Hey All,
Here are the news items for today:
TELEVISION
Actor Matt Barr (Hellcats and Hatfields & McCoys) has landed a recurring role on Sleepy Hollow, playing Nick Hawley, a “ruggedly handsome” bounty hunter who will assist Ichabod Crane (series lead Tom Mison) and Abbie (series lead Nicole Beharie) on a supernatural case. Season 2 of Sleepy Hollow will return to FOX this fall. (Kimberly Roots at TV Line)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Actress Catherine Dent (The Shield) has become the first series regular in the AMC drama pilot called Galyntine that is a fantasy-action adventure with hints of sci-fi is set in a post-apocalyptic future without technology where a band of survivors is forced to adapt to isolation and the challenges of their new world. Dent will play one of the survivors, Haven, who lived through the global disaster with her two kids. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
NOTE: Didn’t we just do this with Revolution?! I’m just saying!
Executive producer Graham Yost (The Americans and Justified) is developing a project based on the forthcoming novel called “Avenue of Spies” by Alex Kershaw for WGN America. The project is set in Nazi-occupied Paris on the eve of World War II, chronicling the true story of an American-born doctor and his family who fall in with the French Resistance, spying from their home just doors away from the Gestapo headquarters and one of Hitler’s most feared SS captains. (Lacey Rose at The Hollywood Reporter)
MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE NEWS
Actresses Kathy Najimy (Veep) and Wendy Raquel Robinson (The Game) have joined the cast of the upcoming Disney Channel movie Descendants about the children of classic villains. Najimy will play Snow White‘s Evil Queen while Robinson will play Cruella de Vil. The cast already includes Kristin Chenoweth (Glee and Pushing Daisies) as well as Dove Cameron (Liv and Maddie) and Booboo Stewart (Good Luck Charlie). (Andy Swift at TV Line)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Actress Karen Gillan (Doctor Who and the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy) will appear in the upcoming Western feature called A Valley Of Violence. The cast already includes Ethan Hawke, John Travolta and Taissa Farmiga (American Horror Story). Gillan will play Ellen, the older sister to Farmiga’s character. Together they run a hotel in the town where Hawke’s drifter seeks vengeance for the death of his best friend. (Jen Yamato at Deadline)
Here are the top 10 box office movies for this past holiday weekend courtesy of Box Office Mojo:
1. X-Men: Days of Future Past – 91.4 million
2. Godzilla – 31.1 million
3. Blended – 14.2 million
4. Neighbors – 13.8 million
5. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – 7.8 million
6. Million Dollar Arm – 6.9 million
7. The Other Woman – 3.6 million
8. Rio 2 – 2.4 million
9. Chef – 2.2 million
10. Heaven Is For Real – 2 million
Actress Madeleine Stowe (Revenge) will appear in the upcoming box office film The Runner that will star Nicolas Cage. The film takes place in the shadow of the 2010 BP oil spill that ravaged the Gulf Coast. Stowe will play Deborah Price, the steely spouse of Cage’s congressman. Bound together by ambition, the two are stuck in a virtually dead marriage that sees Deborah turning the other way regarding her husband’s publicly revealed infidelities. (Dominic Patten at Deadline)
BOX OFFICE TRAILER
That’s it. Enjoy!
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