check out the original plan for Charlie Day’s character in Pacific Rim. (Crave)

The title for the next Sharknado film is out! Most brilliant title ever or just plain stupid? At least it gets to the point. (Entertainment Weekly)

Connie Britton has the script for the Friday Night Lights movie! Woohoo! (Huffington Post)

The international trailer for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is here. Have a look to wet your appetites for this November!

While we’re on movie trailers, here’s the new one for Thor: The Dark World.

Here’s a look at the rejected Legend of Zelda movie pitch made a little while ago.


We’ve seen the Parks and Rec outtake and then we got a look at the faux movie poster. Now here’s an animated version of Patton Oswalt’s Star Wars rant.

Watch the cover of Blurred Lines featuring Joseph Vincent, Paul Kim, David So… and some special guest stars…

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