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Unfounded rumors too major to ignore: albums from Adele and Kanye West, the latter of which some hope to be the Jay Z collaboration Watch the Throne 2.
SUMMER
Summer TV belongs to big-name directors: CBS has Halle Berry in Extant, with Steven Spielberg as an exec producer, and FX has Guillermo del Toro's The Strain.
FALL
Taylor Swift hasn't announced a release date for her next album, but her hints imply that fans should keep an eye out in autumn.
OCT. 3
Book-club champ Gone Girl, the hit novel about a woman's disappearance, arrives on the big screen with Ben Affleck.
NOV. 7
Watch out for wormholes when Inception filmmaker Christopher Nolan goes to outer space with Interstellar.
NOV. 21
Jennifer Lawrence is back as bow-slinging heroine (and box-office champ) Katniss in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1, the penultimate trip to Panem.
DEC. 17
Every journey must come to an end, as Peter Jackson's latest Tolkien trilogy will in The Hobbit: There and Back Again.