Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actress Jeanne Tripplehorn will join the cast of the CBS procedural Criminal Minds as a new series regular next season. She will play a new FBI profiler, but details on the character are still being “fleshed out”. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Brent Spiner (Star Trek: The Next Generation) will appear in a six-episode arc on Syfy’s Warehouse 13, playing Brother Adrian, the leader of a top-secret sect known as the Brotherhood of the Knights of the Black Diamond. The Brotherhood is descended from the Knights Templar and connected to the Vatican; it is charged with the protection of many powerful artifacts, one of which Artie (Saul Rubinek) desperately needs to make everything right again [after the massive explosion in last season’s finale]. Brother Adrian will become a major obstacle for the team. (Michael Logan at TV Guide)

Actress Jacinda Barrett (who will be seen in this fall’s Zero Hour) will guest star in an upcoming episode of the USA Network drama Suits (which just so happens to star her off-screen husband Gabriel Macht). She will play Zoe Lawford, a former lawyer-turned-jury consultant who once worked at the law firm of Pearson Hardman. Jessica (Gina Torres) is skeptical when Harvey (Macht) brings Zoe in to work a difficult case and is afraid his past history with her may cloud his judgment. Suits returns tonight with all new episodes. (Philiana Ng at The Hollywood Reporter)

MADE FOR TV MOVIE NEWS

Actors Rob Lowe (The West Wing) and Scott Bakula (Quantum Leap) have joined the cast of the HBO biopic about Liberace called Behind the Candelabra that will star Michael Douglas in the lead role. Lowe is in talks to play Liberace’s plastic surgeon, while Bakula will play Bob Black, the choreographer who introduced the singer to his longtime partner, Scott Thorson (Matt Damon). They join a cast that already includes Dan Aykroyd and Debbie Reynolds. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actress Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone) and actor Dane DeHaan (Chronicle) have joined the cast of the upcoming film called The West Memphis Three that already stars Colin Firth and Reese Witherspoon. Ryan would play Firth’s estranged wife, while DeHaan would be a teenager who shares some kind of history with the three young murder victims at the center of this ultimately tragic story. (Variety and First Showing)

Actor Bill Paxton (who was just seen on History’s Hatfield & McCoys mini-series) will play a high-ranking CIA operative in the adaptation of the comic book 2 Guns that centers on a DEA agent and an undercover naval intelligence officer who unknowingly investigate each other as each is stealing money from the mob. Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington play the two leads. Actress Paula Patton (Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol) is also in talks to star. (Variety and Dark Horizons)

Recent Oscar winner Jean Dujardin (The Artist) has joined the cast of the upcoming film by Martin Scorsese called The Wolf of Wall Street. He will play Jean-Jacques Handali, a suave Swiss banker who launders money for Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio), the stockbroker who tastes success but gets caught up in drugs, excess, and greed. Jonah Hill will co-star in the film. (Variety and First Showing)

That’s it. Enjoy!