Hey All,
Here is the entertainment news items for this past week:
RENEWALS/CANCELLATION
Power Book IV: Force will come to an end after its upcoming third season. (TV Line)
House of the Dragon has been renewed for a third season at HBO, mere days after the season two premiere. (TV Line)
While The Boys is currently airing its fourth season on Amazon Prime, the series will actually be coming to an end after its 5th season. (TV Line)
The John Leguizamo drama The Green Veil, which is airing on the new independent, ad-supported streamer The Network, has been renewed for a second season. The show will pick up between 10 and 15 years later, amidst the women’s rights movement and the occupation of Alcatraz by Native Americans in 1969. (Variety)
TV CASTING NEWS
Station 19 alum Danielle Savre has joined the second season of the NBC drama Found in a recurring role that is being kept under wraps. (TV Line)
The second season of the Apple TV+ thriller series Hijack, which stars Idris Elba, will now include cast members Toby Jones (Mr. Bates vs The Post Office), German actress Lisa Vicari and FBI: International alum Christiane Paul. Plot details for season two are being kept under wraps, though. (Deadline)
Paul Giamatti has joined the upcoming Paramount+ series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy where he will play a recurring guest role as the first season’s main villain, who has a sinister connection to the past of one of the (yet to be cast) cadets. (Variety)
Julianna Margulies will not be back for season four of The Morning Show on Apple TV+. (Variety)
Jason George will return to Grey’s Anatomy as a series regular after being on the show’s spin-off series Station 19 after seven seasons. (Variety)
Grey’s Anatomy alum Eric Dane has joined the cast of the Jensen Ackles upcoming thriller-drama series Countdown that will air on Amazon Prime. The series will follow a suspicious murder that happens in broad daylight, leading LAPD officer Mark Meachum (Ackles) being recruited to join a secret task force of undercover agents from all branches of law enforcement to investigate. Dane will play Nathan Blythe, Special Agent in Charge and a veteran with the Bureau for 22 years. (Bleeding Cool)
Anthony Michael Hall (The Dead Zone) has joined the cast of season three of Reacher. He will play the main antagonist Zachary Beck, a kingpin of wholesale drug dealing. (Collider)
BAFTA Rising Star winner Mia McKenna-Bruce (How to Have Sex) will star in the upcoming Netflix Agatha Christie series The Seven Dials Mystery that will also star Helena Bonham Carter and Martin Freeman. Set in 1925, the series follows a lavish country house party where a practical joke appears to have gone horribly, murderously wrong. In the end, it’s up to the unlikeliest of sleuths — the fizzingly inquisitive Lady Eileen “Bundle” Brent (McKenna-Bruce) — to unravel a chilling plot that will change her life, cracking wide open the country house mystery. Bonham Carter and Freeman will play the characters Lady Caterham and Superintendent Battle, respectively. (Variety)
ADAPTATION NEWS
Amazon MGM Studios is adapting the novel The 500 from author Matthew Quirk, who is the author behind the Netflix hit series The Night Agent. This new adaptation will focus on a former con artist who is plucked from his Harvard Law School classroom to become an associate at Washington’s most high-powered consulting firm. Quickly pulled into a seductive, dangerous web of power and corruption, he struggles to find his way out. (Deadline)
SERIES ORDER
AMC has given a greenlight to Anne Rice’s The Talamasca [currently the working title], the third series in the network’s Anne Rice Immortal Universe. The series is set to debut in 2025 and will follow a secretive society called the Talamasca that’s responsible for tracking and containing witches, vampires, werewolves and other creatures. (Variety)
The USA Network has ordered to series a scripted drama based on the 1995 John Grisham novel The Rainmaker. (TV Line)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Paramount is updating the classic 80’s movie An Officer and a Gentleman this time with Miles Teller (Top Gun Maverick) in the lead role. (Deadline and Variety)
Universal Pictures has landed the rights to the Stacey Abrams novel Rules of Engagement that follows an operative for a top-secret intelligence organization, who knows that her undercover work has its risks. So she doesn’t hesitate when asked to infiltrate Scimitar, the terrorist group that has stolen lethal environmental technology. But when she’s assigned a partner, brooding, sexy Adam Grayson to pose as her lover, Raleigh discovers that the most dangerous risk of all is falling in love. Scandal alum Kerry Washington will be one of the producers. (Deadline)
After 26 years, Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are in talks to return for a sequel to Practical Magic. (Variety)
Newcomer Catherine Laga’aia (whose only credit is playing Young Candy in The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart) has been cast in the lead role of the upcoming live-action Moana film. SHe will star opposite Dwayne Johnson, who will reprise his role as demigod Maui. (Variety)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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