Hey All,
Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:
RENEWAL/CANCELLATION
Hulu/Disney+ have given a third season renewal to Rivals. (Hulu and Disney+ Press Release)
Netflix has pulled the plug on the Duffer Brothers’ drama The Boroughs after only one season. (Deadline)
TV CASTING NEWS
The 6th season of Only Murders In the Building will feature some incredible cast members including David Tennant, Nicola Coughlan, Jodie Whittaker and Jim Broadbent. (Deadline)
Grace Gummer will star opposite Dakota Fanning in an Apple TV thriller series, which is currently untitled; but it will feature Fanning as an undercover Treasury agent in a multi-billion dollar international conglomerate, with world-changing political and criminal tentacles, who becomes conflicted between her mission and a belief that her principal target, the heir apparent to all that corrupt power, is at his core a good man and worthy of her love. Gummer will play the series regular role of Juliana, the oldest child of Stellan Skarsgård’s Brant, who heads up the conglomerate. (Deadline)
Star Wars legend Mark Hamill has joined the cast of the upcoming third season of the Peacock series Twisted Metal, which follows John Doe (Anthony Mackie), a motor-mouthed outsider and Quiet (Stephanie Beatriz), a badass axe-wielding car thief. There are no character details about who Hamill will play, though. (Dark Horizons)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
The new movie The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum has added Anya Taylor-Joy to its cast where she will play Seren, a Sindar Elf of the Woodland Realm. (Variety)
The reboot of the rom-com flick 13 Going on 30 has cast Adeline Rudolph (Mortal Kombat II and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) to star alongside the previously announced Emily Bader and Logan Lerman. But her role and the sequel’s logline are being kept under wraps. (Deadline)
The upcoming animated film Dragoons will feature the voice of Michael J. Fox, who will play Dougie, an overlooked, ordinary worker at WizCorp who, after a freak accident, turns into a hero, with an apprentice, Dart. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Alex Borstein is set to star in the comedic family drama Turn the Lights Back On that is in development. The film will be based on true events and inspired by experiences many families faced during the Covid era, centering on a family forced to confront decades of unresolved tensions while facing an unprecedented moment in modern history. Borstein will play Emma, an exhausted elementary school teacher grappling with perimenopause, family responsibility, and the impossible decision to place her aging mother into assisted living just as the world begins to shut down. As old wounds resurface among her siblings, Emma finds herself navigating guilt, grief, and the unraveling of long-held family dynamics during one of the most isolating periods in recent history. (Deadline)
Barbie alum Ariana Greenblatt is set to star in the rom-com flick Egg Baby that will follow a rebellious artist and a golden-boy quarterback who are forced to co-parent an egg for health class, only to find that raising “Yolk-o” might crack open something real between them. (Deadline)
Buffy herself, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Outer Banks star Rudy Pankow will appear in the supernatural romance flick Thud, where they willl respectively play the Grim Reaper and the Devil. Thud watches as the Grim Reaper and the Devil meet cute at a three-day destination wedding, falling in love after colliding at the event, where they’ve each come to sow their own chaos. (Deadline)
Reacher star Alan Ritchson will join Ansel Elgort, Halle Bailey and Ludacris for the new animated movie Groove Tails, which will follow a mouse pursuing stardom as a dancer. After his father objects to his ambitions, he goes on a journey alongside several misfits. According to the official description, they discover their own unique rhythms while fighting to save the only place they’ve ever truly called home. (Coming Soon)
That’s it. Enjoy!
Rueben's Ramblings 