Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor Scott Foley has been promoted to series regular on Scandal for the show’s upcoming third season. Throughout season two he appeared as Jake Ballard, friend of the President of the United States and would-be-protector sans lover of Olivia Pope (series lead Kerry Washington). (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

There were also promotions made over at Grey’s Anatomy with actress Camilla Luddington, Jerrika Hinton and Tessa Ferrer as well as actor Gaius Charles all becoming series regulars for the show’s upcoming 10th season. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Actor Jorge Garcia (Lost) will be making a guest appearance on an episode of Hawaii Five-0 this fall, playing a brilliant conspiracy theorist. (Sandra Gonzalez at Entertainment Weekly)

Actress Erin Cummings (Spartacus: War of the Damned) will guest star in an upcoming episode of Unforgettable, playing Eve Steele, an elite thief-for-hire who happens to bear a resemblance to NYPD detective Carrie Wells (series lead Poppy Montgomery). (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

Actress Annet Mahendru (The Americans) and actor Mike Dopud (Mistresses) will both guest star in an upcoming fall episode of White Collar. Manhendru will play Katya, a talented Russian figure skater who shows Olympic promise while Dopud will play Sergei, a Russian gangster. (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Here is a list of the top 10 box office films from this past weekend courtesy of Box Office Mojo:

1. Man of Steel – $129 million
2. This is the End – $20.5 million
3. Now You See Me – $10.3 million
4. Fast & Furious 6 – $9.4 million
5. The Purge – $8.2 million
6. The Internship – $7 million
7. Epic – $6 million
8. Star Trek Into Darkness – $5.7 million
9. After Earth – $3.8 million
10 Iron Man 3 – $2.9 million

Actress Marie Avgeropoulos (Cult and the upcoming mid-season CW series The 100) has landed a role opposite Taylor Lautner (the Twilight franchise) in the box office film Tracers, an action thriller about the dangerous world of parkour. She will play Nikki, a skater girl who runs with a gang of street criminals, who bike messenger Cam (Lautner) and pulls him into her world and into a love triangle with a member of her crew. (Jen Yamato at Deadline)

Actor Iain De Caestecker (The Fades and the upcoming Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) has landed a role in the Ryan Gosling directorial debut film How To Catch A Monster. He will play the son of Christina Hendricks (Mad Men), a loner with an active imagination who is the catalyst for this film. (Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline)

That’s it. Enjoy!