Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

(DISAPPOINTING) CANCELLATIONS

Netflix has pulled the plug on both the medical drama Pulse and the mystery-comedy series The Residence after one season for each series. (TV Line)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Industry and Back to Black star Marisa Abela has joined Henry Cavill and Russell Crowe in the upcoming Highlander reboot flick, but there are no specific details on what role she will play. (Variety)

Viola Davis and Aquaman star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II will star and produce a reimagining of the 1987 feature film House of Games that follows psychiatrist Margaret Ford (Lindsay Crouse), who gets caught up in the world of gambling while trying to help one of her patients, Mike Mancuso (Joe Mantegna), deal with anxiety. (Deadline)

The sequel film The Devil Wears Prada 2 has added Kenneth Branagh to its cast, and he will be playing the husband of Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep). (Deadline)

The Little Mermaid’s Halle Bailey and Bridgerton hunk Rege-Jean Page will star in the upcoming rom-com film Italianna. (Variety)

You and Gossip Girl alum Penn Badgley and star Meghann Fahy (Sirens, The White Lotus and Drop) are set to star in the rom-com You Deserve Each Other that follows Naomi and Nick, a couple who are about to get married and live happily ever after except for one thing: They’ve fallen completely out of love. With the wedding rapidly approaching and its pressure mounting, they both resolve to secretly push the other into calling off the wedding using all means at their disposal, including pranks, sabotage and all-out emotional warfare. (The Hollywood Reporter)

TV CASTING NEWS

Suits LA alum Bryan Greenberg and French actress Michele Laroque have joined the 5th season of Emily in Paris. Greenberg will play Jake, an American living in the French capital while Laroque will play Yvette, an old friend of Sylvie (series regular Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu). (Variety)

Judy Greer will join her 13 Going on 30 co-star Jennifer Garner in The Five-Star Weekend, the upcoming Peacock series adaptation of the Elin Hilderbrand novel. The series will focus on Hollis Shaw (Garner), a famed food influencer known for her delicious recipes, impeccable taste, and warm demeanor who suffers a devastating loss. Unable to move forward, the death starts to expose the cracks in Hollis’s picture-perfect life—her strained marriage, her complicated relationship with her daughter, and her growing pursuit of validation from her followers. In an effort to overcome grief and find herself again, Hollis gets the idea to host a weekend away at her house on Nantucket with three friends from different stages in her life: her childhood, her twenties, thirties, and one surprise fifth star. Set against a luxurious and coastal backdrop, they will mature in ways they could never imagine as boundaries are pushed and secrets are exposed.” Greer will recur as Electra. (Variety)

The Sopranos alum Michael Imperioli will star opposite Grey’s Anatomy hunk Patrick Dempsey in the straight-to-series thriller drama Memory of a Killer, which follows Angelo Ledda (Dempsey), a hitman who is leading a dangerous double life while hiding an even deadlier personal secret: He has developed early-onset Alzheimer’s. (Deadline)

Jennifer Anison will star in a series adaptation based on I’m Glad My Mom Died, the Jennette McCurdy acclaimed memoir. The dramedy will center on the codependent relationship between an 18-year-old actress in a hit kid’s show, and her narcissistic mother (Aniston) who relishes in her identity as a starlet’s mother. There is no word yet on who will inhabit the McCurdy role. (TV Line)

That’s it. Enjoy!