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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

Djimon Hounsou and Halle Berry will star in the Africa-set trafficking thriller Red Card, which is based on real events out of Africa. Hounsou will star as Max Elmi, a veteran ranger battling poachers in Kenya who joins forces with Dane Harris, a tenacious special agent and part of a team led by FBI supervisor Amanda Bruckner (Berry) working with international law enforcement to fight trafficking rings abroad. When Max’s son, a talented soccer player, falls prey to a deceitful sports agent and disappears into the criminal underworld of North Africa, Max will stop at nothing to find his child, and Dane will have to decide how far he’s willing to go. Their odyssey takes them from the quiet Maasai villages of Kenya to the simmering streets of Casablanca. (Deadline)

Dakota Fanning, Jake Johnson and Cory Michael Smith will star in an untitled romantic drama that will be set in various locations throughout Alaska. Plot details are under wraps, though. (Deadline)

Doctor Who and House of the Dragon alum Matt Smith will star in the upcoming Star Wars: Starfighter flick alongside Ryan Gosling. The film is set five years after the events of Star Wars: Episode IX — The Rise of Skywalker, which concluded the Skywalker saga and currently stands as the final feature chronologically on the Star Wars timeline. Details are vague about who Smith will play, but it is believed he will play one of the villain roles. (Deadline)

Jason Isaacs (The White Lotus and the Harry Potter film franchise) will star alongside Taylor Kitsch and Diego Luna in the indie hostage thriller Eleven Days that takes place in the sweltering heat of a Texas summer in 1974, watching as ruthless prisoner Federico Carrasco takes control of the Huntsville Penitentiary. The prison’s priest, Father Joseph O’Brien (Isaacs) joins forces with Jim Estelle (Kitsch), head of the Texas Department of Corrections, by entering the eye of the storm and offering himself as a hostage to out-game Carrasco and his men, in an attempt to save the lives of the other hostages that have been taken. (Deadline)

Yellowstone alum Jefferson White, Crispin Glover (Back to the Future franchise), Mena Suvari (American Beauty) and Teen Wolf alum Tyler Posey are set to star in the upcoming box office movie Death of a Brewer, which will be set against the backdrop of 1884 where a young doctor becomes entangled in a deadly conflict between a brewing empire and a radical temperance movement, forcing him to confront his morals in a world where survival and loyalty are at odds. (Deadline)

Ben Kingsley, Andy Serkis and Grammy winner Joel David Smallbone will star in the presidential origin story Young Washington, which will focus on a young George Washington, chronicling the beginnings of America’s first president. Kingsley will play Robert Dinwiddie, the strong-willed Governor of Virginia who entrusts the young Washington with his first command while Serkis will play General Edward Braddock, an overconfident British officer who gives the defeated Washington another chance at military glory. Meanwhile, Smallbone will play the cunning William Fairfax, a friend and romantic rival to George, who moves effortlessly in the world of the British upper class to which Washington aspires. (Deadline)

Aubrey Plaza (Agatha All Along and Legion) is set to portray the infamous “Hollywood madam” Heidi Fleiss in the upcoming movie about the woman who was busted in the early ‘90s for what was said to be the world’s largest high-end prostitution ring, which implicated Hollywood, politicians and other power figures. (Variety)

Riverdale hunk KJ Apa will star in a biopic about legendary actor Jimmy Stewart, chronicling the beloved actor’s life as a rising star before World War II, during which he served as a combat pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps. After his return home, he starred in the 1946 classic It’s a Wonderful Life. Days of Our Lives alum and Great American Family movie star Jen Lilley will play Gloria Stewart, Stewart’s wife while Hallmark star Sarah Drew (Mistletoe Murders) will play famed gossip columnist Hedda Hopper. (People and Entertainment Now)

Desperate Housewives alum Eva Longoria will star in the upcoming box office movie The Last Sunrise, an adaptation of the bestselling romance novel by After series author Anna Todd. Longoria will play Isolde, the protective mother of Oriah “Ry” Pera, a 22-year-old whose life has been shaped by chronic illness and a well-meaning but overbearing mom. When a summer relocation gives her a taste of freedom, she meets Julián, who draws her into the kind of adventure she’s always longed for. But with a return to the U.S. on the horizon, Ry faces a decision that could change everything. (Deadline)

TV CASTING NEWS

Logan Marshall-Green (Big Sky and the Netflix movie Carry On) will star opposite Luke Grimes in the CBS Yellowstone spin-off series Y: Marshalls, playing Pete Calvin, a friend from Kayce’s (Grimes) time in the military. The series will focus on Kayce, joining an elite unit of U.S. Marshals, combining his skills as a cowboy and Navy SEAL to bring range justice to Montana, where he and his teammates must balance family, duty and the high psychological cost that comes with serving as the last line of defense in the region’s war on violence. (Deadline)

Will Trent has promoted Kevin Daniels to series regular for its upcoming 4th season on ABC. (Deadline)

Evil and Luke Cage alum Mike Colter has signed on for a leading role in Cupertino, which comes from Robert and Michelle King – the brains behind the CBS drama Evil. The show is described as a David vs. Goliath legal drama with Colter playing a lawyer fired by a Silicon Valley start-up intending to cheat him out of his stock options. 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. Cupertino has not been greenlit yet, but all signs are pointing to it heading that way. (Variety)

