The comedy series Bella and The Bulldogs and The Thundermans have been renewed for additional seasons by Nickelodeon. Bella and the Bulldogs starring Brec Bassinger will be back for season two, and The Thundermans with Kira Kosarin and Jack Griffo will return for season three. The renewals come as no surprise as Bella and the Bulldogs is the network’s number one show with an average of two million viewers, and The Thundermans has earned the #1 spot in its time period among kids.
“Both of these live-action comedies have connected with our audiences, and we are thrilled to add new seasons of both of them,” Russell Hicks, Nickelodeon’s President of Content Development and Production. “We’re hearing from kids all the time about how much they admire Bella and her can-do spirit, and The Thundermans just continues to make kids laugh, which is great.”
Bella and The Bulldogs season two plot: “Faced with much bigger challenges in season two, Bella and the Bulldogs team must push to overcome obstacles and work together to be the winning combination they once were. Bella (Bassinger) will unite her original team, Troy (Coy Stewart), Sawyer (Jackie Radinsky) and Newt (Buddy Handleson), in an attempt to take them farther than than they’ve ever gone, all while keeping close ties with her two best friends from the cheer squad, Pepper (Haley Tju) and Sophie (Lilimar).”
The Thundermans season three plot: “In season three of The Thundermans, superhero twins Phoebe (Kira Kosarin) and Max (Jack Griffo) confront a new family dynamic that changes their lives forever and face being exposed after someone close to them learns their secret identities. The series continues to follow the opposite siblings as they navigate their way through school, friends and a family of extraordinary superheroes.”
Best Actor Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne tackles the role of artist Einar Wegener, one of the world’s first transgender women, in Working Title Films’ The Danish Girl directed by Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech). Focus Features has set an awards season limited theatrical release date of November 27, 2015 for the dramatic film based on David Ebershoff’s novel.
Lucinda Coxon adapted Ebershoff’s book for the screen, with director Hooper, Gail Mutrux, Anne Harrison, Tim Bevan, and Eric Fellner producing. In addition to Redmayne, The Danish Girl cast includes Alicia Vikander, Matthias Schoenaerts, Ben Whishaw, and Amber Heard.
Commenting on the release date, Focus CEO Peter Schlessel said, “In the tradition of Focus’ history of epic and moving love stories, The Danish Girl promises to be unforgettable. Tom Hooper is an extraordinary storyteller who always elicits beautiful performances from his actors. We are so pleased to be working with Eddie Redmayne again after our shared success with Working Title on The Theory of Everything.”
The Plot: “The Danish Girl is the remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists Einar and Gerda Wegener (Redmayne and Vikander), whose marriage and work are cast into the unknown when Einar begins a groundbreaking journey to become one of the world’s first transgender women, Lili Elbe.”
NBC’s welcoming Lance Henriksen to The Blacklist on this week’s episode of the drama series titled “T. Earl King.” The March 5th episode will introduce Henriksen’s character Bill “Bud” McCready, and fans of the series can expect to see him pop up again in additional upcoming episodes.
According to the network, McCready is a “fit, tough-looking coach who does job placement for the criminal underworld.”
The Blacklist is currently airing its second season with James Spader and Megan Boone in starring roles. The one-hour drama airs on Thursdays at 9pm ET/PT.
Henriksen’s credits include Aliens, Powder, The Quick & The Dead, Near Dark, and Millennium.
We’re a month away from Outlander‘s return for the second half of season one and Starz has just unveiled two gorgeous new posters promoting the upcoming eight new episodes. The original poster for the series based on Diana Gabaldon’s bestselling books had Claire (Caitriona Balfe) desperately reaching over her shoulder to try and take her husband Frank’s hand while Jamie (Sam Heughan) stood in front of her offering her his.
The new posters show Claire is no longer lost and afraid and instead is ready to stand up for herself against Black Jack Randall (Tobias Menzies). With one hand, she brandishes a knife in Black Jack’s direction and with the other, she reaches back toward Jamie who is now standing much closer than he was in the first poster for the series.
The new posters reflect the change in relationship between Claire and Jamie and offer a glimpse at how they’ll approach any potential enemies as a committed married couple in the second half of the season.
Starz released the new posters along with details on where the posters were shot, revealing Jason Bell was the photographer for this pair of darker posters. Bell placed the three lead actors in the same locations where the official poster released at the start of Outlander‘s first season was shot.
