Hey All,
Happy Friday to one and all! I hope you have some fun activities planned for this week or maybe you plan on taking it easy and just enjoying the weekend. Either way have a great one.
Now, let’s get into the news for today:
TELEVISION
Actor Sean Bean (Game of Thrones) will star opposite actress Ashley Judd in the ABC action series called Missing that has received a 10 episode order. The series will center on Becca Winstone (Judd), a devoted single mom who, after her 18-year-old son disappears in Italy, takes it upon herself to travel to Europe and track him down. It soon becomes clear that Winstone is a former CIA agent who will stop at nothing to bring her son home alive. Bean will play Becca’s husband Paul, who was blown up in front of his son but will appear throughout the series in flashbacks. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
MADE FOR TV MOVIE NEWS
Actress Katherine Heigl (Grey’s Anatomy) will return to the small screen as producer and star of the HBO original movie based on the best-selling novel The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood, which centers on a mother mourning the death of her young daughter and struggling to overcome the grief that jeopardizes every aspect of her life — including her marriage. She begins to find her way back into the world through a knitting circle. (Nellie Andreeva at TV Line)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Young actress Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) may become the next actress to play Juliet on the big screen as she is in talks to join the cast of Romeo and Juliet, which is being adapted by Oscar winner Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park. (Joshua Weinstein at The Wrap)
It looks like actor Ben Affleck is “in talks” to play the role of Tom Buchanan in the Baz Luhrmann adaptation of The Great Gatsby, starring alongside actor Leonardo DiCaprio, as Jay Gatsby, Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway and Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan. (First Showing)
Actor Michael Sheen (The Queen and Frost/Nixon) is in talks to play Elizabeth Collins Stoddard’s (Michelle Pfeiffer) manipulative brother Roger in the Tim Burton adaptation of the ’60s vampire soap Dark Shadows. Also young actor Thomas McDonell (the upcoming movie Prom) was cast as younger Barnabas Collins, to the older Barnabas played by Johnny Depp. The cast also includes Jackie Earle Haley (Human Target) as Collins’ servant Willie Loomis, Helena Bonham Carter (The King’s Speech) as Dr. Julia Hoffman, Eva Green (Camelot and Casino Royale) as the witch Angelique Bouchard and relative newcomer (but one of the new faces to watch for this coming year) Bella Heathcote as Victoria Winters, the governess of the Collinwood estate. (moviegno.me)
Actor Dave Franco (Scrubs – and brother of James Franco) has been cast to play a villain in the adaptation of the 1980’s TV series 21 Jump Street that starred Johnny Depp. His character will be Eric, the most popular kid in school, who also happens to be a raging drug dealer. Jonah Hill’s narc character befriends him to infiltrate the cool kid crowd. Channing Tatum plays another undercover officer. (Mike Fleming at Deadline)
That’s it. Enjoy!
Have a terrific weekend!
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