Hey All,
Here are the news items for today:
TELEVISION
Actress Odette Annable (House) will have a recurring role on the upcoming mid-season drama Golden Boy on CBS. This drama is about the meteoric rise of a cop (Theo James) from his days as an officer to detective to police commissioner. Annable will play ADA Kat O’Connor, a young, attractive Assistant District Attorney with a complicated marital history who prosecutes cases brought by the squad. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
Actress Shelley Hennig(The Secret Circle) will recur on the upcoming MTV comedy series Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous, playing Christy, the cute girl next door type whom Zach Stone (Bo Burnham) tries to woo in any way possible. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Author Michael Koryta has sold one of his books as a TV series for CBS. The network has acquired “A Welcome Grave” and will develop the private eye storyline for a series. This book is actually the third book in Koryta’s award-winning Lincoln Perry series that follows the private investigator as he finds himself in the crosshairs of two police investigations when an old rival is brutally murdered. (Mike Fleming at Deadline)
Lifetime is developing a two-hour back-door pilot based on the book by Rhonda Saunders called “Whisper of Fear”, which was published in 2008 and revolves around a criminal prosecutor who penned the law on stalking in California and is based on the true story of a hot-head cop and polished district attorney who team to bring a stalker obsessed with her former lover to justice. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Actress Saorise Ronan (Hanna) will play the title role in Mary Queen Of Scots in the planned box office film that is currently in production. Crowned the queen of Scotland before she was a year old, Mary added to that pedigree when her first husband became France’s King and she became queen consort in 1559. Despite that auspicious start, things didn’t go well from there. She later married her first cousin, a bad match that ended with his murder. When she quickly married the man suspected of orchestrating the killing, an uprising against the couple resulted in her imprisoned in Loch Leven Castle. Forced to abdicate her throne to her year-old son, she failed in an attempt to wrest back the throne and fled for the protection of her cousin, England’s Queen Elizabeth 1. (Mike Fleming at Deadline)
Young actress Hailee Steinfeld (Oscar-nominee for the recent adaptation of True Grit) will be adding another film to her roster. She will star in the upcoming film called Dead of Winter that follows a father who takes his begrudging teenage daughter (Steinfeld) and her new stepmother out to a cabin in the woods for some family bonding, but they have to put aside their differences and work together to stay alive when a dangerous fugitive posing as a park ranger drops by unannounced. Steinfeld already has the latest adaptation of Romeo & Juliet coming up soon as well as the adaptation of the book Ender’s Game and the romantic comedy Why We Broke also upcoming. (Variety and First Showing)
BOX OFFICE TRAILER
That’s it. Enjoy!
Have a great weekend!
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