Early Buzz: 'Trek,' Bowie and more headlines
Happy Monday! I hope you enjoyed the weekend — as planned, I did a huge apartment clean-out and discovered dust in places I never thought to look.
Headlines:
- Watch a trailer for World War Z, a zombie movie starring Brad Pitt.
- Stereogum attempts to rank all of David Bowie's albums.
- This story asks how far The Walking Dead will stray from the comics.
- This writer thinks Stephen Colbert should replace David Letterman on CBS.
- Hulu has made every episode of every Star Trek series available for free through the end of the month.
- Speaking of Trek, here's a weird IRS training video that parodies the show.
- Yep, Tilda Swinton is currently sleeping in a box at the Museum of Modern Art.
- J.J. Abrams talks a little about the new Star Wars movie.
- Is Matt Smith about to leave Doctor Who?
- Here's a list of the best fantasy films you haven't seen.
- Bob Newhart will guest star on The Big Bang Theory.
- The Guardian profiles Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn.
- Here's an update of a supercut featuring people running in the movies.
- Here's the first teaser for the new season of Dexter.
- Fred Savage will direct a film starring Charlize Theron.
- Danielle Fishel (Topanga from Boy Meets World) has a new Web series where she offers advice.
- The Colbert Report is among this year's Genesis Award winners, given to those who help spread the word about animal protection issues.
- Whoa, the Lizzie Bennet Diaries Kickstarter already has raised more than $200,000.
- Read the speechTilda Swinton gave at the opening of a new David Bowie exhibition in London.
- Here are links to every single free comic available on ComiXology.
- Here's a list of things you didn't know about the TV series Duck Tales.
- Did you know Joseph Gordon-Levitt once appeared on the celebrity edition of Jeopardy!?
- And finally, I love this pic of R2-D2 as he was being constructed in 1975.