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Hey All,

The news is a little on the short side, but there are still some interesting items to share with everyone:

NEWS

Actor Blair Underwood (The Event) will make his Broadway debut as Stanley Kowalski in the upcoming revival of A Streetcar Named Desire. There is no word yet on who will be joining him as twisted sisters Blanche or Stella. (Entertainment Weekly)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Hugh Jackman is being sought to play Jean Valjean and actor Paul Bettany is a candidate for the part of Javert in the new upcoming adaptation of Les Miserables, the 1985 stage musical, which is actually an adaptation of the 1862 Victor Hugo novel. The story follows the struggle by ex-con Jean Valjean to outrun his past and his relentless pursuer Javert. (Deadline and Dark Horizons)

Actress Laura Prepon (That 70’s Show) will star alongside Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Rebecca Hall in the upcoming film called Lay the Favorite, which is an adaptation of the Beth Raymer gambling memoir. Actors Vince Vaughn and Joshua Jackson co-star. (The Wrap)

Actress Kate Winslet and actor Josh Brolin will star as a lost, lonesome mother and an escaped convicted murderer (respectively) who takes refuge with her and her young son in the upcoming film called Labor Day. The film is considered part love story, part coming-of-age tale, and part thriller. (Entertainment Weekly)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Broadway actors John Gallagher Jr. (Spring Awakening) and Thomas Sadoski (Reasons To Be Pretty) have joined the Aaron Sorkin HBO drama pilot called More As This Story Develops. Meanwhile, actor Josh Pence (who will be seen in the upcoming films Battleship and The Dark Knight Rises) has been tapped to join the cast as well. The pilot centers on cable news anchor Will McCallister (Jeff Daniels) and his show’s staff led by executive producer Mackenzie (Emily Mortimer). Gallagher will play Jim, who was offered another job when Mackenzie’s show was cancelled but turned it down to come work with her on Will’s show — where he develops a crush on associate producer Maggie (Alison Pill); Pence will play Rob, a senior producer who has been in a relationship with Maggie for five months and starts to become jealous of her budding romance with Jim and Sadoski will play Will’s former executive producer who left him to go work for Will’s protege’s new show. (Nellie Andreeva at TV Line)

Actor Mark Ruffalo is confirmed and actress Zoe Saldana is negotiating to appear in the upcoming martial drama film called Infinitely Polar Bear. The story follows a bipolar husband and father (Ruffalo) who goes off his medication, and then loses both his sanity and job while struggling to hold onto his marriage. Saldana would play his wife, who, after going back to work, ends up moving out of the house, leaving him alone with the kids. (Vulture and First Showing)

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Hey All,

Today’s news has been delayed due to some circumstances out of my control, but thankfully those circumstances were good ones. Here are the news items:

TELEVISION

Tony nominated actress Elizabeth Rodriguez has joined the cast of the new NBC drama series Prime Suspect that stars Maria Bello as Jane Timoney, a female detective working in a tough, male-dominated precinct in New York City. Rodriguez will play another detective on the force. The new show will air on Thursday nights at 10 PM. (Deadline)

Actor Gilles Marini (Brothers & Sisters) has been cast on the new ABC Family Channel series Switched at Birth. He will appear as the birth father of Bay (Vanessa Marano). (TV Guide)

AMC has set a premiere date for the second season of The Walking Dead on October 21. (Dark Horizons)

Oscar-winning actress Patty Duke is joining the new Lifetime drama The Protector as the mother of mother of Ally Walker’s character – homicide detective Gloria Sheppard. (The Hollywood Reporter)

While Doctor Who will be back for a new season with 14 episodes, a full season of the show will not be aired in 2012, but rather “a special run for the anniversary in 2013.” (Digital Spy and Blastr)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Caroline Dhavernas (Off the Map and Wonderfalls) has landed the female lead in the USA pilot called Over/Under, which centers on Paul (Steven Pasquale), a day trader with a massive gambling problem who is fired from his job six months after a bad trade costs his firm millions. Shut out of the job market, he and his wife (Dhavernas) — a professional photographer specializing in nude portraits and a devoted Manhattanite — move to Brooklyn. There, Paul finds an unlikely partner, expectant father Marino (Anthony Carrigan), to start a high-end bookie business. (Deadline)

Young actress Bailee Madison (Just Go With It) has joined the FX drama pilot called Powers that is based on the graphic novel by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming. The pilot is a police procedural set in a world where superpowers are relatively common and centers on two detectives, Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim, in a Homicide department that deals with cases involving “powers” (people with superpowers). The 11-year-old will play Calista, an otherworldly young girl raised by her stepdad Eagle, a man with powers. When Eagle’s wife is murdered and he goes on the lam, Calista comes to stay with Walker and develops a bond with him. (Deadline)

