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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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Hey All,

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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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

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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Hey All,

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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Hey All,

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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Hey All,

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

SERIES ADAPTATION

Netflix has landed the series adaptation of the Dan Brown novel The Secret of Secrets. The as-yet titled drama, which was given a straight to series order, is set in the world of Brown’s anticipated mystery thriller novel about Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon. Brown and Lost EP Carlton Cuse will serve as co-creators, writers and executive producers. In the book, symbologist Robert Langdon races against ancient forces and time to rescue a missing scientist and her groundbreaking manuscript whose discoveries have the power to forever change humanity’s understanding of the mind. (Deadline)

TV CASTING NEWS

Netflix has announced more cast members to the new version of Little House on the Prairie, including New Amsterdam alum Jocko Sims and Hallmark hunk Warren Christie, who will play characters from the books. Sims will play Dr. George Tann, a generous and kind-hearted man with a charming bedside manner that makes him a connector within the community. Christie will play John Edwards, a Civil War veteran from Tennessee, who is a gregarious and mysterious man who catches the eye of every single woman in the county. Also, Wren Zhawenim Gotts (Echo), Meegwun Fairbrother (Burden of Truth), Alyssa Wapanatahk (Peter Pan & Wendy) and Xander Cole (People of the West) will play newly created characters, members of the same extended Osage family. (Deadline)

The Harry Potter small screen adaptation has found its Harry, Ron and Hermione. Newcomers Dominic McLaughlin has landed the title role with Arabella Staton as Hermione Granger and Alastair Stout as Ron Weasley. (TV Line)

NOTE: You can see a picture of the new Harry Potter cast members below:

The one and only J.K. Simmons will play the lead in the MGM+ period crime drama The Westies, which 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 promised 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. But 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. Simmons will play Eamon Sweeney, the charismatic but ruthless leader of The Westies whose old-school charm and neighborhood loyalty mask fierce criminal ambition and calculated brutality. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Yellowjackets co-stars Courtney Eaton and Sophie Nelisse will star in the box office indie film The Space Program, an adaptation of the Kathleen Glasgow novel “Girl in Pieces.” It follows Charlie Davis, a young woman recently released from a psychiatric ward in Minnesota after a suicide attempt. After a move across the country to Tucson, Ariz., Charlie tries to piece her life back together among a band of artists and musicians while dealing with the trauma of childhood abuse, self-harm and homelessness. A toxic relationship with a local musician and the reappearance of her friend from the psych ward threaten the delicate life she’s putting together. (Variety)

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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATION

Showtime has given Yellowjackets a season 4 renewal. (Variety)

Unfortunately, Amazon Prime has pulled the plug on The Wheel of Time after three seasons. (Variety)

Sesame Street has been saved by the folks over at Netflix after Warner Bros. Discovery opted to not renew its deal for new episodes. (TV Line)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

It looks like CBS Studios is in early development to reboot the once popular family drama 7th Heaven that aired on The WB for all but its last season when the network changed over to The CW. It would seem that former star Jessica Biel will be one of the executive producers. It is said that the new show will focus on a diverse family but none of the original cast members are expected to appear. As the project is still in the very early stages, deals are still being worked out and no network or streamer is attached. (Variety)

TV CASTING NEWS

Severance star Dichen Lachman has joined the cast of the live-action Netflix series Avatar: The Last Airbender for its upcoming second season. (Variety)

MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE NEWS

The next Hallmark Channel movie centered around the NFL will be Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story that will air during the network’s upcoming 16th Annual Countdown to Christmas. The movie will focus on the Quinns and DeLucas, who have lived next door to each other for decades in the shadow of Highmark Stadium, the home of their beloved Buffalo Bills. With their longtime friendship rooted in being proud members of Bills Mafia, the two clans have enjoyed cherished traditions that revolve around cheering for their favorite team – especially at the holidays when they celebrate the last home game before Christmas. Pediatric doctor Morgan Quinn (Holland Roden) and the Bills’ VP of Stadium Development Gabe DeLuca (Matthew Daddario) have always been close friends, but Gabe has always held a torch for her – a fact obvious to their families (Tracy Pollan, Caroline Aaron and Steve Schirripa) and everyone else who crosses their path. When Morgan learns from her Uncle Tommy (Tony Danza) that someone anonymously helped her family get by after he was drafted more than 60 years ago – and that he continues to receive a Christmas gift each year to this day –she decides to find his benefactor and give her uncle a Christmas he’ll always remember. Aided by Bills Mafia friends of theirs, Morgan and Gabe work together to unwrap the gifter’s identity. Along the way, Gabe’s love for Morgan deepens and in turn, she begins to see him in a new light though neither is daring enough to admit their feelings. Meanwhile, Morgan’s hopes of pulling off her surprise for Uncle Tommy get sacked. That is, until Gabe takes matters into his own hands and uses his connections with the Bills to pull off the surprise of a lifetime for Morgan and both their families that will make this a Christmas they’ll never forget. Broadway alum and Hallmark star Patti Murin has also joined the cast, but details about the character for which she will play has not been announced yet. (Variety and Entertainment Now)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE CASTING NEWS

Elle Fanning has joined the ever-growing cast of next prequel movie The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, playing the younger version of Effite Trinket, who was played by Elizabeth Banks in the original movies while recent Oscar winner Kieran Culkin will play Caesar Flickerman, who was played by Stanley Tucci in the original movies. (USA Today and Variety)

Grammy nominated artist FKA Twigs is in negotiations to star in a biopic about pioneering American-born French dancer, singer and actress Josephine Baker. (Variety)

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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS

Starz has announced that Power Book III: Raising Kanan will end with its upcoming 5th season. The show’s 4th season finale just aired, by the way. (Variety)

Netflix has given its popular period piece drama Bridgerton a 5th AND 6th season renewals. The Diplomat has also been renewed for a 4th season. The new series Forever has been given a 2nd season renewal and the young adult series My Life With the Walter Boys will get a third season. (TV Line)

Amazon Prime has given its sci-fi series Fallout a 3rd season renewal, but the streaming service has pulled the plug on the Kevin Bacon-led action horror series The Bondsman after only one season. (Variety and TV Line)

SERIES ORDERS/PICK UP NOTES

FOX has given a greenlight to the drama series Memory of a Killer, which will star former Grey’s Anatomy hunk Patrick Dempsey in the lead role. The show, inspired by a Belgian film, will be a dramatic thriller about a hitman (Dempsey) who develops early onset Alzheimer’s. The show is set for the 2025-2026 TV season. (Variety)

The CW has acquired the US broadcast rights to the first two season of the Canadian drama Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent as part of its 2025-2026 TV season line-up. The show follows the Specialized Criminal Investigations Unit’s detective duo, Detective Sergeants Henry Graff (Aden Young) and Frankie Bateman (Kathleen Munroe), as they investigate high-profile homicides in Canada’s largest metropolis. Their unique investigative skills are showcased through psychological tactics, with a heavy focus on the motives and actions of the criminals. These cases delve into the worlds of high finance, politics, real estate, media, and more. (Variety)

It seems like S.W.A.T. isn’t so dead after all. A spin-off series – S.W.A.T. EXILES (yep, it’s in all caps) – will find lead Shemar Moore back as Daniel “Hondo” Harrelson, being pulled out of forced retirement to lead a last-chance experimental SWAT unit made up of untested, unpredictable young recruits. It should be noted, though, that this spin-off has not yet been attached to a Stateside network or streaming service. (TV Line)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

Alias alum Jennifer Garner is set to appear in the sci-fi drama flick Zygote, which is the working title right now. The movie will center on Parisa (Garner), an elite crisis negotiator who is sent 254 miles from Earth as a response to hostages on the International Space Station. Due to the unexpected nature of the expedition, Parisa quickly realizes this could be her final mission, as she is forced to confront the limits of her life’s work alongside her own mortality. (Deadline)

Taylor Sheridan, the creator of the Yellowstone franchise, will be teaming up with 1923 star Brandon Sklenar for the big screen movie F.A.S.T., a crime thriller about a former special forces commando who is tapped by drug enforcement officials to lead a black op strike team against CIA-protected drug dealers. (Variety)