The second half of season one debuts on April 4, 2015 at 9pm ET/PT on Starz.
The Plot: “Outlander spans the genres of romance, science fiction, history, and adventure as it follows Claire Randall, a married WWII combat nurse who mistakenly falls back in time to 1743. As the season continues, Claire and Jamie’s relationship is tested and Claire must reconcile her modern mindset with this 18th century world. Ruthless redcoats, volatile clan politics, and a brutal witch trial force Jamie and Claire to escape to a new home. Just when their life as a married couple begins to take shape, Jamie is once again drawn into Captain Randall’s darkness. Ultimately, Claire discovers there is a fate worse than death as she struggles to save Jamie’s heart, as well as his soul.”
Disney/Pixar’s animated family-friendly film Inside Out is heading to theaters on June 19, 2015, and the studio’s just put out a new poster for the comedy movie. Inside Out was directed by Up and Monsters, Inc helmer Pete Docter and features the voices of Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling, and Phyllis Smith.
The Plot: Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it’s no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions – Joy (Poehler), Fear (Hader), Anger (Black), Disgust (Kaling) and Sadness (Smith). The emotions live in Headquarters, the control center inside Riley’s mind, where they help advise her through everyday life. As Riley and her emotions struggle to adjust to a new life in San Francisco, turmoil ensues in Headquarters.
Although Joy, Riley’s main and most important emotion, tries to keep things positive, the emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school.
The new trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron is two minutes and 18 seconds of story set up, fighting, near kisses, and snappy comebacks. Trailer number three was just released by Marvel and Disney and it’s the best of the lot thus far, showing far more clips of the Avengers working together than in previous trailers for the second film of the Avengers series.
Written and directed by Joss Whedon, Avengers: Age of Ultron stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Cobie Smulders, Don Cheadle, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Stellan Skarsgård, James Spader, and Samuel L. Jackson.
The Plot: Marvel Studios presents Avengers: Age of Ultron, the epic follow-up to the biggest Super Hero movie of all time. When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, including Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, The Incredible Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye, are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance.
As the villainous Ultron emerges, it is up to The Avengers to stop him from enacting his terrible plans, and soon uneasy alliances and unexpected action pave the way for an epic and unique global adventure.
Ryan Reynolds’ mind is an empty vessel into which Sir Ben Kingsley’s consciousness is transferred in the new trailer for the sci-fi thriller, Selfless. Focus Features just released the new trailer along with a teaser poster for the summer 2015 release from director Tarsem Singh (Immortals, The Cell, The Fall). Written by Alex Pastor and David Pastor, the cast also includes Natalie Martinez, Matthew Goode, Victor Garber, Derek Luke, and Michelle Dockery.
The Plot:
In this provocative psychological science fiction thriller, an extremely wealthy man (Kingsley) dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness into the body of a healthy young man (Reynolds). But all is not as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body’s origin and the organization that will kill to protect its cause.
The 2015 MTV Movie Awards list of nominees has been announced and leading the way with seven nominations each are Guardians of the Galaxy, The Fault in Our Stars, and Neighbors. MTV’s annual movie awards show is the only televised show that honors actors in the usual categories as well as Best Kiss, Best Fight, and Best Scared-As-S**t Performance. This year’s ceremony will be hosted by Amy Schumer and is set to air live on MTV on Sunday, April 12th at 8pm ET (tape-delayed on the West Coast).
Movie fans can cast their votes for the winners at www.MovieAwards.MTV.com starting today. The voting closes on April 11th in all categories with the exception of Movie of the Year. Fans can vote for the winner in that category through the live broadcast.
