Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
TELEVISION
Pop singer Christina Aguilera (The Voice) will be appear in a multi-episode arc of episode of Nashville playing Jade St. John, a pop superstar who hit it big 10 years ago, who wants to take a break from her life. (Kristin Dos Santos at E! Online)
Actress Linda Park (Star Trek: Enterprise) will appear in an upcoming episode of Castle, playing Inspector Zhang, a hot-shot Hong Kong cop that Beckett is paired up with, somewhat unwillingly. (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)
Australian actress Gillian Alexy (The Americans and Royal Pains) has landed the lead role in the WGN America drama Outsiders that tells the story of the Farrell clan, a family of outsiders living off the grid and above the law on their mountaintop homestead. Alexy will play G’Winn Farrell. (Denise Petski at Deadline)
Actor Simon Merrells (The Tomorrow People) will appear in an eight-episode arc of the Syfy drama Dominion, playing Julian, the cunning and powerful leader of New Delphi, who will go to any lengths to protect his city. (Denise Petski at Deadline)
Actor Tom Everett Scott (Southland and That Thing You Do) will appear in the first half of the two-hour season finale of How to Get Away With Murder, playing a priest accused of killing a fellow man of the cloth. (Michael Slezak at TV Line)
Actor Doug Jones (Falling Skies) will appear in an upcoming episode of The Flash, playing Jake Simmons (aka Deathbolt), a villain with the power to manipulate lightning. (Andy Swift at TV Line)
Actor Cristian de la Fuente (Royal Pains and CIS: Miami) will appear in Devious Maids, playing a mysterious character who has had a past relationship with one of the series’ central maids. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)
Actress Laura Benanti (Nashville) has been cast in the CBS pilot Supergirl, playing Alura Zor-El, the birth mother of Kara (Melissa Benoist), a strong noblewoman who sends Kara to Earth to escape Krypton’s destruction. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
Actress Elizabeth Mitchell (Revolution and Lost) and actor Goran Visnjic (ER) will star alongside Donald Sutherland in the international series Crossing Lines, which revolves around a squad of European law enforcement officers who battle the explosion of international crime that accompanied the opening of borders by the European Union. Mitchell and Visnjic will play Carine Strand and Marco Corazza, new members of the elite team of officers investigating cross-border crimes. (Nellie Andreeva and Nancy Tartaglione at Deadline)
ONLINE SERIES NEWS
Actor Jason Biggs will not be returning for the third season of Orange Is the New Black. (Kristin Dos Santos at E! Online)
The Amazon original series Mozart In The Jungle has been renewed for a second season. (Nancy Tartaglione on Deadline)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Here are the top 10 box offices movies for this past weekend courtesy of Box Office Mojo:
1. Fifty Shades of Grey – 85 million
2. Kingsman: The Secret Service = 36.2 million
3. The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water – 31.7 million
4. American Sniper – 16.5 million
5. Jupiter Ascending – 9.2 million
6. Seventh Son – 4.1 million
7. Paddington – 4 million
8. The Imitation Game – 3.5 million
9. The Wedding Ringer – 3.2 million
10. Project Almanac – 2.8 million
Actress Morena Baccarin (Gotham, Firefly and Homeland) has landed the lead role in the upcoming box office adaptation of Deadpool, but the character she will play has not been revealed yet. (Heat Vision and Dark Horizons)
Actress Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars) will star alongside actress Melissa McCarthy (Tammy) and actor Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) in the box office comedy Michelle Darnell that will have McCarthy in the lead role, a titan of industry who is sent to prison after she’s caught for insider trading. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America’s latest sweetheart, not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and forget. Bell will play a single mother and Darnell’s former assistant. (Variety and Dark Horizons)
Actor Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) has been cast as the younger version of Nightcrawler in the upcoming box office film X-Men: Apocalypse that will find Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult and Michael Fassbender reprising their roles. The film is set to be out in May 2016. (Variety and Dark Horizons)
Actress Piper Perabo (Covert Affairs) will star alongside actors Bruce Willis and Sir Ben Kingsley in the indie thriller flick Wake. When the Forrester family reunites for a relative’s wake, they are unnerved by the arrival of the dead man’s brother, Red (Willis), a diagnosed sociopath who made their lives a living hell until he disappeared years ago. But when the family comes under siege from some deadly associates of the deceased, they’re glad to have Red on their side. Perabo will play Claire Forrester, the dead man’s widow who is also a former lover of Red’s. (Dominic Patten at Deadline)
Q&A SECTION (with Matt Mitovich at TV Line)
Question: Any chance I could get some scoop on my favorite Once Upon a Time character, Robin Hood? –Nicole
Mitovich: As previously hinted (and despite how Season 4A ended), Sean Maguire will be back in some capacity this spring as Regina’s soul mate. “And for the uber-observant fans,” series co-creator Adam Horowitz hints, “we’re going to shed some light on just why he might have looked different and not had a tattoo in Season 2″ — that is, back when the role was originally played by Tom Ellis.
Question: Do you know if we will see Emma’s childhood friend Lily on Once Upon a Time again this season? –Dee
Mitovich: Horowitz was a bit less forthcoming on that topic, offering only this, “We sure hope so!”
Question: Got something on my favorite Queen Catherine from Reign? –Astrid
Mitovich: I’ll meet you halfway with scoop on a queen – the queen? – seeing as for Season 3 the CW drama is casting the series regular role of a young Queen Elizabeth. The twentysomething monarch is described as “beautiful, cunning and brave, vulnerable and in love.”
Question: Since Arrow‘s Oliver Queen saw his ex on The Flash, will there be a storyline with that, or was that a one-time encounter? –Elizabeth
Mitovich: That fleeting, crossover event encounter with Oliver’s baby mama “was a little bit of a no-brainer,” Arrow showrunner Marc Guggenheim explained to me. With Oliver visiting Central City — the same place his secretly pregnant girlfriend scurried off to after taking a payoff from Moira — “How could we not take that opportunity?” he says. “That was really the reason to do it.”
Question: Any chance we’ll learn a little bit more about Alison or Cosima on Orphan Black this year? Maybe something about their parents, or how they first came to join the Clone Club? — Katie H.
Mitovich: We may gleam some bits of backstory this season, but don’t expect any big answers just yet. “We’re always trying to go forward and fill in blanks as we push a plot and a story forward,” co-creator John Fawcett tells TV Line. “That being said, it is an important part of the story that we understand how they found out that that they were clones. I don’t know if that’s necessarily going to find its way into Season 3, but needs to find its way in somewhere.”
That’s it. Enjoy!
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