Celebrity Nooz - July 2, 2014

Here's the Scoop...

Pop pop! The recently canceled NBC comedy Community has been saved by Yahoo! The show's fans are ready to head back to Greendale Community College for a 13-episode sixth season... and if there is goodness in the world - A MOVIE! Ooh, that's nice.

Now enjoy the rest of today's Celebrity Nooz!

Cheers!
Sarah


*-- Carrie Fisher's daughter reportedly cast as young Princess Leia in 'Star Wars: Episode VII' --*
LONDON (UPI) - Billie Lourd has reportedly been cast in Star Wars: Episode VII. The 21-year-old is an aspiring actress, and daughter to Star Wars original Carrie Fisher. She will portray a young Princess Leia in Episode VII flashback scenes, according to The Sun. Director J.J. Abrams is said to have chosen Lourd due to her likeness to her mother. "Billie flew in to the U.K. to join her mother earlier this month," a source reports. "She will even have her hair tied up in Princess Leia-style buns. She's an aspiring actress and singer, so she grabbed the opportunity with both hands. Carrie backed the move, as she wanted somebody in her family to play her most famous role." Filming on the seventh installment is currently underway in England. Fisher, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew and Kenny Baker have returned for the new movie, and are joined by John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Lupita Nyong'o and Max von Sydow. Ford broke his leg on set earlier in June and is still in recovery. Star Wars: Episode VII is scheduled for a December 18, 2015 release.


*-- 'Community's sixth season to air on Yahoo --*
LOS ANGELES (UPI) - Community fans are one step closer to their "six season and a movie" dream. The cult comedy, which stars Joel McHale as the leader of a wacky ensemble of community college students, was canceled by NBC last May. But Community's producers announced Monday that Yahoo Screen had ordered a 13-episode sixth season of the show. "I am very pleased that Community will be returning for its predestined sixth season on Yahoo," creator and showrunner Dan Harmon said in a statement. "I look forward to bringing our beloved NBC sitcom to a larger audience by moving it online. I vow to dominate our new competition. Rest easy, Big Bang Theory. Look out, Bang Bus!" McHale added: "'The reports of our cancelation have been greatly exaggerated.' -- Mark Twain (The other version of this quote has been wrong for years). #SixSeasonsAndaMovie is real. Thank you Sony. Thank you Yahoo. Thank you Dan Harmon. And thank you to the greatest f%$#ing fans in the history of the human race. It's the internet. We can swear now." Show producers were reportedly in talk with Hulu about a six-season streaming deal, but negotiations broke down over money.

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LOOSE LIPS:
"I will bite every German player if I have to."
--Will Ferrell, playfully referring to Uruguayan soccer player Luis Suárez's recent toothy incident, at a Team USA fan event ahead of the U.S.'s World Cup loss to Germany

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*-- Pierce Brosnan says he'd 'love' to join the cast of 'Expendables 4' --*
LOS ANGELES (UPI) - Pierce Brosnan says he would "love" to join the cast of Expendables 4. The former James Bond recently spoke to ComingSoon about his new movie, A Long Way Down. During the interview, the 61-year-old actor confirmed his interest in a future Expendables film. "I said to [producer] Avi Lerner, 'If it works out and you have a good script, Avi, you know where to find me if you still want me.' It's as simple as that, really," he revealed. "Sylvester Stallone is the one that's given us these wonderful platforms for actors who have and had careers to go play and have fun and entertain. To bring a bunch of guys together who saved the world, fought the bad guys and put them all on the same stage, that's crazy good." "It's just about entertainment," he continued. "Avi is somebody I've heard about and his movies always have big, brash entertainment value to them. You can really change the world and that's great, but The Expendables? Yeah, I'd love to do The Expendables. It's just a kick in the pants." The original Expendables movie starred Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren and Randy Couture, among others, and premiered in August 2010. Expendables 2 followed in 2012, and Expendables 3 is scheduled for release August 15. The trailer for the third installment asks viewers to "get ready for one last ride," but star Randy Couture did allude to a fourth movie in November 2013.


*-- The Who announce new album, 'The Who Hits 50' tour dates --*
LONDON (UPI) - The Who announced the first dates of their 50th anniversary tour Monday. The English rock band kicks off The Who Hits 50 in Glasgow, Scotland on November 30. December dates in England and Wales will follow, with a North American leg planned for 2015. Sets will include "all the classic anthems" in addition to "deeper cuts from their catalogue." The Who plan to record a new album this summer before they embark on tour. The album will be their first since Endless Wire in 2006, and guitarist Pete Townshend revealed it may be "more prog rock than pub rock." "Trying to stay young," the 69-year-old musician said of the tour. "We are what we are, and extremely good at it, but we're lucky to be alive and still touring. If I had enough hairs to split, I would say that for 13 years since 1964 The Who didn't really exist, so we are really only 37." Townshend formed The Who with Roger Daltrey and former members John Entwistle and Keith Moon in 1964. The band has only released eleven studio albums in fifty years, but has sold more than 100 million records. The Who Hits 50 is not being explicitly billed as a farewell tour, but 70-year-old frontman Daltrey said in a statement that it is "the beginning of a long goodbye." "We intend to go on doing music until we drop, but we have to be realistic about our age," he said last year. "The touring is incredibly grinding on the body and we have to draw a line in the sand somewhere. This will be the last old-fashioned, big tour."

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