Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
RENEWAL
Disney+ has given a second season to Loki. (TV Line)
EPIX has given Bridge and Tunnel a second season renewal. (Deadline)
RESURRECTION POSSIBILITY
The short-lived ABC drama Rebel will be heading to IMDb TV in a deal that COULD include a 2nd season order IF “the metrics merit.” The cast are still under option, making a revival a realistic possibility much like how the recently cancelled ABC drama For Life is also available on the streaming service. (Deadline and The Futon Critic)
TV CASTING NEWS
The second season of the Amazon Prime drama Modern Love will premiere on August 13, including among its cast Kit Harington (Game of Thrones), Tobias Menzies (Outlander and The Crown), Garrett Hedlund (Country Strong and Tron), Anna Paquin (True Blood), Minnie Driver (About a Boy) and Sophie Okonedo (Flack). The series is based on The New York Times column of the same name that brings to life several true stories of love and relationships. (TV Insider)
British actor Simon Callow (Outlander) has joined the cast of the Marvel series Hawkeye that finds Jeremy Renner back as the Marvel character. It is believed (but not confirmed) that his role will have ties to the character Jack Duquesne otherwise known as Swordsman, a villain set to appear in the show. (The Direct and The Cosmic Circus)
Oliver Hudson (Splitting Up Together) has joined the cast of the upcoming FOX drama The Cleaning Lady. He will play FBI Agent Garrett Miller, an intensely competitive, brilliant, and chameleonic FBI agent on the trail of Thony (series lead Elodie Yung) and the mob. (Deadline and The Futon Critic)
Actress Ayelet Zurer (Man of Steel and Losing Alice) will star opposite Dominic Monaghan (Lost) in the upcoming AMC drama Moonhaven. She will play Maite Voss, the political leader of Moonhaven, who was chosen and beloved by its citizens. She embodies the lunar mission to save humanity from self-destruction. Haunted by a troubled past, she is drawn into a madness that risks the future of Earth. (Deadline and The Futon Critic)
HBO Max has a drama called DMZ, based on the comic series by Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli, set to air with Rosario Dawson and Benjamin Bratt in the lead roles. The series will chronicle the harrowing journey of fearless and fierce medic Alma Ortega (Dawson) as she attempts to find the son she lost in the evacuation of New York City at the onset of a conflict. Throwing gasoline on the flames of that conflict is Parco Delgado (Bratt), the popular, and deadly, leader of one of the most powerful gangs in the DMZ. He wants to rule this new world and will stop at nothing to secure that outcome. Among the new cast members just announced are Rutina Wesley (Queen Sugar and True Blood) who will play Athena, a calculating operative for the separatist Free States of America, and the most effective power broker in the DMZ that no one there has heard of; Mamie Gummer (True Detective and The Good Wife), who will Rose, a jaded medic; Saturday Night Live alum Nora Dunn (The Big Leap), who will play Oona, a powerful fixture of near-mythical stature who oversees an all-female commune and Henry G. Sanders (Queen Sugar) who will play Cedric, a straight-shooting citizen of the DMZ whose only care in the world is protecting his grandson. (Deadline)
Paramount+ has given a green light to a prequel series to the classic 1978 film Grease. The 10-episode series Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies will be set four years before the original movie, before rock ‘n’ roll ruled, before the T-Birds were the coolest in the school. Four fed-up, outcast girls dare to have fun on their own terms, sparking a moral panic that will change Rydell High forever. (Deadline)
Alexa Davalos (The Man in the High Castle) will star opposite Julian McMahon in FBI: Most Wanted for the show’s 3rd season. She will play an FBI agent who joins Jess’ (McMahon’s) team. (Deadline)
The Dexter revival on Showtime will bring back not only John Lithgow but also Jennifer Carpenter, both of whom will (somehow) be resurrected. (TV Line)
Robert Downey Jr. will not only produce but also star in the HBO series The Sympathizer, based on the best-selling espionage thriller by Thanh Nguyen, that is described as a cross-culture satire about the struggles of a half-French, half-Vietnamese communist spy during the final days of the Vietnam War and his resulting exile in the United States. A worldwide search is currently underway for the lead role and the rest of the predominantly Vietnamese ensemble. (Variety)
The HBO Max Sex and the City reveival And Just Like That… has added the following cast members: Nicole Ari Parker (Empire and Soul Food), who will play Lisa Todd Wexley, a Park Avenue mother of three and documentarian; Sarita Choudhury (Homeland), who will play Seema Patel, a single, self-made powerhouse Manhattan real estate broker; and Karen Pittman (The Morning Show), who will play Dr. Nya Wallace, a brilliant, challenging Columbia Law professor. (TV Line)
MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE NEWS
Rebel may be done [for now, see above], but she’s got a new project coming up. She will appear in the EPIX thriller movie Tattered Hearts, which is set to debut sometime in 2022. The movie will follow an up-and-coming country music duo who seek out the secluded mansion of their idol, Harper Dutch (Sagal). But what starts out as a friendly visit devolves into a twisted series of horrors that force the friends to confront the lengths they’ll go to in order to realize their dreams. (The Hollywood Reporter)
STREAMING MOVIE NEWS
Jessica Alba (Dark Angel and L.A.’s Finest) will executive producer and star in the Netflix action film Trigger Warning, which follows a traumatized veteran who inherits her grandfather’s bar, and is faced with a moral dilemma after discovering the truth behind his untimely death. (Variety)
The Netflix film Luckiest Girl Alive, based on the Jessica Knoll bestseller, will feature an ensemble cast that includes Mila Kunis (That 70’s Show), Finn Wittrock (American Horror Story), Scoot McNairy (Narcos: Mexico), Jennifer Beals (The Book of Eli, The Last Tycoon) and Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights, Nashville) [among others]. The movie centers on Ani FaNelli (Kunis), a sharp-tongued New Yorker who appears to have it all: a sought-after position at a glossy magazine, a killer wardrobe, and a dream Nantucket wedding on the horizon. But when the director of a crime documentary invites her to tell her side of the shocking incident that took place when she was a teenager at the prestigious Brentley School, Ani is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life. (Netflix and The Futon Critic)
BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS
Henry Cavill has added another movie to his already busy schedule. He will appear in the film The Rosie Project, which follows an unlucky-in-love university professor who creates an elaborate questionnaire in an effort to find a wife. He meets an unconventional woman who doesn’t match any of his “requirements” but might be the perfect woman for him. (Deadline)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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