Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for Friday:

TELEVISION

Actress Amber Benson, best known for her role on Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, will guest star in her former co-star Sarah Michelle Gellar in the new CW series Ringer. Benson will star as Mary Curtis, an informant for Agent Machado (Nestor Carbonell). (TV Guide and TV Line)

Actor Malik Yoba (Alphas) will guest star in the November 18 episode of Nikita, playing Wallace, a tough and unpredictable Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who interferes with Alex’s (Lyndsy Fonseca) quest for vengeance. (Megan Masters at TV Line)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

USA Network is finalizing a deal with Jeff Eastin (the creator of White Collar) for a pilot order to a one-hour drama that follows agents from various federal and local agencies (DEA, FBI, LAPD) who all live at an undercover house in southern California. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

A number of actors have joined the cast of the TNT Western drama pilot Gateway aka Tin Star, which is set in the Colorado town of the same name in the 1880s, and tells the story of the Flynn brothers – Terence (David Denman), Daniel (Keir O’Donnell) and Jake (Cam Gigandet) – who step in to save their town when their sheriff father is murdered, pitting them against a corrupt cattle baron determined to make the town his own. Actress Shannon Lucio will play Terence’s wife while actor Eric Lange will play the town banker. Additionally, Keith Carradine will play Frank Saar, a tired homesteader, worn down by the hardships of the West, who is thrust into the role of a father figure to the late sheriff’s three sons. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Playwright-screenwriter Kate Robin (Six Feet Under) and director-producer Jake Kasdan have sold a project to FOX that is an ensemble drama focusing on the female secret service agents who work on the protective detail of the First Lady. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Johnny Depp is expected to star in a live-action biopic about classic children’s author and illustrator Dr. Seuss (aka Theodor Geisel). (Risky Biz Blog and Dark Horizons)

Actor David Morse has joined the cast of the zombie post-apocalypse film World War Z that stars Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos and James Badge Dale. Morse will play a prisoner living in an abandoned jail. (Deadline and Dark Horizons)

Actress Tamara Tunie (Law & Order: SVU) is will co-star in the upcoming film called Flight that stars Denzel Washington as an airline pilot with substance abuse issues who steers an endangered flight to a safe crash-landing. Tunie will play the lead flight attendant who is interviewed during a routine investigation that leads to the unraveling of his life. John Goodman, Don Cheadle, Kelly Reilly and Bruce Greenwood also star. (Variety and Dark Horizons)

Actress Kristin Lehman (The Killing) has joined the cast of the upcoming dark comedy film called Arthur Newman, Golf Pro that stars Colin Firth as Wallace Avery, a man who hates his job and is despised by his family. He decides to fake his own death and create a new identity, along the way meeting a young woman (Emily Blunt) with her own troubled past. The pair start breaking into empty homes to pose as the absent owners. Lehman will play Firth’s ex-wife, who lives with their son and her new husband. (Variety and Dark Horizons)

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

First Trailer for James McTeigue’s ‘The Raven’ Starring John Cusack

That’s it. Enjoy!

Have a terrific weekend!!