More casting news for the next The Hunger Games prequel Sunrise on the Reaping movie have been announced. Kelvin Harrison Jr. (Elvis and Waves) will play Beetee (who was played by Jeffrey Wright in the mothership franchise). Maya Hawke (daughter of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman) will play Wiress, who became the District 12 champion turned mentor. Ben Wang (the upcoming The Karate Kid: Legends star and the Disney+ short-lived series American Born Chinese) will play Wyatt Callow and Ralph Fiennes will play villainous President Coriolanus Snow. (Variety)

Luke Evans will star opposite Noomi Rapace in the action-thriller flick Traction that will be about a former U.S. soldier leading a humanitarian mission through war-torn Chechnya. Kate (Rapace), accompanied by her trusted Chechen ally Magomed, are forced to take on a cynical American war photographer (Evans), a schoolteacher and her injured student. Together, the group must navigate treacherous terrain and evade both Russian forces and guerrilla fighters. (Variety)

Kathryn Newton (Supernatural and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania) and Lana Condor (To All the Boys franchise) will star together in the upcoming survival thriller Devil’s Mouth that follows college friends who, while on a trip to get to Thailand, get trapped in an underwater cave system with a bull shark. Old tensions and power struggles resurface as they fight to survive. (Deadline)

TV CASTING NEWS

Minnie Driver is joining the 5th season of Emily in Paris, playing Princess Jane, a friend of Sylvie’s (series regular Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu) who married into a royal family. (Variety)

Jude Law and Andrew Garfield will star in the Apple TV+ limited series that will focus on iconic magicians Siegfried & Roy with Law starring as Siegfried and Garfield as Roy. The series will focus on the wild ride relationship of two of the greatest showman-magicians in history who, along with their white tigers, are tasked with turning Sin City into a family-friendly destination. The duo push the concept of illusion versus reality to the extreme, personally and professionally, until tragedy reframes and opens a mystery surrounding their last fateful Las Vegas show. (Variety)

Amanda Arcuri (Watson) and Caroline Rhea (Sabrina the Teenage Witch) have joined the cast of the spin-off series Sheriff Country that will follow straight-shooting sheriff Mickey Fox (Morena Baccarin), the stepsister of Cal Fire’s division chief Sharon Leone (from the CBS series Fire Country) who investigates criminal activity as she patrols the streets of small-town Edgewater while contending with her ex-con father (W. Earl Brown) and a mysterious incident involving her wayward daughter. Arcuri will play Skye, the aforementioned daughter while Rhea will play Gina, Sheriff Mickey’s assistant and the face of the Edgewater County Sheriff’s Office. (Deadline)

Ernie Hudson has joined the cast of the Blue Bloods spin-off Boston Blue, starring Donnie Wahlberg and Soneque Martin-Green. He will play Reverend Peters, the grandfather of Det. Lena Silver (Martin-Green). (Deadline)

Kelli Giddish is returning to Law & Order: Special Victims Unit on a full-time basis, reprising her role of Amanda Rollins. (TV Line and Deadline)

The new slayer has been chosen for the potential Hulu reboot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer that will feature original series star Sarah Michelle Gellar. Star Wars: Skeleton crew cast member Ryan Kiera Armstrong has landed the coveted role. (Deadline and TV Line)

Krysten Ritter will reprise her role of Jessica Jones in the second season of Daredevil: Born Again over on Disney+. (TV Line)

STREAMING MOVIE NEWS

Denzel Washington, Robert Pattinson and Daisy Edgar-Jones will star in the Netflix heist film Here comes the Flood that will tell the story of a bank guard plotting with a master thief to steal. (Variety)

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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS

In advance of next week’s upfront presentations in New York by the major networks, FOX and NBC have announced some of their renewals and cancellations, including the following:

NBC has renewed Law & Order, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and all three Chicago One drama for a new season each while the network has pulled the plug on The Irrational and Found after only two seasons each and Suits LA after only one episode. (TV Line)

FOX has pulled the plug on the new drama Rescue: Hi-Surf after only one season. (TV Line)

Meanwhile, Amazon Prime (aka Prime Video) has pulled the plug on the new police drama On Call after only one season, but sources are reporting that the drama is already being shopped around to other platforms. (Deadline and TV Line)

