Entertainment Update for June 27

June 27, 2011 by Rueben

Hey All,

Happy Monday Everybody! I hope your week has gotten off to a good start. Let’s get right into the news for today, shall we?:

TELEVISION

Veteran actor Scott Wilson (Dead Man Walking) and actress Lauren Cohan (Supernatural and The Vampire Diaries) will play the father/daughter team of Hershel and Maggie Greene on the second season of The Walking Dead when it returns this fall on AMC. (Zap2It)

Actor Russell Hornsby (Lincoln Heights and this falls NBC series Grimm) will guest star in an upcoming episode of the new USA series Suits, playing Quentin Sainz, someone from Jessica’s (Gina Torres) past whose company’s breakthrough drug for ALS patients may have unexpected deadly side effects. Also on tap to guest star in the same upcoming episode is actress Sharon Leal (Hellcats) who will appear as Lisa Parker, a consultant for the company that is being sued for falsifying the results of their drug trials to the FDA. (Philiana Ng at The Hollywood Reporter)

MADE FOR TV MOVIE NEWS

The cast for the 8-part mini-series called World Without End, which is the follow-up to The Pillars of the Earth mini-series has been announced. Among the cast are: Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City), Miranda Richardson (Rubicon), Ben Chaplin (The Water Horse), Peter Firth (MI5), Charlotte Riley (The Duchess) and Tom Weston-Jones (Enlightenment). The mini-series is based on the novel by Ken Follett, which centers on Caris (Riley), a visionary woman who, with her lover Merthin, builds a community that stands up to the Crown and the Church. Nixon will play the beautiful and deadly schemer Petranilla, Richardson will play the strong and determined Mother Cecilia, Chaplin will play the mysterious Sir Thomas Langley, and Firth will play the ruthless Earl Roland. Also cast in the project are Rupert Evans (Hellboy) as the duplicitous Godwyn; Nora von Waldstaetten (Carlos) as streetwise peasant girl Gwenda; Oliver Jackson-Cohen (The Raven) as the rough and dangerous Ralph; Megan Follows (Heartland) as Maud, a lady fallen from grace; and Sarah Gadon (Cosmopolis) as the attractive and intelligent Philippa. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Ben Barnes (The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian) is in talks to star in the fantasy film The Seventh Son based on the noel by Joseph Delaney, which tells the story of a teen who learns about wizardry from a forbidding spook. (Showblitz)

Actors Lily Cole and Sam Spruell have joined the cast of the upcoming film Snow White and the Huntsman with Cole playing Greta and Spruell plyaing Finn, a henchman who serves the Evil Queen (Charlize Theron). Finn is sent to kill both Snow White (Kristen Stewart) and the Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) once the Queen learns they have joined forces. (Movie Web)

Actor Christopher Meloni (Law & Order: SVU) will play a military general in the upcoming Superman reboot Man Of Steel. (Deadline, First Showing and Variety)

Actress Jodie Foster is in talks to join the film adaptation of the comic book called R.I.P.D., which will star Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges as a pair of undead cops who police undead criminals causing trouble for real life people. Foster would play Proctor, the boss of Reynolds and Bridges’ undead cops. (We Got This Covered and Dark Horizons)

Aussie actors Liam Hemsworth (The Last Song) and Teresa Palmer (I Am Number Four) are in negotiations to join the cast of the upcoming film called AWOL, which is based on a true story set against the anti-war movement at the University of Michigan. Stowell plays a young soldier in Vietnam who gets dumped by his hometown girl (Aimee Teegarden) and goes AWOL with his best friend (Hemsworth). Returning to the States, he tries to win back her affections. (Variety and Dark Horizons)

Actor Ray Liotta will join Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper in the upcoming film called A Place Beyond the Pines that follows a pro motorcycle rider (Gosling) who starts robbing banks to support his newborn son — until he crosses paths with a determined young cop (Cooper). Liotta will be playing a fierce, corrupt officer on the police force. (Variety and First Showing)

Here are the top 10 movies at the box office this past weekend courtesy of Exhibitor Relations and E! Online:

1. Cars 2, $68 million
2. Bad Teacher, $31 million
3. Green Lantern, $18.4 million
4. Super 8, $12.1 million
5. Mr. Popper’s Penguins, $10.3 million
6. X-Men: First Class, $6.6 million
7. The Hangover Part II, $5.9 million
8. Bridesmaids, $5.4 million
9. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, $4.7 million
10. Midnight in Paris, $4.5 million

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