Please Stop Calling Me ScarJo, Says ScarJo

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With Under the Skin  and Captain America: The Winter Soldier out and Lucy and Chef on the way, Scarlett Johansson’s doing her share of media time. We got the creepy New Yorker article, then another weird one courtesy of Vogue. Now, thanks to a chat with Glamour, we learn that “ScarJo” is not the preferred nomenclature. “I associate that name with, like, pop stars. It sounds tacky. It’s lazy and flippant. And there’s something kind of violent about it. There’s something insulting about it.” Makes sense, mostly, but … violent?

Enjoy the KFC GoT meal deal now. The Hound loves it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sJCBRepFi2g

The Marvel universe is now the most profitable cinematic franchise, more so than Harry Potter or Star Wars.

You can download Girl Talk’s first release as a non-mash-uppy regular hip-hop producer, a team-up EP with Freeway called Broken Ankles.

Das Racist’s Heems did a Japanese Vitaminwater commercial, and it might actually top “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2bAkbdiwiE

A Battlestar Galactica movie reboot is moving along, tapping screenwriter Jack Paglen, who did the upcoming Transcendence. (He’ll also tackle the Prometheus sequel.)

Bates Motel will be back for a 10-episode third season.

Nas rocked two Illmatic cuts on The Tonight Show with Q-Tip and the Roots. Here’s “The World Is Yours.” [via]

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Rolling Stone did an oral history of the Offspring’s Smash, the best-selling independent album ever, which turns 20 today.

Sounds like Phil Lord and Chris Miller (The Lego Movie, 21 Jump Street) probably won’t do Ghostbusters 3.

I’m on a boat! Now I’m not! [via]

OK, these Ninja Turtles posters are cool. (That DOESN’T MEAN the movie will be! I’m watching you, Michael Bay.)

Archie must die. “He dies saving the life of a friend, and does it in his usual selfless way. Archie has always been a representation of us — the best of us. Our strengths and our faults.” That said, it’s only an alternate story line called Life of Archie. He’ll still live forever.

And here’s a mildly recycled but vaguely new Guardians of the Galaxy clip.

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