Hey All,
Here are the entertainment news items for the past week:
RENEWALS/CANCELLATION
According to the show’s showrunner, House of the Dragon will run for four seasons on HBO and then it will come to an end, although HBO has yet to officially renew it for its fourth season. The second season of the show just came to an end last week with no date set yet for its guaranteed third season. (TV Line)
PILOT ORDER
CBS has given a pilot order to the new drama Einstein that comes from Monk creator Andy Breckman. The show will revolve around the great grandson of Albert Einstein, a rilliant but directionless tenured professor who gets into trouble with the law — and for retribution, must help a local police detective solve her cases. (Variety)
TV CASTING NEWS
John Cho, Christopher Gorham, Alicia Hannah-Kim and Jacob Bertrand will all star in the Disney+ and Hulu Korean spy drama that will follow Seo Munju (Gianna Jun), a highly accomplished diplomat and former ambassador to the United States, and Sanho (Gang Dongwon), an international special agent shrouded in a veil of secrets, as they race to uncover the truth behind an attack that threatens the future stability of the Korean peninsula. Details regarding who Cho, Gorham, Hannah-Kim and Bertrand will portray are under wraps, though. (Deadline)
Tyler Labine (New Amsterdam) will recur in season 5 of For All Mankind as Fred, a Mars Peacekeeper. (Deadline and TV Line)
Sarah Ramos (Parenthood) and Darren Barnet (Never Have I Ever) have joined the cast of season 10 of Chicago Med where they will play Dr. Caitlin Lenox and Dr. John Frost respectively. (TV Line)
Funny man and The Masked Singer panelist Ken Jeong will be seen in an episode of the FOX anthology crime series Accused where he will play a kind-hearted jewelry store owner who confronts his wife’s secret past. (Variety)
Sarah Paulson, Nicey Nash, Teyana Taylor and Naomi Watts have joined Glenn Close and Kim Kardashian in the upcoming Hulu legal drama series All’s Fair from executive producer Ryan Murphy. The show will find Kardashian playing a Los Angeles divorce lawyer in an all-female law firm, headed by Close’s character. There are no details on what characters these new cast members will play, however. (Variety)
Dakota Fanning and Abby Elliott have joined the cast of the upcoming Peacock suburban-thriller series All Her Fault that will revolve around a plausibly terrifying situation that eventually unearths the deep secrets of a community. (Variety)
Tru Valentino, who has been playing Officer Aaron Thorsen on The Rookie since season 4, will not be back as a series regular in the new 7th season later this year. (TV Line)
Michael Thomas Grant (Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist) will recur in season 21 of Grey’s Anatomy, playing Gray Sloan’s openly gay Episcopal chaplain. (TV Line)
Robin Weigart will not be seen as Teddi in season 2 of Tracker on CBS. There is no explanation on how her character will exit, but Abby McEnany, who plays Teddi’s wife Velma will be back. (TV Line)
The Gray Sisters in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians franchise have been cast. The Disney+ drama will find Sandra Bernhard, Kristen Schaal and Margaret Cho taking on the roles of Anger, Tempest and Wasp respectively. They are sisters who share one eye and one tooth and operate a taxi firm in New York City. (Deadline)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Manny Jacinto (most recently seen on the Disney+ sci-fi series Star Wars: The Acolyte) will play the husband of Lindsay Lohan in the upcoming sequel film Freakier Friday. (Entertainment Weekly)
Jeff Daniels, Jared Harris and J.K. Simmons will star in the movie Reykjavik, a historical drama that will chronicle one of the most significant diplomatic achievements of modern times. The film will take place at the most dangerous point of the Cold War, watching as political enemies Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Iceland over one long, tense weekend to decide if there will be peace or war in the world. Daniels will play President Reagan, while Harris will play Soviet leader Gorbachev and Simmons will play United States Secretary of State George Shultz. (Deadline)
Zachary Levi (Chuck and Shazam), Sonequa Martin-Green (Star Trek: Discovery), Garret Dillahunt (Raising Hope), Bridget Regan (The Rookie) [among others] will appear in the new movie Sarah’s Oil that tells the true story of Sarah Rector, an African American born in Oklahoma Indian Territory in the early 1900s, who believed there was oil beneath the barren land she was allotted and whose faith is proven right. As greedy oil sharks close in, Sarah turns to her family, friends and some Texas wildcatters to maintain control of her oil-rich land, eventually becoming one of the nation’s first female African American millionaires — at 11 years old. (Deadline)
Queen Charlotte alum India Amarteifio and Damian Hardung (Maxton Hall) will star in the coming-of-age romance flick Into the Deep Blue that follows Nick (Hardung) and Fiona (Amarteifio), best friends who meet in group therapy, who are struggling to piece their lives together after experiencing loss. When a weekend trip brings their deepening feelings to the surface, they might sooner cut each other off than face them. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Patricia Arquette and Michael Sheen [among others] have joined Jodie Comer in the upcoming Kenneth Branagh film The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde, a contemporary psychological thriller. (Deadline and Collider)
Zoe Saldana will provide her voice to the upcoming Disney flick Elio that follows a boy named Elio who finds himself inadvertently beamed up to an interplanetary organization where he is chosen to become Earth’s ambassador to other galaxies. (Variety)
McKenna Grace will star opposite Allison Williams in the upcoming indie film Regretting You that will center on the complex relationship between Morgan Grant (Williams) and her daughter, Clara (Grace). Morgan became a mother at a young age, putting her own dreams on hold to raise Clara. As Clara grows into a teenager, their relationship becomes strained, especially after a tragic accident claims the life of Chris, Morgan’s husband and Clara’s father. (Deadline)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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