Hey All,
Here are the news items for today:
TELEVISION
Actor Andrew Leeds (Bones) will have a significant recurring role on NCIS: Los Angeles, playing Booker, the team’s newest tech operator who is smart, guarded, focused and curt. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)
Gideon Raff (creator of Homeland) and Tim Kring (creator of Heroes) have signed a 6-episode deal with USA Network for a new drama series called Dig that will be set in Jerusalem. This thriller will be about an American FBI agent named Peter who, while investigating the murder of a woman, he stumbles into a 2,000-year-old conspiracy embedded in the archeological mysteries of the ancient city. The series is set to premiere in late 2014. (Debra Kamin at Variety)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Paramount TV is developing a TV series remake of the 1990 box office film Ghost that starred Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg in the original story that dealt with loving couple Sam and Molly Jensen who are attacked by a mugger one night during which Sam is killed. Now a ghost, he tries to reconnect with his fiancé with the help of a charlatan medium. (Dark Horizons)
Syfy is developing a drama series adaptation of the classic Old English epic poem Beowulf that will further examine the hero’s rise to power and his feud with the monster Grendel. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Warner Bros. is negotiating to bring the video game Temple Run to the big screen. The story would center on an explorer who, having stolen an idol from a temple, is chased by demonic forces. (Tatiana Siegel and Borys Kit at The Hollywood Reporter)
ONLINE SERIES NEWS
Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg (the Twilight franchise) is attached to the Jennifer Jones-Netflix project with the expectation that she will be writer and executive producer on the online series. Meanwhile, writer Drew Goddard (Lost and Buffy the Vampire Slayer) is in final negotiations to writer and serve as showrunner of the Daredevil online series that is also set up at Netflix. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline and Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)
BOX OFFICE TRAILER
Trailer: ‘Maleficent’
Divergent Worldwide Trailer
ME: I read the first book in this series and I am impressed by how closely they have adapted the movie from the book. Good job!! I’m not a big Shailene Woodley fan, but I do love Maggie Q and really like Theo James so I’ll be there to see this movie when it opens on March 21!
Q&A SECTION (with TV Scoop Team from E! Online, Natalie Abrams and Adam Bryant from TV Guide and Michael Ausiello at TV Line)
Question: Pretty please for any spoilers on The Blacklist! – KatieNicole11
TV Scoop Team: Prepare for one epic two-parter on the NBC breakout hit as Ryan Eggold teases the first part “has a supreme cliffhanger. The first one is so killer. Tom is not in it very much because it’s really about the FBI, but it’s the most intense episode I think.” So what can we expect? “James Spader has these incredible speeches, there’s an incredible villain and Diego Klatenhoff has some amazing stuff.” And the villain will cause “a lot of struggle” For Red
Question: So happy the CW picked Reign up for a full season! What’s coming up for my favorite couple, the King and Kenna?! – Danielle N.
TV Scoop Team: Their (hot and steamy) affair is no longer a secret! At least not to one of the girls, as Kenna finally comes clean about her relationship with King Henry II to one of her friends, who has a less than ideal response. Too bad Kenna doesn’t really care!
Question: I’m happy we finally got Harrison’s back-story on Scandal. Do you have any scoop on what’s next? —Hayley
NATALIE: Suffice it to say, Adnan Salif is not going to disappear, which will severely affect Harrison. “Harrison is completely consumed and stricken with an impending doom [about] Salif’s arrival into the country,” Columbus Short says, teasing that we will find out how Cyrus uncovered Harrison’s Kryptonite. Still, Short is pleased to finally get info on his character, even if it leads to disastrous results. “I was cautiously optimistic at first, given that a character’s back-story could ultimately lead to getting killed off,” he says.
Question: I can’t believe Person of Interest is killing off one of their own! How will the rest of the team react? — Nathan
ADAM: Not well, as you might imagine. “We’re talking real damage here,” executive producer Jonathan Nolan tells us, hinting that someone may act out as a way to deal with his or her grief. “For the first time, a number comes up [and] the perpetrator might be one of our own team. That’s a fresh wrinkle on our show and points to the fallout from all of these events.” Even worse, the team may no longer be able to rely on each other. “It will pull the team apart a little bit,” Nolan says. “This season is about uncertainty and sacrifice, and we’re kind of out in the wild blue yonder in the second half of the season.”
Question: What’s the deal with Robin Hood and Regina on Once Upon a Time? — Maggie
NATALIE: As of two weeks ago when I was on set, Lana Parrilla told me nothing had come up in scripts between the two of them, but she expected it to happen toward the end of the season — though it might not be as easy as we’d all hope. “She’s closed her heart off to any romance,” Parrilla says. “She doesn’t look at anyone with lust or desire. But I do hope that Regina opens her heart again to love. It’s been many, many years. As much as she loves Henry, he can only fill that void for so long before he moves on and has a life of his own separate from her.” Do you want to see Regina and Robin Hood together?
Question: Any scoop on Nashville? — Wesley
ADAM: Wedding bells are ringing this week for Peggy and Teddy, but don’t count on a happily-ever-after just yet. After all, Peggy is lying to Teddy about being pregnant with his child after she miscarried. “She’s trying to get pregnant, but it’s not working,” Kimberly Williams-Paisley says. “She’s in crunch time. She gets a little crazy.” How crazy, you ask? We hear she will go to disturbing lengths to keep her secret from coming out.”
Question: What can you tell me about the serial killer targeting Lanie and Esposito on Castle? Is it 3XK? — Diana
ADAM: Great minds think alike! When I asked creator Andrew W. Marlowe if the elusive Triple Killer — last (not) seen after Castle shot him in Season 5 — was again taunting the team at the 12th Precinct, he didn’t exactly say no. “Clearly, that’s something we’re going to talk about in the episode,” he says. “From Beckett’s point of view, 3XK is dead; from Castle’s point of view, he’s still out there. The specter of that always hangs in the back of folks’ head when they see people targeted.” The question, Marlowe insists, is why would 3XK be targeting Lanie and Esposito?
Question: It’s so great to have a new Whedon show on the air! Please, please, with a Smurf on top can I have some Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. scoop? —Amy
Ausiello: The show will be stepping foot inside the famed S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy, where preternaturally brilliant youths are groomed to be potential agents. My theory: This will be a flashback episode that shows how Agent Coulson entered S.H.I.E.L.D.’s ranks.
That’s it. Enjoy!
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