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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWAL

Hulu has renewed Only Murder in the Building for a 6th season. (Hulu)

TV SERIES NEWS

The truth has come out. Disney+ is officially exiting Doctor Who after only a two-year partnership with the BBC. The British network will be moving forward with a new Christmas special next year, but it remains to be seen as to who will actually be playing the iconic Doctor since current lead actor Ncuti Gatwa has left the series. (Variety)

Michael Michele has dropped out of the cast for the FBI spin-off series CIA. (Deadline)

Steven Pasquale (Rescue Me) has joined the cast of the Netflix comedy-drama The Four Seasons for its second season. He will play Mark Brett, a new friend who meets the gang at the Jersey shore during their summer vacation. (Deadline)

Betsy Brandt has joined the cast of Mayfair Witches for its upcoming third season. She will play a character named Katherine, but any other plot details are being kept under wraps. (Deadline)

Twin Peaks alum Madchen Amick will not only guest star in but also direct an episode of Brilliant Minds on NBC. She will direct episode 7 that is set to air on November 3, and she will guest star in the November 24 episode, playing Alicia Ramati, a strong-willed woman who wears her emotions on her sleeve, especially when it comes to her firefighting ex-husband, Matthew (Eric Dane from Grey’s Anatomy). She’s not afraid to state her opinion and care for the ones she loves.” (Variety)

Mark Harmon will actually appear as Leroy Jethro Gibbs in another episode of NCIS: Origins, his first on-screen appearance since the new show’s series premiere. (Variety)

MADE FOR TV MOVIE NEWS

Netflix has locked in the cast for the next Christmas movie – that will actually air next year, including Dennis Quaid, Milo Ventimiglia, Jennifer Tilly and Mary Steenburgen. A Dog’s Perfect Christmas follows a family in crisis where a teenager, her grandfather, and his trusty basset hound struggle to keep the household together at Christmas. Character details for the cast have not yet been disclosed. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

Anthony Mackie, Pablo Schreiber and Ben Foster will appear in the box office movie Raven along with Ron Livingston. The movie follows Fay Darrow (Schreiber), a former Detroit cop turned hitman for the New Jersey mob, who is ready to walk away from a life of violence. But when his final job goes sideways, a volatile mob underling with something to prove (Mackie) and a ruthless enforcer known as the Taxman (Foster) are sent to kill him. Fay survives only for the mob’s retaliation to take his girlfriend and destroy his chance at a new life. With nothing left to lose, he launches a brutal campaign of revenge. (Deadline)

Jason Statham will star in the next Guy Ritchie film Viva La Madness. Plot details are under wraps, but the movie is based on the J.J. Connolly novel. (Variety)

Brendan Hines, Cush Jumbo, Heather Graham, Johnny Knoxville and Tatiana Maslany will join Lola Tung (The Summer I Turned Pretty) and Nico Parker for the upcoming box office movie The Young People. Plot details are currently under wraps. (Deadline)

Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Fantastic Four: First Steps and The Bear) and Caitriona Balfe (Outlander) have joined the cast of the upcoming box office film A Long Winter, which will be set in the mountains as fall comes to an end, and a family prepares for the long winter ahead. (Variety)

Daisy Edgar-Jones (Twisters) and Emilia Jones (CODA) will star in the box office movie Bad Bridgets, which will be set in the 19th century against the backdrop of a famine-ravaged Ireland, the story focuses on two sisters who make a treacherous journey to America to escape an abusive father, poverty and hunger. Once in New York, they join the ranks of Irish so-called “Bridgets” creating mayhem in the city. (Variety)

Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl), Jamie Dornan (Belfast), Jodie Turner-Smith (Tron: Ares) and Gillian Anderson (The X-Files) have joined the cast of the upcoming box offic emovie The Turning Door, which follows a young girl called Ariadlyn, who is sent to bed as a party rages downstairs. Escaping her bedtime, she slips into her parents’ room, where she discovers an ornate wooden box, opening a door to a magical world called The Turning. To find her way back home and save her parents — now frozen in the real world — Ariadlyn must seek out a sorceress and her crystal vial. Along the way, she will encounter giants, whales, armies, shapeshifters and acrobatic monkeys as she discovers what it means to grow up. (Variety)

Ryan Kiera Armstrong (who will be seen in the reboot of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer alongside returning lead cast member Sarah Michelle Gellar) will star with Gellar’s real-life husband Freddie Prinze Jr. in the upcoming movie Road to Receovery. The movie follows a father and his terminally ill daughter who embark on a cross-country trip to find the boy she loves. Along the way, the two are forced to confront their shared grief and redefine what it means to hold on and let go. (Deadline)

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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs along with Chase Infiniti (One Battle After Another) and Christopher Briney (The Summer I Turned Pretty) will star in the coming-of-age drama The Julia Set. Infiniti will play Julia, a talented mathematician operating within a fiercely competitive academic environment while Briney will play Pascal, the T.A. who conscripts her into an elite prep course for the most challenging math competition in the world, the Putnam Exam. (I)

The follow-up sequel to The Social Network, The Social Reckoning had added Billy Magnussen, Betty Gilpin, Gbenga Akinnagbe and Anna Lambe to its cast. Their character details are being kept under wraps, but the movie will be a companion piece to The Social Network telling the true story of how Frances Haugen, a young Facebook engineer, enlisted the help of Jeff Horwitz, a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network’s most guarded secrets. (I)

Kingsley Ben-Adir (Bob Marley: One Love) and Archie Madekwe (See) will star in the box office movie The Arrival, playing two long-lost brothers, Raheem (Madekwe) and Tom (Ben-Adir) in adulthood. Tom, the elder of the two, was given up for adoption as an infant. The film examines the “exhilarating and uncanny experience” of meeting a blood brother for the first time in adulthood. As the two grow closer, seduced by the idea of their shared history finally making sense, they must confront the uncomfortable truths at the heart of their family, and the impossible decision that their parents made thirty years ago. (I)