Actress-comedian Amy Sedaris, late night star Andy Richter and Lindsay Mendez (Broadway’s Wicked and All Rise) will make guest appearances in the premiere episode of Elsbeth over on CBS this fall. Sedaris will play Laurel Hammond-Muntz, the headstrong and devoted head writer and executive producer of the popular late-night talk show Way Late. Richter will play Mickey Muntz, the hilarious but long-suffering sidekick to Scotty Bristol (Stephen Colbert), the host of Way Late. He’s also Laurel’s husband. Meanwhile Mendez will play Officer Grace Hackett, a hard-working officer and an aspiring stand-up comic when off the clock. When she teams up with Elsbeth for a case focused on the world of comedy, her knowledge of the business comes in handy. (Deadline)

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Hey All,

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS

Netflix has given the Eric Bana led series Untamed a second season renewal. Meanwhile, the streamer has pulled the plug on FUBAR, the Arnold Schwarzenegger action comedy, after only two seasons. (Variety, Deadline and TV Line)

HBO Max is pulling the plug on the sequel series And Just Like That… after a three-season run. The show will air a two-part series finale on August 7 and August 14. Meanwhile, the network (HBO that is) has given a season four renewal to The Gilded Age. (TV Line and Deadline)

TV CASTING NEWS

Ella Beatty (Feud: Capote vs. The Swans and also the daughter of Warren Beatty and Annette Bening) will play the lead in the fourth installment Monster, the true-crime franchise at Netflix, which this time around will focus on Lizzie Borden, who was tried and acquitted of the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. (Deadline)

Lawrence Robinson (Sistas) has joined the cast of The Pitt for its upcoming second season. He will have the recurring role of Brian Hancock, a sweet, charming and kind-hearted patient who turns a soccer injury into a possible meet-cute with one of the doctors. (Deadline)

Robert Carlyle (Once Upon a Time) will play Sherlock Holmes in the second season of the new CBS drama Watson, which stars Morris Chestnut in the title role. (Deadline)

Season two of the new TNT drama The Librarians: The Next Chapter won’t happen until sometime in 2026, but the guest star line-up has already been announced, including Lost alum Dominic Monaghan, Jeremy Swift (Ted Lasso), Discovery Channel’s host Josh Gates as well as Christian Kane back as Jacob Stone along with original cast member Lindy Booth back as Cassandra Cillian. (TNT Press Release)

Casey W. Johnson (For All Mankind) has been promoted to series regular on the Netflix soap drama Ransom Canyon. He plays the role of Kit Russell. (Deadline)

FBI: Most Wanted’s Edwin Hodge and Quantum Leap’s (the reboot, that is) Caitlin Bassett will have recurring roles in the second season of The Terminal List (not to be confused with the prequel series The Terminal List: Dark Wolf). The mothership series follows James Reece (Chris Pratt) after his platoon of Navy SEALs is ambushed during a high-stakes covert mission. He returns home to his family with conflicting memories of the event and questions about his culpability. As new evidence comes to light, Reece discovers dark forces working against him, endangering not only his life but the lives of those he loves. (Deadline)

Claudia Doumit (The Boys and Timeless) and Ellie De Lange (Wolf Hall) have joined the cast of 3 Body Problem for its upcoming 2nd season on Netflix. The series chronicles humanity’s first contact with an alien civilization, following a young woman, whose fateful decision in 1960s China reverberates across space and time into the present day. When the laws of nature inexplicably unravel before their eyes, a close-knit group of brilliant scientists join forces with an unflinching detective to confront the greatest threat in humanity’s history. In Season 2, As the alien invasion nears, humanity prepares — on Earth and elsewhere. Doumit will play Captain Van Rijn and De Lange will portray Ayla. (Deadline)

Justina Machado (One Day At a Time) will have a major recurring role in the upcoming second season of Matlock over on CBS, playing Eva, the 4th ex-wife of Senior (Beau Bridges), a formidable, smart and ambitious attorney; she’s the one who made Senior swear off marriage. (Deadline)

The new USA Network series Anna Pigeon, which is set to premiere in 2026, will star Chicago P.D. alum Tracy Spiridakos and Star Trek: Discovery alum Ronnie Rowe Jr. The series will focus on Anna Pigeon (Spiridakos), a former city slicker who became a park ranger after a devastating loss changed the trajectory of her life forever. While Anna tries to outrun her demons, her focus turns to solving crimes that have taken place within national park grounds, no matter who or what gets in her way. Rowe will play Frederick Stanton, an FBI agent and charismatic wanderer who chases crimes through national parks and keeps his cool, except when it comes to ranger Anna Pigeon. (Deadline)

Days of Our Lives actor Al Calderon has joined the cast of Brilliant Minds for its upcoming second season on NBC, playing Nurse Scotty Silva, who runs the hospital and looks good doing it. With charisma to spare, he’s widely regarded as the Mayor of Bronx General. His warm, funny and outgoing charm may or may not be the reason why he knows everything about everyone at work. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

Lily James (Pam & Tommy and Downton Abbey), Chris Hemsworth (Thor) and Michael Pena (Ant-Man) have joined the cast of the upcoming, new submarine action flick Subversion that will follow a once-promising naval commander (Hemsworth) who is blackmailed by a cartel-like organization into piloting a dangerous submarine carrying illegal cargo across international waters. Thrust into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, with a Coast Guard officer (James) in hot pursuit, he must outmaneuver blockades and navigate perilous threats both inside and outside the submarine. Details about Pena’s role are being kept under wraps, though. (Deadline)

Charlize Theron and Channing Tatum are set to star in the upcoming comedy flick Dance Parents, which will be set in the world of young competitive dancers and their super-passionate parents. The pic will mark a dancing reunion of sorts for the two thespians, who first paired up on a dance floor at the 2013 Academy Awards. (Deadline)

