Hey All,
Here are the news items, few though they are, for today:
TELEVISION
Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson will have a multi-episode arc on season two of Smash when it returns on NBC. She will play Veronica Moore, a Tony Award-winning Broadway star who impacts the lives of Karen and Ivy. The musical series is expected to be back mid-season. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
Actress Maura Tierney (ER) will have a recurring role on The Good Wife. Tierney will play a self-made millionaire who has become the doyenne of Chicago Democratic politics. (CBS)
BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS
Actor Aaron Eckhart will play the U.S. President in the upcoming film called Olympus Has Fallen, which is about a Secret Service agent (Gerard Butler) who becomes America’s only hope when the White House is overtaken by terrorists. (Variety and Dark Horizons)
Here are the top 10 box office films for this past weekend courtesy of Exhibitor Relations:
1. Brave, $66.7 million
2. Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted, $20.2 million
3. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, $16.5 million
4. Prometheus, $10 million
5. Snow White and the Huntsman, $8.012 million
6. Rock of Ages, $8 million
7. That’s My Boy, $7.9 million
8. The Avengers, $7 million
9. Men in Black 3, $5.6 million
10. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, $3.8 million
MADE FOR TV MOVIE NEWS
Actresses Hayley Atwell (Captain America), Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey) and Charlotte Rampling (Never Let Me Go) and actors Rufus Sewell (A Knight’s Tale) and Michael Gambon (Harry Potter franchise) will all star in the adaptation of the espionage thriller/love story by William Boyd for BBC One. Dockery will play a young woman in 1979 who learns that her mother (Rampling) has been living a double life and is really a former spy for the British Secret Service. In flashbacks to 1939 Paris, Atwell plays Rampling’s younger self who’s recruited into the service by and falls in love with Sewell’s spymaster. After a crucial mission collapses, she must go into hiding, but 30 years later she wants to resurface and enlists her daughter to track down her former lover, now played by Gambon. (Nancy Tartaglione at Deadline)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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