Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actress Kellie Martin (ER and Life Goes On) will guest star in a multi-episode arc on the Lifetime drama Army Wives, playing Nicole Galassini, a smart, no-nonsense expert in African geopolitics and a Captain in the Army’s Intelligence Division. (The Futon Critic)

Mark your calendars for April 8 when ABC will air two back-to-back new episodes of their new dramedy GCB. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Liz Vassey will reprise her role of Gabrielle Pittman, the co-owner of the New York Hawks football team, in the USA Network drama Necessary Roughness when the show returns for its second season this summer. She will be seen in two episodes of the new season. (Philiana Ng at The Hollywood Reporter)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Gerard Butler is in talks to take the lead role in the upcoming box office film called Motor City that is to follow a small-time hood framed and sent to prison by a drug trafficker, only to relentlessly exact revenge years later to get back the woman he loves. Gary Oldman and Amber Heard have already been cast. Dominic Cooper and Jake Gyllenhaal were both attached in the lead role, but both left citing scheduling conflicts. (Variety and Dark Horizons)

Novelist Kristin Hannah has made screen deals for two of her novels. First is “Home Front”, which is a dramatic exploration of the toll war takes on an ordinary American family, told from the vantage point of a woman who, in addition to being a wife and mother, is a Blackhawk pilot in the National Guard called to serve a tour of duty in Iraq. The other is “The Things We Do For Love” that will possibly star Abigail Breslin in a story about a destitute and pregnant seventeen year old who must make an impossible choice between love and honor. (Mike Fleming at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

Watch: Lee Kirk’s ‘Giant Mechanical Man’ Trailer with Jenna Fischer

That’s it. Enjoy!

Have a terrific weekend!