More cast members have joined the small screen TV series adaptation of Pride and Prejudice over on Netflix. Those cast members now include Rufus Sewell (The Diplomat) who will play Mr Bennet; Fiona Shaw (the Harry Potter franchise) will play Lady Catherine de Bourg; Louis Partridge (Enola Holmes) will play Mr Wickham and Daryl McCormack (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande) will play Mr Bingley. (The Hollywood Reporter)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Ubiquitous star Sterling K. Brown, Oscar winner Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Winston Duke (Black Panther and Fall Guy) are said to be leading a limited series based on Percival Everett’s acclaimed 2022 novel The Trees, a fast-paced thriller that tackles racism and police violence. Their roles have not been confirmed, but Sterling and Duke are believed to be playing the detectives. (Deadline)

Do you remember the 2006 rom-com flick The Holiday? The one that starred Jude Law, Jack Black, Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz. Well, it would seem that Apple TV+ is working on a limited series adaptation of the flick that would (much like the film) center on two women, one British and one American, who swap houses during the Christmas season and find love along the way. Casting is supposedly currently underway. (Variety)

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Hey All,

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS

Netflix has given Wednesday a season three renewal ahead of the show’s upcoming second season. (TV Line)

Sadly, the Syfy series Resident Alien will come to an end after its upcoming fourth season. (TV Line)

AMC has given The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon a fourth season renewal, but the show will come to an end after season four. (TV Line)

Paramount+ has pulled the plug on Happy Face after only one season. (TV Line)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

Revenge star Emily VanCamp and her real life husband Josh Bowman will star in the upcoming supernatural spiritual mystery flick Little Audrey that will be inspired by the real life story of Audry Santo, who died at age 23 in 2007 after she was left in a vegetative state since childhood, the film centers on a Vatican-ordered investigation into reported miracles surrounding the teenage girl with akinetic mutism. The cast will also include Jennifer Esposito and Aidan Quinn. (Deadline)

Dawson’s Creek co-stars Katie Holmes and Joshua Jackson will star in Happy Hours, a new feature film trilogy, in which she will also direct. The movie is about two people (Jackson and Holmes) navigating their relationship within the challenges of careers and family responsibilities and the pursuit of love, despite life’s inevitable obstacles. It’s a character-driven dramedy that explores the emotional journey of young love who reconnect as adults, with the connective thread of shared joys, loss, and hope. (Deadline)

More cast members have been announced for the new adaptation of the Jane Austen classic Sense and Sensibility. George MacKay (1917) will play Edward Ferrars, Outlander alum Caitriona Balfe will play Mrs. Dashwood, the mother of Elinor (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Marianne (Esme Creed-Miles) and Fiona Shaw (Harry Potter franchise) will play Mrs. Jennings. (Variety)

Andor alum Adria Arjona has joined the cast of the reimaging of The Thomas Crown Affair that will star Michael B. Jordan, Kenneth Branagh, Lily Gladstone and Danai Gurira. Jordan will not only star in the film but also direct it. (Variety)

Kelsey Grammer, Benjamin Hollingsworth (Virgin River) and One Tree Hill alum Jana Kramer will star in the upcoming holiday movie The Christmas Ring, an adaptation of the Karen Kingsbury novel. Kramer will play the widow of a U.S. Armed Forces member, looking for her missing family Christmas ring when she meets a charming antiques dealer (Hollingsworth), whose father might unwittingly have the lost heirloom. (Deadline)

Acting siblings Dakota and Elle Fanning will star as sisters in the upcoming movie The Nightingale, based on the Kristin Hannah best-selling novel. The movie will follow two sisters coming of age in France on the eve of World War II and their struggle to survive the German occupation of their country. (People)

It looks like director Gurinda Chadha will be revisited Bend It Like Beckham, as a sequel is officially in the works, and cast members Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Archie Panjabi, Juliet Stevenson and other members of the original cast “are aware that a sequel is being developed, but they obviously want to see a script before they commit. (Deadline)

TV CASTING NEWS

New Girl alum Jake Johnson and Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany will star in the upcoming Apple TV+ series Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, a half-hour darkly comedic thriller that follows Paula (Maslany), a newly divorced mom who falls down a dangerous rabbit hole of blackmail, murder, and youth soccer. Johnson will star as Karl, Paula’s ex-husband. (Deadline)

Law & Order alum Chris Meloni will star alongside William H. Macy in the upcoming Hulu drama tentatively titled 17 Sundays from creator Dan Fogelman (the man behind This Is Us and Paradise). Plot details are being kept under wraps, but it is believed the show will be a sprawling drama set inside the world of the NFL with a generational family component. (TV Line)

Arienne Mandi (The Night Agent) has joined the cast of Chicago P.D. as a series regular. She will play police officer Naomi Kerr, a former soldier and military contractor who is said to thrive in dangerous situations. (Deadline)

MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE CASTING NEWS

Lifetime has greenlit a new holiday movie that will star singer-actress Brandy Norwood and her real-life daughter Sy’Rai Smith, in her acting debut. Christmas Everyday will see Norwood play Francine “Fancy” Ballantine, a devoted fashion designer juggling family obligations and career ambitions. Following the death of her father, Fancy (Norwood) has been more determined than ever to uphold her father’s cherished Christmas traditions as her mother Evelyn (Debbi Morgan) has also begun losing her sight. But things aren’t a smooth ride as Fancy simultaneously is planning her bridezilla baby sister’s, Belle (Smith), wedding. When a water pipe bursts and disrupts the fairytale wedding plans, Fancy finds herself unexpectedly drawn to the rugged, yet charming, contractor Jaylen (Robert C Riley) who is tasked with renovating the house. Through all the chaos, she learns valuable lessons about faith, family, and the true meaning of Christmas. (SoulTracks.com)