TV CASTING NEWS

Actress Arden Cho (Partner Track and Teen Wolf) and comedian Margaret Cho will star in the upcoming rom-com movie Cheap AF that tells the story of a money-saving influencer (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)

Kevin Pollak will appear in season 3 of Tulsa King on Paramount+, playing the series regular role of Special Agent Musso, an FBI agent who has an axe to grind. (Variety)

Singer turned actress LeAnn Rimes and Kimberley Williams-Paisley have joined the cast of the upcoming spin-off 9-1-1: Nashville, joining the already cast Chris O’Donnell and Jessica Capshaw. There are no specifics on what characters they will play, however. (Variety)

Watson lead Morris Chestnut will be back on season 3 of Hulu’s legal drama Reasonable Doubt, reprising his role of Corey Cash, a charming, media-savvy defense attorney on a recurring basis. Other recurring guest stars will be Rumer Willis, Richard Brooks (9-1-1) and Kyle Barry (Ginny & Georgia [among others]. (Deadline)

True Detective: Night Country alum Kali Reis has joined the cast of the upcoming Apple TV+ heist drama 12 12 12 that will follow a disgraced FBI agent (Anthony Mackie) and an American career criminal (Jamie Dornan) who play a zero-sum game of cat and mouse across Europe. At the center of it all is the daring, epic raid on a bank vault deep beneath the streets of Zurich. (Variety)

Emmanuelle Chriqui (Superman & Lois) will guest star in the upcoming 4th season of The Lincoln Lawyer on Etflix, playing Jeanine, the girlfriend of a local gangster who finds herself mixed up in a criminal enterprise, giving her information pivotal to Mickey’s defense. Also, Jason O’Mara (Fire Country and The Man in the High Castle) will guest-star as Jack Gilroy, Maggie’s (Neve Campbell) current boyfriend who is an orthopedic surgeon specializing in sports medicine. (TV Line)

New cast members for season 2 of the Netflix comedy A Man on the Inside, that stars Ted Danson, have been announced. Those new members include Constance Marie (Switched at Birth and With Love), David Strathairn (The Bourne Legacy and Alphas), Gary Cole (NCIS), Max Greenfield (The Neighborhood and New Girl), Michaela Conlin (Bones) and Sam Huntington (the American version of Being Human). (Variety)

Tom Felton, who played Draco Malfoy in the original Harry Potter franchise of movies has tased that he will be playing a small role in the small screen adaptation of the Harry Potter books planned as a series on HBO. (The Daily Mail and Parade)

Hugh Laurie (House) will star alongside Thandiwe Newton (Westworld), Stephen Dillane (Game of Thrones) and Fionn Whitehead (Dunkirk) [among others] in the upcoming, new Apple TV+ thriller series The Wanted Man that will follow the rise and fall of Felix Carmichael (Laurie), the elusive and powerful head of notorious British crime syndicate ‘The Capital.’ (Variety)

Star Trek Discovery alum Sonequa Martin-Green has joined the cast of the spin-off series Boston Blue, starring opposite Blue Bloods alum Donnie Wahlberg as Detective Danny Reagan who leaves New York City with his family to take a position with the Boston Police Department. There, he will be partnered with Detective Lena Silver (Martin-Green), the eldest daughter of a prominent law enforcement family. (TV Line)

MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE NEWS

Brandy and Rita Ora will appear in Descendants: Wicked Wonderland, the 5th movie in the musical fantasy movie franchise Descendants that follows the teenage progeny of Disney’s most iconic characters. They will reprise their respective roles of Cinderella and the Queen of Hearts alongside Paolo Montalban as King Charming and Melanie Paxson as Fairy Godmother as well as Kylie Cantrall and Malia Baker as Princesses Red and Chloe, the daughters of the Queen of Hearts and Cinderella, respectively. Picking up shortly after the events of the previous movie The Rise of Red, this new movie will explore what “happily ever after” is really like for Red and Chloe following their return from their time-traveling adventures and will delve into the warning at the end of the film — that “there are consequences when you alter the fabric of time.” (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

