Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATION

Netflix has renewed Outer Banks for a 5th season, but that will be the show’s final season. (TV Line)

CBS has given freshman series NCIS: Origins a season two order. (TV Line)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

Henry Winkler, Lena Headey and Bob Odenkirk will star in the upcoming action movie Normal. Odenkirk will play Ulysses, who is appointed substitute sheriff in the tiny Minnesota town of Normal, populated by friendly Midwesterners. When the local bank is sacked, Ulysses unknowingly uncovers something far more explosive than a simple bank robbery. Winkler will play the mayor of Normal, while Headey will play the local bartender, Moira. (Variety)

Long-time married couple Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon will direct and star in the horror-comedy Family Movie that will feature their children Travis and Sosie Bacon. The movie follows an eclectic but tight-knit family of filmmakers who suddenly find themselves in a real-life horror movie when a body turns up on the set of their latest low-budget slasher. As the production spirals comically out of control, they realize the only solution to keep filming is to cover up the murder, by any means necessary. (Variety)

The upcoming box office movie Pressure, a WWII drama-thriller, will include among its cast Andrew Scott, Brendan Fraser, Kerry Condon, Chris Messina and Damian Lewis. The true story will find Scott playing Britain’s Chief Meteorological Officer James Stagg, whose job it was to inform Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower (Fraser) of weather conditions that would make or break their Normandy invasion. The complex decision-making was critical in the fate of WWII and the course of history. (Deadline)

Zendaya and Anne Hathaway will join Tom Holland and Matt Damon in the next, upcoming Christopher Nolan film, but plot details are being kept under wraps. (Variety)

It looks like Ice Age 6, the next animated film in the long-running franchise, is in the works with Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Queen Latifah, Denis Leary, and Simon Pegg all set to lend their voices, once again. (Variety)

Marc Maron, Gaby Hoffman and David Krumholtz will join Jeremy Allen White in the upcoming Bruce Springsteen biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere with Maron set to play Chuck Plotkin, the music producer who mastered Springsteen’s “Nebraska” album, turning his unprocessed cassette demos into a high-quality record while Hoffmann will play Springsteen’s mother, Adele Springsteen, a singer in her own right who died at age 98 earlier this year, and Krumholtz will play Al Teller, a record label executive who oversaw the release of “Nebraska.” (Variety)

TV CASTING NEWS

Dominic West (The Crown) has joined the cast of the upcoming political thriller drama The Agency that will air on Paramount+ with Showtime that includes among its cast Michael Fassbender, Jeffrey Wright and Jodie Turner-Smith [among others]. The series follows “Martian (Fassbender), a covert CIA agent, ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station. When the love he left behind reappears, romance reignites. His career, his real identity and his mission are pitted against his heart, hurling them both into a deadly game of international intrigue and espionage. (Variety)

Golden Globe and Grammy winner Andra Day has been cast in the second season of Percy Jackson and the Olympians where she will play Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom and mother of Annabeth Chase (Leah Sava Jeffries), Percy’s (Walker Scobell) close friend and fellow demigod. (Variety)

That’s it. Enjoy!