Callum Turner (Masters of the Air) and Adria Arjona (Hit Man) will star in the film Alone Together that will follow Sam (Turner), a British filmmaker facing a life crisis as he visits the Arabian desert for a job. His career is stalling, he’s on the brink of a divorce, and he’s feeling guilty about being an absent father to his young son. During a freak rainstorm he has a fleeting and powerful connection with the captivating Inma (Arjona), and these two strangers in a strange land are consumed by mutual attraction. But this isn’t a love story. These are adults with baggage, unable to walk away from their pasts. Sam also develops a bond with charismatic local guide Abdullah whose unlikely friendship offers him the chance to further explore his emotions. (Variety)

Johnny Depp is in final negotiations to appear in the latest adaptation of Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol, the classic Charles Dickens story with Depp playing the lead character. (Deadline)

Oscar nominee Colman Domingo will provide the voice of the Cowardly Lion in Wicked: For Good next month. (Variety)

Nashville alum Maisy Stella and Sam Rockwell will star in the psychological thriller Tumor that will delve into the story of a low-level Los Angeles private investigator. When the daughter of a wealthy politico goes missing, the PI embarks on a mission into the world of L.A.’s young, privileged elite to track her down. Battling the debilitating symptoms of a late-stage brain tumor, his grasp on reality becomes increasingly fragile, and as the unlikely duo sets out on the run, old memories blur with the present, dredging up dark secrets from his past. (Deadline)

Elvis star Austin Butler is in early talks to star opposite Michael B. Jordan in a reboot of Miami Vice for Universal Pictures. Butler would play Sonny Crockett while Jordan would play Rico Tubbs. (Variety)

TV SERIES ORDER

CBS has given a series order to Cupertino, a new legal drama from creator Robert and Michelle King, the husband-and-wife team behind The Good Wife. The new series will star Mike Colter from Evil. The series is a David vs. Goliath legal drama set in the heart of Silicon Valley that follows a lawyer (Colter) 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. (Deadline)

Hulu has given a greenlight to a reboot of Prison Break that will star Emily Browning (American Gods), Drake Rodger (The Winchesters), Lukas Gage (The White Lotus) [among others]. The new show will be set in the same world as the original series but will feature different characters and a new storyline focusing on an ex-soldier turned corrections officer (Browning), who takes a job at one of the deadliest prisons in America to prove just how far she’ll go for someone she loves. (Variety)

Netflix has set a new drama series Kennedy that will explore the triumphs and tragedies of the Kennedy family with Michael Fassbender set to play patriarch Joe Kennedy Sr. The eight-episode series will reveal the intimate lives, loves, rivalries, and tragedies that shaped the most iconic dynasty in modern history, and helped create the world we live in today. Beginning in the 1930s, the first season charts the improbable ascent of Joe and Rose Kennedy and their nine children, including rebellious second son Jack, who struggles to escape the shadow of his golden boy older brother. (Deadline)

RENEWAL

USA Network has given The Rainmaker a second season that will air sometime in 2026. (Deadline)

TV CASTING NEWS

Grey’s Anatomy hunk Eric Dane will guest star in a November episode of the NBC medical drama Brilliant Minds, playing a man with ALS, which Dane himself has. Dane will play Matthew, a heroic firefighter who struggles to share his ALS diagnosis with his family and turns to Dr. Oliver Wolf (series lead Zachary Quinto) for help. (The Hollywood Reporter)

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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

TV CASTING NEWS

Actors Raphael Sbarge (Once Upon a Time), Aaron Douglas (Battlestar Galactica and Murder in a Small Town) and David Hewlett (Stargate: Atlantis) will have recurring roles in the prequel series Vought Rising opposite Jensen Ackles and Aya Cash, but details on the characters they will play are being kept under wraps. (Deadline)

SNL alum Kate McKinnon will have a recurring guest starring role in season 3 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, playing Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, who can alter her appearance depending on the beholder. (Variety)

The Bosch TV universe is expanding from Amazon over to MGM+ with the prequel series Bosch: Start of Watch that will star Cameron Monaghan from Shameless and Omari Hardwick from Power. Monaghan will play rookie cop Harry Bosch (played by Titus Welliver in the original series) and Hardwick playing Eli Bridges, Bosch’s training officer. The series will be set in 1991 in Los Angeles, following 26-year-old Harry Bosch during his earliest days as a rookie cop. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

George Clooney and Annette Bening will star in the upcoming book adaptation of Amy Bloom’s best-sellilng memoir In Love that is an illuminating, modern love story about two people who make an impossible decision together that honors their enduring commitment to each other. (Deadline)

Young actress Chloe Coleman (Marry Me and the My Spy franchise) will star in the upcoming Taylor Sheridan-written action feature film F.A.S.T. that will star 1923 alum Brandon Sklenar as a former special forces commando, down on his luck after he returns Stateside, who is tapped by the DEA to lead a black op strike team against CIA-protected drug dealers in his town. Coleman will play his daughter while LaKeith Stanfield, Jason Clarke and Sam Claflin round out the cast. (The Hollywood Reporter)

James Norton will play longtime manager Brian Epstein in the upcoming Sam Mendes anthology film The Beatle. (Deadline)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Amazon Prime has a new YA series in development, which will be inspired by the best-selling novel by Krystal Marquis. The Davenports, the Bridgerton-esque romance series, set in 1910 America, will center on one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status thanks to the entrepreneurship of formerly enslaved patriarch William Davenport. Surrounded by servants, crystal chandeliers, and endless parties, his daughters Olivia and Helen, and their friends, are finding their way and finding love—even where they’re not supposed to. (Deadline)

Stranger Things and Enola Holmes star Millie Bobby Brown will star in and executive produce the upcoming new series Prism that is in development at Netflix. She will play Cassie, a woman with the unique ability to communicate with apparitions, who must uncover the cause of a newly discovered phenomenon that causes “visitors” (ghosts) to appear all over the world before it’s too late. Superman star Rachel Brosnahan will also executive produce. (Deadline)

