Hey All,
Here are the news items for today:
NEWS
Congrats to the winners at the VMA’s last night, including (but not limited to) Rihanna, One Direction, Coldplay, Beyonce and Katy Perry.
TELEVISION
Actor Mitch Pileggi (The X-Files and Sons of Anarchy) has been promoted to series regular on the reboot of Dallas, as it airs on TNT. He will back, full time, when the series returns next year as Harris Ryland, the ex-husband of Brenda Strong’s character, who controls influence over the entire Ewing family. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
Actor Matt Long (Jack & Bobby) will appear on Private Practice in the recurring role of a new doctor – yep, that’s all I got right now. The series will be back for its final season starting on September 25 on ABC. (Natalie Abrams at TV Guide)
Actor Blake Hood (90210 and The Young and the Restless) and actress Alyssa Diaz (The Nine Lives of Chloe King and Army Wives) will both have guest star roles on The Vampire Diaries, playing new “minion” (aka hybrids) of Klaus (Joseph Morgan). The CW series will be back starting on October 11. (Natalie Abrams at TV Guide)
Actress Debra Mooney (Everwood) will play a Supreme Court Justice in a multi-episode arc on Scandal. The ABC drama returns for its second year on September 27. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
The box office film Act of Valor is being shopped around as a TV series to both the major and cable networks. The original film mixed real life U.S. Navy SEALs and Navy Special Warfare Combatant Crewmen with actors. (The Hollywood Reporter and Dark Horizons)
Howard Gordon and Alex Cary (who worked behind the scenes on Homeland) are adapting another international series for possibly US consumption. This time it will be the Icelandic series Réttur that centers on a seasoned lawyer with an unorthodox approach who demonstrates his personal contempt for the law by using it as a blunt instrument. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
TNT gave the green light to three new pilots. First is the Howard Gordon pilot called Legends, based on the novel by Robert Littell, that follows a deep-cover operative who has an uncanny ability to transform himself into a different person for each job. The next pilot is from Jerry Bruckheimer called Trooper, which centers on a recently divorced female state trooper who is as unconventional at work as she is at home raising her three kids. Her partner on the job is a widowed father who has a much more by-the-book approach to policing. The third pilot is from Shane Brennan and is called King & Maxwell, which is a based on the popular characters Sean King and Michelle Maxwell from author David Baldacci. They are former secret service agents whose unique skill set often gives them a leg up on both suspects and conventional law enforcement. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Actor Chris Evans (The Avengers) and Michelle Monaghan (Source Code) will star in the upcoming “anti-romantic comedy” called A Many Splintered Thing that is described as in the vein of the films Amelie and (500) Days Of Summer, telling the story of a young man disillusioned by love who meets a breathtaking young woman at a charity dinner by pretending to be a philanthropist. But, it turns out that she’s engaged to a guy who doesn’t like her going on dates. Challenged by the chase, and egged on by his eclectic friends, he feigns a platonic relationship in order to keep seeing her as he tries to conquer her heart. (Mike Fleming at Deadline)
Legendary actor Christopher Plummer and Rosamund Pike (Pride & Prejudice) have joined the cast of the upcoming comedy film called Hector and the Search For Happiness that is based on the novel by François Lelord. The film will star Simon Pegg as an eccentric yet irresistible London psychiatrist in crisis: he’s going nowhere and his patients are just not getting any happier. One day Hector breaks out of his sheltered vacuum of life into a global quest to find out if happiness exists for not just everyone else, but himself. The quest takes him on an exotic, dangerous and hysterical journey. Pike will play his long-term girlfriend while Plummer will play UCLA’s Happiness Studies guru Professor Coreman. (Dark Horizons)
Actor Jeffrey Wright (Casino Royale) has been cast in the role of Beetee in the sequel film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. (Deadline)
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That’s it. Enjoy!
Have a great weekend!!
Rueben's Ramblings 
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