Hey All,
Here are the news items for today:
TELEVISION
Actor DJ Qualls (Memphis Beat and Supernatural) will guest star in the TNT drama Perception when the cable series returns for its second season this summer. He will play Agent Rudy Fleckner, a young, tech-savvy FBI agent who specializes in investigating cyber crimes. (The Futon Critic)
Actress Siobhan Finneran, who plays Miss O’Brien on Downton Abbey will not be returning for season four of the international hit. (Jarett Wieselman at ET Online)
Actors Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory) and Taylor Kitsch (Friday Night Lights) will star opposite Julia Roberts, Mark Ruffalo and Matt Bomer in The Normal Heart, HBO‘s original movie adaptation of the Tony-winning Larry Kramer play. The project tells the story of the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s. Parsons will play gay activist Tommy Boatwright while Kitsch will play Bruce Niles, a closeted investment banker who becomes a prominent AIDS activist. Roberts will play physician Dr. Emma Brookner, a survivor of childhood polio who treats several of the earliest victims of HIV-AIDS. Ruffalo will play Ned Weeks, who witnesses first-hand the mysterious disease that has begun to claim the lives of many in his gay community and starts to seek answers. Bomer will play Felix Turner, a reporter who becomes Ned’s lover. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
Attention Drop Dead Diva fans! It looks like the show will be back for a fifth season on Lifetime after all, as the network and Sony Pictures TV has come to an agreement to give the show another go-round. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Australian actress Sarah Snook (Ghosts and Sleeping Beauty) will star opposite Ethan Hawke in the upcoming box office film called Predestination, a time-travelling sci-fi thriller where Hawke will play a Temporal Agent who on his final assignment pursues a criminal who has long eluded him. (The Deadline Team)
Actor Gary Oldman has joined the cast of the upcoming sequel film Dawn of The Planet of the Apes. It is being reported that he will play Dreyfus, leader of the human resistance after the apes have taken power. (Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline)
Actor Liam Neeson will lend his voice to the upcoming animated film called The Nut Job. The film will be about a mischievous squirrel who plots to rob a nut store with his rat friend Buddy. Neeson will voice the villainous Raccoon. Other actors lending their voices to this film include Katherine Heigl, Will Arnett, Brendan Fraser, Stephen Lang, Sarah Gadon, and comedian Jeff Dunham. (Lucas Shaw at The Wrap and Jen Yamato at Deadline)
Actress Abigail Spencer (Suits and Mad Men) will appear in the upcoming box office film called Beautiful Now that tells the story of a passionate dancer who finds herself mulling an extreme act when she reaches a crossroads in her life. As she hangs on the razor’s edge, crossing between reality and fantasy, her fractured group of friends reunite and embark on a shared journey into intense memories of their past, helping the woman answer the question. (Borys Kit at The Hollywood Reporter)
Q&A SECTION (with Team Watch with Kristin at E! Online)
Question: So excited for the new season of Teen Wolf! Got anything to share on what we can expect from the new characters? – Hannah
Team Watch with Kristin: With Alphas comes Betas! We’ll meet one of lead Alpha Deaucalion’s Betas Marco in episode eight (the same episode that features a flashback to Derek’s haunted past). Marco is volatile, angry and not afraid to confront an Alpha.
Question: How will Amanda’s death affect Jack on Revenge? – Meghan
Team Watch with Kristin: “I think you’re going to start seeing a very different Jack then you’ve seen,” Gabriel Mann teases. “Personally, when I started seeing some of the scripts that were coming out it was like, ‘Great, finally!’ You know it’s going to make it complicated in some of his friendships and relationships coming up, this new kind of character twist, but it’s so fun. ”
That’s it. Enjoy!
Have a great weekend!
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