Hey All,
Here are the news items for today:
TELEVISION
Actor Pablo Schreiber has been made a regular cast member of the new CBS drama A Gifted Man that will begin this fall. He plays Anton, a shaman and New Age spiritual healer to Michael Holt (Patrick Wilson). (Deadline)
Actor Jensen Ackles will take to the director’s chair once again on Supernatural when it returns for its seventh season this fall. It will be the first episode the cast films, but it will be the third aired episode of the new season. (Zap2It)
Actress Lisa Edelstein (House) will have a guest starring role on The Good Wife that will span several episodes. Her character is a lawyer — and a bit of a card shark — who has significant history with Will (Josh Charles). (TV Line and Zap2It)
Actress Natalie Dormer (The Tudors and the upcoming Captain America movie) has been added as a regular cast member for Season 2 of the HBO series Game of Thrones. She will play Margaery Tyrell, a (minor spoiler alert) beautiful and shrewd young woman from the influential House Tyrell. She’s pledged to marry the late King Robert’s brother, Renly Baratheon, as part of House Tyrell’s support for his bid to seize the Iron Throne from King Joffrey. (Entertainment Weekly)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Actor Stephen Root has been cast in a new regular role in the FX drama pilot Outlaw Country, which is undergoing tweaking and some reshoots. The crime thriller/family drama, set against the backdrop of Southern organized crime and Nashville royalty, stars Luke Grimes as twenty-something Eli Larkin who tries to leave the life of crime. Meanwhile, actor John Hawkes is Eli’s uncle Tarzen Larkin, a big-time player in the Southern crime world. Actress Haley Bennett is a country singer and Mary Steenburgen as her overprotective mother. Root will play Jack Folcum, a shrewd businessman gangster associate and rival of Tarzen’s. (Deadline)
MINI SERIES NEWS
The Chateau Marmont, which for the past 80 years has served as the backdrop of major events in Hollywood history and the lives of its famous inhabitants, will now take front stage in a mini-series from John Krasinski (The Office) and writer-producer extraordinaire Aaron Sorkin. Sorkin will write the mini, which will be based on the book Life At The Marmont by former Chateau Marmont co-owner Raymond R. Sarlot and Fred Basten. Krasinski is also expected to play a role in the as-yet-untitled miniseries, which will tell the inter-connected stories of the people who frequented the famed Hollywood landmark over several generations. (Deadline)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Actor Joel David Moore (Bones) has joined the cast of the box office film called Savages that already stars Blake Lively, Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Johnson, Salma Hayek, Benicio del Toro, John Travolta, Uma Thurman and Emile Hirsch. It is a crime drama based on the 2010 novel written by Don Winslow. Moore will play an expert computer geek who moves on from a Washington think tank to the marijuana business. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Actor Tom Wilkinson is in early talks to join the cast of the upcoming movie Lone Ranger, portraying a railroad tycoon in the Old West who plays a prominent role in the film about the masked Texas Ranger (Armie Hammer) and his trusty sidekick Tonto (Johnny Depp). (Variety and Dark Horizons)
Actress Julia Ormond (Legends of the Fall and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) has been offered the role of Lara, Kal-El’s birth mother, in the upcoming Superman reboot Man of Steel. She would like appear opposite Russell Crowe who was recently offered the part of Superman’s Kryptonian father Jor-El. (Deadline and Dark Horizons)
Actor Robin Williams looks to have joined the cast of wedding comedy called Gently Down The Stream, which will star Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Katherine Heigl and Topher Grace in a story of a dysfunctional divorced couple who pretend to still be together during their adopted son’s wedding for the sake of the birth mother. (Showbiz 411 and Dark Horizons)
Actor Marshall Allman (Prison Break and True Blood) has been cast in the family comedy called Jayne Mansfield’s Car. He will play the naïve son of Robert Duvall’s character. John Hurt, Kevin Bacon, Robert Patrick, Frances O’Connor and Ray Stevenson also star. (Variety and Dark Horizons)
BOX OFFICE TRAILER
Must Watch: Statham, De Niro & Owen in Official ‘Killer Elite’ Trailer
NOTE: Attention Chuck fans! Yvonne Strahovski is in this movie. Mark it on your calendars to see it for her if nothing else!
That’s it. Enjoy!
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