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Wednesday, June 12th, 2013
1:30 pm	Under the Dome: Brian K. Vaughan Makes Stephen King-Size TV http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/entertainment/~3/HPn0r8ANfT8/ http://www.wired.com/underwire/?p=143545 Brian K. Vaughan is executive producer of CBS's Under the Dome, a summer series inspired by Stephen King's 2009 novel of the same name. He talked to us about his own fandom, King's involvement, and amortization.
Tuesday, June 11th, 2013
10:28 pm	Here Be Dragon in New The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Trailer http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/entertainment/~3/7trXn5Agilc/ http://www.wired.com/underwire/?p=145927 At the halfway point between the last Peter Jackson Hobbit movie and the next, Warner Bros. has released a new trailer and teaser images for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, complete with Evangeline Lilly and a bit o' dragon. ...
7:19 pm	This Is the End Cast Say They Wouldn’t Eat James Franco in an Apocalypse http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/entertainment/~3/yQSYFdAb-hQ/ http://www.wired.com/underwire/?p=145866 Wired asked the cast of This Is the End for their apocalypse survival tips. This is what they recommended.
6:45 am	Stats: Here’s How We Deal With TV Deaths and Shockers Like the ‘Red Wedding’ http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/entertainment/~3/v_U5BecCrcU/ http://www.wired.com/underwire/?p=145829 Following the now infamous Red Wedding episode of Game of Thrones, fans took to the web to lament the loss of favorite characters and swear they were done with the show. Were they? Probably not.
Monday, June 10th, 2013
7:00 pm	‘I Want My Juice’: Seeing Mad Men Through Its Ads http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/entertainment/~3/bXUwarogZ_g/ http://www.wired.com/underwire/?p=145765 Every week, Wired takes a look at the latest episode of Mad Men through the lens of the latest media campaign of the Sterling Cooper & Partners advertising agency.
6:20 pm	Game of Thrones Recap: The Family Who Slays Together, Stays Together http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/entertainment/~3/YH1dlxlfANI/ http://www.wired.com/underwire/?p=145767 The third season of Game of Thrones has finally reached its end, and today we finish our appointed task of chronicling the TV adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s world of Westeros—and how it differs from the books—in a series ...
10:30 am	What Game of Thrones Season 3 Did Better — And Worse — Than the Book http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/entertainment/~3/QuR7-N55LRo/ http://www.wired.com/underwire/?p=145710 Now that Game of Thrones Season 3 is over, we take a look at where HBO show actually improved on the source material of the books—and the omissions we mourned.
Saturday, June 8th, 2013
10:30 am	Newsrooms, Meth Men, and Ninja Competitions: This Summer’s Must-See TV http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/entertainment/~3/brulkYi_3SI/ http://www.wired.com/underwire/?p=145595 No longer is the summer a wasteland of re-runs and bad reality shows. This year has the end of classic shows, the start of new dramas, and even ninjas.
Friday, June 7th, 2013
7:51 pm	Justin Bieber to Fulfill Your Dreams by Firing Himself Into Space http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/entertainment/~3/_UfGvR2Bjgw/ http://www.wired.com/underwire/?p=145681 Space is no longer the final frontier for Justin Bieber, after it's been revealed that he's booked himself a seat on a private Virgin Galactic space flight.
6:15 pm	Remixing Shakespeare, From Verily, a New Hope to Terminator the Second http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/entertainment/~3/lVi0Ix7vcXs/ http://www.wired.com/underwire/?p=145614 Inspir'd by Whedon's recent Much Ado,/ We've dredged the 'nets for Shakespeare with a twist,/ Our interest in such projects piqued anew,/ We now assemble here our humble list...
10:30 am	Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing Isn’t Much of Anything at All http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/entertainment/~3/1CxPngbOZY4/ http://www.wired.com/underwire/?p=145603 We do not have many films on which to judge Joss Whedon as a filmmaker. Much Ado About Nothing, which opens in theaters today, is technically his third film, but is in some ways our first opportunity to truly judge ...
10:30 am	The Star of the Stage Musical King Kong Is a 20-Foot-Tall Robot Gorilla http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/entertainment/~3/E3sDEQwUkqw/ http://www.wired.com/underwire/?p=143367 When the stage musical King Kong opens at the Regent Theatre in Melbourne, Australia, on June 15, the star will be the robot eighth wonder of the world: a 20-foot-tall, animatronic silverback gorilla that weighs more than 2,400 pounds. Eleven ...
Thursday, June 6th, 2013
7:52 pm	To Predict the Next Box Office Hit, Look at Google Movie Trailer Searches http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/entertainment/~3/v8u6H6yskJ4/ http://www.wired.com/underwire/?p=145573 In a new whitepaper released today Google reveals how searches for movie trailers can help more accurately predict their opening weekend box office revenue.
1:30 pm	The Fractalist: The Memoir of Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematical Maverick http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/entertainment/~3/GE46GzrvfKs/ http://www.wired.com/underwire/?p=145529 The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick is a charming glimpse into the marvelously complex mind of maverick mathematician (and physicist, and economist, and artist) Benoit Mandelbrot, the father of fractal geometry.
10:30 am	BBC’s In the Flesh Is the Thinking Person’s Walking Dead http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/entertainment/~3/kSN45z4hzpY/ http://www.wired.com/underwire/?p=145507 Describing something as a smarter, more socially aware Walking Dead may seem like an odd compliment, but new BBC America show In the Flesh is exactly that.
Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
6:02 pm	Why Book Publishers Are Still Dragging Their Heels on Selling You E-Books http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/entertainment/~3/-mUJJFYX38k/ http://www.wired.com/underwire/?p=145491 Book publishers still aren't sure what to make of digital publishing. While readers have enthusiastically embraced digital publishing, the book industry itself has continually dragged its heels.
Tuesday, June 4th, 2013
11:04 pm	DC Announces Choose-Your-Own-Path Digital Comics http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/entertainment/~3/snehwa6FlaQ/ http://www.wired.com/underwire/?p=145466 Less than two years after DC Comics began selling digital versions of its own comics on the same day as print, the superhero publisher announced two new digital comics formats: DC2, which will feature “dynamic artwork” that unfolds as the ...
8:39 pm	Video: Spend 13 Glorious Minutes Behind the Scenes of Man of Steel http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/entertainment/~3/s-pO6WY8llM/ http://www.wired.com/underwire/?p=145419 The release date for Man of Steel is approaching faster than a speeding bullet. Here are a few new photos and a behind-the-scenes video to hold you over until it gets here.
10:30 am	Breaking Bad Creator Vince Gilligan on Why Binge-Watching Saved His Show http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/entertainment/~3/u070v0fWuZ4/ http://www.wired.com/underwire/?p=145322 It takes a while to truly get into Vince Gilligan's show Breaking Bad, which is why he credits streaming services and binge-watching with keeping his show alive for five seasons.
10:30 am	Exclusive: See the First Kaiju vs. Jaeger Fight in the Pacific Rim Graphic Novel http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/entertainment/~3/C1D8hpKxEkc/ http://www.wired.com/underwire/?p=145379 Unlike a lot of summer blockbusters, the movie Pacific Rim has inspired a graphic novel, not the other way around. Check out some exclusive pages from the upcoming book here.