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“Jurassic Park 3” star Alessandro Nivola will play Tony Soprano’s uncle Dickey Moltisanti in “The Many Saints of Newark,” the Alan Taylor directed prequel to TV’s “The Sopranos”. [More…]
The Ink Factory is rebooting Roald Dahl’s ”Tales of the Unexpected” for TV and has set up a number of writers to work on the project. The company is working closely with the Roald Dahl Story Company on the project. [More…]
Lili Taylor has replaced Cynthia Nixon on Braden King’s “The Evening Hour”. Adapted from Carter Sickels’ 2012 novel, the story follows Cole Freeman, a young man who maintains an uneasy equilibrium in his rural Appalachian town, looking after the old and infirm in the community and selling their excess painkillers to local addicts. But when his old friend Terry Rose returns with plans to start his own drug operation, Cole is forced to take action to save the close-knit fabric of family, friendship, land, and history. [More…]
Christopher Convery (“The Girl in the Spider’s Web”) has joined the cast of STXfilm’s “The Boy 2”. The William Brent Bell directed film, which stars Katie Holmes in the lead, centers on a young family that, unaware of the terrifying history of Heelshire Mansion, moves into the estate. Convery’s character Jude soon makes an unsettling new friend in an eerily life-like doll he calls Brahms. [More…]
“Twilight” alum Ashley Greene will play former Fox & Friends host Abby Huntsman in Jay Roach’s untitled Roger Ailes pic. A couple of days back it was announced that Elisabeth Rohm (“Angel”) and Spencer Garrett (“Bosch”) will appear as Fox News hosts Martha MacCallum and Sean Hannity respectively. [More…]
George R.R Martin has confirmed when the new “Game of Thrones” prequel series will be set. “‘10,000 years’ is mentioned in the novels. But you also have places where maesters say, ‘No, no, it wasn’t 10,000, it was 5,000.’ . . . So I think it’s closer to 5,000 years. Westeros is a very different place. There’s no King’s Landing. There’s no Iron Throne. There are no Targaryens — Valyria has hardly begun to rise yet with its dragons and the great empire that it built. We’re dealing with a different and older world and hopefully that will be part of the fun of the series. [Jane Goldman] is a tremendous talent.” [More…]
The LeBron James produced sequel to “Space Jam” is set for a shoot in California. [More…]
Mary Elizabeth Winstead, recently cast as Huntress in the “Birds of Prey” film, spoke a little about the film and when she’s due on set in a new interview. “It’s sort of a spinoff of Suicide Squad. It kind of follows Harley Quinn, which is Margot Robbie’s character from those films, and this sort of girl gang that she puts together. I play Huntress, and we’ve got Black Canary, played by Jurnee Smollett-Bell, and Rosie Perez and Ewan McGregor. It’s a really fun, fun cast. We haven’t started shooting yet, but we start shooting in January, and I can’t wait.” [More…]
A sequel to Netflix hit “To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before” might come to fruition. [More…]
A teaser for the second half of the eighth season of “Suits”, coming January 23, has been released.