Michael Sheen (Good Omens) and Eva Longoria (Desperate Housewives) will star in the upcoming family holiday comedy The 12 Days of Christmas, which will follow the dysfunctional Sullivan family, who for the 5th year in a row have cancelled Christmas, that is until a mysterious someone starts sending strange gifts to hopeless widower Henry (Sheen) and his two bickering children, Will and Ella. First, a partridge in a pear tree, the next day two turtle doves are sent, followed by three calling birds on day three. Before they know it, the house is full of boisterous animals and house guests, all relating to the famous Christmas song “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” The family’s lives are turned upside down as they try to figure out just who the mystery gift giver is, and to top it off, Mariana (Longoria) from Animal Protection Services is on their case. (Variety)

The Gentleman alum Theo James will be taking over for Adrien Brody in the upcoming gangster thriller The Bookie & the Bruiser that will be set in 1959 New York City, featuring a pensive, Jewish fellow named Rivner (James) and an oversized Italian American tough named Boscolo (Vince Vaughn). Having served in World War II, the two return as changed men, no longer fitting into their old lives. Unwilling to take orders or play by the rules of polite society, the two partner up as a bookmaker and his enforcer and run an illicit gambling operation that proves highly profitable — but dangerous. Their operation thrives until they’re caught in a violent power struggle between the Mafia and an Irish gang, forcing them into a violent fight for survival. (Variety)

Oscar winner Natalie Portman will star in the upcoming movie Photograph 51 that will uncover the story behind the brilliant scientist whose pioneering work in x-ray crystallography captured the image that revealed DNA’s double-helix structure, the molecule that carries the genetic instructions for all known life. (Deadline)

Oscar nominees Demi Moore and Colman Domingo are set to star in the epic romance flick Strange Arrivals that will be inspired by the incredible true story of Betty and Barney Hill, an interracial couple who, in 1961, became the first reported case of an alien abduction, as they journeyed back from their honeymoon in Niagara Falls. Their experience catapulted them to fame and celebrity, but underneath that notoriety simmered the truth of what really happened that night, which would test even the most epic of romances. (Variety)

Star Trek alum Chris Pine will star in and produce the upcoming action film Run the Night that follows a banker accused of betraying the Penose (the Dutch mob), who is dumped naked in the heart of Amsterdam with a $10 million bounty on his head. Hunted by the city’s most violent gangs, he must fight his way across the city by dawn to save the lives of his wife and child, a mission that reveals he was never just the money guy. (Variety)

Wednesday alum Jenna Ortega and screen legend Robert De Niro will star in Shutout that follows Jake Kejeune (De Niro), one of the last masters of a vanishing craft, the pool hustler. Having lived and lost by the roll of a ball in smoky backroom halls, Jake encounters Mia (Ortega), a young prodigy whose raw, electrifying talent reignites a fire he thought long extinguished. Sensing a rare opportunity to shape a legend, Jake takes Mia under his wing, honing her instincts and sharpening her natural gift. Together, they plunge into the ruthless world of high-stakes pool, where the line between unimaginable fortune and devastating failure is razor-thin. (Variety)

International singer Celine Dion, actor Himesh Patel (Yesterday and The Franchise) and actress-stage performer Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso) will provide their voice in the upcoming 3D animated film High in the Clouds, which is inspired by the children’s adventure book by Beatles legend Paul McCartney. Other voices that will also be featured in the animated fare include the following: Idris Elba, Lionel Richie, Ringo Starr, Jimmy Fallon, Clémence Poésy, Pom Klementieff and Alain Chabat. The story is a tale about the power of family and freedom of expression through music, following Wirral, a teenage squirrel who embarks on an extraordinary journey to set music free, after accidentally sparking a revolution against Gretsch, the bossy diva-owl who has banned all music from his town. (Variety)

Hunter Schafer (Euphoria) and Tim Roth (Pulp Fiction) will star in the upcoming movie called Fish, a genre-bending drama set in a dreamlike Venice. Roth will play Professor Fish Osborne, a brilliant but reclusive art historian who is undergoing a mysterious transformation: he is slowly becoming a fish. As the professor’s secret unravels, Billie (Schafer) and other students of his begin to perceive their own identities through new lenses. (Variety)

Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) will star in the psychological thriller The Midnight Pool that centers on Johnny Black (Paul), a jaded journalist whom, after a personal tragedy, is lured into the shadows of an elite, exclusive society, where the pursuit of a career-defining story becomes a descent into illusion, manipulation and altered realities. (Variety)

Charles Meton (Warfare and May December) and Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All At Once) will provide their voices to the animated feature In Waves, a California surf-themed movie that follows AJ, a shy teenager in Los Angeles, who falls deeply in love with Kristen, a vibrant surfer. Their shared passion for the ocean becomes a source of strength as they face the devastating impact of illness together. (Variety)

Hannibal alum Mads Mikkelsen will star opposite Boyd Holbrook (Logan and A Complete Unknown) in the upcoming box office movie Last Meals with Mikkelsen playing Walter Karat, a former White House Chef whose fall from grace lands him in the kitchen of a maximum-security prison cooking for death row inmates. Boyd Holbrook will play Jeffrey Reed, a death row inmate who decides to go on a hunger strike and whose constant rejection of his meals frustrates him at every turn. Their animosity reaches a boiling point until Walter confronts Reed, triggering an unexpected deeper connection: Walter starts to believe Reed is innocent. As the two bond, Walter is determined to find out the truth. (Variety)

Xolo Mariduena (Blue Beetle and Cobra Kai) and Leah Lewis (Matlock)will star in the indie romance flick Dog Years that follows two former best friends who unexpectedly meet up in their hometown seven years after admitting they were in love. Reunited for one exhilarating night, they break into their old high school and question whether they would upend their lives to be together now. (Deadline)

The Gilded Age and The White Lotus alum Carrie Coon and Downton Abbey and Pam and Tommy star Lily James will star opposite The Last of Us and Game of Thrones alum Bella Ramsey and The Narrow Road to the Deep North star Odessa Young in the upcoming thriller Harmonia that will be set in 1980s and will revolve around an insidious cult. Rita (Coon), unraveling from past wounds, meets a radiant young spiritual leader (James) after a chance encounter. Following her into the all-female commune known as Harmonia, Rita leaves her life and family behind until her daughters, Ella (Ramsey) and Jo (Young), embark on a dangerous journey to rescue their mother. Once immersed in the commune, they find themselves inexorably drawn into the leader’s labyrinthine web of pseudo-spiritual and psychological manipulation. (Variety)

Outlander alum Caitriona Balfe will star opposite Loki alum Tom Hiddleston in the upcoming film Tenzing, which is about the inspirational life of Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and his summit of Mount Everest in 1953 alongside fellow outsider New Zealander Edmund Hillary. Balfe will play Jill Henderson, a friend of Tenzing who helped organize trips up Mount Everest. (Deadline)

Fast & Furious star Michelle Rodriguez and box office legend Richard Gere will star in the plane survival thriller Left Seat that will focus on a pharmaceutical representative (Rodriguez) who is forced to take control of a small charter plane after the pilot falls unconscious mid-flight. She must rely on the help of a stranger (Gere) over the radio to navigate through deadly storms and land the aircraft before the fuel runs out. (Deadline)

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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week

RENEWALS/CANCELLATION

Tonight’s episode of The Equalizer will actually serve as the series finale since CBS has decided to pull the plug on the drama after 5 seasons. (Variety)

The Canadian series Wild Cards has been renewed for two more seasons, but there is no confirmation on whether the CW will air either of those seasons in the US just yet. (Collider)

FX is giving Shogun a second season with Hiroyuki Sanada and Cosmo Jarvis reprising their roles of Lord Toranaga and John Blackthorne respectively. (TV Line)

The Netflix comedy North of North has been renewed for a second season. (Variety)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Scandal alum Kerry Washington and her production company Simpson Street is currently working on a reboot of the once-popular ABC drama Desperate Housewives – or more to the point – an offshoot series based on that dramedy to be called Wisteria Lane. The series would be set among a group of five very different friends and sometimes frenemies who all live on a picture-perfect cul de sac called Wisteria Lane. On the surface, all the Wisteria neighbors are living the dream: beautiful homes, gorgeous families, shiny SUVs in the driveway. But behind those white-picket fences and smiling Insta posts are secrets. (TV Line)

