This week on the last regular podcast of 2013, Brian returns to join Zach, Chris and Joe to talk about the latest trailers including Edge of Tomorrow and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, major casting news, the history of Venom, the greatness of Home Alone 1 & 2, Hobbits, amazingly bad Disney specials and much more.

Massive news about the new Terminator, the future of Amazing Spider-Man’s universe, casting news and much more in this week’s News Shotgun.

This week on the podcast, Zach, Chris and Joe pay their respects to Paul Walker, try to figure out why so many historical action epics are coming next year, the new Wonder Woman, classic Disney movies and Christmas specials, the horrifying imagery of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and much more.

The Emmy nominations were announced and they actually show some progressiveness by instantly recognizing Netflix as a competitor with multiple nominations for House of Cards and ending the stranglehold of Modern Family on the comedy categories.

Marvel may be close to getting a Black Panther and regained two more of it’s super heroes, Luc Besson returns to directing, another Stephen King book may be coming to the small screen and Steven Spielberg has his next project. All that plus more in this week’s News Shotgun.

Check out HBO’s 14 minute recap of Season 2 of Game of Thrones to get yourself somewhat prepared for the Season 3 premiere this Sunday.