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Hey All,

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS

AMC has renewed The Walking Dead: Dead City for a third season. (TV Line)

The CW has announced they will air the 4th season of the Canadian drama Sullivan’s Crossing. (TV Line)

TV CASTING NEWS

It would seem that the CBS hit series Tracker is going to be down two more series regulars as Eric Graise and Abby McEnany are leaving the show before the start of the drama’s upcoming third season. That leaves only Justin Hartley in the lead role and Fiona Rene, who plays Reenie Green as series regulars. (TV Line)

Marvel star Brie Larson will star opposite Olivia Colman in the upcoming limited series Cry Wolf at FX that will be a psychological family thriller following a social worker (Colman) and a mother (Larson) who are thrust into crisis when the mother’s teenage daughter alleges abuse, pushing both women to their limits as they navigate an impossible situation. (Variety)

Minnie Driver (Speechless and The Riches), Jeffrey Donovan (Burn Notice) and Natacha Karam (9-1-1: Lone Star) will appear in the first installment of the FOX Biblical limited series The Faithful, which is based on The Old Testament’s Book of Genesis, told through the eyes of five of The Bible’s most iconic women. Driver will play Sarah, Donovan will play Abraham and Karam will play Hagar. (Deadline)

Austin Nichols (One Tree Hill) has joined the cast of the popular Netflix series Virgin River, but details about his character remain under wraps for now. (TV Line)

Former Supergirl star Mehcad Brooks is leaving Law & Order after three seasons, as the actor wants to explore other acting opportunities. (Deadline)

The 100 alum Richard Harmon has joined the cast of the upcoming FOX drama Memory of a Killer that will star Patrick Dempsey as Angelo Ledda (Patrick Dempsey), a hit man who has developed early onset Alzheimer’s. Harmon will play Joe, a hit man who works for Angelo and Dutch (Michael Imperioli). Harmon will play a character named Joe, who gets stuck with the grunt work – gathering recon and sorting getaway plans – but that puts him in prime position to witness Angelo’s Alzheimer’s decline. Joe knows he could make or break Angelo, but he also knows that choice could cost him everything. (Variety)

Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire) will star in the Netflix drama Unaccustomed Earth that is inspired by the short story collection by Jhumpa Lahiri. The series will be an epic, soapy, and culturally vibrant about a tight-knit Indian American community navigating love, desire, and belonging. Rich with nuance, passion, and unforgettable characters, the series invites you into the elite and insular Indian-American community of Cambridge, MA. When a star-crossed romance between a devoted wife and her long-lost love comes to light, a scandalous affair is born and new battle lines are drawn in this intensely interconnected immigrant community. Pinto will play a character name Parul Chaudhury. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE CASTING NEWS

Esmé Creed-Miles (the title lead in the small screen adaptation of Hanna) will play Marianne Dashwood in the upcoming film adaptation of Sense and Sensibility that will star Daisy Edgar-Jones (Where the Crawdads Sing and Twisters) as Elinor Dashwood. (Variety)

Andor star Diego Luna has joined the cast of the indie thriller Eleven Days where he will star opposite Taylor Kitsch in a story that will be set in the sweltering heat of a Texas summer in 1974, when ruthless prisoner Federico Carrasco (Luna) plays a deadly game against Jim Estelle (Kitsch), head of the Texas Department of Corrections, after taking over Huntsville Penitentiary and holding dozens hostage when his pre-planned escape goes awry. Lines between captor and captive, and justice and survival, begin to blur as the siege spirals for 11 endless, terrifying days. (Deadline)

Lewis Pullman (Thunderbolts) and Maya Hawke (Stranger Things) will star in the surrealist relationship comedy movie Wishful Thinking that will focus on a volatile couple who discover their emotional state has supernatural consequences on the world around them. The pair must decide whether to fight for their relationship or accept that their powerful connection might be doing more harm than good. (Variety)

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Hey All,

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS

Netflix has given Virgin River an 8th season renewal one week after production on season 7 of the long-running series wrapped. (Deadline and TV Line)

PBS has announced that the long-running mystery series Grantchester will come to an end after its upcoming 11th season. (TV Line)

HBO Max has pulled the plug on the J.J. Abrams series Duster, which starred Lost alum Josh Holloway after only one season. (The Hollywood Reporter)

The crime drama Rebus, which stars Outlander alum Richard Rankin in the lead role, has been renewed for a second season with Rankin set to return as Detective Sergeant John Rebus. (Deadline)

Apple TV+ has given a 7th season renewal to Slow Horses. The streamer has also given the new series Murderbot, starring Alexander Skarsgard, a second season renewal. (Variety and TV Line)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

Dianne Wiest and Stockard Channing will reprise their roles of Aunt Jet and Aunt Franny in the Practical Magic sequel that will find Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, once again, playing sibling witches Sally and Gillian. Joey King will play the role of Sally’s daughter while Lee Pace (Pushing Daisies and Foundation), Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones), Xolo Mariduena (Cobra Kai) and Solly McLeod (House of the Dragon) have also joined the cast, but there are no details about their characters nor full details about the film’s plot. (Deadline)

Friday Night Lights alum Taylor Kitsch will star in the indie survival thriller Eleven Days, which will be set in Texas during the summer of 1974, following the head of the Texas Department of Corrections Jim Estelle (Kitsch), who plays a deadly game against a convicted heroin dealer, who is holding dozens of people hostage at a local penitentiary after a pre-planned escape goes awry. (Variety)

