Hey All,
Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:
RENEWALS
Amazon Prime has given the drama series Reacher a fifth season renewal. (Variety)
Netflix has given the drama My Life With the Walters Boys a fourth season renewal ahead of the show’s upcoming third season which is set to air later this year. Season four will air sometime in 2027. Also, The Lincoln Lawyer will come to a close after its upcoming fifth season. (Variety and Deadline)
Apple TV has given Margo’s Got Money Troubles a second season renewal. (Deadline)
TV CASTING NEWS
The 5th and final season of The Lincoln Lawyer has added the following cast members on a recurring basis: Nate Corddry (The Testaments) as Jimmy Finch, Tricia Helfer (Battlestar Galactica and Lucifer) as Brooke Miller, Amy Aquino (Bosch) as Judge Olivia Alcott [among others]. (Deadline)
Breaking Bad alum Aaron Paul has joined the cast of the upcoming 3rd season of Fallout. There are no details on what character he will play, though. (Deadline)
The Hulu reboot of The X-Files from famed director Ryan Coogler has added the following as guest actors: recent Oscar winner Amy Madigan as well as Steve Buscemi, Ben Foster, Devery Jacobs, Lochlyn Munro, Tantoo Cardinal (among others). The reboot will star Himesh Patel and Danielle Deadwyler as two highly decorated but vastly different FBI agents. They form an unlikely bond when they are assigned to a long-shuttered division devoted to cases involving unexplained phenomena. (Deadline)
Michael Ealy (Power Book II: Ghost) will star opposite Matt Dillon and Will Patton in the upcoming small screen adaptation of The Magnificent Seven on MGM+. Ealy will play Vin Tanner, the role played by Steve McQueen in the original 1960 film. (Deadline)
White Collar and Doom Patrol alum Matt Bomer has joined the upcoming second season of the Peacock drama The Day of the Jackal that stars Eddie Redmayne. He will have a recurring role, but details are being kept under wraps about who he will play. (Deadline)
BOX OFFICE CASTING NEWS
Russell Tovey and Olivia Colman will star in the upcoming box office movie Wild Bird with Tovey will play the late fashion designer McQueen while Colman will play Isabella Blow, the fashion editor credited with discovering him. (Variety)
English singer-songwriter FKA Twigs will star as jazz icon Josephine Baker in a new biopic that will begin filming this fall. The yet-to-be-titled biopic is expected to cover Baker’s remarkable life story: born in St. Louis in 1906, she rose to fame after moving to Paris in 1925. But Baker’s legacy resonates far beyond the stage. During World War II, she joined the French Resistance, supporting the Allied nations in the fight against fascism; then, in the 1950s and 1960s, Baker became a prominent voice in the American Civil Rights Movement. (Variety)
Sinqua Walls (Teen Wolf and Friday Night Lights) has joined the cast of the upcoming Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow, but details about who he will play is being kept under wraps. (The Hollywood Reporter)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Peacock is working on a small screen adaptation of the long-running movie franchise Fast & Furious. (Variety)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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