Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
NEW SERIES ORDER
A John Wick (the box office franchise) prequel series The Continental from Starz has cast Mel Gibson in the lead role. The series will explore the origin behind the hotel-for-assassins through the eyes and actions of a young Winston Scott, who is dragged into the Hell-scape of a 1975 New York City to face a past he thought he’d left behind. Gibson will play a new character named Cormac, but no further details are available about his character. The series will be a three-night event series, but no premiere has been set yet. (Variety)
CANCELLATION
Syfy has cancelled the thriller SurrealEstate after only one season. (Twitter)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Disney is delaying several upcoming Marvel movies, including Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness from March 25 to May 6; Thor: Love and Thunder from May 6 to July 8 and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever from July 8 to November 11. The Marvels has been postponed to early 2023 and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania will be released on July 28, 2023. The 5th Indiana Jones movie will open on June 30, 2023. The scheduling overhaul is related to production and not box office returns. (Variety)
It looks like Ryan Gosling just might be starring alongside Margot Robbie in the upcoming Warner Bros. and Mattel film live action movie about Barbie and Ken with the two A-listers starring in the lead roles. (Variety)
TV CASTING NEWS
Brett Tucker, who was introduced in this week’s episode of The Big Leap, will join the cast in the heavily recurring role of Linus, the hunky boom operator who works on the set of the reality series within the drama. He will be a potential love interest for Julia (series regular Teri Polo). (Deadline)
Corbin Bernsen will reprise his original role in the ABC reboot of L.A. Law. (The Hollywood Reporter)
The Netflix movie franchise To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before will be getting a TV show spin-off called Xo, Kitty, focusing on teen matchmaker Kitty Song Covey (portrayed by Anna Cathcart in the movie franchise). The half-hour long series will consist of 10 episodes, finding Kitty moving halfway across the world and reuniting with her long-distance boyfriend only to realize that relationships are a lot more complicated when it’s your own heart on the line. (Variety)
Ryan Hansen (Veronica Mars), Azie Tesfai (Supergirl) and Mario Van Peebles will all recur on A Million Little Things. Hansen will play Camden, a handsome and charming professional hockey player while Tesfai will play Cassandra, a very good publicist helping Rome with his documentary. Van Peebles, who will play Regina’s father Ronald. (TV Line)
Uma Thurman will portray Arianna Huffington in the upcoming Showtime series Super Pumped that will chart the rise of Uber. Based on the Mike Isaac book, the series will focus on Uber CEO and co-founder Travis Kalanick (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and his sometimes tumultuous relationship with his mentor Bill Gurley (Kyle Chandler). (Variety)
The upcoming Apple anthology series Extrapolations will focus on climate change, and among its cast will be Meryl Streep, Sienna Miller, Kit Harington, Matthew Rhys, Daveed Diggs, Gemma Chan and David Schwimmer. The series will examine how impending changes to the planet will affect love, faith, work and family in people’s lives over eight interconnected episodes. Streep’s role has yet to be disclosed; Miller will play a marine biologist named Rebecca Shearer; Harington will play Nick Bilton, the CEO of an industrial giant. Meanwhile, Rhys will play a real estate developer named Junior; Diggs will play Marshall Zucker, a rabbi in South Florida; Chan will play Natasha Alper, a single mother and micro-finance banker; and Schwimmer will play Harris Goldblatt, a man with a teenage daughter. (Deadline)
Jonathan Tucker (Debris, Kingdom and Charlie’s Angels) will star opposite Michelle Monaghan in the upcoming Netflix psychological limited series thriller Echoes, which is about identical twins Leni and Gina (both portrayed by Monaghan), who share a dangerous secret. Since they were children, Leni and Gina secretly have swapped lives, culminating in a double life as adults: They share two homes, two husbands and a child, but everything in their perfectly choreographed world is thrown into disarray when one of the sisters goes missing. Tucker will play Dylan James, a troubled and mysterious local townie and childhood associate of Leni and Gina’s. The cast includes Matt Bomer, Daniel Sunjata, Ali Stroker and Karen Robinson. (Deadline)
Kaley Ronayne (Gotham) will have a recurring role on The Resident, appearing as Cade, a badass emergency room doctor, who takes no prisoners, but also has her own brand of no-nonsense empathy for her patients. (TV Line)
SERIES PICK-UPS
The CW will be adding a new international drama to its upcoming line-up. The new Italian drama Leonardo, starring Aiden Turner (of The Hobbit and Poldark fame), will recount the extraordinary life through da Vinci’s works that made him famous, through the stories hidden within those works, revealing little by little the inner torment of a man obsessed with attaining perfection. The cast will include Freddie Highmore (The Good Doctor) and James D’Arcy (Dunkirk and Agent Carter). (Deadline)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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