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Hey All,

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS

Showtime has announced that Yellowjackets will come to an end after its upcoming fourth season. The cabler has also given Dexter: Resurrection a second season renewal. (Deadline and Variety)

Apple TV+ has given the period piece The Buccaneers a third season pick-up. (Variety)

Amazon Prime has pulled the plug on both dramas Countdown, which starred Supernatural alum Jensen Ackles, and Butterfly, which starred Lost alum Daniel Dae Kim, after only one season each. (Deadline)

TV CASTING NEWS

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before star Lana Candor will make a guest appearance on an upcoming episode of the CBS series Elsbeth, playing the much younger girlfriend of a college basketball coach. (Variety)

Actor David Del Rio has been removed from the cast of the reboot of Matlock following an investigation into a sexual assault allegation. According to sources, the alleged incident occurred Sept. 26 and involved fellow Matlock series regular Leah Lewis. (Deadline)

Yellowstone and Teen Wolf alum Ian Bohen has landed a series regular role in season 3 of Lioness, playing Grady, a by-the-book Delta Force operator and primary K9 handler, skilled in battlefield tactics. (Variety)

Millie Brady (The Queen’s Gambit), Blu Hunt (Sherlock & Daughter), James Purefoy (Rome) [among others] have joined the cast of the upcoming FOX Biblical event series The Faithful, which is being described as a faithful dramatization of the Book of Genesis as told through the eyes of the courageous and passionate, yet flawed women whose descendants would shape the future of faith as we know it today. (Variety)

9-1-1: Lone Star alum Rob Lowe will star in the NBC drama The Detail, which is in the works at the network. The project will follow elite agents serving on the president’s protective detail as they attempt to balance life with professional duty while securing the nation and defending against the next imminent threat. (Variety)

Succession star Jeremy Strong will star in and executive producer the newly greenlit limited series 9/12 about ailing 9/11 first responders’ David vs. Goliath legal fight for compensation for Paramount+. (Deadline)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

The Summer I Turned Pretty alum Rain Spencer will star in and executive produce the in-development series Genuine Fraud, based on the book by author E. Lockhart that will center on a social chameleon (Spencer) who reinvents herself as the best friend of a wealthy heiress, then assumes her “friend’s” life when she goes missing. (Deadline)

Anna Kendrick and J.K. Simmons are set to star in the geo-political thriller series Embassy that was being presented to international buyers at Mipcom. The series will focus on what happens when armed mercenaries storm the U.S. embassy in London. Layla (Kendrick), a sharp and resourceful American diplomat, faces an impossible choice: protect the U.S. ambassador (Simmons) or follow his orders to exfiltrate a high value asset being held at the embassy. As a larger conspiracy unfolds, Layla must rely on her instincts—and the reluctant help of her ex-fiancé, a British SAS soldier—in the tense hours before extraction. (Variety)

Julie Plec (executive producer on The Vampire Diaries and We Were Liars) is developing a drama series based on the Alchemy of Secrets novel by Stephanie Garber, which follows Holland St. James, who was informed by a local legend named the Watch Man that she’ll die tomorrow unless she finds an ancient object called the Alchemical Heart. Holland plunges into the magical world at the heart of Los Angele s— and into the path of a magnetic stranger. As they chase clues that take them closer to the Alchemical Heart, Holland isn’t sure who to trust and if the Alchemical Heart can save her. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE AND STREAMING MOVIE NEWS

Mega-hot actress and singer Lady Gaga will appear in the upcoming sequel The Devil Wears Prada, but details on who she will play have not been released. (Variety)

BAFTA Rising Star Mia McKenna-Bruce and Saoirse Ronan will star in the biopics about The Beatles to be directed by Sam Mendes. Ronan will play Linda McCartney, first wife of Paul McCartney and McKenna-Burce will play Maureen Starkey, the first wife of Ringo Starr. (Deadline and Variety)

Debi Mazar (Younger) and Denis O’Hare (True Blood) have joined the cast of the upcoming Netflix thriller The Last Mrs. Parrish, based on the book by Live Constantine. The cast of the film includes Jennifer Lopez, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Isabel May and Pierson Fodé. Character details are under wraps, but the film will focus on a con woman who targets a wealthy couple by befriending the wife and seducing the husband with the master plan of becoming the next ‘Mrs. Parrish,’ only to discover that the wife’s life is far more twisted than she could have imagined. (Deadline)

Jessica Matten (Dark Winds) has joined the cast of the upcoming historical indie drama Standing Bear, playing Bird Song, the wife of Chief Standing Bear, which will be played by Twilight alum Chaske Spencer. The film tells the story of the Ponca Tribe’s harrowing forced removal on the Trail of Tears and the landmark 1879 trial of Standing Bear v. Crook, which secured recognition of Native Americans as “persons” under U.S. law, a precedent-setting civil-rights victory too often absent from American history books. (Variety)

Matt Dillon (Crash) will play Frank Stallone Sr., father of Sylvester Stallone in the upcoming movie I Play Rocky. (Deadline)

Ashley Judd will star in and executive produce the upcoming film 21 Down starring as Mari Cox, the mother of Caden Cox, who made history by becoming the first person with Down syndrome to play and score in a college football game. (Deadline)

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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS

Amazon Prime has given the Maggie Q-led drama Ballard a season two renewal. (Deadline)

Great American Family has given the spin-off series When Hope Calls for a third season. The forthcoming season, which comes with a new subtitle Brookfield, is currently in production and is slated to return sometime in 2026. (TV Line)

Showtime will bring the long-running drama The Chi to an end after its upcoming 8th season. (Variety)

The Hulu comedy Mid-Century Modern, which starred Matt Bomer, Nathan Lane, the late Linda Lavin and Nathan Lee Graham, has been pulled after only one season. (Variety)

Paramount+ has given the drama series Lioness a third season renewal. (Deadline)