The cast of the sequel to The Devil Wears Prada just keeps growing with Lucy Liu, Justin Theroux and B.J. Novak joining the cast. Additionally, Bridgerton beauty Simone Ashley has also joined the cast. (Variety and Deadline)

Thirty years after Clueless, Paul Rudd and Jeremy Sisto will star in the upcoming feature film Rain Reign, based on the best-selling novel by author Ann M. Martin. The film tells the story of Rose Howard, a neurodivergent 12-year-old girl raised by her volatile single father (Sisto), who is forced to abandon her daily routines when a superstorm devastates their town and her beloved dog, Rain, goes missing. With the support of her uncle (Rudd), Rose embarks on a determined search for Rain — a journey that challenges her resilience and compels her to make an impossible choice between her own needs and doing what is right. (Deadline)

Looks like the folks at 20th Century Studios are planning a reimagining of Night at the Museum with a fresh story at the museum and new characters. (Variety)

Oscar nominee Lily Gladstone will join Michael B. Jordan and Kenneth Branagh in the reimagining of The Thomas Crown Affair, but there are no plot details or information on what characters they will play other than Jordan being the primary star of the flick. (Deadline)

Hailee Steinfeld (Sinners) and Miles Teller (The Gorge) will star opposite each other in the upcoming box office movie Winter Games that will be set in the high-stakes arena of the Winter Olympics, following a perpetually overlooked skier (Steinfeld) and a self-sabotaging hockey legend (Teller) who collide at their breaking points. Their unexpected connection threatens her chance for a medal and his shot at a comeback as they navigate romance and redemption in the Olympic Village. (Deadline)

TV CASTING NEWS

Timeless alum Abigail Spencer and Annie Potts have joined the cast of Best Medicine, the upcoming US adaptation of the popular British series Doc Martin. The series will center on Martin Best (Josh Charles), a brilliant surgeon who abruptly leaves his illustrious career in Boston to become the general practitioner in a quaint East Coast fishing village where he spent summers as a child. Unfortunately, Martin’s blunt and borderline rude bedside manner rubs the quirky, needy locals the wrong way, especially local school teacher Louisa Glasson (Spencer), however tenacity is the creed of everyone in their small village, and the people who live there may be exactly what the doctor ordered. Potts will play Martin’s aunt Joan, a strong, sturdy, lobster woman who still goes out every day on her boat. (Variety)

Finn Little will reprise his role of Carter in the upcoming Yellowstone spin-off series that will focus on Beth and Rip (Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser). (Deadline)

Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Jay Duplass will have recurring roles in the upcoming young adult series Sterling Point that will air on Amazon Prime, the show is expected to follow a set of adopted twins who travel to an island on a lake that was left to them by their estranged grandfather in his will, but exact plot details are being kept under wraps. (Variety)

Tracy Ifeachor will not be returning for season two of the HBO Max medical drama The Pitt. (TV Line)

Brian Altemus (The Time Traveler’s Wife) and John Clarence Stewart (Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist) have joined the cast of the NBC medical drama Brillian Minds as series regulars for the show’s upcoming second season. Altemus will play Dr. Charlie Porter, the new neurology resident who is guarded, competitive and hiding something from his fellow doctors while Stewart will play Dr. Anthony Thorne, a mid-career ER doctor who’s grown a little too comfortable with the maxim that emergency medicine is blue-collar work. (Deadline)

John Slattery (Mad Men) and Jessica Henwick (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery) have joined the cast of the limited series Vladimir that will air on Netflix. Rachel Weisz will star in and executive produce the series that will find Leo Woodall (One Day and Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy) in the title role. The series will focus on what happens as a woman’s life unravels, and she becomes obsessed with her captivating new colleague. (Deadline)

Marcia Gay Harden (So Help Me Todd), JD Pardo (High Potential and Mayans M.C.), James Remar (Dexter: Resurrection), Robert Wisdom (Prison Break and Barry), Bruce Greenwood (The Resident), Kirk Acevedo (Lioness), Ben Cotton (The Night Agent) and Jason Ralph (The Magicians and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) have all joined the cast of the upcoming Netflix drama Trinity that will follow a heroic female Naval Officer (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) who becomes involved with the outwardly charismatic Secretary of Defense (Richard Madden), only to discover he may be at the heart of a dangerous conspiracy. Harden will play Margaret Vandenburg, the CEO and matriarch of her family’s business empire; Pardo will play Tom Reyes, a Lieutenant Commander in the US Navy; Greenwood will play Special Agent Eric Colby; Wisdom will play Admiral Griff Tatum; Acevedo will play Captain Jock Campbell; Cotton will play Special Agent Jake Ryan; Remar will play President Paul Barnard and Ralph will play Brooks Vandenburg. (Deadline)

Relative newcomer Mika Amonsen will take over the role of Sean Reagan, the son of Danny Reagan (played by Donnie Wahlberg) in the Blue Bloods spin-off series Boston Blue. He takes over the role from Andrew Terraciano, who played the character across all 14 seasons of the original series. (TV Line)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Apple has landed for development a TV series based on the best-selling novel Funny You Should Ask by author Elissa Sussman. Bridgerton hunk Rege-Jean Page is expected to star in and produce the project that centers on a restless young journalist with big dreams who interviews a Hollywood heartthrob – and then reunites with him ten years later to discover exactly how he feels about her. (Deadline)

The hit Netflix anthology series Monsters has yet to announce the premiere date for season three, but plans are already in the works for season four with the focus being on Lizzie Bordon, the Massachusetts woman who in 1892 was accused of murdering both her father and her stepmother with an axe at their shared home. Borden was eventually acquitted of the crimes, but the brutal nature of the murders attracted nationwide attention and contributed to Borden’s place in popular culture. (Variety)

