Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actress Laura Benanti (Go On and The Playboy Club) will have a recurring role on Royal Pains when the show returns for its new season this summer. She will play Shelby Shackelford, the dynamic new Senior VP of Acquisitions at Symphony Health Systems, a health care company trying to buy Hamptons Heritage Hospital. An out-of-towner, Shelby comes to the Hamptons and brings an unexpected vision for the hospital — one that may mean new competition for HankMed. Royal Pains will return with new episodes on the USA Network starting on June 12. (Kate Stanhope at TV Guide)

A&E has renewed the new thriller series Bates Motel for a second season. (TV By the Numbers)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Here are the top 10 box office movies for this past weekend courtesy of Deadline:

1. Evil Dead – $26 million
2. (TIE) G.I Joe: Retaliation 3D AND The Croods – $21.1 million
4. Jurassic Park 3D – $18.2 million
5. (TIE) Olympus Has Fallen AND Tyler Perry’s Temptation – 10 million
7. Oz The Great And Powerful – $8.1 million
8. The Host – $5.2 million
9. The Call – $3.5 million
10. Admission – $2 million

Actor Bradley Cooper has taken over for Jude Law in the upcoming movie called Jane Got A Gun that will also star Natalie Portman and Joel Edgerton. (Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

First Trailer for Ron Howard’s F1 Movie ‘Rush’ with Chris Hemsworth

MOVIE TO STAGE NEWS

Stage legend Andrew Lloyd Webber (Phantom of the Opera) is reportedly developing the box office film School of Rock for the stage. (Samantha Highfill at Entertainment Weekly)

Q&A SECTION (with Matt Roush from TV Guide)

Question: Is Sarah Shahi going to join the cast of Person of Interest next season? There was the POI episode about Agent Shaw (Shahi) with very little Reese and Finch. Then Shaw makes another appearance last Thursday. POI fans on Facebook like the idea, while some others do not like it. They like it as a two-man show, with help from Detectives Carter and Fusco of course. — Hiram

Matt Roush: She may recur next season, in much the way that Paige Turco’s similarly appealing character, Zoe, reappears from time to time, but I doubt she’d become a full-time regular. It’s all part of expanding the universe that Reese, Finch and their cop colleagues inhabit, keeping POI from being altogether formulaic. Which is part of what makes it such fun.

That’s it. Enjoy!