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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!

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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVSION

Actress Charlotte Ross (NYPD Blue) will appear in a November episode of Arrow, playing Felicity Smoak’s (series regular Emily Bett Rickards) mother. It is unclear, though, whether it will be a scene set in present day or a flashback. (Natalie Abrams at TV Guide and Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

Actor David Zayas (Dexter) will have a recurring role in the upcoming FOX drama Gotham, playing mob boss Salvatore Maroni, one of the city’s most dangerous gangsters. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Actress Ellen Pompeo is teaming with ABC Family to adapt the 2013 novel “Debt” by Rachel Carey into a potential series for the cable network. The story follows Lillian, a woman in her 20s, who works as an SAT tutor to try to pay off her college loans and explores how everyone she knows — even her tutee’s billionaire father — is in somebody’s debt. ABC Family is targeting older women in an attempt to be perceived as a young-adult network rather than one that caters to families with kids. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

Actor Joseph Fiennes (FlashForward) and Tom Felton (Murder In the First) will star in the upcoming early first-century epic film called Clavius that will be told through the eyes of an agnostic Roman Centurion (Fiennes) charged by Pontius Pilate to investigate rumors of a risen Messiah and locate the missing body of Jesus of Nazareth in order to subdue an uprising in Jerusalem. Along the Centurion’s high-stakes mission, his doubts of such a supernatural occurrence are challenged as he encounters the Apostles and other historical characters while piecing together the mysterious events that unfolded after the crucifixion. (Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline)

COMIC CON 2014 TRAILER

Q&A SECTION (with Samantha Highfill from Entertainment Weekly)

Question: I want to hear how involved Hook will be in the Once Upon a Time storyline this season! —Jordan

Samantha: How about some Frozen scoop instead? This season, we’ll be traveling back in time to Elsa’s kingdom of Arendelle to find out how, exactly, she became a prisoner of Rumplestiltskin—and how Anna and Kristoff fit into the fold.

Question: Do you have any Witches of East End scoop? —Chelsea

Samantha: Here’s what I can tell you: Having characters with past lives has its perks (aka endless story opportunities), and fans can get ready to explore one of Freya’s past lives with the hunk of all hunks, Killian. As for Ingrid, she’s also bonding with someone—the Mandragora. And the bond is only getting stronger.

Question: Got any scoop on Stiles and Lydia from Teen Wolf? —Amy

Samantha: Executive producer Jeff Davis gives some information about the next episode that could definitely affect the couple. Let’s just say that the episode is titled “Weaponized,” and it brings in a brand new assassin called The Chemist. According to Davis, the episode “will also include a crucial moment between Stiles and Malia that may threaten to destroy their relationship.”

Question: I’m always looking forward to some scoop on #BATB. Where will the show go from the S2 finale with Vincent & Catherine? —Val

Samantha: For starters, CW president Mark Pedowitz let it be known that season 3 of Beauty and the Beast will pick up a couple months later, with Cat and Vincent out in public. That’ll change their dynamic in terms of finding cases and working together. Speaking of working together: Vincent will get his medical license back.

That’s it. Enjoy!

Have a great weekend!!

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