Hey All,
Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:
RENEWAL
The Amazon Prime series Alex Cross, based on the James Patterson novels, which is set to star Aldis Hodge in the lead role, has been renewed for a second season BEFORE the first season has even aired. What’s more Jeanine Mason (Roswell, New Mexico and Upload) hs been cast in season two in an undisclosed role. (Variety)
SERIES ORDER
The Fire Country spin-off series Sheriff Country has been given an early series order by CBS for the 2025-2026 TV season. (Variety)
NEW TV ADAPTATION
PBS Masterpiece will introduce a new audience to The Forsyte Saga, a sweeping portrait of a wealthy British family in 1880s London, which will feature Stephen Moyer (True Blood), Tuppence Middleton (Downton Abbey: A New Year), Eleanor Tomlinson (One Day), Jack Davenport (The Morning Show), Mille Gibson (Doctor Who) and Tom Durant Pritchard (Miss Scarlet) among its cast. (Deadline)
TV CASTING NEWS
Elizabeth Banks and Jessica Biel will star in the Amazon Prime series The Better Sister, which is an adaptation of the Alafair Burke novel, which is being described as a thriller about Chloe (Biel), who moves through the world with her handsome lawyer husband Adam and teenage son Ethan by her side while her estranged sister Nicky (Banks) hustles to make ends meet while trying to stay clean. But when Adam is brutally murdered, the prime suspect sends shockwaves through the family, laying bare long-buried secrets. (Variety)
Sean Teale (The Gifted and Who Is Erin Carter?) has joined the cast of the ABC series Dr. Odyssey, a medical show set on a cruise ship, which comes from series creator Ryan Murphy. Joshua Jackson has been cast in the title role along with Phillipa Soo and Don Johnson. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Robin Wright and Olivia Cooke (House of the Dragon) will star in the Amazon Prime series The Girlfriend which is an adaptation of the Michelle Frances novel that focuses on Laura (Wright) who wants for nothing. She has a glittering career, a loving husband, Howard, and, above all, she has Daniel, her precious only son. But Laura’s seemingly perfect life is blown apart when Daniel brings home Cherry (Cooke), the girlfriend who changes everything. After an uncomfortable first meeting, Laura grows convinced that Cherry isn’t who she says she is. While no one else can see what she sees, Laura refuses to stand by and watch Daniel be deceived. She’ll do anything to protect him. As things go from bad to deadly, the question is, is Cherry a manipulative social climber? Or is Laura paranoid and possessive? The truth is a matter of perspective. (Variety)
Neal McDonough (Arrow and 9-1-1: Lone Star) has joined the second season of Taylor Sheridan created series Tulsa King, which stars Sylvester Stallone, and airs on Paramount+. McDonough is set to play a territorial Tulsa businessman. (Variety)
BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS
Carla Gugino (The Girls on the Bus) will play screen legend Vivien Leigh (Scarlett O’Hara in the 1939 classic Gone With the Wind) in the new movie titled The Florest that takes place in the 1960s, following Leigh as she prepares to star in a Broadway production of Ivanov. The movie will depict Leigh’s struggles with bipolar disorder and electroconvulsive therapy, as well as an unexpected romance with Joseph Penn, a World War II veteran and florist who first encounters Leigh while making a delivery. (Variety and Entertainment Weekly)
Rosamund Pike (The Wheel of Time and Saltburn) has joined the cast of Now You See Me 3, the third chapter in the magician movie franchise, but her role is being kept under wraps. Original cast members Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco and Morgan Freeman are expected to reprise their roles while Justice Smith, Dominic Sessa and Ariana Greenblatt have been cast in new roles. (Variety)
Anthony Hopkins is set to star as George Frideric Handel in the upcoming box office film The King of Covent Gardens. The film will be set during the period the famed opera composer worked on his choral masterpiece Messiah. (Variety)
Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas will star in the upcoming musical comedy Power Ballad, which will chart the story of a wedding singer (Rudd), a rock star (Jonas) and the song that comes between them. (Deadline)
Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy will star in the magical family adventure flick The Magic Faraway Tree, which is based on the beloved children’s classic by Enid Blyton, following Polly (Foy) and Tim (Garfield) and their children Beth, Joe and Fran — a modern family who find themselves forced to relocate to the remote English countryside. Soon after the family’s arrival in the countryside, the children discover a magical tree and its extraordinary and eccentric residents including treasured characters Moonface, Silky, Dame Washalot and Saucepan Man. At the top of the tree, they are transported to spectacular and fantastical lands and, through the joys and challenges of their adventures, the family learn to reconnect and value each other for the first time in years. (Variety)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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