Hey All,
Here are the news items for today:
TELEVISION
Tony Award winner Laura Benanti (Royal Pains) will recur on several episodes of Nashville this fall, playing Sadie Stone, an up-and-coming artist in the country music biz. (Andy Swift at TV Line)
Actor Warren Kole (Common Law and The Following) will have a recurring role on this fall’s new CBS drama Stalker that stars Dylan McDermott and Maggie Q as detectives from the Threat Assessment Unit who investigate cases of stalking. Kole will play Detective Trent Wilkes, a lead detective in the Robbery Homicide Division of the LAPD who gets into a turf war with Jack (McDermott). (The Deadline Team)
Actress Bella Thorne (Shake It Up) will guest star on CSI as a popular high school student who becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a classmate. (E! Online and Vlada Gelman at TV Line)
TV TRAILER
MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE NEWS
Actress Teri Polo (The Fosters) will have the lead role in the upcoming made-for-TV movie from the Hallmark Movies and Mysteries Channel entitled The Christmas Shepherd. She will play Sally Browing, a children’s book author and illustrator who’s devastated when her beloved German Shepherd, Buddy, runs away during a thunderstorm. Buddy miraculous ends up in Boston with Mark Green (Martin Cummins from When Calls the Heart and Dark Angel) and his teenage daughter who are recovering from losing his wife and her mother three years ago. Sally connects with Mark and Emma in her search for Buddy and everyone is given the best Christmas present possible, the gift of Love. (The Deadline Team)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Actor-dancer-singer Harry Shum, Jr. (Glee) has landed one of the lead role in the sequel to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon that will be set 20 years after the events of the original film, revolving around four heroes of the martial arts world – Silent Wolf (Donnie Yen), Yu Shu-lien (Michelle Yeoh), Tie-Fang (Shum Jr.) and Snow Vase — who must use their courage and skills to keep the legendary sword Green Destiny from the hands of the villainous Hades Dai. (Heat Vision and Dark Horizons)
Actress Elle Fanning (Maleficent) will star as Frankenstein author Mary Shelley in the period film A Storm in the Stars that will tell the story of the passionate love affair between charismatic poet Percy Shelley and the well-educated 17-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft (Fanning). A year later, after they were married, she would pen one of history’s most famed literary works, Frankenstein. (The Hollywood Reporter and Dark Horizons)
BOX OFFICE PICTURES AND TRAILER
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That’s it. Enjoy!
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