Happening Sh*t – April 19, 2013

Oh, hey! It’s the second edition of Happening Shit – a new nugget-sized weekly series for the super-time-crunched entertainment fan who’s too lazy to look this shit up themselves! (Just kidding! I’ve got your back, gentle readers.) Let’s get to it:

This week’s first entry of happenings: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire trailer! This video has only been viewed over 20 million times, so I guess some people might care about it. And since everyone and their grandmother fell in love with that saucy minx Jennifer Lawrence, I think it’s safe to say that when this movie hits theaters November 22, it’s going to make a ton of cash. Personally, I’m looking forward to seeing more of that cotton-haired firecracker Effie Trinket (Elizabeth Banks, in a perfectly cast role). If you haven’t read the books yet though, seriously, get on it. If you don’t know how to read or you can’t wait for Round 2, chew on this beauty (EW):

 

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The Walking Dead is a show that most people are flipping out over, (not this guy, though…more on that in a future post), but it’s also one that can’t seem to hang on to a show runner. Thanks to its revolving door of head-honchos, Glen Mazzara is free to pursue other projects…such as a prequel to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Tentatively titled The Overlook Hotel, Mazzara’s new jobby-job is the next in line of famous-movies-turned-TV-prequels following the fantastic Bates Motel and NBC’s Hannibal. There’s not too much info on this yet, but stay tuned kids. There’s plenty of redrum coming our way. That sounds almost delicious, actually. (ScreenRant)

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Netflix is kicking some serious ass in the original content department (Three words: House of Cards). Next up: Hemlock Grove, a new series adapted from a book of the same name. Eli Roth is an executive producer, but the series was developed by Brian McGreevy & Lee Shipman. A young girl is brutally murdered in the town of Hemlock Grove, Penn. She’s found near the former Godfrey steel mill. As rumors mount, two of the suspects in her killing, Peter Rumancek, a 17-year-old Gypsy trailer trash kid rumored to be a werewolf, and Roman, the heir to the Godfrey estate, decide to find the killer themselves. The series stars Famke Janssen, Bill Skarsgard, and Lili Taylor. All 13 episodes hit Netflix TODAY. Check out the trailer below (Vulture):

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