Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Young actress Amandla Stenberg (who played Rue in The Hunger Games) will have a recurring role on the new FOX thriller Sleepy Hollow, playing Mae, the teenage daughter of Capt. Frank Irving (series regular Orlando Jones) and ex-wife Cynthia. Sleepy Hollow will be back with new episodes starting on November 4. (Philiana Ng at The Hollywood Reporter).

Actor Rockmond Dunbar (Prison Break) has been promoted to series regular on The Mentalist before his initial three-episode arc even airs. He will play Dennis Abbott, a no-nonsense FBI Supervisory Agent who isn’t impressed by Patrick Jane’s (series lead Simon Baker) skills or charm. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Actress Mira Sorvino will have a recurring role on the fourth season of TNT’s hit alien invasion series Falling Skies, playing Sara, a woman far removed from her former life as a graphic designer, who is now dogged by death at every turn, yet she has never felt more alive, free or fearless. A chance encounter with guerrilla fighter John Pope (Colin Cunningham) leads her to join the resistance and develop a strong personal bond with the outlaw-turned-warrior. Falling Skies will be back in the summer of 2014. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Zuleikha Robinson (Homeland and Lost) will appear in an upcoming episode of Once Upon a Time in Wonderland as Amara, a powerful sorceress from Agrabah in a Jafar-centric episode. (Vlada Gelman and Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

Actor Ivan Sergei (Crossing Jordan and Charmed) will have a recurring role on the ABC Family drama Twisted, playing Jack, a ruggedly handsome working man with a troubled past. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Stella Maeve (Golden Boy) has landed a recurring role on the upcoming spin-off series Chicago PD that is set to air mid-season on NBC. She will play Nadia, a pretty 18-year-old escort who is addicted to heroin and goes through a very difficult withdrawal. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

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DEVELOPMENT NEWS

ABC is developing a legal drama project called The Law Of Attraction that will follow a beautiful, upper class, brilliant woman who is forced to practice law with a charismatic, lower class tough guy in a reluctant partnership to save her father’s powerful Boston law firm. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

ABC has bought a potential new drama called Sins that is a dark, twisted, sexy soap about a modern day black widow who seduces a wealthy man while struggling to stay one step ahead of his District Attorney sister and the ghosts of her past. ABC is also working on an hour-long dramedy based on the 2004 Argentine telenovela called Los Roldan, which is about the patriarch of the family, an average blue collar worker, who talks a woman out of jumping off a ledge. For saving her life, she offers him a big job in her company that changes his fortune but also puts him in the path of suspicious co-workers who try to figure out who he is and why has he been given such a big job. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Here are the top 10 box office films for this past weekend courtesy of Box Office Mojo:

1. Gravity – 31 million
2. Captain Phillips – 17.3 million
3. Carrie – 17 million
4. Escape Plan – 9.8 million
5. Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2 – 9.7 million
6. Prisoners – 2 million
7. Enough Said – 1.8 million
8. The Fifth Estate – 1.7 million
9. Runner Runner – 1.6 million
10. Insidious: Chapter 2 – 1.5 million

Actresses Evan Rachel Wood (Across the Universe and True Blood) and Ellen Page (Juno) have joined the cast of the upcoming box office film called Into the Forest, which is an adaptation of the Jean Heglan apocalyptic novel about two sisters struggling to survive in the remote Northern California wilds after society collapses. (Jen Yamato at Deadline)

That’s it. Enjoy!