It looks like the USA Network is finalizing a deal to pick-up the new comedic buddy cop drama called Common Law, which stars Michael Ealy and Warren Kole. The series is to center on polar-opposite LAPD homicide detectives Travis Marks (Ealy) and Wes Mitchell (Kole), whose nonstop bickering and acrimony prompts their no-nonsense captain Phil Sutton (Jack McGee) to send them to a couples therapist. The role of the therapist, played in the pilot by Amy Acker, will be recast, along with another, smaller part. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actresses Anna Kendrick and Natalie Martinez are in negotiations to co-star in the cop drama called End of Watch as the love interests of Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena’s characters. The story follows the longtime partnership of two LAPD officers as they confront marriage, love, fatherhood and the harsh realities of the Los Angeles streets. (Variety and Dark Horizons)

It is being reported that actor Russell Crowe will play Jor-El, Superman’s biological father, in the upcoming Superman reboot. (Variety and First Showing)

Q&A SECTION (with Adam Bryant and Natalie Abrams from TV Guide)

Question: Who did Tony see in the photograph in the NCIS finale? Please tell me they’re not going to break up the team! — Melanie

ADAM: Executive producer Gary Glasberg gives us a hint. “It will be someone that we recognize,” he says, adding we’ll get that answer in the season premiere. We’ll also get some serious intel on that microchip that E.J. found in her co-worker’s arm. New theory: These mysteries are totally connected, right?

Question: I can’t believe Game of Thrones killed off Ned Stark! Please console me with scoop. — Mark

NATALIE: Does this help? Although Ned Stark was beheaded on the Sept of Baelor, it’s not the last we’ve seen of Sean Bean. In fact, in the finale, two of his children will see him in a way you’d probably expect of television; a third, though, will have a shocking run-in with dear old Dad.

Question: I can’t believe how long we have to wait for more Castle. Please ease the pain with scoop! — Sharon

ADAM: Unfortunately for our crime-fighters, the new captain, who will almost certainly be a woman, is a former Internal Affairs investigator who is more interested in politics than police work. But it might not be all bad: Though creator Andrew W. Marlowe previously told us she won’t look as favorably on the Castle-Beckett pairing as Montgomery (RIP!) did, she’ll ultimately be a loyal team leader.

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Hey All,

The news isn’t too long today, but there are some interesting items to share. Please read on:

TELEVISION

Actress Abigail Spencer (Mad Men) will guest star on the new USA Network series Suits that debuts on June 29. She will appear as a high-powered attorney who goes toe-to-toe with Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht). Being onetime Harvard classmates, sparks may fly outside the courtroom as well for the opposing counsels. (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

MADE FOR TV MOVIE NEWS

Actor Rob Lowe (Parks and Recreation) and actress Kaley Cuoco (The Big Bang Theory) will appear in the Lifetime movie, tentatively titled he movie, tentative titled The Drew Peterson Story aka Ladykiller. Lowe will play the lead role, Drew Peterson, who was charged with the death of his third wife after the mysterious disappearance of his fourth wife. Cuoco will appear as the fourth wife. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Josh Stewart (Dirt and No Ordinary Family) has signed on for a role in the upcoming movie The Dark Knight Rises, but his role is unspecified at this time. (Variety and Dark Horizons)

Actor Jason Clarke (The Chicago Code and Brotherhood) will appear in the film adaptation of the literary classic The Great Gatsby, playing the role of George Wilson. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as the wealthy and mysterious Jay Gatsby who still pines for his former flame Daisy Buchanan (Carey Mulligan). Clarke’s character of Wilson is the husband of Myrtle (Isla Fisher). Myrtle is having an affair with Daisy’s husband Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton). Tobey Maguire plays the narrator Nick Carraway. (The Hollywood Reporter and Dark Horizons)

Actors Matthew Fox (Lost) and film star Ed Harris have joined the cast of the upcoming box office film World War Z that has Brad Pitt playing a researcher for the U.N. Postwar Commission in this zombie-inspired flick. Their roles have not been released yet. (Bloody Disgusting and First Showing)

Actress Eva Mendes will star while actress Greta Gerwig is “in talks” to star in the box office film called The Place Beyond The Pines. The story follows a professional motorcycle rider named Luke (Ryan Gosling) who turns to bank robberies to support his newborn son, but when he crosses paths with a rookie police officer (Bradley Cooper) their confrontation spirals into a generational feud. Mendes will play the love interest of Gosling, and mother of his child; while Gerwig is circling the role of the wife of Gosling’s foe, a cop-turned politician. (Deadline and First Showing)

It looks like producer Joel Silver has announced a deal for a live-action movie based on the popular Cartoon Network animated series Ben 10. The series follows young Ben Tennyson who discovers a strange wrist watch that allows him to transforms into 10 different aliens with super powers. (First Showing)

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