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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)

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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS

ABC has pulled the plug on Doctor Odyssey after one season. (Entertainment Weekly)

Outlander: Blood of My Blood has been renewed for a second season before the debut season has even aired. (TV Line)

NBC has pulled the plug on Grosse Pointe Garden Society after one season. (TV Line)

Paramount+ has given MobLand a season two renewal. (TV Line)

Netflix has renewed Ransom Canyon for a second season. (The Hollywood Reporter)

TV CASTING NEWS

Sepideh Moafi (The L Word: Generation Q) has joined the cast of The Pitt for its second season on MAX. She will play an attending physician in emergency medicine. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Grantchester alum Tom Brittney has landed the co-lead opposite J.K. Simmons in the upcoming MGM+ series The Westies that will be set in the early 1980s when the construction of the Jacob Javitz Convention Center on the Westies’ home turf in Hell’s Kitchen promises a financial windfall for the Irish-American organized crime gang. Despite being outnumbered 50-to-1 by the Five Families of the Italian mafia, The Westies’ legendary brutality and cunning have given them the leverage necessary to share the spoils through a fragile détente. However, internal conflict between the brash younger generation and the old-school leadership threatens to set a match to this powder keg, which will sweep the Westies into the FBI’s ever-deepening investigation into the Italian mafia. Brittney will play James “Jimmy” Roarke, the fiercely loyal, streetwise leader of the younger generation of Westies, a rising Irish gangster mentored by Eamon Sweeney (Simmons), whose allegiances will be challenged as the Westies forge a partnership with the Gambino Crime Family. (Deadline)

Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Lift and Surface) and Richard Madden (Bodyguard and Eternals) have been set as the leads of the new Netflix drama series Trinity that will follow a heroic female naval officer who becomes involved with the outwardly charismatic Secretary of Defense, only to discover that he may be at the heart of a dangerous conspiracy. Mbatha-Raw will play Commander Katherine Decker. She serves as second-in-command on the USS Kansas, a nuclear submarine and one of the deadliest weapons on Earth. Madden will play Secretary of Defense Webb Preston. With a technology background that makes him different from most politicians, Webb’s innovation and purpose are seen as a threat in more ways than one. (Deadline)

Levi Miller (Kraven the Hunter), Jessica Madsen (Bridgerton) and relative newcomer Xavier Molyneux will star in the Amazon Prime series Bloodaxe, a historical drama series from Vikings creator Michael Hirst and his son, Horatio Hirst. The series will chronicle the rise of one of history’s most famous Viking warriors, Erik Bloodaxe (Molyneux), and his formidable wife, Gunnhild (Madsen), Mother of Kings. As they fight for the throne of Norway, the land is torn apart by fierce rivals, shifting loyalties and bloody betrayals. With war looming and chaos consuming the kingdom, drawing in the ruthless kings of other Scandinavian countries and even a powerful English ruler, the stage is set for a thundering new Viking saga. And, Miller will play Haakon the Good, the younger half-brother of Viking Erik Bloodaxe. (Deadline)

Brandon Larracuente (On Call and the Party of Five reboot) has joined the cast of Chicago Fire as a series regular, but there are no details on what role he will play. (Variety)

Meanwhile, over on Chicago P.D., Toya Turner, will not return for the show’s upcoming 13th season. (Deadline and TV Line)

Leo Woodall (One Day and Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy) will star in the new Netflix limited series Vladimir, playing the titular character opposite Rachel Weisz. The series focuses on a woman’s (Weisz) life as it unravels and she becomes obsessed with her captivating new colleague (Woodall). (Deadline)

As for season 4 of Reacher, Christopher Rodriguez-Marquette (Barry) will take over the role of Jacob Merrick, a small-town policeman, from Jay Baurchel, who had to exit the series. (Deadline)

Steve Howey (Shameless) has joined the cast of High Potential for its much-anticipated second season, playing the precinct’s new captain Jesse Wagner, a savvy political animal who knows how to wear an expensive suit and oozes effortless charm. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE CASTING NEWS

Daisy Edgar-Jones (Twisters and Where the Crawdads Sing) has joined the cast of the Sense and Sensibility remake. She’ll play Elinor Dashwood in the legendary story of the two sisters, who navigate love, loss and financial uncertainty as they are forced to leave their family estate in Sussex. The role of Marianne Dashwood has yet to be announced. (Variety)

Alexander Ludwig (Vikings and Heels) has joined the cast of the upcoming thriller Unabom that will follow Ted Kaczynski’s (Jacob Tremblay) transformation from Harvard prodigy into the infamous Unabomber, who carried out a nationwide bombing campaign in the U.S. from 1978-95, killing three people and injuring 23. Subjected to controversial psychological experiments by Professor Henry Murray (Russell Crowe), Kaczynski’s troubled past resurfaces decades later when his manhunt, led by FBI agent Joanne Miller (Shailene Woodley), brings to light the chilling consequences of ambition and isolation. There are no details on who he will play, though. (Deadline)

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INTERNATIONAL TV NEWS

The BBC has confirmed the new drama California Avenue will star Bill Nighy, Helena Bonham Carter, Tom Burke and Erin Doherty. The series is set in a secluded canal-side caravan park deep in the luscious English countryside, where its peace is irrevocably disrupted by the arrival of Lela (Doherty) and her 11-year-old child, both on the run, looking for refuge in this hidden world. It is here that a fractured family will come together, ghosts and demons will firmly be put to rest and an unexpected love is forged. Nighy and Bonham Carter star as Jerry and Eddie, Lela’s parents, while Burke is showman outcast, Cooper. (Deadline)

