1) We are just a day away from the new "Weird Al" Yankovic AL-bum Mandatory Fun from hitting store shelves and we have all the details right here. The parodies being included are of "Fancy" by Iggy Azeala, "Royals" by Lorde, "Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke and Pharell, "Radioactive" by Imagine Dragons, and "Happy" by Pharell. He also does style parodies of The Pixies, Foo Fighters, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Southern Culture on the Skids, and a whopping 9-minute song done in the style of Cat Stevens. All that plus a song that makes fun sports fight songs and the usual polka, where he takes songs like "Wrecking Ball" and "Get Lucky" and turns them into an amazing polka medley. Nerdist also released the first music video with celebrity appearances by Jack Black, Eric Stonestreet, Kristen Schaal, Aisha Tyler, and Margaret Cho of the song "Tacky" which you can check out here.
2) A teaser trailer for the new movie Horns was released online today and this might be the movie I'm looking forward to most this fall. Horns is based off of the Joe Hill novel of the same name, stars Daniel Radcliffe, and is directed by Alexander Aja (The Hills Have Eyes). The story is based around the character of Ig Perrish who is suspected of his girlfriend's murder and mysteriously grows a pair of horns on his head. The poster was also released and it's nice to see something different and very cool in my opinion.
3) Yahoo has made many happy people after picking up Community for a sixth season and now fans of the very underrated Enlisted are hoping that Yahoo will pick up the show for a second season. Kevin Beagel, creator of Enlisted, is having preliminary discussions with Yahoo and while a deal isn't close, it is possible. Enlisted tells the story of three brothers, one of which was serving overseas before being shipped back stateside, who are all on the same Army base with a wide cast of characters. This was one of my favorite new shows this spring and I would be very pleased to see it continue.
4) Dawn of the Planet of the Apes went bananas and dominated the box office this weekend. Granted, there wasn't much competition to stand in the way of Cesear and his crew but it still put up an impressive $72.6 million and topped it's predecessor Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which only put up $54.8 in it's first weekend. Transformers: Age of Extincition, which topped the box office the past two weeks, came in second this week with another $16.2 million, bringing it's total thus far to $208.8 million. Here is the rest of the list, courtesy of BoxOfficeMojo.com.
| TW | LW | Title (click to view) | Studio | Weekend Gross | % Change | Theater Count / Change | Average | Total Gross | Budget* | Week # | |
| 1 | N | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | Fox | $72,611,427 | - | 3,967 | - | $18,304 | $72,611,427 | $170 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 | Transformers: Age of Extinction | Par. | $16,302,415 | -56.0% | 3,913 | -320 | $4,166 | $208,833,713 | $210 | 3 |
| 3 | 2 | Tammy | WB | $12,555,151 | -41.8% | 3,465 | - | $3,623 | $56,998,752 | $20 | 2 |
| 4 | 3 | 22 Jump Street | Sony | $6,501,558 | -33.7% | 2,811 | -513 | $2,313 | $171,762,697 | $50 | 5 |
| 5 | 5 | How to Train Your Dragon 2 | Fox | $6,073,372 | -32.2% | 2,885 | -412 | $2,105 | $152,276,733 | $145 | 5 |
| 6 | 6 | Earth to Echo | Rela. | $5,488,277 | -34.4% | 3,230 | - | $1,699 | $24,585,816 | $13 | 2 |
| 7 | 4 | Deliver Us From Evil | SGem | $4,750,289 | -51.2% | 3,049 | - | $1,558 | $25,052,099 | $30 | 2 |
| 8 | 7 | Maleficent | BV | $4,180,586 | -32.1% | 2,077 | -312 | $2,013 | $222,005,394 | $180 | 7 |
| 9 | 15 | Begin Again | Wein. | $2,820,839 | +124.5% | 939 | +764 | $3,004 | $5,171,587 | - | 3 |
| 10 | 8 | Jersey Boys | WB | $2,517,430 | -51.2% | 1,968 | -662 | $1,279 | $41,712,040 | $40 | 4 |
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