Early Buzz: Kathleen Hanna, Wedge Antilles and more
Morning, friends! I hope you're having a happy and productive week so far. Your royal headlines:
- This is so sad: Malik Bendjelloul, the director of the Oscar-winning movie Searching for Sugar Man, has died. He was 36.
- Here's a peek at Ben Affleck as Batman. Nothing too surprising here ...
- Sounds like we won't be seeing Wedge Antilles in the new Star Wars movie.
- I love that the Museum of Modern Art's Design Store is going to start selling items created by Kickstarter.
- See the international trailer for Lucy with Scarlett Johansson.
- Fans of the Alien movies are mourning the loss of artist H.R. Giger.
- Watch a fun, trippy collaboration between Pharrell and Takashi Murakami.
- Actor Ben Feldman talks about Sunday's surprising Mad Men.
- The Harry Potter spinoff trilogy, Fantastic Beasts, arrives in theaters in 2016.
- Michael Stipe, Neko Case, Jeff Mangum and others have signed a letter supporting net neutrality.
- Star Trek 3 has a director.
- The Atlantic asks, "Whatever happened to roller skating?"
- Sarah Silverman offers advice in the new issue of Glamour.
- I like this band, but it's true — the comments on this review are pretty funny.
- Oh geez, it's the Game of Thrones characters as cats.
- And finally, we could all learn a lesson from this guy by tweeting only once every five years!