TV CASTING NEWS

The Amazon MGM Studios faith-based drama It’s Not Like That will star Erinn Hayes, Scott Foley and J.R. Ramirez along with Caleb Baumann, Cary Christopher and newcomers Leven Miranda, Cassidy Paul and Liv Lendell. The series follows Lori (Hayes), who is freshly divorced with two teens. Malcolm (Foley) is a minister and a recently widowed dad of three. Their families once did everything together, but now Lori and Malcolm must navigate their newly minted singledom, parenthood and the complexities of Malcolm being a modern-day minister. Ramirez plays the series regular role of David, Lori’s ex-husband.  The other cast members will play the children of the character played by Hayes and Foley.  (Deadline)

The 10-episode BBC and Britbox series adaptation of The Other Bennet Sister will include Ruth Jones, Richard E. Grant, Indira Varma and Richard Coyle, which will explore and expand the world of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ through the often-overlooked perspective of Mary Bennet. Grant and Jones will star as Mr. and Mrs. Bennet while Varma and Coyle will portray Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner, Mary’s worldly aunt and uncle who take her under their wing as governess to their three children, introducing her to a social circle that includes Mr. Ryder (Laurie Davidson); Mr. Hayward (Dónal Finn) and Ann Baxter (Varada Sethu). (Variety)

Timothy Olyphant has joined the cast of the upcoming Peacock series adaptation of The Five-Star Weekend that will star Jennifer Garner, Regina Hall, Chloe Sevigny, Gemma Chan and D’Arcy Carden. The series will follow Hollis Shaw (Garner), a famed food influencer known for her delicious recipes, impeccable taste, and warm demeanor 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. Olyphant will play the role of Jack. (Variety)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Glen Powell will star in the untitled firefighter film from director Ron Howard. The movie will follow disparate childhood friends, now elite firefighters, who must rekindle their fractured relationship when a series of deadly fires sweep across Texas. (Deadline)

Jason Momoa’s son Nakoa-Wolf Momoa and Ida Brooke (from Silo) have joined the cast of Dune 3. They will play Leto II and Ghanima, the twin offspring of Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) and Chani (Zendaya), born after the events of the original story. (Deadline)

Glenn Close and Billy Porter have joined the cast of The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping with Close set to play Drusilla Sickle, the cruel escort to the District 12 Tributes, while Porter will play Magno Stift, her estranged husband and the Tributes’ uninspired designer. (Deadline)

Jon Bernthal will appear in the next installment of Spider-man: Brand New Day that is expected to hit theatres in July of 2026. (Variety)

Russell Crowe has joined the cast of the Henry Cavill remake of Highlander, playing mentor to the immortal. (Variety)

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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS

Paramount+ has renewed the medical drama SkyMed for a 8-episode fourth season. (Deadline)

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has been renewed for a fifth and final 6-episode season. (TV Line)

DEVELOPMENT PLANS

It looks like a follow-up to Miss Austen will be happening over on PBS. (Deadline)

TV CASTING NEWS

The upcoming Harry Potter series at HBO have added more cast members, including newcomer Lox Pratt as Draco Malfoy, Harry’s rival at Hogwarts; Johnny Flynn (Ripley) will play Draco’s father, Lucius Malfoy; Bel Powley (A Small Light) and Daniel Rigby (Renegade Nell) will play Petunia and Vernon Dursley, Harry’s Muggle guardians; Bertie Carvel (The Crown) will play Ministry of Magic boss Cornelius Fudge; Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd, Humans) as Ron Weasley’s mother, Molly Weasley, and newcomers Leo Earley, Alessia Leoni and Sienna Moosah as Hogwarts students Seamus Finnigan, Parvati Patil and Lavender Brown. (TV Line)

Ryan Michelle Bathe, the real life wife of Sterling K. Brown, will join the cast of his Hulu series Paradise, but the actual storyline and what character she will play is being kept under wraps. (Variety)

Ryan Robbins (Riverdale, Sanctuary) has joined the cast of the upcoming Netflix reboot of Little House on the Prairie, where he will play Russell Kind, a rough and grizzled settler with a cynical world view. (Deadline)

Rachel Brosnahan (the upcoming Superman movie and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) is set to star in and executive produce season two of Presumed Innocent on Apple TV+. Details about the new season or what role she will play are being kept under wraps. (Variety)

Outlander star Richard Rankin has joined the second season of The Forsythe Saga which will air as part of Masterpiece on PBS. The first season of this series is set to air on PBS in 2026. There are no details about the second season just yet, though. (Parade)

The upcoming Peacock series The Five-Star Weekend, an adaptation of the Elin Hilderbrand novel, has added Chloe Sevigny (Big Love and Feud), D’Arcy Carden (The Good Place) and Gemma Chan (Crazy Rich Asians) to the cast. The series will focus on Hollis Shaw (Jennifer Garner), a famed food influencer known for her delicious recipes, impeccable taste, and warm demeanor 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. Sevigny will appear in the series regular role of Tatum McKenzie; Carden will play Brooke Kirtle and Chan will play Gigi Lang. (Variety)

The Amazon Prime drama Reacher has added new cast members for its upcoming 4th season, including Jay Baruchel (FUBAR), Sydelle Noel (GLOW), Kevin Corrigan (Poker Face), Kevin Wiseman (Alias and Marvel’s Runaways), Marc Blucas (My Life with the Walter Boys and Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Kathleen Robertson (The Expanse) [among others]. In the new season, when a chance encounter with a distraught stranger on a train goes horribly wrong, Jack Reacher (series star Alan Ritchson) is drawn into a complex and deadly game that pits him against ruthless foes from the highest echelons of power. Baruchel will play Jacob Merrick, a small-town policeman; Noel will play Tamara Green, a detective with the Philadelphia police department; Corrigan will play Detective Docherty, Tamara’s partner; Weisman will play Russell Plum, a freelance journalist in Washington DC who has been surveilling a suspected CIA Black Site; Blucas will play John Samson, a U.S. Congressman and Robertson will play his wife, Elsbeth Samson. (Deadline)

