Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today, few though they are:

TELEVISION

Scottish actor Sam Heughan has been cast in the lead role of the upcoming Starz TV series adaptation of the popular Diana Gabaldon best-selling book series Outlander. He will play lead character Jamie Fraser, a chivalrous young Scottish warrior. Heughan has appeared in the Hallmark Channel made-for-TV movie A Princess for Christmas alongside Merlin alum Katie McGrath and the PBS mini-series Any Human Heart. (Starz Public Relations)

BOX OFFICE MOVIES

Actress Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and actor Martin Sheen (The West Wing are set to star in the box office movie called – of all things – Trash that is being adapted from the Andy Mulligan novel. Sheen will play Father Juilliard while Mara will play Olivia, an NGO worker, in a tale about three poverty-stricken boys who discover something unusual, mysterious and dangerous in a city dump in the Third World-set story. (The Deadline Team)

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

Keri Russell and Jennifer Coolidge charm in first ‘Austenland’ trailer

That’s it. Enjoy!