TV CASTING NEWS

CBS recently picked up the drama series Einstein to series, but the network has decided not to air the drama until the 2026-2027 TV season; and in doing so, female lead Rosa Salazar has asked the network not to pick up her option, which basically means she will not be starring in the show after all. (Deadline)

Netflix is working on a new adaptation of Little House on the Prairie, casting Lessons in Chemistry young actress Alice Halsey as Laura Ingalls Wilder, Luke Bracey (Hacksaw Ridge) and Crosby Fitzgerald (Palm Royale) as Charles and Caroline Ingalls respectively and Skywalker Hughes (Joe Pickett) as Mary Ingalls. (Variety)

Friday Night Lights alum Matt Lauria has joined the cast of the spin-off series Sheriff Country that will debut this fall on CBS, starring Firefly and Homeland alum Morena Baccarin. Lauria will play Boone, Mickey’s (Baccarin) longtime partner, a smart, tough and capable deputy with a different style of law enforcement, being from Oakland. (Variety)

Stephen Root (Barry) will guest star in the upcoming 4th season of Resident Alien, playing the father of Harry (series lead Alan Tudyk). (Variety)

Brat Packer Anthony Michael Hall will appear in season two of Wednesday on Netflix in an undisclosed role. This role will mark a reunion for him and series director and executive producer Tim Burton, as they worked on the 1990 classic Edward Scissorhands together. (Variety)

1883 alum Sam Elliott has joined the cast of season two of the Paramount+ Taylor Sheridan drama Landman, but details about what character he will play is being kept under wraps. (TV Line)

As revealed in the season two finale of Elsbeth on CBS, Carra Patterson, who has played NYPD Officer Kaya Blanke since the pilot episode, is leaving the show. (TV Line)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot and Mattias Schoenaerts (The Regime) will star in the World War II thriller Ruin that will be set in post-war Germany, following a recently released camp prisoner (Gadot) who is forced to make an unlikely alliance with a German soldier (Schoenaerts) in a mutual quest to exact revenge on a Nazi SS squad. (Variety)

Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock will be starring opposite each other in a romantic thriller that is in development at Amazon MGM Studios, but plot details are being kept under wraps. (Variety)

Snow White star Rachel Zegler and Oscar winner Marisa Tomei will star in the comedy drama flick She Gets It From Me that will follow Nicky (Zegler), whose engagement celebration turns into a search for her pill-popping, ex-punk rocker birth mother, Charlotte (Tomei). Together, the two embark on an anarchic mother-and-daughter journey to reconnect. (Variety)

The upcoming thriller flick Billion Dollar Spy, based on the true story of Soviet spy Adolf Tolkachev will star Russell Crowe as Tolkachev, Vera Farmiga as his wife Natasha and Willa Fitzgerald (Pulse) as Mae Lenihan. Additionally, Scandal star Tony Goldwyn, The Diplomat star Rufus Sewell and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice actor Justin Theroux will also appear in the film. Adolf Tolkachev was among the CIA’s most invaluable assets during the Cold War. Disillusioned with the Soviet regime, he risked his life to pass thousands of pages of top-secret intelligence to the United States. (Variety)

Chris Hemsworth is set to star in the submarine action flick Subversion that will follow a once-promising Naval commander (Hemsworth) who is blackmailed by a cartel-like operation into piloting a dangerous submarine carrying illegal cargo across international waters, thrusting him into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, outmaneuvering blockades, and navigating perilous threats both in and outside of the submarine. The cast is set to include Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan, Halle Berry and Monica Barbaro. (Deadline)

Dark Angel alum Jessica Alba is set to lead the action thriller The Mark, playing Eden, an enigmatic spy on a covert and dangerous mission, who pulls single father Ben Dawson into her world of high-stakes espionage. (Deadline)

Pam & Tommy star Lily James will star in and produce the emotional thriller Photo Booth that is being described as a gripping emotional thriller that confronts the most primal choices we make about love, ambition, and building a family. (Variety)

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