Hey All,
Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:
RENEWAL/CANCELLATION
Disney+ has pulled the plug on the Star Wars series The Acolyte after only one season. (TV Line)
Apple TV+ has given the crime thriller Criminal Record a second season renewal. (TV Line)
MOVING TO A NEW HOME
The Librarians: The Next Chapter was unceremoniously pulled from the schedule by CW, but it will now air on TNT, as one small part of the cable network’s missions to beef up its depleted drama slate. And, what’s more, TNT has given the show – which has yet to even air an episode yet – a second season. The show is expected to premiere sometime in 2025 on TNT. (Deadline and TV Line)
TV CASTING NEWS
FBI cast member Katherine Renee Kane, who has played Special Agent Tiffany Wallace since season 3, will be leaving the show during its upcoming 7th season. (TV Line)
Gina Rodriguez has joined the cast of the ABC series Will Trent for the show’s upcoming third season, playing Marion Alba, a charismatic, confident Assistant District Attorney new to Atlanta, who after her first encounter with Will falls flat, the pair is surprised to learn that they must work together to investigate a crime in the world of Atlanta gangs. (Deadline and TV Line)
Maria Bello will star in the upcoming Netflix drama series The Waterfront. She will appear alongside Holt McCallany in the series that is inspired by true events and dives into the flawed Buckley family as their attempts to retain control of their crumbling North Carolina fishing empire drive them to increasingly dangerous means to keep themselves afloat. Bello will play Mae Buckley, a complex woman who’s married to Harlan (McCallany) and the mother of their two children. After her husband took a step back from the family business, together with their son, she has been running the fishery in very questionable ways in a desperate attempt to save the family. (Variety)
Lisette Olivera has joined the cast of the CBS series FBI, playing Syd, a trained Behavioral Analysis Unit Agent who is about to rotate into the field. (Deadline)
It has now been confirmed that Patrick J. Adams and Beau Garrett have joined the Yellowstone sequel series The Madison, which will star Michelle Pfeiffer. The series is being described as a heartfelt study of grief and human connection following a New York City family in the Madison River valley of central Montana. Adams will play Russell McIntosh, a young investment banker who has followed the life path set before him from the start, while Garrett will play Abigail Reese, a resilient and sardonic New Yorker who is a recently divorced mother of two. (TV Line)
Freddie Highmore and Keeley Hawes will star, and executive produce, the upcoming Amazon Prmie 6-episode thriller The Assassin. Hawes will play Julie, a retired assassin living a secluded life on a remote Greek island while Highmore will play Edward, Julie’s estranged son with whom she has a somewhat thorny reunion. The cast will include Gina Gershon, Jack Davenport and Alan Dale. (TV Line)
Erik Palladino has joined the cast of season 4 of the MGM+ series Godfather of Harlem, playing real-life hitman Giuseppe “Pino” Greco, a high-ranking hitman in the Sicilian mafia. (TV Insider)
James Spader will reprise his role of Ultron, the villainous artificial intelligence from Avenger fame, in the upcoming Vision series that will star Paul Bettany. (Variety)
Anya Taylor-Joy will star in the Netflix adaptation of How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie. Taylor-Joy will play the murderous Grace Bernard, the protagonist of the book. The synopsis of the movie is: Grace is the forgotten child of Simon Artemis, a merciless billionaire. After a heartbreaking rejection, Grace decides to exact revenge. But will this deadly scheme take even more from Grace than she’s already lost? (Deadline)
Yellowstone star Kelly Reilly will star in Under Salt Marsh, a new limited series set to air on Sky Original, which is available to customers in the UK and throughout Europe. The 6-part show will be a gripping crime thriller set in the fictional Welsh town of Morfa Halen, a place caught between towering mountains and a fast-encroaching sea. Reilly will play detective turned teacher Jackie Ellis. (Variety)
Once Upon a Time alum Lana Parrilla has joined the cast of the upcoming USA Network series The Rainmaker based on the best-selling novel by John Grisham, that will follow Rudy Baylor (Milo Callaghan) who, fresh out of law school, goes head-to-head with courtroom lion Leo Drummond (John Slattery) and his law school girlfriend Sarah Plankmore (Madison Iseman). Rudy, along with his boss and her disheveled paralegal, uncover two connected conspiracies surrounding the mysterious death of their client’s son. Parrilla will play brash, ballsy street lawyer Jocelyn “Bruiser” Stone who heads her disgraced father, J. Lyman Stone’s strip-mall law firm. (Deadline)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Matt Smith will star alongside Austin Butler, Zoe Kravitz, Regina King and Liev Schreiber in the upcoming crime thriller Caught Stealing, which will center on Henry ‘Hank’ Thompson (Butler), a former professional baseball player who spends his nights working in a Manhattan bar. That is until he is violently beaten up and faced with the fact that someone wants something from him. (Radio Times)
Sally Field is expected to appear in Remarkably Bright Creatures, the box office adaptation of the novel by Shelby Van Pelt that will follow a lonely widow’s unlikely friendship with a giant octopus. After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she begins working the night shift as a janitor at a local aquarium. At work, she becomes acquainted with an eight-tentacled animal named Marcellus, who helps Tova uncover the truth about her son’s disappearance at sea 30 years ago. (Variety)
9-1-1 hunk Ryan Guzman has joined the cast of the new action thriller Midnight that is already set to star Rosario Dawson, Alexandra Shipp and Milla Jovovich. The film will follow a young, blind woman (Shipp) as she is hunted by a group of international criminals (Jovovich) searching for a package they believe was given to the woman by her federal agent sister (Dawson). However, the assailants quickly realize that the woman, though unable to see, may be far more dangerous than expected. (Deadline)
The box office movie Little Lorraine will star Arrow alum Stephen Amell and Lord of the Rings alum Sean Astin as well as Latin superstar J Balvin. The film is based on true events from the late 1980s, depicting a remote mining and fishing town’s transformation into a hub for a major cocaine smuggling operation. Amell will play an out-of-work coal miner who takes a job on a lobster boat involved in drug smuggling while Balvin will play an Interpol agent investigating a drug importation ring suspected of entering America through Cape Breton. The cast also includes Stephen McHattie, Rhys Darby and Steve Lund [among others]. (Variety)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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