Hey All,
Here are the news items for today:
TELEVISION
Actress Allison Mack (Smallville and Wilfred) will be joining the cast of The Following where she will play Hillary, a naive, small-town police officer caught up in Ryan Hardy’s (series lead Kevin Bacon) hunt for a serial killer. The Following will be back on FOX on March 2 with a 2-hour season premiere. (Sydney Bucksbaum at E! Online)
The cast for the Game of Thrones-esque epic series The Last Kingdom from BBC America, BBC Two and Carnival Films has been announced. The 8-part historical drama, adapted from The Saxon Stories, the best-selling series of books by Bernard Cornwell, is set in 9th century, combining real historical figures and events with fictional characters during the reign of Alfred the Great, who as King of Wessex fought off a Viking invasion. The cast includes actors Alexander Dreymon (American Horror Story), veteran actor Rutger Hauer, Matthew Macfadyen (Pride & Prejudice and Ripper Street) and Ian Hart (Boardwalk Empire) [among others]. (Nancy Tartaglione at Deadline)
Actor George Eads will leave the long-running CBS drama CSI at the end of the show’s current season. (Adam Bryant at TV Guide)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Here are the top 10 box offices movies from this past weekend courtesy of Box Office Mojo:
1. The Hunger Games, Mockingjay Part 1 – 123 million
2. Big Hero 6 – 20 million
3. Interstellar – 15.1 million
4. Dumb and Dumber To – 13.8 million
5. Gone Girl – 2.8 million
6. Beyond the Lights – 2.6 million
7. St. Vincent – 2.3 million
8. Fury – 1.9 million
9. Birdman – 1.8 million
10. The Theory of Everything – 1.5 million
Actor Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis) will appear as the villain in the upcoming 2016 feature film X-Men: Apocalypse. (Justin Kroll at Variety)
Q&A SECTION (with Natalie Abrams at Entertainment Weekly)
Question: Do you know when we’ll find out who killed Sara on Arrow? — Steven
Natalie: I took your question straight to executive producer Marc Guggenheim: “I’ve always maintained that you’d find out the answer to who murdered Sara by the end of the year,” he says. “That said, I will say that the S.T.A.R. Labs team is going to end up providing a critical piece of information that cracks open the whole case, but that doesn’t necessarily happen in [the crossover].”
Question: Any chance of some Switched at Birth scoop? — Lila
Natalie: The show will pay homage to It’s a Wonderful Life during their holiday episode. “Daphne and Bay want each other’s lives and their lives get switched,” Lea Thompson teases. “There’s magic involved.” But the girls may get more than they wished for when they discover the Kennish family is not on the best of terms and Regina is back to her drinking days.
That’s it. Enjoy!
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