Rueben's Ramblings

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RENEWALS

MGM+ Has renewed the Sylvester Stallone-led series Tulsa King for a 4th season. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Amazon Prime has given the YA series We Were Liars for a 2nd season. (Deadline)

Apple TV+ has given The Morning Show a 5th season order. (Variety)

Daredevil: Born Again has been renewed for a 3rd season. (Variety)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Neal McDonough (Tulsa King and 9-1-1: Lone Star) has joined the cast of the upcoming box office film Jimmy that will focus on legendary actor Jimmy Stewart, who will be portrayed by Riverdale alum KJ Apa. McDonough will play Stewart’s father Alexander. (CBN)

Kate Mara (Shooter), Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix), Gabriel Luna (The Last of Us), Ivana Milicevic (Sherlock & Daughter) and singer-turned-actress Macy Gray will star in the upcoming box office movie The Astronaut that will focus on what happens when astronaut Sam Walker (Mara) returns from her first space mission. She’s found miraculously alive in a punctured capsule floating deep off the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. General William Harris (Fishburne) arranges for her to be placed under intense NASA surveillance in a high security house for rehabilitation and medical testing. However, when disturbing occurrences begin happening around the property, she fears that something extraterrestrial has followed her back to Earth. (Deadline)

The Amazon Prime series The Summer I Turned Pretty may have come to a close after three seasons, but just after the series finale aired news broke that a feature film – that will continue the story of the series – has been officially greenlit. (Variety)

Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer will reunite on the big screen (the first time since The Help) in the holiday comedy flick Deck the Y’alls, which follows a New York baker named Rachel Stein (Chastain), who falls for Beau, a younger Southern gentleman, and heads to Charleston, South Carolina to spend Christmas with his family. But over-protective matriarch Gladys Gibbes (Spencer) is a celebrity chef who clashes with Rachel. (Variety)

Esai Morales (NYPD Blue) will star in the new film Coyote that tells the gritty story of Hernán Barroca, a weathered ex-smuggler pulled back into the dangerous world he thought he had left behind. When Hernán helps Julia and her young daughter, Maribel, navigate treacherous borderlands, their desperate journey triggers the wrath of a ruthless trafficking syndicate. As the past and present collide—with U.S. Border Patrol agent Bradley joining the pursuit—Hernán must rely on his cunning and grit to survive and find redemption. (Deadline)

Jared Padalecki (Supernatural and Walker) and Leighton Meester (Gossip Girl) will star in the upcoming rom-com film The Bodyguard on Netflix. Padalecki will play the role of a film star, who, after being stalked, is assigned a bodyguard, to be played by Meester, and must pretend that she’s his girlfriend when he returns to his family’s ranch for the holidays. (What’s On Netflix)

TV CASTING NEWS

Veteran actor Keith Carradine will make a guest appearance in a season 2 episode of High Potential on ABC, playing Newmeyer, a haughty business mogul who has made a fortune in manufacturing, but may have crossed a line putting profits over people’s lives. (Variety)

Sam Corlett (Vikings: Valhalla) has joined the cast of the untitled Dan Fogelman (the guy behind This Is Us and Paradise) football drama that will star Christopher Meloni and William H. Macy. Meloni plays the team’s head coach with Corlett set to play his younger son. Additionally, Chloe Bennet (Interior Chinatown and Marvels’ Agents of SHIELD) will appear as the youngest daughter of Hank, who will be played by Macy. Also, Chase Crawford (The Boys and Gossip Girl) has also joined the cast, playing the team’s new General Manager. (Deadline)

Jai Courtney (the Divergent movie franchise) has joined the cast of The Dutton Ranch, the Yellowstone spin-off that will focus on Beth and Rip. He will play Rob-Will, an imposing, unpredictable ranch foreman. (Variety)

Gina Torres (9-1-1: Lone Star and Suits) and Michaela McManus have joined the cast of the upcoming FOX drama series Memory of a Killer that will star Grey’s Anatomy alum Patrick Dempsey. Dempsey will play hitman, Angelo Doyle, who leads a dangerous double life while hiding an even deadlier personal secret: he has developed early onset Alzheimer’s. Torres will play Linda Grant, a mercurial, seasoned, and brilliantly tenacious FBI Agent who becomes a major antagonist for Angelo. Meanwhile, McManus will play Nicky, the manager of the Silverstrand Club, a gathering place for mobsters on the take. Motivated by a secret agenda of her own, Nicky and Angelo fall into a dangerous romance. (Deadline)

SERIES PICK UP ORDER

Apple TV+ has picked up the limited series The Off Weeks that will star and be executive produced by Jessica Chastain and Ben Stiller. The series will follow writing professor Gus Adler, whose divorce has thrown his life into chaos. He struggles to hold things together during “on weeks” when he has custody of his kids. But in his “off weeks,” he’s falling dangerously in love with Stella West, a mysterious woman whose arrival puts Gus’ on-week duties and off-weeks ambitions on a fatal collision course. (Deadline)

That’s it. Enjoy!