SERIES ORDER NEWS

ABC has given a series order to the new hour-long pilot RJ Decker, which is the current working title, for the drama that will star Felicity alum Scott Speedman as RJ Decker, a disgraced newspaper photographer and ex-con who starts over as a private investigator in the colorful-if-crime-filled world of South Florida. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Adam Driver and Anne Hathaway will star in the Ron Howard-directed flick Alone at Dawn that will be based on the book by Dan Schilling and Lori Chapman Longfritz that is based on an incredible true story. Years after Air Force Combat Controller John Chapman fought to the death to save his fellow soldiers, an intelligence officer strives to prove his valor — leading an investigation that ultimately would secure him the Medal of Honor. (Deadline)

The sequel flick The Beekeeper 2 will find Emmy Raver-Lampman, Bobby Naderi and Jemma Redgrave reprising their roles from the original film while Guardians of the Galaxy alum Pom Klementieff and Haven alum Adam Copeland are joining the cast. Plot details for the sequel and character details for the latter two cast members are being kept under wraps. (Variety)

Rami Malek has joined the cast of the upcoming film The Man I Love that will be set in late ‘80s New York that will star Tom Sturridge, Rebecca Hall and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. The movie is being described as a “musical fantasia of a city under duress.” (Variety)

Stephan James (Beacon 23 and Selma) will star as Carl Weathers in the upcoming film I Play Rocky that will star Pixels and Purple Heart actor Anthony Ippolito in the lead role of Sylvester Stallone. (Deadline)

Leverage alum Aldis Hodge will join Jake Gyllenhaal in the upcoming sequel to Road House for Amazon MGM Studios. Plot details for the sequel are being kept under wraps as is the role for which Hodge will play. (Deadline)

Jeremy Irons has joined the cast of the Highlander box office reboot that will star Henry Cavill in the lead role. Irons will play one of the antagonists in the film. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Frances Fisher (Titanic), Will Patton (Armageddon), Lauren Holly (NCIS), and M.C. Gainey (Con Air) will star in the box office film Ruby Road that follows Fisher as Ruby, a former coal-truck and school-bus driver, who when facing a terminal illness sets off in her yellow mini-bus through the Appalachian mountains on a final journey to reconcile with her past and her fractured family. Character details for the others have not been released yet. (Deadline)

Once Upon a Time and The Rainmaker alum Lana Parrilla, Daredevil star Charlie Cox and Haley Bennett (Cyrano and the upcoming The Last Frontier) will star in the upcoming sci-fi thriller flick Synthetic that will be set in the near future, where a retired soldier’s isolated existence is shattered when a runaway female android seeks refuge on his farm, sparking an unexpected bond that forces them to fight for their survival and for each other. (Deadline)

TV CASTING NEWS

Nicole Beharie (Sleepy Hollow and The Morning Show) has been cast as a series regular in the Netflix thriller All the Sinners Bleed based on the novel S.A. Cosby will follow the story of Titus Crown (Sope Dìrísù), the first Black sheriff in a small Bible Belt county. Haunted by his devout mother’s untimely death, he must lead the hunt for a serial killer that has been preying on his Black community for years in the name of God. Beharie will play Darlene, Titus’ supportive girlfriend. (Deadline)

Brooke Shields will be reprising her role of Charlotte Thornton (mother of the late Jack Thornton) in the upcoming season 13 of the Hallmark Channel series When Calls the Heart. (Variety)

Patricia Clarkson (The Station Agent and House of Cards) has joined the second season of the Netflix series Ransom Canyon. She will play Claire O’Grady, the mother of Quinn (series lead Minka Kelly). (The Hollywood Reporter)

Scott Wolf will be back as Dr. Richard Miller on the FOX medical drama Doc during its current second season, appearing in a multi-episode guest arc and he will also direct an episode early next year. (TV Line)

Harry Potter and Killing Eve alum Fiona Shaw has landed a series regular role in the upcoming 2nd season of the Apple TV+ legal thriller Presumed Innocent where she will play a partner at the law firm featured in the new season. (Deadline)

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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

TV CASTING NEWS

Eoin Macken and Andrew Liner, who played father and son Davis and Reid Collins, in season 1 of Ransom Canyon will not be returning for the show’s upcoming second season. (Deadline)

Hallmark hunk Kristoffer Polaha has joined the cast of the upcoming MGM+ series American Hostage that will star Jon Hamm and Giovanni Ribisi. The show is a psychological thriller whose ’70s-set first season tells the harrowing true story of Fred Heckman (Hamm), a beloved Indianapolis radio reporter who is thrust into the middle of a life-or-death crisis when hostage-taker Tony Kiritsis demands to be interviewed on his popular radio news program. Polaha will star as Dick Hall, the president of Meridian Mortgage who is taken hostage by Tony Kiritsis (Ribisi), who publicly accuses him of being a greedy and cutthroat monster. But the real human being is more complicated than that. (Deadline)

Allison Janney and Bradley Whitford have been promoted to series regulars for the 4th season of The Diplomat on Netflix. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Star Trek: Discovery alum David Ajala has joined the cast of Law & Order, playing an NYPD detective. (The Hollywood Reporter)

24 alum Elisha Cuthbert will star in the Amazon Prime series Every Year After, the series adaptation of the novel by Carley Fortune. She will appear in the recurring role of Sue Florek. Told over the course of six years and one week in Barry’s Bay – the quintessential lake town – the series is a romantic, nostalgic story of first loves and the people and choices that mark us forever. (Variety)

Lucy Liu will star in the upcoming Peacock crime drama Superfakes that will focus on a small-time Chinatown luxury counterfeit dealer (Liu), who enters a dangerous black-market underworld in order to fund a life of suburban respectability for her family. (Variety)

SERIES ORDER NEWS

FOX has given a 12-episode straight-to-series order for a reboot to Baywatch for the 2026-2027 season. The new version will remain Southern California, featuring adrenaline-fueled rescues, tangled relationships, complicated chemistry and beachside heroics that defined the original. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE CASTING NEWS

Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown will star as Olympic champion gymnast Kerri Strug in the upcoming box office film Perfect tha will be directed by Gia Coppola. Strug was a member of the 1996 USA gymnastics team dubbed “the Magnificent Seven.” (Deadline)

The classic 1987 sci-fi parody Spaceballs is getting a sequel, and Rick Moranis is coming out of retirement to reprise his role of Lord Dark Helmet alongside Bill Pullman as Lone Starr, Mel Brooks as the Yoda-esque being Yogurt, Daphne Zuniga as Princess Vespa and George Wyner as Colonel Sandurz. Other cast members of Spaceballs 2 will include Josh Gad, Keke Palmer, Lewis Pullman and Anthony Carrigan. (Variety)

Black-ish alum Yara Shahidi will star opposite Jason Statham in The Beekeeper 2, the sequel to the Miramax hit action movie. Details about her character and what the movie will focus on are being kept under wraps. (Variety)

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Hey All,

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS

Netflix has given a second season renewal to The Hunting Wives. (Variety)

Apple TV+ has given a fourth season order to Foundation. (Deadline)

Acorn TV has ordered a second season for the drama Irish Blood. (Deadline)

ON INDEFINITE HOLD

It looks like Amazon Prime has pushed back the release of the planned season two of Mr. & Mrs. Smith to an uncertain future. Supposedly, the delay is due to cast issues. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

Idris Elba will star in and direct a feature film adaptation of This is How it Goes by Neil LaBute for Apple Original Films. The psychological thriller tells the story of a couple who reconnect with an old school acquaintance, apparently randomly, and offer to take him in but then things turn a bit scarier. (Variety)

Twilight alum and The English star Chaske Spencer (who is also a BAFTA nominee) will play th role of Ponca chief and Native American civil rights leader Standing Bear in a film of the same name. The film will chronicle the Ponca Tribe’s harrowing “Trail of Tears” march and the landmark 1879 trial of Standing Bear vs Crook that helped recognize Native Americans as “human beings” under U.S. law. (Deadline)

Hannah John-Kamen (Thunderbolts* and Killjoys) has joined the cast of One Second After, the new thriller flick that will star Lost and Duster alum Josh Holloway. The movie, based on the best-selling novel by William R. Forstchen follows John Matherson (Holloway), a college professor and former military officer charged with protecting his community after a catastrophic electromagnetic pulse attack cripples the nation. Set in the hills of North Carolina, the film will find John as he confronts a world suddenly stripped of power, communication, and modern infrastructure, guiding those around him through life-or-death decisions in a fight for survival. John-Kamen will play Makalya, a nurse stranded in Black Mountain following the attack. Partnering with John, Makalya fights to keep the community alive as modern society unravels, offering both medical expertise and emotional resilience in the face of collapse. (Deadline)

Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau will play the lead role, opposite Jennifer Lopez, in The Last Mrs. Parrish, the anticipated film adaptation of the hit novel by Lynne and Valerie Constantine. Also joining the cast are Isobel May (1883) and Pierson Fodé (The Wrong Paris and The Bold and the Beautiful). The film will center on a twisted con artist who ends up with more than she bargained for in targeting a wealthy couple. Daphne Parrish (Lopez) and Jackson Parrish (Coster-Waldau) have it all on paper, as Amber Patterson (May) looks to befriend the wife and seduce her husband. Daphne’s shoes, Amber learns, are far more complicated to slip into than she expected. (Deadline)

Jessica Chastain will star alongside Oscar-nominee John Hawkes and country singer Carter Faith in the upcoming Netflix mystery thriller film Heartland that will follow Misty Jones (Chastain), a former country star who comes out of seclusion to investigate the disappearance of her missing niece (Faith), herself a rising country musician. She must grapple with her own past and Nashville’s seedy underbelly, and her search uncovers a murky side of Nashville where no one, including Misty, is who they seem. (Deadline)

Shadowhunters co-stars Katherine McNamara (Arrow) and Alberto Rosende (Chicago P.D.) as well as Arden Cho (from the recent hit KPop Demon Hunters and the small screen series Teen Wolf) and Margaret Cho will star with Josh Plasse (The Baxters and Butterfly) in the upcoming indie rom-com flick Cheap AF that will tell the story of Carol, a money-saving influencer (Arden Cho) seeking her big break, who risks losing her wedding and relationships when she goes all out to win Wedding Magazine’s “Best Wedding on a Budget” social media competition. (Deadline)

GREEN LIGHT ORDER

Amazon Prime has given a series order to Bishop, an original thriller drama that will star Joel Kinnaman (The Killing, For All Mankind and Altered Carbon). In this new series, he will play homicide detective Bishop Graves, brilliant, battle-scarred, who will put all of his skills to the test in the hunt for an elusive killer targeting San Francisco’s moneyed class. (Deadline)

TV CASTING NEWS

The Bold and the Beautiful actor Victor Rivas Rivers has joined the season two cast of The Pitt where he will play Trent Norris, the CEO of Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center. (Deadline and TV Line)

Lucifer alum Aimee Garcia has landed a series regular role on The Walking Dead: Dead City for the show’s upcoming third season, playing Renata, a disarmingly charming leader with a natural ability to win people over with her optimism and convivial personality. (Deadline)

New Zealand actress Luciane Buchanan has appeared in not only the first two seasons of The Night Agent but also the Jason Momoa-led Apple TV+ period piece drama Chief of War, but she will not be returning for season three of The Night Agent, as it appears the powers-that-be behind the show have decided to focus solely on FBI agent Peter Sutherland (series lead Gabriel Basso) for the upcoming third season. (Deadline)

Spence Moore (Brilliant Minds and Creed III) and Charlie Mann (The Watchers) have landed the lead roles in the Starz spin-off series Power: Origins, playing Ghost and Tommy, respectively, the younger versions of the characters portrayed by Omari Hardwick and Joseph Sikora in the mothership Power series. In this spin-off Ghost (Moore) and Tommy (Mann) are ambitious young entrepreneurs on the rise, determined to make their mark on the streets of New York City. (Deadline)

