Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWAL

Netflix has given The Lincoln Lawyer a 5th season renewal in advance of its 4th season premiere. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Mary Stuart Masterson (Benny & Joon and Some Kind of Wonderful) will star in the box office movie Sunny, a mafia thriller that will also star Angelina Jolie, Method Man and Charlie Plummer. The movie will follow a female gangster who fights to protect her sons — and herself — from an abusive drug kingpin. But when a devastating event occurs, she only has a matter of hours to plot their permanent escape. Details about who Masterson will play are being kept under wraps. (Deadline)

Erin Doherty (Adolescence) and James McAvoy (The X-Men franchise) will star in the feature film Faith, which is a supernatural drama that follows Gina, a hard-working and devoted single mother who meets a quietly enigmatic stranger, Michael. The presence of someone who appears to care for her brings a new and exciting dynamic to her life, despite the fact she knows nothing about him or what his intentions towards her really are. Is he a friend, a potential lover or something more sinister? (Variety)

Kate Beckinsale is set to star in the upcoming action-thriller The Savior that will follow a mother, Jordyn Parker (Beckinsale) struggling with addiction who is forced to resurrect a violent past to rescue her kidnapped daughter from ruthless human traffickers. (Deadline)

Antonio Banderas will star in the upcoming supernatural thriller Unmerciful Good Fortune that will also star Rosario Dawson, Scott Eastwood and Susan Sarandon. The movie will center on Maritza Cruz (Dawson), a high-end celebrity attorney pulled into a headline-making case involving a young woman accused of multiple murders — only for the defendant to claim she possesses psychic abilities and kills to prevent worse fates, plunging Maritza into a moral and spiritual labyrinth. (Deadline)

Orlando Bloom and Ethan Hawke will star in the jungle thriller film The Last of the Tribe that will be set in the Amazon rainforest, following William Phelan (Hawke), a washed-out Chicago cop turned corporate gun-for-hire, who is sent to investigate a death. During his mission he encounters the last surviving member of an Indigenous tribe. (Variety)

TV CASTING NEWS

Helena Bonham Carter and Chris Messina have joined the cast of the upcoming 4th season of The White Lotus. (The Hollywood Reporter)

More cast members have been announced for the Amazon Prime series adaptation of God of War. Olafur Darri Olafsson (Severance) and the one and only Mandy Patinkin have joined the cast as Thor and Odin respectively. The series will be based on the PlayStation ancient mythology-themed video game. (Variety and Deadline)

Beanie Feldstein (Booksmart) and Griffin Dunne (This Is Us) will both guest star in upcoming episodes of the CBS drama Elsbeth. Feldstein will play Rachel, who attends and plans all of her friends’ milestone celebrations: baby showers, bachelorette parties, weddings, gender reveals, you name it. But when it’s finally time to celebrate her special day, her bestie isn’t there for her. Meanwhile, Dunne will play Elliott, a world-famous novelist with a massive ego and a thin skin. When a childhood acquaintance and book critic points out the flaws in Elliott’s latest opus, the plot turns deadly. (Deadline)

MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE NEWS

The Way Home star Andie MacDowell will join Holland Roden and Niall Matter in the sequel movie to A Biltmore Christmas that will be featured in this winter’s Countdown to Christmas on Hallmark Channel. MacDowell will play the aunt to Roden’s character. (Entertainment Now)

NEW DRAMAS

Anthony Starr (The Boys) will star in the newly greenlit Netflix series Breakers, that will follow two best friends from the U.S. who go backpacking in Australia and are soon drawn into a seemingly perfect community of surfers led by a charismatic but mysterious figure, Brando, which will be played by Starr. (Deadline)

Regina Hall (One Battle After Another) and Star Wars alum Adam Driver will star in the upcoming hostage thriller series Rabbit, Rabbit which will air on Netflix. The series will focus on what happens when escaped convict J-Will (Driver) is cornered by law enforcement at a truck stop. He takes hostages in an effort to bargain for his freedom. But the standoff soon escalates into an unmanageable social experiment with his captives, as well as an emotional poker match with a veteran FBI Crisis Negotiator (Hall) trained in tactical empathy. (Deadline)

Hamilton alum Renée Elise Goldsberry has joined the cast of the upcoming CBS legal drama Cupertino which will be a David vs. Goliath story set in the heart of Silicon Valley, following Michael (Mike Colter), a lawyer who is being cheated out of his stock options by his former employer, a tech start-up. Refusing to back down, he joins forces with another recently fired attorney to represent those taken advantage of by the tech elite and help them fight back in a high stakes battle against the Goliaths controlling Silicon Valley. Goldsberry will play Renee, a brilliant opposing attorney who has a professional and romantic history with Michael. (Deadline)

Zoey Deutch will join Emily Bader in the upcoming Netflix sports drama The 99’ers that will focus on the U.S. Women’s Soccer team during the 1999 World Cup. Deutch will play Marla Messing, the trailblazing U.S. Women’s soccer executive who oversaw the massively successful 1999 World Cup tournament that set attendance and TV viewership records. Bader will play legendary soccer player Mia Hamm. (Deadline)

That’s it. Enjoy!