Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
TV CASTING NEWS
Carla Gugino has joined the cast of the upcoming HBO Max series The Girls on the Bus, joining cast member Melissa Benoist in a story inspired by a chapter in the Amy Chozick book Chasing Hillary. The series is a comedic character-driven drama that chronicles four female journalists who follow every move of a parade of flawed presidential candidates, while finding friendship, love, and scandal along the way. (Variety)
Sebastian Roche has joined the cast of the Yellowstone prequel 1923 in a recurring role, but details on his role are being kept under wraps. The series will star Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford as a new generation of the Dutton family, exploring the early 20th century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition and the Great Depression all plague the Mountain West, and the Duttons who call it home. (Deadline)
Naveen Andrews has joined the cast of the 2nd season of The Cleaning Lady. He will play Robert Kamdar, Nadia’s (Eva De Dominici) gregarious and charming ex-lover, who is intent on driving a wedge between Arman (Adan Canto) and Nadia. (Variety)
Chicago P.D. alum Jesse Lee Soffer will be leaving the show at the end of the upcoming 10th season. (Variety and TV Line)
James Cromwell, Anna Gunn and Lindsay Pulsipher (among others) have joined the cast of the upcoming Apple series Sugar that will star Colin Farrel, Amy Ryan and Kirby Howell-Baptiste. Exact plot and character details for the show are being kept under wraps though. (Variety)
Jennifer Connelly will star opposite Joel Edgerton in the Apple series Dark Matter, based on the Blake Crouch novel. The nine-episode series follows Jason Dessen (Edgerton), a physicist, professor, and family man who – one night while walking home on the streets of Chicago – is abducted into an alternate version of his life. Wonder quickly turns to nightmare when he tries to return to his reality amid the multiverse of lives he could have lived. In this labyrinth of mind-bending realities, he embarks on a harrowing journey to get back to his true family and save them from the most terrifying, unbeatable foe imaginable: himself. Connelly will play Daniela, Jason’s wife. (Variety)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Justin H. Min (The Umbrella Academy) will star opposite Lucy Boynton (Bohemian Rhapsody) in the upcoming movie The Greatest Hits. The characters they will play are being kept under wraps, but the movie is a love story centering on the connection between music and memory, and how the two transport us. (Variety)
Russell Crowe will play a former homicide detective tasked with re-examining a brutal murder case from his past in the upcoming box office movie Sleeping Dogs. He will play Roy Freeman, who is undergoing a cutting-edge Alzheimer’s treatment. He is forced to grapple with the impact of an investigation from his former life after a death row inmate that Freeman arrested 10 years prior starts to proclaim his innocence. Intrigued and fighting to regain his memory, Freeman enlists his former partner to help him revive the case and discover the truth. Together, they set off to unravel a tangled web of secrets, forcing Freeman to make some horrific discoveries. (Variety)
Tessa Thompson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt will star in the sci-fi thriller Ash. Thompson will play a space station worker who wakes up on a distant planet to find her colleagues viciously killed, and then forced to work together with the man (Gordon-Levitt) sent to rescue her. But as their investigation into what happened sets in motion a terrifying chain of events, the rescuer begins to wonder how innocent she really is. (Variety)
STREAMING MOVIE NEWS
Simu Lu will appear in the upcoming Netflix production Atlas alongside Jennifer Lopez and Sterling K. Brown. Lu will play the antagonist in the film that follows Atlas, a woman fighting for humanity in a future where an AI soldier has determined the only way to end war is to end humanity. To outthink this rogue AI, Atlas must work with the one thing she fears most — another AI. (Deadline)
MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE NEWS
Teri Hatcher and James Tupper will star in the upcoming Hallmark Movies & Mysteries movie Mid-Love Crisis, playing former high school sweethearts. Hatcher will play Mindy, a single mom approaching her 50th birthday who realizes she’s in the throes of a bonafide mid-life crisis. During a long weekend at the family’s lake house with her daughter Rita and Rita’s girlfriend, Emily, Mindy is surprisingly reunited with her former boyfriend — Emily’s uncle, Sam (Tupper), who she hasn’t spoken to in three decades. As Rita plans to surprise Emily with a proposal, she tells her mom she wants her dad to join them, leading to Mindy’s two exes under one roof. (Variety)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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