2015 MTV MOVIE AWARDS NOMINEES
MOVIE OF THE YEAR
· American Sniper
· The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
· Guardians of the Galaxy
· Gone Girl
· The Fault in Our Stars
· Boyhood
· Whiplash
· Selma
BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
· Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay-Part 1
· Emma Stone – Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
· Shailene Woodley – The Fault in Our Stars
· Reese Witherspoon – Wild
· Scarlett Johansson – Lucy
BEST MALE PERFORMANCE
· Bradley Cooper – American Sniper
· Chris Pratt – Guardians of the Galaxy
· Ansel Elgort – The Fault in Our Stars
· Miles Teller – Whiplash
· Channing Tatum – Foxcatcher
BEST SCARED-AS-S**T PERFORMANCE
· Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl
· Annabelle Wallis – Annabelle
· Jennifer Lopez – The Boy Next Door
· Dylan O’Brien – The Maze Runner
· Zach Gilford – The Purge: Anarchy
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
· Ansel Elgort – The Fault in Our Stars
· Rosamund Pike- Gone Girl
· David Oyelowo – Selma
· Dylan O’Brien – The Maze Runner
· Ellar Coltrane – Boyhood
BEST SHIRTLESS PERFORMANCE
· Zac Efron – Neighbors
· Chris Pratt – Guardians of the Galaxy
· Channing Tatum – Foxcatcher
· Ansel Elgort – The Fault in Our Stars
· Kate Upton – The Other Woman
BEST DUO
· Channing Tatum & Jonah Hill – 22 Jump Street
· Zac Efron & Dave Franco – Neighbors
· Shailene Woodley & Ansel Elgort – The Fault in Our Stars
· Bradley Cooper & Vin Diesel – Guardians of the Galaxy
· James Franco & Seth Rogen – The Interview
BEST FIGHT
· Jonah Hill vs. Jillian Bell – 22 Jump Street
· Chris Evans vs. Sebastian Stan – Captain America: The Winter Soldier
· Dylan O’Brien vs. Will Poulter – The Maze Runner
· Seth Rogen vs. Zac Efron – Neighbors
· Edward Norton vs. Michael Keaton – Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
BEST KISS
· Ansel Elgort & Shailene Woodley – The Fault in Our Stars
· James Franco & Seth Rogen – The Interview
· Andrew Garfield & Emma Stone – The Amazing Spider-Man 2
· Scarlett Johansson & Chris Evans – Captain America: The Winter Soldier
· Rose Byrne & Halston Sage – Neighbors
BEST WTF MOMENT
· Seth Rogen & Rose Byrne – Neighbors
· Jonah Hill – 22 Jump Street
· Jason Sudeikis & Charlie Day – Horrible Bosses 2
· Miles Teller – Whiplash
· Rosario Dawson & Anders Holm – Top Five
BEST VILLAIN
· Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl
· J.K. Simmons – Whiplash
· Jillian Bell – 22 Jump Street
· Meryl Streep – Into the Woods
· Peter Dinklage – X-Men: Days of Future Past
BEST MUSICAL MOMENT
· Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
· Chris Pratt – Guardians of the Galaxy
· Seth Rogen & Zac Efron – Neighbors
· Bill Hader & Kristen Wiig- The Skeleton Twins
· Miles Teller – Whiplash
BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE
· Channing Tatum – 22 Jump Street
· Chris Pratt – Guardians of the Galaxy
· Rose Byrne – Neighbors
· Chris Rock – Top Five
· Kevin Hart – The Wedding Ringer
BEST ON-SCREEN TRANSFORMATION
· Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything
· Elizabeth Banks – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
· Zoe Saldana – Guardians of the Galaxy
· Steve Carell – Foxcatcher
· Ellar Coltrane – Boyhood
Chloe Bennet in ‘Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ (Photo Credit: ABC / Kelsey McNeal)
The 11th episode of season two of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. titled “Aftershocks” premiered on March 3, 2015 on ABC. Here’s a detailed recap of the events that transpired in this jam-packed episode:
We open on a boy inside a small room, disappearing in blue vapor and reappearing in a different spot. He’s in anguish. 1983, location unknown. He has no eyes, only flesh where his eyes would be. Jiaying (Dichen Lachman) and a man enter an observation room. They’re worried about the boy. Jiaying enters his room, calling him Gordon and trying to soothe him. He can’t seem to control his teleportation. She draws him in and promises to help him. Back in the observation room, the man tells her how lucky they are that she ages so slowly, that she’s there to help everyone who came through “the mist.”
At SHIELD, Skye (Chloe Bennet) waits in a quarantined hospital room. She awakes to find Coulson (Clark Gregg) on the other side of the glass. She’s grieving for Trip (B.J. Britt). Coulson tells her that Trip died a hero. We see everyone going about their duties, trying to deal with Trip’s death. Skye asks about each team member and how they’re doing in the aftermath. Coulson says the temple collapsed on itself and that they haven’t found Raina’s body yet. Skye blames herself for everything, but Coulson tries to explain that it wasn’t her fault and that Hydra will pay.
