Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

GENERAL NEWS

Congrats to all of the winners at last night’s People’s Choice Awards, including (but not limited to): Stana Katic, Lucy Hale, Reign, Joseph Morgan, Castle, Psych, Homeland, Ian Somerhalder, Kristin Kreuk, Beauty and the Beast and Supernatural.  (TV Line)

TELEVISION

Actress Camryn Manheim (The Practice and Ghost Whisperer) has joined the cast of the upcoming CBS summer drama series Extant that will star Halle Berry as Molly, an astronaut trying to reconnect with her family when she returns after a year in outer space. Her experiences lead to events that ultimately will change the course of human history. Manheim will play Sam Barton, Molly’s best friend and closest confidant. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

TV MINI-SERIES NEWS

Actress Zoe Saldana (Avatar and Star Trek) will play the lead role in the upcoming NBC four-hour mini-series remake of Rosemary’s Baby that will center on a young wife and would-be mother who, with her husband, moves into a Paris apartment that has a dark past. After finally getting pregnant, she becomes increasingly suspicious that both her husband and their mysterious neighbors have ulterior motives about the future of her child. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Gerard Butler (300 and Chasing Mavericks) will appear in the remake of Point Break, playing the Zen adrenaline-junkie bank robber that was originated by Patrick Swayze in the original. (Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline)

Actor Rupert Friend (Homeland) will take over the lead role from the late Paul Walker in the upcoming movie Agent 47 that is a sequel to the 2007 flick Hitman that starred Timothy Olyphant (Justified), but details on the film are unknown at this time. (Justin Kroll at Variety)

Actor Bruce Willis will take over the lead role in the action thriller called Captive that will focus on a real estate developer, who gets kidnapped and held for ransom while at work in Brazil. The kidnappers think he’s wealthy, but he’s more of an ordinary guy. He frantically searches for a way out of his armored-truck prison cell hidden in a Sao Paolo landfill, while a detective specializing in kidnap and ransom cases works to find him. (Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline)

That’s it. Enjoy!