Hey All,
Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:
RENEWAL/CANCELLATION
Netflix has given a second season renewal to its superpower series Supacell. The streamer has also given a second season order for The Gentlemen. (Variety and TV Line)
Amazon Prime has pulled the plug on the reimagined series My Lady Jane after only one season. (Deadline and TV Line)
Apple TV+ has given the sci-fi drama Dark Matter a second season order. (TV Line)
PULLED FROM THE FALL TV LINE-UP
For some reason the folks over at CW have pulled the plug on airing The Librarians: The Next Chapter from its expected fall debut. That doesn’t mean the show has been pulled altogether, but a new date has not yet been determined. (TV Line)
TV CASTING NEWS
Jared Padalecki (Supernatural and Walker) will appear in three episodes of the CBS drama Fire Country, playing Camden, a SoCal firefighter and maverick with a surfer swagger who is a force to be reckoned with and immediately recognizes Bode’s (series lead Max Thieriot) raw talent. There is also a possibility that this new character could land his own spinoff too. (Deadline and TV Line)
John Slattery (Mad Men) will star in the USA Network reboot of John Grisham’s The Rainmaker, playing Leo F. Drummond, a legendary lion of the courtroom and senior partner at Tinley Britt, the powerful firm that Rainmaker protagonist Rudy Baylor is up against. The straight-to-series order is the first on the cabler since 2020. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Bill Camp (Presumed Innocent), Andrea Martin (Evil) and Merritt Wever (Unbelievable) have joined the season 3 cast of the HBO period piece The Gilded Age. Camp will star as JP Morgan, the world-famous investment banker who finds himself at odds with George Russell (series regular Morgan Spector) over the future of the railroad industry. Martin will play Madame Dashkova, a medium who claims to be able to commune with the dead. And, Wever will play Monica O’Brien, Bertha Russell’s (series regular Carrie Coon) estranged sister who appears at a crucial time for the family. (TV Line)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Alexandra Shipp (Anyone But You), Rosario Dawson and Milla Jovovich will star in the upcoming action thriller flick Midnight with Dawson also serving as a producer. The movie will follow a young, blind woman (Shipp) as she is hunted by a group of international criminals (led by Jovovich) searching for a package they believe was given to the woman by her federal agent sister (Dawson). However, the assailants quickly realize that the woman, though unable to see, may be far more dangerous than expected. (Deadline)
The upcoming rom-com film The Pet Nup will star Emeraude Toubia (With Love and Shadowhunters), Gregg Sulkin (Runaways), Halston Sage (The Orville) and Jaime Pressly (My Name Is Earl). The movie will focus on a recently divorced couple as they navigate their new lives and love apart, but the arrangement in their “Pet-Nup” forces them to extremes as they fight for custody of the one thing in their life that can’t be split in two: their dog. (Deadline)
The dark comedy crime thriller Full Throttle Mindset will star Josh Duhamel and Lukas Gage (seen in the remake of Road House). The movie tells the wild true story of young burnout Blake Laubinger (Gage), who’s taken under the wing of a Midwestern tanning salon mogul named Todd Beckman (Duhamel). He soon learns his new mentor’s businesses are a front for a drug empire — one he’s now expected to partake in. (Deadline)
LaKeith Stanfield is expected to join Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson in the upcoming box office thriller Die, My Love which will be set in a remote forgotten rural area, following a mother who struggles to maintain her sanity as she battles with psychosis. It is unknown who Stanfield would play. (Deadline)
Camila Mendes (Riverdale) has landed the role of Teela in the upcoming live-action Masters of the Universe movie. She will star opposite Nicholas Galitzine who has been cast as He-Man. (Deadline)
Actress Kali Rocha will be coming back to Grey’s Anatomy, reprising her role of Dr. Sydney Heron in three episodes. (TV Line)
The still-untitled Bosch: Legacy spin-off that is set to star Maggie Q (Nikita and Designed Survivor) over on Amazon Prime has added Michael Mosley (Castle), Amy Hill (Magnum P.I.), Rebecca Field (All Rise) and Victoria Moroles (Teen Wolf) to is ensemble cast. The series will follow Detective Renee Ballard (Maggie Q), who is running the LAPD’s new cold case division — a poorly funded, all-volunteer unit with the largest case load in the city. Mosley will play Ted, a reserve officer who has been assigned to cold cases to keep an eye on Ballard; Hill will play Tutu, Ballard’s spunky grandma; Field will play Colleen, an enthusiastic and eccentric volunteer, and Moroles will play Martina, a savvy legal intern. (Deadline and TV Line)
Actress Yerin Ha (Halo) has been cast as Sophie Beckett, the love interest of Benedict Bridgergon (Luke Thompson) in the popular period drama’s fourth season. (Variety)
Matthew Fox (Lost and Party of Five) will be back on the small screen in the series The Assassin, which is basedo n the popular book series by acclaimed British novelist Tom Wood. The series will be centered around a ruthless assassin named Victor (Fox), who after a mission goes wrong, he realizes he has been betrayed by an anonymous client. his humanity that has long remained buried begins to resurface within him, posing “the greatest threat to his survival. Fox will also serve as an executive producer on the series that is in production at Max. (Collider)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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