Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for the last few days:

TELEVISION

Actress sienna Guillory (Eragon) will appear in the third season of the BBC America series Luther. She will play a new love interest, Mary, who works in a vintage clothes shop who has a chance encounter with the troubled cop played brilliantly by Idris Elba. (The Futon Critic)

It looks like Necessary Roughness will be back for third season on the USA Network. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Kimberly Williams- Paisley has been promoted to regular status on the ABC drama Nashville. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

The Syfy series Merlin will come to an end after its upcoming fifth season. (Nancy Tartaglione at Deadline)

Actress Audra McDonald will be back for the series finale of Private Practice when it airs on ABC at the end of January. (Natalie Abrams at TV Guide)

Actor David Anders (Once Upon a Time and Alias) will guest star in an upcoming episode of the new CW series Arrow, playing a nasty criminal name Cyrus Vanch, who will arrive in Starling City after a prison sentence. (Kimberly Roots at TV Line)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Julian Fellowes, the award-winning writer/series creator, behind the international sensation Downton Abbey will create and produce a new potential series for NBC entitled The Gilded Ages, which will be set in late 19th-century New York and will focus on the princes of the American Renaissance and the vast fortunes they made – and spent – in New York. (Tim Kenneally at The Wrap)

ONLINE SERIES NEWS

Actress Taryn Manning (Hawaii Five-0) will have a major multi-episode arc in the hour-long online series Orange Is The New Black, which will debut on Netflix. The series from Weeds creator Jenji Kohan centers on Piper (Taylor Schilling), an engaged Brooklynite whose decade-old relationship with a drug-runner (Laura Prepon) in college results in her arrest and multi-year detention in a federal penitentiary. Manning will play inmate Tiffany Doggett, a wild child from Waynesboro, Virginia. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Kellan Lutz (The Twilight Saga) has landed a role in a potential new franchise – the indie genre film Tatua, which is based on an original concept by comic book creators Paul Jenkins and Rob Prior. The project is about a man with a rare blood type that allows him to be tattooed with a powerful ink. He is able to pull those weapons straight off his skin, giving him an enviable leg up as a covert assassin. (Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline)

The following are the top 10 box office films for this past weekend based on Exhibitor Relations:

1. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 – $43.1 million
2. Skyfall – $36 million
3. Lincoln – $25 million
4. Rise of the Guardians – $24 million
5. Life of Pi – $22 million
6. Wreck-It Ralph – $16.8 million
7. Red Dawn – $14.6 million
8. Flight – $8.6 million
9. Silver Linings Playbook – $4.6 million
10. Argo – $3.9 million

Singer-actor Lenny Kravitz (The Hunger Games) will play the late and legendary singer Marvin Gaye. (Dominic Patten at Deadline)

That’s it. Enjoy!