4:21 PM EDT 3/12/2015
Lauren German, 36, who starred as Leslie Shay in NBC's Chicago Fire from 2012 to 2014, will be seen back on the small-screen as the female lead in FOX and DC Entertainment's upcoming Lucifer TV series.Read more
4:17 PM EDT 3/12/2015
John Stamos, 51 best remembered for his role as the young Jesse in the ABC hit sitcom Full House which aired 1987-95 and for his occasional guesting as guitarist/ percussionist in rock band Beach Boys' live performances, is cast in the title role in Fox's upcoming comedy pilot Grandpa.Read more
4:13 PM EDT 3/12/2015
Elizabeth Banks is set to star as Billie Jean King with Paul Giamatti as Bobbi Riggs in HBO's upcoming TV movie which will dramatize the events during and surrounding the famous “battle of the sexes” tennis match held September 20, 1973, at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. In that historic tournament, King handily defeated Riggs 6–4, 6–3, 6–3 to win the $100,000 prize.Read more
4:09 PM EDT 3/12/2015
Miles Teller, 28, best remembered for his roles in Two Night Stand, Whiplash and the Divergent films, is now attached to star in Universal's adaptation of The Life and Times of the Stopwatch Gang, a non-fiction work written by Josh Dean.Read more
4:04 PM EDT 3/12/2015
Legendary Entertainment’s The Great Wall, is now on track to begin shooting by the end of the month. The producers today announced they have locked the cast for what will be the largest film ever shot in China for global distribution according to Deadline.Read more
3:58 PM EDT 3/12/2015
Zootopia, the next computer-animated comedy-adventure feature scheduled to be released by Walt Disney Animation Studios following the hugely successful Frozen, has been renamed Zootropolis for its UK screening according to Screen Daily.Read more
9:46 AM EDT 3/12/2015
Leonardo DiCaprio may soon finally get to play the role he's been eying at since 1997 — that of Billy Milligan, the first person to successfully use multiple personality disorder as a defense in a court of law, according to The Hollywood Reporter.Read more
9:30 AM EDT 3/12/2015
Marvel Entertainment and ESPN Films have jointly announced at Wednesday's winter Television Critics Association (TCA) panel session two new projects that will combine ESPN's non-fiction storytelling style with Marvel comic-book art and animation: the feature-length documentary titled “1 of 1 – Genesis” and a short film series that will be called “1 of 1 – Origins.”Read more
9:05 AM EDT 3/12/2015
Killing Jesus, a three-hour made-for-TV movie chronicling the life and crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth adapted from the 2013 book of the same name by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard is set for showing on Palm Sunday, March 29, 8 pm at the National Geographic Channel.Read more
4:42 PM EDT 3/11/2015
Tim DeKay, 51, best known for his co-starring role in USA Network's just concluded White Collar series, is set to co-star again in another buddy-type police procedural drama series, albeit this time with the added elements of the science fiction and the supernatural. As with his White Collar character, DeKay is once more cast as an FBI special agent, this time named Duval Pritchard, in Fox's pilot drama Frankenstein.Read more
4:38 PM EDT 3/11/2015
HBO's CEO Richard Plepler on Monday at the Apple event in San Francisco announced the launch of the standalone HBO NOW app that will be coming to Apple products exclusively beginning April in time for the start of the fifth season of Game of Thrones which is set to premiere on Sunday, April 12, 2015.Read more
4:35 PM EDT 3/11/2015
Award-winning gospel music singer-songwriter Detrick Haddon, 41, who also stars in Oxygen's reality television show Preachers of L.A., is launching a new partnership with the independent eOne Music. The deal will include the introduction of his DHVisions record label where he will be releasing new music as well as developing and producing projects for television and film.Read more
4:32 PM EDT 3/11/2015
An eight-person Los Angeles jury after deliberating for two days on Tuesday finally ordered Blurred Lines songwriters Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams to pay $7.3 million to the family of the late Marvin Gaye for copyright infringement.Read more
4:21 PM EDT 3/11/2015
Three-time Grammy Award nominee R&B singer-songwriter Angie Stone, 53, was arrested and booked Tuesday in DeKalb County, Georgia, for domestic aggravated assault on her 30-year-old daughter from her marriage to Rodney Stone (AKA Lil' Rodney C! Of the hip-hop group Funky Four Plus One).Read more
4:17 PM EDT 3/11/2015
Johnny Depp, 51, injured his hand over the weekend while in Australia for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and is returning to the United States for surgery according to The Wrap. Depp was reportedly not on set or filming at the time of the incident, and production is expected to be “minimally impacted” by the franchise star's injury.Read more