Hey All,
Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:
RENEWALS/CANCELLATION
Amazon Prime has renewed The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power for a 3rd season. (TV Line)
Netflix has renewed the YA series XO, Kitty for a third season. (TV Line)
MAX has given a season two order to the medical drama The Pitt. (TV Line)
Hulu has pulled the plug on the TV adaptation of the wildly popular book series A Court of Thorns and Roses based on the books by Sarah J. Maas. (Variety)
TV CASTING NEWS
Actress Jackie Tohn has been promoted to series regular for season two of the Netflix hit rom-com Nobody Wants This. She plays Esther Roklov, the wife of Sasha (Timothy Simons) and sister-in-law to Rabbi Noah (Adam Brody). (TV Line)
Perry Mason and The Americans alum Matthew Rhys will star in the upcoming Apple TV+ series Widow’s Bay that will be about a mysteriously cursed New England island and its superstitious citizens, led by a mayor (Rhys) who refuses to believe their warnings. (Variety)
Game of Thrones alum Peter Dinklage has joined the cast of the upcoming series Dexter: Resurrection. There are no plot details for the series though, but it will serve as a direct follow-up to the prequel series Dexter: New Blood. This new series will include Uma Thurman, David Zayas, James Remar, and Jack Alcott. Dinklage will play Leon Prater, a billionaire venture capitalist. (Variety)
Amy Adams has joined the cast of the upcoming Apple TV+ series Cape Fear that will star Javier Bardem. The series is based on the John D MacDonald novel and the box office movies based on that novel. The official logline is: A storm is coming for happily married attorneys Anna (Adams) and Tom Bowden when Max Cady (Bardem), a notorious killer from their past, gets out of prison. (Variety)
John Lighgow is close to taking overe the role of Albus Dumbledore, the Hogwarts headmaster, in the upcoming HBO Harry Potter series. (Deadline and TV Line)
Succession star Jeremy Strong will star in the Netflix series adaptation The Boys From Brazil, which is based on the Ira Levin novel. In the novel, Nazi hunter Yakov Liebermann receives a tip that the notorious Dr. Josef Mengele is alive and living under an assumed name in Brazil. Liebermann travels to the South American country to track down the so called “Angel of Death,” only to discover a sinister conspiracy at work. Sources say that Strong would star as Liebermann. (Variety)
Amazon Prime is working on a prequel series to Legally Blonde, the movie that starred Reese Witherspoon. The series, Elle, has cast Lexi Minetree (The Murdaugh Murders) in the lead role. (TV Line)
Catherine Zeta-Jones will star in the Amazon Prime revenge thriller Kill Jackie that is based on the novel “The Price You Pay” by Nick Harkaway (aka Aidan Truhen). Zeta-Jones will play Jackie Price, who has been living a wealthy, luxurious existence for the last 20 years, traveling the world, selling fine art using sophisticated tax loopholes and, above all, trying to stay anonymous after escaping a dangerous past as an international cocaine dealer. She will also serve as an executive producer. (Variety)
The Good Place’s D’Arcy Carden will appear in the 6th and final season of The Handmaid’s Tale, but there are no details on what her role will be, though. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Country singer Jelly Roll will make his acting debut in an upcoming episode of the third season of the CBS hit drama Fire Country. (Good Housekeeping)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Margaret Qualley, Josh Brolin and Guy Pearce will join Jacob Elordi in the upcoming dystopian thriller The Dog Stars from director Ridley Scott and based on the novel by Peter Heller. The story centers on a civilian pilot living on an abandoned airbase with his dog and an ex-Marine amid a devastating pandemic. A random transmission picked up by the pilot’s radio from his 1956 Cessna offers hope for a better life. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Selma Blair will star in the upcoming supernatural thriller Silent, playing Skylar, a sound designer hired anonymously to create the audio for a rare silent film. Disturbed by its contents, Skylar is nonetheless increasingly obsessed with her work and unwittingly finds herself caught up in a dark ritual that unlocks an ancient evil, threatening to consume her and her young daughter. (Variety)
Top Gun: Maverick alum Miles Teller will star as Italian cycling champion and WWII hero Gino Bartali in the upcoming biopic Bartali. (Variety)
That’s it. Enjoy!