Marcus Scribner (black-ish) has joined the cast of the upcoming CBS spin-off Boston Blue. He will play Jonah Silver, the youngest member of the Silver family, which the series will be focused upon. (Variety)

MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE NEWS

Hallmark Channel has a new three-part made-for-TV movie franchise called Providence Falls, based on the book series by Jude Deveraux and Tara Sheets, coming up in August that will star Katie Stevens (The Bold Type), Lachlan Quarmby (Allegiance) and Evan Roderick (Aurora Teagarden) set to star. The franchise will be set in 1844 Ireland where Liam O’Conner (Quarmby), a rogue and a thief, falls in love with Cora McLeod (Stevens), a fiery but sheltered aristocrat’s daughter, who is promised in marriage to a man she barely knows. When their plan to make a new life together in America is thwarted, the consequences ripple through time, causing everyone to relive the events of the past. Now the Angels of Destiny need Liam’s help to set things right, so they transport him to present day to help this incarnation of Cora fall in love with Finn (Roderick), the man she was destined to marry in 1844. (TV Line).

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Juliana Canfield (Succession) will star opposite 1923 hunk Brandon Sklenar in the upcoming action thriller F.A.S.T. in which a former special forces commando is tapped by the DEA to lead a black op strike team against CIA-protected drug dealers. Her role is being kept under wraps though. (Deadline)

Aaron Pierre (Rebel Ridge) and Margaret Qualley (The Substance) will star alongside Patrick Schwarzenegger (The White Lotus) in the upcoming movie Love of Your Life. Plot details are under wraps, though. (Deadline)

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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWAL/CANCELLATIONS

The CW has given an 8th and final season renewal to All American. (TV Line)

Amazon Prime has pulled the plug on the Amy Sherman-Palladino’s drama Etoile after only one season. (Deadline and TV Line)

FOX has pulled the plug on both dramas The Cleaning Lady and Alert: Missing Persons Unit. (TV Line)

SERIES DEVELOPMENT NEWS

It looks like a spin-off of Tulsa King, the aptly titled NOLA King, is in the works at Paramount+ with Samuel L. Jackson attached to star, but exact details are being kept under wraps. (Variety)

REBOOT NEWS

The Prison Break reboot pilot set for Hulu has added Ray McKinnon (Deadwood and Mayans MC), Margo Martindale (Justified), Donal Logue (The Equalizer and Sons of Anarchy) and Lily Taylor (Outer Range) in guest starring roles. Exact details about the pilot are being kept under wraps, but it’s said it will feature new characters and a new storyline.  (Variety)

The pilot, which hails from writer Elgin James, will be set within the same world as the original Fox series but will feature new characters and a new storyline. Exact plot details are being kept under wraps. (Variety)

TV CASTING NEWS

Cobie Smulders will appear in the upcoming fourth season of The Lincoln Lawyer on Netflix, but exact details on her character are being kept under wraps. (Variety)

Maggie Lawson (Psych) has joined the cast of the Blue Bloods spin-off Boston Blue, playing Sarah Silver, the strong willed and decisive Superintendent in the Boston Police Department who is Lena’s (series star Sonequa Martin-Green) stepsister. (Deadline)

Emily Hampshire (Schitt’s Creek and 12 Monkeys) has joined the cast of the MCU series Vision, playing E.D.I.T.H., the Stark Industries artificial intelligence. (Variety)

Hamilton alum Leslie Odom Jr. has joined the cast of the upcoming Apple TV+ series adaptation of Imperfect Women, based on the novel by Araminta Hall, that already stars Elisabeth Moss, Kerry Washington, Kate Mara, Joel Kinnaman, and Corey Stoll. It is a psychological thriller, examining a crime that shatters the lives of a decades-long friendship of three women. (Variety)

Regina Hall will star opposite Jennifer Garner in the upcoming Peacock series adaptation of The Five-Star Weekend, which is based on the Elin Hilderbrand novel. The show focuses on Hollis Shaw (Garner), a famed food influencer known for her delicious recipes, impeccable taste, and warm demeanor suffers a devastating loss. Hall will play the series regular role of Dru-Ann Jones. (Variety)

STREAMING MOVIE CASTING NEWS

Russell Crowe, Jacob Tremblay, Shailene Woodley and Annabelle Wallis will star in Unabom, the upcoming new thriller flick at Netflix that will focus on domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski (who will be played by Tremblay). The movie will show the transformation of Kaczynski from Harvard prodigy into the infamous Unabomber, who carried out a nationwide bombing campaign in the U.S. from 1978-95, killing three people and injuring 23. Subjected to controversial psychological experiments by Professor Henry Murray (Crowe), Kaczynski’s troubled past resurfaces decades later when his manhunt, led by FBI agent Joanne Miller (Woodley), brings to light the chilling consequences of ambition and isolation. (Deadline)

Amazon MGM Studios is developing Ally Clark, a new thriller movie that will star Oscar winner Viola Davis. The show will take viewers from the marble halls of Washington, D.C. to the sweltering bayous of Louisiana and the icy peaks of Alaska, following investigator Ally Clark (Davis) as she embarks on a perilous inquiry into an international conglomerate following the suspicious death of a close friend. (Deadline)

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