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Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor Sean Astin (Lord of the Rings franchise) will guest star in a March episode of NCIS as a psychological operations investigator working alongside guest star Jamie Leigh Curtis. (Sandra Gonzalez at Entertainment Weekly)

Actor Noah Bean (Nikita and Damages) will guest star on Once Upon a Time as a handsome stable boy in fairytale land who tends to horses at the royal manor; and young actress Bailee Madison (Just Go With It) will also appear on Once Upon a Time as a young Snow White while singer Roger Daltrey (from the legend rock group The Who) will provide the voice for the talking caterpillar in an Alice in Wonderland-themed episode of the series. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line, James Hibberd at Entertainment Weekly and Variety)

Actor Stephen Lang (Terra Nova and Avatar) will appear in a three-episode arc of In Plain Sight, playing the troubled father of Mary Shannon (Mary McCormack). The show will be back for its final season on USA on March 16 at 10 PM. (William Keck at TV Guide)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Actor Chi McBride (Pushing Daisies) has been cast in the CBS drama pilot called Golden Boy, which tracks an ambitious young police officer’s meteoric rise through the department ranks. He will splay his new partner, Detective Owen. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

ABC Family is moving forward with a new series from Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino called Bunheads that will star Sutton Foster as Michelle, a Las Vegas showgirl who impulsively marries a man and moves to his sleepy coastal town, and takes an uneasy role at her new mother-in-law’s dance school. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Young Australian actors Brenton Thwaites and Indiana Evans (both co-stars on the popular Australian soap opera home and Away) are stepping into the roles made famous by Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins in The Blue Lagoon, the contemporary remake being made by Lifetime. Thwaites and Evans will play Dane and Emma, a boy and a girl marooned on a tropical island where they grow up together, fall in love and discover sexuality. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actress Amy Adams is set to star in and produce an adaptation of comedian/actor/author Steve Martin’s novel called An Object of Beauty that follows fifteen years of a young art entrepreneur’s life. (The Hollywood Reporter and First Showing)

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

New Amazing Spider-Man Trailer—Watch It Now

ME: I have to admit that I wasn’t sold on this new reboot of Spider-Man because I enjoyed the first two movies from the franchise that starred Tobey Maguire; but now that I have seen this trailer, I will, most likely, end up seeing this movie after all. It impressed me enough to give it a chance.

That’s it. Enjoy!