At a biannual Hydra gathering, they’re toasting Daniel Whitehall in his death. They discuss who can take his high-ranking place. Dr. Levy (Henry Goodman) wonders about Bakshi (Simon Kassianides), and the others (who include a banker, a sheik and a baroness) tell him he’s been taken by S.H.I.E.L.D. They agree that whoever can wipe S.H.I.E.L.D. off the planet permanently will win Whitehall’s place in the organization.
Meanwhile, down in the temple, a worker is grabbed by something in the darkness. We see his blood and then a discolored hand covered in spikes.
Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) is gathering data from the catacombs with her team. She concludes it’s lava rock and not load-bearing. She walks away, telling them it’s time to get out and flood the place. Then someone (or something) jumps out and slashes the throats of the workers. Raina (Ruth Negga) sees herself in the reflection of a helmet and gasps. Simmons shoots at her, but Raina escapes.
Bobbi (Adrianne Palicki) brings Skye some supplies to get her through her time in quarantine. When Skye confesses she feels like a leper, Bobbi tells her she thinks Skye is a rock star for what she was able to do.
Mac (Henry Simmons) comes on Fitz (Iain De Caestecker) trying to get data from Skye’s biochip, but he’s frazzled. Fitz tries to get Mac to open up about what happened in the temple, but Mac explodes, asking Fitz if he has any idea what it’s like to lose control over your body, unable to stop yourself from hurting your friends. Fitz says, yes, he does. Mac spots Skye in her quarantine and says that he wants to make sure that she’s completely sealed off and that no one else is exposed to the “alien crap.”
Over a comm, Jemma tells Coulson and May (Ming-Na Wen) what happened with Raina and describes her strange appearance. She tells them she wants to come back to headquarters to check on Skye, and they agree. Coulson calls a meeting.
In the meeting, Coulson proposes a hostage exchange. Mac jumps in, furious at Coulson for how things have proceeded. While he’s arguing against the rest of the team, things start shaking in Skye’s quarantined room. She notices, worried, but the argument ends just as she reaches out to stop a can from shaking. Coulson puts Mac in his place and tells the team to get ready.
Down in Bakshi’s cell, Coulson shows Bakshi to Brigadier General Talbot (Adrian Pasdar) using video on a tablet. The general agrees to help Coulson with Hydra in exchange for Bakshi. On the way to the exchange, Coulson and May discuss the wisdom of working with the government. Just as Bakshi is figuring out what’s going on, a truck slams into them.
In a garage, Coulson and Mae get into a shooting match with their assailants. May takes out the remaining shooters. They get Bakshi out of the car, but unbeknown to them, a shooter comes around the car and shoots May. She goes down. Coulson cries out, but they shoot him, too. The shooter yells to Bakshi to get in the SUV so they can get out of there. In their SUV, Bakshi questions the driver, who turns out to be Lance (Nick Blood). Back in the garage, May and Coulson get up. It was all an act. Bobbi takes off on a motorcycle after Bakshi and Lance.
Back at the lab, Mac talks to Fitz about how his head is doing. Fitz is frustrated because the info he retrieved from Skye’s biochip doesn’t make sense. Just as he says he needs Simmons’ help, we hear her plane landing.
Bakshi makes contact with Hydra. Lance pulls a gun on him and says his employers need him out of the picture. Bakshi is able to make a deal to save his life.
Back at the lab, Simmons is showing Skye DNA results that show how much Reyna has changed. Jemma breaks down, saying she should never have messed with anything alien because none of this would have happened, and that Trip wouldn’t have died. Skye, however, doesn’t seem to be as against everything alien.
In Puerto Rico, we see Cal (Kyle MacLachlan) paying off someone for helping him hide. Raina shows up, revealing her head and asking what she’s become. She’s covered in thorns and has yellow, cat-like eyes. She yells at Cal, saying that she didn’t turn out how she had wanted. She says that Skye got what was supposed to be hers. Cal gets excited when he hears that Daisy (Skye) is still alive. He starts planning for how she’ll return to him. When Raina begs for help, he turns away.
Lance and Baskhi pull up to the gate of the Hydra contact. When Bakshi gets out of the car, Bobbi hops in. While she and Lance wait, he questions her about the secret she and Mac share. She finally tells him they’re part of a support group that’s helping them deal with the recent turn of events like friends turned into Hydra enemies. He tells her he’s glad she’s getting healthy.