Matthew Rhys (The Americans and Perry Mason) will star opposite Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) and Jack Reynor (On the Basis of Sex and Midsommar) in season two of the Apple TV+ legal drama Presumed Innocent, which will center on an ambitious defense attorney (Brosnahan) who takes on a high-profile case. Rhys will play her husband, the prosecutor on the case while Reynor will play her client, the defendant. (Deadline)

Joshua Malina (Scandal and The West Wing) will guest-star in an upcoming episode of season 25 of Law & Order, playing the managing partner of a prominent law firm. (TV Line)

The cast members for the spin-off series S.W.A.T. Exiles has been announced, including Lucy Barrett (Charmed and Deep Water), Adain Bradley (Warfare and Tarot), Zyra Gorecki (La Brea), Freddy Miyares (When They See Us) and Ronen Rubenstein (9-1-1: Lone Star). Also, Jay Harrington and Patrick St. Esprit will reprise their S.W.A.T. roles of Sergeant David “Deacon” Kay and Commander Robert Hicks (respectively) will make guest appearances. (Variety and Deadline)

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Here are the entertainment news items from this past week:

RENEWAL

SAS Rogue Heroes has been renewed for a third season by MGM+. (Deadline)

TV CASTING NEWS

Harry Potter alum Warwick Davis will return as Charms Professor Filius Flitwick in the small screen TV adaptation of the box office films and novels on which they are based. (Variety)

30 Rock alum Jane Krakwoski will guest star in the upcoming 2nd season of Brillian Minds on NBC, appearing as Arianna Burnett, a high-powered businesswoman who fights her conservatorship despite her family’s growing concerns. (Variety)

Amazon Prime is working on a small screen live-action series of Tomb Raider with Game of Thrones alum Sophie Turner taking over the lead role of Lara Croft. (Variety)

Veteran actor Ed Harris has joined the cast of The Dutton Ranch, the working title for the Yellowstone spin-off that will focus on Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler (Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser). The series will focus on the couple and their new home – The Dutton Ranch. Harris will play Everett McKinney, a weathered veteran and veterinarian who treats animals with compassion and understanding and possesses a good sense of humor. (Deadline)

Veteran actor Kurt Russell has joined the cast of the other Yellowstone spin-off The Madison that will star Michelle Pfeiffer. This spin-off is a heartfelt exploration of grief and human connection, following a New York City family in the Madison River Valley of central Montana. The role Russell will play is being kept under wraps, but he joins a cast that includes Patrick J. Adams (Suits), Matthew Fox (Lost), Beau Garrett (Firefly Lane) and Kevin Zegers (The Rookie: Feds). (Deadline)

Chicago Med alum Nick Gehlfuss and actress Michael Michele (the Dynasty reboot and ER) have joined the cast of the upcoming FBI spin-off CIA that will center on two unlikely partners – a fast-talking, rule-breaking loose cannon CIA case officer (Lucifer’s Tom Ellis), and a by-the-book, seasoned and smart FBI agent (Gehlfuss) who believes in the rule of law. When this odd couple are assigned to work out of CIA’s New York Station, they must learn to work together to investigate cases and criminals posing threats on U.S. soil, finding that their differences may actually be their strength. Michele is believed to be playing the series’ third lead, the head of CIA’s New York Station. (Deadline)

Ron Perlman (Sons of Anarchy and Poker Face), Ted Levine (Monk) and Margarita Levieva (Daredevil: Born Again and Revenge) have all landed major recurring roles in the upcoming Apple TV+ small screen adaptation of Cape Fear. The drama series is a tense, Hitchcockian thriller, examining America’s obsession with true crime in the 21st century. In it, a storm is coming for happily married attorneys Anna (Amy Adams) and Tom Bowden (Patrick Wilson) when Max Cady (Javier Bardem), a notorious killer from their past, gets out of prison. What roles Perlman, Levine and Levieva are being kept under wraps. (Deadline)

Aidan Turner (Being Human and Poldark) will play a key recurring guest star role in the upcoming third season of The Diplomat, but details about his character are being kept under wraps. (Deadline)

Netflix is developing a limited series TV adaptation of The Age of Innocence based on the classic novel by Edith Wharton. The cast of this adaptation will include Camila Morrone (Daisy Jones & the Six), Kristine Froseth (The Buccaneers), Ben Radcliffe (Masters of the Air) and the one and only Margo Martindale (Justified and The Sticky). The main theme of this classic story is about forbidden love in 19th-century New York. Morrone will play Ellen Olenska, the intelligent and independent cousin of May Welland, who returns to New York after a failed marriage to Count Stanislas Olenski, a Polish nobleman. A free spirit who is playful, intelligent, and strong-willed, yet carries conflict and guilt surrounding her new position in society. Froseth will play the aforementioned May Welland, a kind and genuine woman who is a product of her social class. Traditional, a rule follower and believer in the status quo, but not without rebellion. Radcliffe will play Newland Archer, a handsome, progressive, and intelligent society gentleman who craves a deeper and more passionate connection to the world and someone in it. And, Martindale will play Mrs. Manson-Mingott May and Ellen’s grandmother, who is entertaining, scurrilous, defiant, capricious, and stubborn. (Deadline)

Annabeth Gish (Mayfair Witches) will have a multi-episode guest starring role in the upcoming 14th season of Chicago Fire playing the mayor’s chief of staff, Annette Davis. (TV Insider)

Season 3 of Elsbeth on CBS will see William Jackson Harper (The Good Place) and Annaleigh Ashford (Happy Face) in guest starring roles. Harper will play the founding director of a New York City poetry journal, desperate for funding while Ashford will appear in a special Halloween-themed episode playing Sharon Norman, a murderous suburban housewife. (Deadline)

STREAMING MOVIE NEWS

Charles Melton (May December and Riverdale), Rachel Brosnahan (Superman) and Will Poulter (Guardians of the Galaxy) will star in the Netflix flick Saturn Return, a Chicago-set romance that will explore the themes of love, loss and life’s complicated turns in the 10 years between the aspirational young love of college and the complicated realities of adulthood. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

