Hey All,
Here are the news items for today:
GENERAL NEWS
Congrats to the winners of the Critics’ Choice Awards from last night, including (but not limited to) the following: Argo, Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook, Anna Karenina, Wreck-It Ralph, Bradley Cooper and Looper.
TELEVISION
Actress Melissa George (Hunted) and Roy Dupuis (La Femme Nikita) are set to play a troubled couple in Rest Home, a psychological drama that is a co-production between Canada and Australia. Dupuis will play a security guard in a retirement home who’s married with two kids and is hooked on painkillers and anti-depressants. His life spirals out of control when he catches his wife (George) with her lover. (The Deadline Team)
Singer-actor Jesse McCartney (Summerland) will have a recurring role on the Lifetime drama Army Wives. He will play Private Tim Truman, a young, eager and enthusiastic soldier determined to prove himself on his first deployment. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
The CW is developing a spin-off of The Vampire Diaries for which series executive producer Julie Plec would write and serve as showrunner. The spin-off will be called The Originals and will center on Klaus (Joseph Morgan) who “returns to the supernatural melting pot that is the French Quarter of New Orleans — a town he helped build centuries ago — and is reunited with his diabolical former protégé Marcel”. Actress Phoebe Tonkin, who plays werewolf Hayley on The Vampire Diaries, is also set to star. [But the big question fans have is why is there no mention of Elijah (Daniel Gilles)?! (James Hibberd at Entertainment Weekly)
Lifetime is developing a remake of the BBC drama called Prisoners’ Wives, which centered on four different women, each struggling to cope with a man in her life serving prison time. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)
BOX OFFICE TRAILER
First Trailer for Brad Anderson’s Thriller ‘The Call’ Starring Halle Berry
That’s it. Enjoy!
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