Hey All,
Here are the news items for today:
CONDOLENCES
Country singer Mindy McCready was found in her Arkansas home on Sunday from an apparent suicide. She was only 37. (E! Online)
ME: Rest in peace, Ms. McCready. Such sad news about someone so young. Condolences to her family, friends and fans. Moment of silence please.
TELEVISION
Actor Paul Ben-Victor (In Plain Sight) will appear in a four-episode arc on the CBS period drama Vegas, playing a character named Barry Silver, an arrogant Hollywood mogul. (Dominic Patten at Deadline)
Actor Domenick Lombardozzi (Breakout Kings) will recur on the HBO series Boardwalk Empire playing Al Capone’s older brother Ralph. (Kimberly Roots at TV Line)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Here are the top 10 box office movies for this past holiday weekend from Deadline:
1. Good Day To Die Hard – 28.5 million
2. Identify Thief – 27.5 million
3. Safe Haven – 24.4 million
4. Escape From Planet Earth – 20.8 million
5. Warm Bodies – 10.5 million
6. Beautiful Creatures – 8.9 million
7. Side Effects – 7.1 million
8. Silver Linings Playbook – 7 million
9. Hansel & Gretel – 4.1 million
10. Zero Dark Thirty – 3.6 million
MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE NEWS
The BBC has announced that prolific writer Andrew Davies (the man behind House Of Cards, Pride And Prejudice, Bridget Jones and Brideshead Revisited – among others) will write a six-part serialized version of the epic Tolstoy novel War And Peace to air on BBC One (in the U.K.) in 2015. (Nancy Tartaglione at Deadline)
Actress Keke Palmer (Joyful Noise), Lil Mama (America’s Best Dance Crew) and actress Drew Sidora (Step Up) are set to star in the VH1 biopic called Crazy, Sexy, Cool: The TLC Story that will focus on the lives of the members of the R&B/hip-hop/pop group TLC. Palmer will portray Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas, Lil Mama will play the late Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, and Sidora will play Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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