Jennifer Taylor (Two and a Half Men) and Hallmark hunk Kristoffer Polaha will star in the faith-based drama flick Between the Lines that will be set in a small town near a military base, focusing on a woman in her late forties who forms an unexpected bond with a young soldier, sparking a journey that challenges her marriage and faith – and ultimately leads her and her husband toward surrender, renewal, and the redemptive power of forgiveness. The cast includes Josh Swickard (General Hospital and A California Christmas) and Mayan Lopez (Co-creator and star of NBC’s Lopez vs Lopez). (Deadline)

Djimon Hounsou has joined the cast of the upcoming box office reboot Highlander, starring Henry Cavill and Russell Crowe in the lead roles. Hounsou will play an immortal warrior from Africa. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Christian Slater (Mr. Robot) will star in the upcoming box office film Father Of Us, a bittersweet family saga based on a true story, set in 1968 suburbia, following five siblings caught between their magnetic but reckless father and their radiant but overwhelmed mother. Slater will play Bob Olson, the adored but flawed father at the heart of the story. (Deadline)

Scott Eastwood (Suicide Squad and The Fate of the Furious) will star opposite Djimon Hounsou and Halle Berry in the upcoming action-thriller flick Red Card that will follow Max Elmi (Hounsou), a veteran ranger battling poachers in Kenya who joins forces with Dane Harris (Eastwood), 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. According to the synopsis, their odyssey takes them from the quiet Masai villages of Kenya to the dangerous, simmering streets of Casablanca in Morocco. (Variety)

Walton Goggins (Fallout and The White Lotus) and Lewis Pullman (Lessons in Chemistry and Thunderbolts) will star alongside Jessica Biel in the upcoming box office movie Batso that will tell the true story of a trio of trailblazing climbers, who in the early 1970s took on the most difficult route up iconic peak El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. Goggins will play Harding while Pullman will play Caldwell and Biel will play Beryl Knauth, a key pillar in the Yosemite climbing community. (Deadline)

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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

CANCELLATIONS

The YA drama Motorheads has been cancelled after only one season by Amazon Prime, but the producers and the series creator are shopping it around for a new potential home. (Deadline)

Netflix has pulled the plug on the drama The Waterfront after only one season. (Variety)

TV CASTING NEWS

Yellowstone alums Gil Birmingham, Mo Brings Plenty and Brecken Merrill will reprise their roles of Thomas Rainwater, Mo and Tate Dutton respectively on the CBS spin-off series Y” Marshals that will focus on youngest son Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes). The series find 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. Arielle Kebbel (Rescue: Hi-Surf) will star as Belle and veteran actor Brett Cullen will appear as Harry Gifford, the head of the U.S. Marshals in Montana. (Variety)

Nick Gehlfuss will reprise his role of Dr. Will Halstead in a guest-starring role on Chicago Med after leaving the show in 2023. Meanwhile, one of the last three remaining original cast member Marlyne Barrett will not be returning to the medical drama for its upcoming season 11. (Deadline and Variety)

A-lister Annette Bening has joined the cast of the upcoming Yellowstone spin-off that will focus on Bet and Rip. Bening will star as Beulah Jackson, the powerful, cunning, and charming head of a major ranch in Texas. (Variety)

Adam Campbell, who played the younger version of Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard in the mothership series NCIS will reprise that role in the prequel series NCIS: Origins. The episode will also pay tribute to the late David McCallum, who played Ducky for 20 seasons on NCIS. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Guest stars for season two of the FOX drama Murder in a Small Town will include Camryn Manheim (Law and Order), Tyler Posey (Teen Wolf), Jamie Chung (Once Upon a Time and Lovecraft Country), Noah Reid (Schitt’s Creek) and Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries). Manheim will play Jocelyn Tait, an iron-tough, working-class matriarch, who has lived her life in the shadow of a family feud, who comes to Gibsons for a “Romeo and Juliet-style” wedding; Posey will play Ryan, a former party boy turned holistic health aficionado, who is desperate to leave behind a reckless past; Chung will play Lanni Soo, a career-driven and straight-forward, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney General, who approaches Alberg (series lead Rossif Sutherland) with an intriguing case; Reid will reprises his role of Tommy Cummins, the unassuming high school art teacher whose greatest work put him behind bars and Canning will play Mackenzie Rankin, a woman who organizes a memorial gathering following the death of her younger sister. (Deadline)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS/PILOT ORDER NEWS

Hulu has given a pilot order to a series adaptation of the Nash Jenkins novel Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos that will be written and executive produced by uber-producer Greg Berlanti and Bash Doran. The series will be a teen mystery series set at a boarding school on the East Coast that explores privilege, scandal, sexuality and masculinity amid the rise of social media, millennial anxiety and pharmaceuticals. (Variety)

Warner Bros Television is developing a limited series set around the Karen Read trial, which will follow the trial that captivated the country and turned Read into a household name. When a Boston police officer is found dead in the snow, all eyes are on his girlfriend, Read. The case fractures a community, with some believing she is guilty of first-degree murder, and others that she’s the victim of a sweeping cover-up by state and local law enforcement. This series explores society’s obsession with true crime, the allure of conspiracy and the deepening crisis of trust in our institutions. Elizabeth Banks is on board to play the lead character. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE CASTING NEWS

Nina Dobrev (The Vampire Diaries), Tyler Hoechlin (Superman and Lois) and Virginia Gardner (Runaways) will star in the upcoming rom-com flick It Happened One Summer that will focus on Piper Bellinger, a glamorous LA It Girl whose glittering world comes crashing down after a viral mishap gets her cancelled overnight. Cut off from her wealthy family’s safety net, she’s exiled to a rugged fishing town with one ultimatum: fix up her late father’s dive bar – or lose everything. There, she butts heads with Brendan, a gruff sea captain who has zero patience for influencers. He’s the last person she expected – and exactly what she needs. (Deadline)

