Hey All,
Here are the news items for today:
TELEVISION
The upcoming NBC 60’s-themed, 13-episode cop drama Aquarius will star David Duchovny (Californication and The X-Files) as a cop who goes undercover to track Charles Manson and the Manson Family before their infamous murder spree. New cast members have been added to the series, including Grey Damon (Star-Crossed and Friday Night Lights), Emma Dumont (Bunheads) and Gethin Anthony (Game of Thrones). Anthony will play Charles Manson while Damon will play Duchovny’s partner and Dumont will play Emma Karn, the daughter of Grace Karn and her influential husband Ken. (The Deadline Team, TV Line and Dan Snierson at Entertainment Weekly)
Actor Carl Lumbly (Alias) has joined the cast of the A&E series The Returned, based on the French series of the same name, that will focus on a small town that is turned upside down when several local people, who have been long presumed dead suddenly reappear, bringing them into positive and detrimental consequences. Lumbly will play Pastor Leon Wright, a kindly, perceptive man, the minister of a local church. (Philiana Ng at The Hollywood Reporter)
AMC has given their period piece drama Turn a second season order consisting of 10 episodes. (The Futon Critic)
Actress Caterina Scorsone has been promoted to series regular on Grey’s Anatomy for the show’s upcoming 11th season on ABC. (Natalie Abrams at TV Guide)
TV TRAILER
TV MINI-SERIES NEWS
Actor Jason O’Mara (Terra Nova) has joined the History Channel’s upcoming mini-series Sons of Liberty, playing George Washington. The cast of the mini-series already includes Ben Barnes (The Chronicles of Narnia franchise), Henry Thomas (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Betrayal), Michael Raymond James (Once Upon a Time), Ryan Eggold (The Blacklist) and Dean Norris (Under the Dome). (Dan Snierson at Entertainment Weekly)
ONLINE SERIES
The cast of the upcoming Netflix 10-episode sci-fi drama Sense8 from the Wachowskis and J. Michael Straczynski that follows eight characters around the world who, in the aftermath of a tragic death, find themselves linked to each other mentally and emotionally, will include the following cast members: Naveen Andrews (Lost), Daryl Hannah (A Walk to Remember), Brian J. Smith (Stargate Universe), Freema Agyeman (Doctor Who) and Aml Ameen (The Maze Runner). (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
NBC is working on an hour-long limited series called Wasteland that will follow a hardened US Marshal in the wake of a massive prison break, who is charged with hunting down fugitives with supernatural powers, while unlocking the mystery of his past. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Actor Delroy Lindo has joined the cast of the upcoming remake of Point Break that will follow a young FBI agent named Johnny Utah (actor Luke Bracey) who goes undercover to stop an organized gang of criminals and extreme sport enthusiasts who are pulling off heists all over the world. Lindo will play an FBI instructor who tries to motivate Utah to pass training. (The Hollywood Reporter and Dark Horizons)
Here are the top 10 box office movies for this past weekend courtesy of Box Office Mojo:
1. Think Like a Man Too – 29.2 million
2. 22 Jump Street – 27.5 million
3. How to Train Your Dragon 2 – 24.7 million
4. Jersey Boys – 13.3 million
5. Maleficent – 12.9 million
6. Edge of Tomorrow – 9.8 million
7. The Fault in our Stars – 8.6 million
8. X-Men: Days of Future Past – 6.2. million
9. Godzilla – 1.9 million
10. Chef – 1.7 million
Actor Ansel Elgort (The Fault in our Stars and Divergent) will star in the lead role of an upcoming as-yet titled box office film about Van Cliburn, who at the age of 23 in 1958 emerged from out of nowhere to win the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow. (Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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