11:40 PM EDT 3/21/2015
Ryan Guzman, 27, who stars opposite Jennifer Lopez in the thriller film Boy Next Door, joins Caitlin Green, Robbie Kay, Zachary Levi, Judith Shekoni and Danika Yarosh in the cast of new characters in Tim Kring's upcoming Heroes Reborn, a 13-episode miniseries that, according to NBC's official synopsis would “reconnect with the basic elements of the show's first season where ordinary people were waking up to the fact that they had extraordinary abilities.”Read more
11:31 PM EDT 3/21/2015
Minnie Driver, 45, who currently stars as Fiona Bowa on NBC's About a Boy, has landed the female lead on the CBS comedy pilot Happy Life (aka Joe Time) according to TV Line. However, she would only be credited as a guest star in the pilot and take the Happy Life role in second position to NBC's bubble series About a Boy. Thus, if NBC renews her comedy show for a third season, she would remain with that show and CBS would have to recast for Happy Life. But if NBC opts to cancel her series, and CBS pick up Happy Life to series, she would stay on as a Happy Life series regular.Read more
11:23 PM EDT 3/21/2015
Kevin Nealon, 61, best known for his role as Doug Wilson on Showtime's Weeds, and Jane Kaczmarek, 59, best known for portraying the character of Lois on Fox's Malcolm in the Middle, have joined JoAnna Garcia Swisher, 35, who plays the mermaid Ariel on ABC's Once Upon A Time, in the cast of the still untitled CBC comedy pilot that is loosely based on the life of stand-up comedian Tommy Johnagin.Read more
11:19 PM EDT 3/21/2015
Charlotte Gainsbourg, 43, best known for her portrayal of Joe, the sex-addict central character in Lars Von Trier's two-part five and a half hour art drama Nymphomanic, has joined Jessie Usher, Liam Hemsworth, Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum in the cast of Independence Day 2, the sequel to 1996 box office hit science fiction classic starring Will Smith.Read more
11:12 PM EDT 3/21/2015
Kelly Oxford's pitch for All the Way, described only as “a female-driven sex comedy set in high school,” has been purchased by Sony Pictures. Oxford will be writing the script for the movie with Point Grey Pictures, the production company of Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and James Weaver, handling production. Point Grey's executive Alex McAtee will be overseeing the project for the company according to The Wrap.Read more
11:06 PM EDT 3/21/2015
Milla Jovovich is in advanced negotiations to star in Myriad Pictures' In The Lost Lands, a film adaptation based on three fantasy adventure short stories by author George R.R. Martin of Game of Thrones fame. Confirmed to co-star in the movie is Canadian actor Justin Chadwick, 32, whose film credits include War of the Worlds, The Invisible, and Dragonball: Evolution and who is a regular on the TV series Shameless.Read more
11:00 PM EDT 3/21/2015
Alchemy, formerly known as Millennium Entertainment, has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Survivor, an upcoming spy action thriller directed by James McTeigue, best known for his work on V For Vendetta, which stars Milla Jovovich as a newly-posted State Department employee at the American embassy in London charged with stopping terrorists from getting into the country, who in the course of carrying out her work, gets targeted for death and framed for crimes she did not commit. Discredited and forced to go on the run while she tries to clear her name, Jovovich's character must also stop a large-scale terrorist attack set for New Year's Eve in Times Square.Read more
10:56 PM EDT 3/21/2015
The Moon and the Sun, the movie adaptation of Vonda N. McIntyre’s 1997 Nebula Award-winning historical science fiction novel of the same name, was originally set for release to US theaters on April 10. Now, less than a month before that date, Paramount Pictures, which acquired the distribution rights to film, has taken it off from its announced release schedule.Read more
10:51 PM EDT 3/21/2015
Michael Chicklis and Cheryl Hines have signed on to join Flula Borg and Rachel DiPillo in the cast of NBC's pilot sitcom Cuckoo, an adaptation of BBC Three's hit comedy series of the same name that starred Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Andy Samberg during its maiden season. It follows the story of a conservative middle-class family which got roused from its relatively normal routines when their daughter comes home from a summer abroad already married to a very unusual gentleman named Cuckoo who has an all-loving attitude, who does not have a job, and who loves to take drugs.Read more
10:45 PM EDT 3/21/2015
A panel of Academy of Television Arts and Sciences members ruled Netflix's Orange is the New Black is a drama, and thus will only be eligible for drama nominations.Read more
10:37 PM EDT 3/21/2015
Steve McQueen's pilot drama Codes of Conduct was given a six-episode limited series order by HBO according to Deadline.Read more
6:27 AM EDT 3/20/2015
Barely three days had passed since James Caan signed on to co-star in the Fox's new pilot Fantasy Life, a sitcom series based on the memoirs of Matthew Berry, 45, one of the industry's leading and in-demand fantasy sports experts, he is reportedly backing out. According to Deadline, the 74-year-old actor decided to drop out of the project following today's table read because it conflicted with his schedule for Frank D’Angelo’s Sicilian Vampire.Read more
6:21 AM EDT 3/20/2015
Netflix has finally began production work on the long-gestating Pee-Wee Herman full-length feature film. The streaming network has partnered up with Judd Apatow to bring Pee-wee Herman back in the limelight. Thirty years after the iconic fictional character created and portrayed by comedian Paul Reubens, 62, went in search of his missing bike in Tim Burton's cult-favorite comedy Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Netflix has announced that it will exclusively be premiering Pee-wee's next movie, Pee-wee's Big Holiday.Read more
6:16 AM EDT 3/20/2015
Keanu Reeves and Jim Carrey have joined Suki Waterhouse, Diego Luna and Jason Momoa in the cast of Ana Lily Amirpour’s The Bad Batch, a film she describes as “a post-apocalyptic cannibal love story set in a Texas wasteland” where a “muscled cannibal breaks the rule ‘don’t play with your food'” and “It’s Road Warrior meets Pretty in Pink with a dope soundtrack.”Read more
6:13 AM EDT 3/20/2015
Morena Baccarin, 35, today tweeted a picture of her actor’s chair, complete with the Deadpool logo and her character’s name “Vanessa” in director Tim Miller's upcoming live-action adaptation of the Marvel Comics character's story. In the comic book, Vanessa Carlyle is a mutant with shape-shifting abilities, codenamed Copycat, who has a long romantic history with Deadpool.Read more