Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

NEWS

Congrats to all of the Emmy winners from last night, including (but not limited to) Damian Lewis, Claire Danes, Homeland, Maggie Smith, Martha Plimpton, Jeremy Davies, Jessica Lange, Danny Strong, Julianne Moore, Game Change, Kevin Costner, Tom Berenger, Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey and Great Expectations [among countless others].

TELEVISION

Actress Anatasia Griffith (Once Upon a Time and Copper) will guest star in the upcoming Cinemax drama Banshee from True Blood creator Alan Ball, which will debut in January. The series centers on Lucas (New Zealand actor Antony Starr), an ex-convict and master thief who assumes the identity of the sheriff of Banshee, Pennsylvania and continues to carry out his criminal activities even as shadowy gangsters hunt him. Griffith will play a prison psychiatrist who treats Lucas. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Actress JoBeth Williams (most recently seen on Private Practice) will appear in the ABC midseason drama Mistresses, playing the mother of Alyssa Milano and Jes Macallan’s characters. The series is based on the British show of the same name, which follows four women (Milano, Macallan, Yunjin Kim from Lost and Rochelle Aytes from Work It) as they balance their turbulent romantic and personal lives. The series is expected to beginning airing in May 2013. (Vlada Gelman at TV Line)

The folks over at Castle will be heading to a Comic Con-like fan convention this season and actor Ed Quinn (Eureka) will play Captain Max Richard (a wink to the character played by Castle lead Nathan Fillion in the short-lived series Firefly). Max, it would seem, is the former star of a sci-fi cult-favorite TV show whose career and personal life has gone down the tubes. Castle returns tonight on ABC. (James Hibberd at Entertainment Weekly)

The HBO series Treme will return for a fourth and final season sometime next year. The series follows a group of people living in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The third season just got started last night. (Michael O’Connell and Aaron Couch at The Hollywood Reporter)

Actor Jason Gedrick will guest star in an upcoming episode of Grimm, playing Craig Wendell, a murderer that Hank (Russell Hornsby) helped land on death row. But with only days until his sentence is carried out, a claim that his crime was in self defense against a pair of “monsters” begins to sound less and less like the rantings of a lunatic to the man that put him away. This episode will this fall and Grimm will be back with new episodes starting on September 28. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

The CW has picked up a potential new drama if the form of Oxygen, an alien drama similar to the box office movie District 9. The project follows a high school pilot program, the first attempt to integrate a group of humanoid aliens stranded on earth who until now have been living in forced segregation. The program is complicated by the prejudices and competing agendas on all sides, and could be saved or destroyed by a burgeoning romance between a human girl and alien boy. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron has teamed with J.J. Abrams on a high-concept drama that has landed at NBC. The unnamed project is about a girl in possession of a great gift/powers — which will come into their own in seven years — and the man who is sprung from prison to protect her from those trying to hunt her down. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Here are the top 10 box office movies for this past weekend courtesy of Exhibitor Relations and E! Online:

1. End of Watch, $13 million
2. House at the End of the Street, $13 million
3. Trouble With the Curve, $12.7 million
4. Finding Nemo, $9.4 million
5. Resident Evil: Retribution, $6.7 million
6. Dredd 3D, $6.3 million
7. The Master, $5 million
8. The Possession, $2.4 million
9. Lawless, $2.3 million
10. ParaNorman, $2.297 million

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

Official Trailer for ‘Winnie’ with Jennifer Hudson & Terrence Howard

That’s it. Enjoy!