Hey All,
Here are the entertainment items for this past week:
RENEWAL
Netflix has given the Kristen Bell-Adam Brody-led dramedy Nobody Wants This a fourth season renewal. (Variety)
TV CASTING NEWS
Lili Taylor has joined the cast of The Beast in Me for its upcoming second season on Netflix. She will play Fiona, the stepmother of Aggie, played by returning series lead Claire Danes. (Deadline)
Sons of Anarchy alum Katey Sagal will have a recurring role in the FOX medical drama Best Medicine playing Kathleen Gavin, Louisa’s (series regular Abigail Spencer) estranged mother and the only person in the world who’s not welcome in Port Wenn. Combative, conniving and always looking out for herself, Kathleen unexpectedly returns to town after a long absence, sending Louisa’s life into chaos. (Variety)
Lost alum Josh Holloway will appear in an upcoming episode of the hit CBS series Tracker, playing Luke Kelsol, a tracker whose reckless methods and questionable morals have put innocent lives at risk. (Deadline)
Tim Robbins and Giancarlo Esposito will appear in the Apple TV upcoming Monarch: Legacy of Monsters spin-off series Monsterverse that will have Wyatt Russell reprising his role of Col. Lee Shaw, an American operative who, in 1984, went on a secret mission behind enemy lines in an attempt to stop the Soviets from unleashing a horrific new Titan big enough to destroy the U.S. and turn the tide of the Cold War. (Deadline)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Marvel alums Jeremy Renner and Josh Brolin will appear in the upcoming box office movie A Speak in the Seas, which will be set in 2013 following the ordeal of Montauk lobster fisherman Johnny Aldridge and his best friend and fishing partner, Anthony Sosinski. The nightmare begins in the dead of the night when Aldridge (Brolin) accidentally falls off their fishing boat into the freezing, open waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Below deck, Sosinski (Renner) awakens hours later to find his partner missing, triggering a massive multi-state rescue operation in a frantic race against the clock to find his best friend before time runs out. (Deadline)
Ben Wang (Karate Kid: Legends and the upcoming The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping) just might be joining the cast of the X-Men reboot, as he is in negotiations to play Bobby Drake, aka Iceman. (Variety)
Veteran actor Liam Neeson will star inthe upcoming sports flick Believe 13, playing coach and trainer Jack Blatherwick. The movie is based on the inspiring true story of how Blatherwick mentored a rising teen hockey star after he suffered a devastating injury. (Deadline)
Veteran actor Bill Nighy and actresses Hayley Atwell and Maisie Williams will lend their voices to the upcoming CG-animated family flick The Last Dino that will follow Rex, the son of the King of Dinosaurs, who is unexpectedly catapulted 65 million years into the future, landing in a world where dinosaurs are extinct, being smart matters more than being strong, and being king of the jungle means absolutely nothing. Determined to find his way home, Rex teams up with an unlikely crew of friends for a wild adventure that challenges everything he thought he knew about strength, friendship and family. Along the way, he discovers that family isn’t necessarily about where you come from, but about who stands by your side, and that sometimes the greatest adventure isn’t finding your way home, but finding where you truly belong. (Variety)
Idris Elba will star in and direct the upcoming action comedy flick In Law that will follow Carson Hughes (Elba), a blacklisted secret agent who gets a shot at redemption. Forced to team up with a young, by-the-book rookie, Carson must put aside their differences to stop a deadly plot. But as the unlikely duo races against the clock, they discover they have more in common than they ever imagined—including getting to a wedding neither can afford to miss, as long as they don’t kill each other first. (Deadline)
UPCOMING TV SERIES NEWS
Amazon Prime Video has given a series order to Savage Son, a new series within the Terminal List franchise that stars Chris Pratt. The series will follow James Reece (Pratt) as he faces his most personal and dangerous mission yet. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Paul Bettany, who is currently in VisionQuest on Disney+ will star opposite The Walking Dead alum Steven Yeun in the upcoming Netflix supernatural drama Pagans that will follows Gus (Yeun), who becomes the sole caretaker of his two children after the tragic loss of his wife. While his son Nate is typical; his daughter, Alice, is anything but. What starts as a strained father-daughter relationship soon evolves into something far more sinister. Bettany will play Mag, a charismatic stranger. (Deadline)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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