Back at S.H.I.E.L.D., Mac apologizes to Coulson for his outburst, saying he’s having a hard time dealing with Trip’s death and having an alien influence take over his mind. Simmons speaks up, saying she’s worried that what’s happened to Raina could be the start of a plague and that if the S.H.I.E.L.D. forces find Raina, maybe they should just kill her. Everyone walks away, and we see Skye looks worried.
Inside the Hydra house, Bakshi and the Hydra contact (Fred Dryer) discuss how there could be a conspiracy among them. The contact starts to input a code, and Bakshi says that he thinks the man who drove him there should be killed.
We see Raina, out in the night, about to walk out into several lanes of traffic. Meanwhile, Fitz is visiting Sky, trying to work through the data he collected from Skye’s wristband when the temple collapsed. Finally, he says the only explanation is that she was the one who caused it, and that’s there’s something “inhuman” about her. She cries out, exploding the light above her head, and Fitz runs.
May visits Skye to see how she’s doing. Skye was busy picking up broken glass from the light she blew and hides it behind her back. Meanwhile, we see Coulson visit Trip’s mother. She starts crying and Coulson holds her. Behind her he sees the picture of the Howling Commandos, the group Trip’s father belonged to.
Back at the Hydra agent’s house, he inputs an access code that alerts people close to the banker, the baroness and the sheik. Each one is killed. At the waiting car, Lance turns on the backup camera to see four Hydra agents approach the car. He and Bobbi duck down while they’re shooting. He presses a button that opens up secret panels in the SUV and guns down the agents. Bobbi and Lance burst into the house, killing everyone but Bakshi. Bakshi realizes that Coulson played them, having the Hydra agents turn on each other because he couldn’t get to them.
Back at S.H.I.E.L.D., May realizes Skye is bleeding. Simmons comes in, wondering what’s going on. Just as Sky is about to tell them about blowing the light, Fitz runs in and explains he knocked over a lamp and Skye cut her hand cleaning it up. He also shows them that Sky’s DNA is exactly as it was before. May leaves to give Coulson the news.
Fitz sends Simmons off to get clean sheets under the guise of making Skye’s bed. Once he and Skye are alone, he enters her chamber to bandage her hands. When she questions him about the test results, he tells her that her DNA is drastically different, but he changed the results in order to keep her safe while Simmons and the others are so scared of the alien influence. She breaks down, hugging him.
Back on the street, several trucks surround Raina. Men dressed in military garb try to take Raina. Just as she’s preparing to fight, she is surrounded by a dome of blue light. The blind man, who was a boy at the beginning of the episode, teleports in and takes her away with him. (Fans suspect he is Reader from the comics.)
Back at S.H.I.E.L.D., we see the R.C. car Mac made for Coulson kick on and scan the office, finding something in Coulson’s desk. While the group is telling stories about Trip, Mac and Bobbi quietly talk about Nick Fury’s toolbox being locked in Coulson’s office and “making contact.” (Clearly, their secret is not that they’re in a support group.) A silence falls, and Skye points out that, with Trip gone, they will laugh a lot less.
Fox’s The Following season two ended with Joe Carroll (James Purefoy) in custody and his followers either dead or on the run, but in season three FBI Agent Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon) will find out putting Carroll away wasn’t the end of the madness. Luke Gray is dead, but his psychotic twin brother Mark (Sam Underwood) is still on the loose, and during an interview prior to season three, Bacon promised this new season will feature some intense new villains in addition to the return of Mark Gray.
Fox brought The Following cast members to the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con and Underwood teamed up with Jessica Stroup, who plays Ryan Hardy’s sister, Max, to talk about what fans of the series can expect from season three.
Watch the interview:
Season Three Plot:
Season Three begins one year later: Joe Carroll is awaiting execution on death row, and Ryan Hardy has moved on. Turning the page hasn’t been easy – the off-the-books investigation that led to Joe’s capture put Ryan and his team under fire. But Ryan has risen above the controversy, returning full-time to the FBI, alongside Mike Weston (Shawn Ashmore) and Ryan’s niece, Max Hardy; and finding a pure relationship with Gwen (Zuleikha Robinson).
But his happiness is shattered when a new threat arises – one that will tear open old wounds and expose the sins of the past – forcing Ryan and his team to unravel a twisted web of violence before it destroys them all – while leading them to face a terrifying truth: Joe Carroll was just the beginning.
The Following season three kicked off on March 2, 2015 and airs on Monday nights at 9pm ET/PT.