J.K. Rowling’s ‘Fantastic Beasts’ May Go to ‘Potter’ Veteran David Yates

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If you’re a David Yates fan, it’s probably because he did a great/pretty good job with the final four (or three, maybe) Harry Potter films. That’s the official opinion of Warner Bros., anyway — Variety‘s reporting that the studio is now negotiating to have Yates tackle the first film in the new Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them trilogy. Rowling will make her screenwriting debut on the opening installment, which will take place in early 1900s New York and hit theaters in November 2016.

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Black Mirror is doing a Christmas special! It’ll feature “three interwoven stories of Yuletide techno-paranoia.”

All of Broad City is now on Comedy Central’s site, just waiting for you.

This is the second trailer for Nightcrawler, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and directed by screenwriter Dan Gilroy (The Bourne Legacy).

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This is definitely the only Star Wars: Episode VII rumor generator you need.

Hulk Hogan, Ken Jeong, and David Hasselhoff are doing a WWE Studios TV show together.

Here’s the first American Horror Story: Freak Show teaser.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fCULL7NSuI

Masters of Sex and Ray Donovan are both getting third seasons.

Wanna read the new Weezer tracklist? Bananas cover art, too.

Trailer: A Good Marriage, based on the 2010 Stephen King novella, with a script by King.

Matthew McConaughey and Nicolas Winding Refn are making some Lincoln commercials.

Aaron Paul’s doing a pre-Emmys Breaking Bad scavenger hunt in L.A.

Also: Breaking Breakfast with Walter Jr.

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