Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor Peter MacNicol (Numb3rs) will be a series regular on the upcoming CBS spin-off CSI: Cyber that will star Patricia Arquette as Special Agent Avery Ryan, who heads the Cyber Crime Division of the FBI, a unit at the forefront of solving illegal activities that start in the mind, live online, and play out in the real world. MacNicol will play Ryan’s supervisor, Assistant Director Stavros Sifter, a career FBI insider and savvy networker who quickly rose up the ranks and positioned himself in a job where he is the clearinghouse between FBI Cyber and all other branches of government. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Natalie Zea (The Following and Justified) will star in the upcoming ABC series Members Only, an upstairs/downstairs drama set at an exclusive Connecticut country club, centering on the club’s leisure-class members and the working-class employees that make the place tick. Zea will play the beautiful, pedigreed, well-educated Mickey, the most together member of the Club’s founding family. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Here are the top 10 box office movies from this past weekend courtesy of Box Office Mojo:

1. Guardians of the Galaxy – 94 million
2. Lucy – 18.3 million
3. Get On Up – 14 million
4. Hercules – 10.7 million
5. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – 8.7 million
6. Planes: Fire & Rescue – 6.4 million
7. The Purge: Anarchy – 5.5 million
8. Sex Tape – 3.5 million
9. And So It Goes – 3.34 million
10. A Most Wanted Man – 3.32 million

Actress Jennifer Connelly will join actor Ewan McGregor in the upcoming box office film American Pastoral that is being adapted from the screenplay by John Romano that follows Seymour “Swede” Levov, a legendary high school athlete, who grows up to marry a former beauty queen and inherits his father’s business. Swede’s seemingly perfect life shatters when his daughter rebels by becoming a revolutionary and commits a deadly act of political terrorism during the Vietnam War. (Jeff Sneider at The Wrap)

Actor Viggo Mortensen will star in the upcoming film called Captain Fantastic, a comedy-drama (not a superhero flick) that follows an idealistic father (Mortensen) who, after a decade of living off the grid in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, must return with his six young kids and assimilate back into society. The cast will include Steve Zahn (Dallas Buyers Club), Kathryn Hahn (Tomorrowland), Missi Pyle (Gone Girl), and Erin Moriarty (True Detective). (Nancy Tartaglione at Deadline)

That’s it. Enjoy!