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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

NEWS

Congrats to the winners of the Scream Awards that were presented this past weekend. The winners included the films Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Super 8, X-Men: First Class, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Let Me In; the TV shows Game of Thrones and True Blood; and actors Natalie Portman, Daniel Radcliffe, Milla Jovovich, Matt Smith, Chloe Grace Moretz, Alexander Skarsgård, Ralph Fiennes, Chris Evans, Mila Kunis, Peter Dinklage, Emilia Clarke, Joe Manganiello, True Blood and Hugh Jackman. (E! Online)

TELEVISION

TNT has canceled the cop drama Memphis Beat. (Vlada Gelman at TV Line)

Actor Brandon Jay McLaren (The Killing and Being Erica) will appear in a multi-episode arc on Season 2 of Falling Skies on TNT. He will play Sunil Chutani, a handsome and overwhelmed mechanic who has spent a fortune on an Ivy League engineering degree and was just days away from launching an IPO when the aliens hit. The series will return with 10 new episodes starting next summer. (The Hollywood Reporter)

FX has renewed Sons of Anarchy for a fifth season. (Twitter)

Actor Jamie Bamber (Battlestar Galactica) will appear in a November sweeps episode of House as a man who “suddenly collapses, and in the process of diagnosing his symptoms, the team discovers that he has been hiding dark secrets and lying about his personal and professional life… But when he openly confesses his wrongdoings to his family and community, he compromises his chances of receiving the proper medical treatment that could save his life.” (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Actor Eion Bailey (Covert Affairs) will appear in a multi-episode arc on the new ABC fairytale drama Once Upon a Time. He will first appear in the 9th episode as “The Stranger”. There are no other details on his character at this time. The show debuts this Sunday, October 23 at 8 PM on ABC. (Jethro Nededog at The Hollywood Reporter)

Actress Jamie Ray Newman (Eastwick, Drop Dead Diva and Eureka) will have a two episode guest appearance on NCIS as Melanie Burke, a Navy Lieutenant Commander who is a chaplain at the Navy Yard. In addition, Newman will also guest star on an episode of Grimm, the new fairytale-based drama on NBC. She will play Angelina, one of the episode’s titular “Three Bad Wolves.” (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

FOX has picked up Wildwood, a 1985-set coming-of-age dramedy from ABC Studios and Shonda Rhimes. Veronica Mars executive producer Diane Ruggiero will write the pilot and executive produce with Rhimes and Betsy Beers. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

Actress Danielle Panabaker (Shark) will star in the ABC Family pilot called Intercept that is a one-hour technology- and action-driven drama about four college students who get roped into solving crimes when one of them creates a high-tech communication device that intercepts conversations throughout the West Coast. Panabaker will play one of the two girls on the team. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Donal Logue and actresses Karen Allen and Ana De la Reguera have joined the cast of the TNT action/adventure pilot Gateway, which is set in the Colorado town of the same name in the 1880s. The potential series tells the story of three 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. Allen will play the brothers’ mom, a rancher’s daughter. Logue will play Auggie, Jake’s drinking buddy, an aristocratic soul who inherited the town store from his father. De la Reguera will play the practical and feisty co-owner of Lola’s saloon. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

MADE FOR TV MOVIE NEWS

Harry Potter actor Tom Felton (he played Draco Malfoy) will join actors John Hurt and Sebastian Stan in the four-hour mini-series called Labyrinth, which is based on Kate Mosse’s bestseller. The mini tells the parallel stories of Alice, a present day volunteer at an archeological excavation who discovers a ring with a labyrinth engraved on it and 13th Century new bride Alais who is protecting books that reveal the secret of the Grail. Felton will play Raymond-Roger de Trencavel, Viscount of Carcassonne, who died in 1209, a martyr, trying to protect his Cathar citizens from genocide. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Aaron Eckhart will tell the fascinating, albeit often tumultuous, story of the late Dennis Wilson, member of the legendary band The Beach Boys, for a new biopic called The Drummer. Eckhart is currently being trained in vocals, piano, and of course, drums. The film will chronicle the last six years of Wilson’s life, including the release of his acclaimed solo album Pacific Blue Ocean. (Aly Semigran at Entertainment Weekly)

Here are the top 10 movies at the box office from this past weekend courtesy of Box Office Mojo and E! Online:

1. Real Steel, $16.3 million
2. Footloose, $16.1 million
3. The Thing, $8.7 million
4. The Ides of March, $7.5 million
5. Dolphin Tale, $6.3 million
6. Moneyball, $5.5 million
7. 50/50, $4.3 million
8. Courageous, $3.4 million
9. The Big Year, $3.3 million
10. The Lion King, $2.7 million

That’s it. Enjoy!

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