Editor’s Note: Yesterday’s News covers the most important news of the previous day with a focus on film, television, and trailers.
Film
Official website for Avengers: Age of Ultron goes live (Coming Soon).
Slamdance Film Festival unveils the remainder of its 2015 lineup (The Wrap).
Michael Strahan to host 20th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards (Deadline).
Jennifer Garner signs on to The Tribes of Palos Verdes; Maika Monroe and Tye Sheridan in final negotiations (THR).
Kevin Costner to receiver Critics Choice Career Achievement Award from Broadcast Film Critics Association (Deadline).
AFI announces their picks for top 11 films of the year (The Wrap).
The Sundance Film Festival announces out-of-competition Premieres and Documentary Premieres sections (The Wrap).
Diane Lane and Kyle MacLachlan voicing Riley’s parents in Disney Pixar’s Inside Out (USA Today).
African-American Film Critics Association gives top spot to Selma (THR).
Edgar Ramirez in final negotiations to play Jennifer Lawrence’s husband in Joy (THR).
Voltage Pictures hires Jonathan W.C. Mills to rewrite Bullet Run (The Wrap).
New photos from Cinderella (Coming Soon).
Natalie Portman passes on Jobs (Variety).
Washington DC Area Film Critics Association gives Best Film award to Boyhood (HitFix).
Gina Carano joins the cast of the Kickboxer remake (THR).
RIP: Character actor Eddie Rouse dies at 60 (THR).
TV
Mark Hamill to reprise his role of the Trickster on The Flash (HitFix).
Luke Wilson, Imogen Poots, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Peter Cambor, and Rafe Spall cast in Showtime’s Roadies pilot (THR).
Austin Butler books lead role in MTV’s Shannara (THR).
Fargo takes top spot in HitFix’s Television Critics’ Poll (HitFix).
Maggie Siff joins the cast of Showtime’s drama pilot Billions (EW).
Emma Roberts and Jamie Lee Curtis cast in Ryan Murphy’s comedy horror anthology series Scream Queens (THR).
New images from Doctor Who Christmas special Last Christmas (HitFix).
Fox buys Krystal Houghton Ziv’s drama pitch Gemini (The Wrap).
FXX renews The League for a seventh and final season (THR).
Pivot cancels TakePart Live (The Wrap).
RIP: Actor Ken Weatherwax dies at 59 (Variety).
Comedy Central gives pilot order to untitled project starring Rachel Feinstein and produced by Amy Schumer (Deadline).
Syfy taps David S. Goyer to developer Superman origin story Krypton (THR).
Canada’s Showcase and Syfy stateside order fourth and final season of Continuum (THR).
USA renews Playing House for a second season (Deadline).
Trailers
First trailer for The Last Five Years (Next Projection).
Teaser trailer for The Veil (Variety).
Blu-ray trailer for Ouija (Coming Soon).
First trailer for Still Alice (The Film Stage).
Teaser for Cicakman 3 (Twitch).
Trailer for White God (Deadline).
