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Briefs : Garfield movie, Spade series, Veronica Mars additions, Apollo in Star Wars

Mark Dindal (“Chicken Little”) will direct a new animated “Garfield” movie at Alcon Entertainment, which acquired the rights from the creator Jim Davis, who will serve as an exec producer. [More…]

Clifton Collins Jr. and Izabela Vidovic are set for recurring roles in Hulu’s eight-episode ”Veronica Mars” revival set for premiere in 2019. Collins will play Alonzo, a mid-level hitman for a Mexican cartel. Because of his facility with English, he’s chosen by his boss to travel to Neptune to take out whoever killed his wife’s nephew. The more time Alonzo spends in the U.S. the more doubts creep in about his chosen career field, particularly when he falls hard for a local girl. Vidovic will portray Matty Ross. When teenaged Matty Ross loses the most important person in the world to her in an act of violence, she isn’t content to wait for justice. She goes after it herself in acts so brazen, they remind Veronica of the girl she used to be. [More…]

David Spade will star in a half-hour comedy series from Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman for HBO. In it, Calvin Wash, played by Spade, who in the 90s was a semi-famous grunge musician hooked on heroin. Now he’s clean, sober and working as a waiter in the Valley. When he meets troubled 20-something actress Bailey, both of their lives change in unexpected and electrifying ways. [More…]

“Room” star Jacob Tremblay has joined the cast of “The Shining” sequel “Doctor Sleep” [More…].

“Rocky” star Carl Weathers is rumored to be up for a role in “The Mandalorian”, though his role is unclear at this point. [More…]

Michelle Yeoh will reprise her role as “Star Trek Discovery”’s Phillippa Georgiou for a series based around her character in the works at CBS All Access.[More…]

Tyler Hoechlin has revealed a pic of his Superman with Lois Lane on the upcoming Arrowverse crossover episode.

Tributes pour in for Stan Lee, who leaves us aged 95

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