Amy Adams and Aaron Pierre will join Ryan Gosling in the upcoming movie Star Wars: Starfighter, an entirely original story set in a period of time never before explored within the franchise. There are no plot or character details though. (Variety)

MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE CASTING NEWS

The upcoming Hallmark holiday movie A Grand Ole Opry Christmas has added Sharon Lawrence, James Denton, Rob Mayes and Luke Benward to the cast. Nikki DeLoach and Kristoffer Polaha will lead the film. (Variety)

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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATION

Netflix has given a second season order to Dept. Q. (Deadline)

Paramount has decided not to bring Dexter: Original Sin for a second season despite the prequel getting a renewal order. (Variety)

MGM+ has given The Institute a second season order. (Variety)

TV CASTING NEWS

Amalia Williamson (Sullivan’s Crossing) and Tom Cavanagh (The Flash) will star opposite Brooke Shields in the upcoming crime drama series You’re Killing Me on Acorn TV. The 6-episode series follows bestselling novelist (Shields) who forms an unlikely alliance with Andi, an aspiring writer and podcaster (Williamson) to find the killer of a close friend. Williamson’s Andi is a sassy Girl Wonder who was once an up-and-coming celebrity, until she lost it all. Cavanagh will play Jack, the new lead detective of the Founders Cove Police Department and former city slicker who is trying to acclimate to the quirks of small-town life. (Deadline)

This Is Us alum Mandy Moore has joined the cast of the Dan Fogelman (the creator of This Is Us) upcoming untitled football drama that will star Law & Order alum Christopher Meloni and William H. Macy. Set inside the world of the NFL, the series has a generational family component to it with Moore set to play Lauren, the daughter of NFL team owner Hank Durkin (Macy) and his heir apparent. Meloni is playing the team’s head coach, Danny Roarke. (Deadline)

Dominic West and Sienna Miller will star in a new legal thriller series at HBO that has already received a two-season commitment with West set to play tech titan Morgan Henderson and Miller his estranged wife, the international film star Carla Duval. Set in the prestigious world of London law, the show opens with a scandalous divorce case that sends shockwaves through boardrooms, bedrooms and courtrooms alike. (Variety)

Dafne Keen (His Dark Materials and Logan) and Saara Chaudry (The Mysterious Benedict Society) have joined the cast of the second season of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, with Keen playing the powerful goddess Artemis and Chaudry playing her fan-favorite lieutenant Zoë Nightshade. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Season 2 of the Disney+ series Rivals has announced that Agent Carter alum Hayley Atwell and Rupert Everett (My Best Friend’s Wedding) will guest star will Malise Gordon and Helen Gordon, respectively. (Deadline)

LIMITED SERIES NEWS

Alexa Davalos (FBI: Most Wanted), Tom Mison (Sleepy Hollow), Tom Payne (The Walking Dead) and Ben Robson (Animal Kingdom) have joined the second installment of the upcoming 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: Sarah and her former slave Hagar; Sarah’s great-niece Rebekah; and Rebekah’s nieces, sisters Leah and Rachel. The second installment centers on Rebekah, played by Davalos, with Mison playing her husband Isaac, and Payne and Robson portraying their adult sons Jacob and Esau, respectively. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

Doctor Who and Guardians of the Galaxy alum Karen Gillan will star alongside Henry Cavill, Russell Crowe, Dave Bautista and Marisa Abela in the upcoming box office reboot of Highlander. Gillan will play Heather, MacLeod’s (Cavill) mortal wife and the love of his life. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Blake Lively will star in the rom-com The Survival List that follows a highbrow reality TV producer named Annie who is assigned against her wishes to a new show hosted by famous survival expert Chopper Lane. When a shipwreck strands them on a deserted island, Annie discovers Chopper is a fraud and knows nothing about survival, leaving her in charge of figuring out how to keep them alive. Forced to work together, they begin to discover an unlikely chemistry. The role of Chopper Lane has yet to be cast. (Variety)

The Night Agent star Gabriel Basso will star in the upcoming romantic drama Love of Your Life alongside Margaret Qualley, Aaron Pierre and Patrick Schwarzenegger, which tells the story of a young woman (Qualley), suddenly single, who goes on a journey to find a way forward in her life. The script is written by Julia Cox. Character details are being kept under wraps, though. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Kevin Costner and Jake Gyllenhaal will star in the upcoming dramedy film Honeymoon with Harry that follows a man (Gyllenhaal) as he decides to go on a honeymoon with his would-be father-in-law (Costner) after his fiancée dies two days before their wedding. (Deadline)

Duster and Lost alum Josh Holloway will play the lead in the upcoming screen adaptation of One Second After based on the best-selling novel by William R. Forstchen where he will play John Matherson, a college professor and former military officer charged with protecting his community after a catastrophic electromagnetic pulse attack cripples the nation. Set in the hills of North Carolina, the film follows John as he confronts a world suddenly stripped of power, communication, and modern infrastructure, guiding those around him through life-or-death decisions in a fight for survival. (Deadline)

Vera Farmiga will star opposite Mark Wahlberg in an untitled film based on the 2023 German language sports comedy-drama that follows a father and his autistic son, who wants to find a favorite Premiere League soccer club and makes his father take him to see every single team so he can decide. (Deadline)

The Diplomat alum David Gyasi has landed his first lead film role in the upcoming movie The Bard, which will tell the true story of George Moses Horton, the first Black poet to be published in America while enslaved, a feat punishable by death. Horton wrote love poems and anti-slavery protests and was assisted by the white wife of a UNC Chapel Hill professor, who eventually became an anti-abolitionist. (Variety)

Hailee Steinfeld, Ron Perlman, Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire) and Rhenzy Feliz (The Penguin) will star in the upcoming thriller flick Asteroid that will follow a group of strangers who take the risk of a lifetime to travel to a nearby asteroid for the opportunity to mine for wealth beyond their wildest dreams. (Deadline)

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