Dracula worries his grandson won't become a creature of the night in the new Hotel Transylvania 2 trailer. We also have an excerpt from Brad Meltzer's The President's Shadow and an American Horror Story: Hotel casting update.
Hotel Transylvania 2: Due out in theaters in 2D and 3D this September, Hotel Transylvania 2 features the voices of Adam Sandler (Dracula), Andy Samberg (Johnny), Selena Gomez (Mavis), Kevin James (Frank), Fran Drescher (Eunice), Steve Buscemi (Wayne), Molly Shannon (Wanda), David Spade (Griffin), Keegan-Michael Key (Murray), and Mel Brooks (Vlad). This sequel to 2012's Hotel Transylvania is directed by Genndy Tartakovsky from a screenplay by Adam Sandler and Robert Smige.
Synopsis: "The Drac pack is back for an all-new monster comedy adventure in Sony Pictures Animation's Hotel Transylvania 2! Everything seems to be changing for the better at Hotel Transylvania... Dracula’s rigid monster-only hotel policy has finally relaxed, opening up its doors to human guests. But behind closed coffins, Drac is worried that his adorable half-human, half-vampire grandson, Dennis, isn’t showing signs of being a vampire. So while Mavis is busy visiting her human in-laws with Johnny – and in for a major cultural shock of her own – “Vampa” Drac enlists his friends Frank, Murray, Wayne and Griffin to put Dennis through a “monster-in-training” boot camp. But little do they know that Drac’s grumpy and very old, old, old school dad Vlad is about to pay a family visit to the hotel. And when Vlad finds out that his great-grandson is not a pure blood – and humans are now welcome at Hotel Transylvania – things are going to get batty!"
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The President's Shadow: Beecher White returns for another mystery in The President's Shadow, the latest installment of Brad Meltzer's Culper Ring series. With The President's Shadow now available from Grand Central Publishing, we've been provided with an excerpt from the novel for Daily Dead readers to enjoy.
Synopsis: "A severed arm, found buried in the White House Rose Garden.
A lethal message with terrible consequences for the Presidency.
And a hidden secret in one family's past that will have repercussions for the entire nation.
To most, it looks like Beecher White has an ordinary job. A young staffer with the National Archives in Washington, D.C., he's responsible for safekeeping the government's most important documents . . . and, sometimes, its most closely held secrets.
But there are a powerful few who know his other role. Beecher is a member of the Culper Ring, a 200-year-old secret society founded by George Washington and charged with protecting the Presidency.
Now the current occupant of the White House needs the Culper Ring's help. The alarming discovery of the buried arm has the President's team in a rightful panic. Who buried the arm? How did they get past White House security? And most important: What's the message hidden in the arm's closed fist? Indeed, the puzzle inside has a clear intended recipient, and it isn't the President. It's Beecher, himself.
Beecher's investigation will take him back to one of our country's greatest secrets and point him toward the long, carefully hidden truth about the most shocking history of all: family history.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Brad Meltzer is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers The Inner Circle, The Book of Fate, and six other bestselling thrillers. His nonfiction books, Heroes for My Son and Heroes for My Daughter, were also New York Times bestsellers. He is the host of the History Channel series Brad Meltzer's Decoded and the Eisner Award-winning writer of Justice League of America. A graduate of the University of Michigan and Columbia Law School, he currently lives in Florida.
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Learn more at BradMeltzer.com
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Click the cover to read the first five chapters from The President's Shadow:
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American Horror Story: Hotel: Showrunner Ryan Murphy revealed via Twitter today that Finn Wittrock has joined the cast of FX's American Horror Story: Hotel, and by the way Murphy announced the news, it sounds like Lady Gaga's character could be in a love triangle with the respective characters portrayed by Wittrock and Matt Bomer:
Finn Wittrock is checking into HOTEL. Who will Gaga choose -- Finn or Matt Bomer? #AHSHotel
— Ryan Murphy (@MrRPMurphy) June 17, 2015
Fans of FX's horror anthology series will remember Wittrock as Dandy Mott from last year's American Horror Story: Freak Show. Wittrock joins a growing Hotel cast that includes Lady Gaga, Kathy Bates, Sarah Paulson, Angela Bassett, Matt Bomer, Cheyenne Jackson, Wes Bentley, Evan Peters, Max Greenfield, and Chloë Sevigny. Stay tuned to Daily Dead for further updates on American Horror Story: Hotel, which is expected to premiere this fall.
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