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1. “Boyz N’ The Hood” alum Morris Chestnut has joined the cast of TNT’s “Legends” starring Sean Bean.
2. Patrick Marber is doing a polish on the “50 Shades of Grey” script before production begins in December.
3. Johnny Depp has filmed a cameo in his girlfriend Amber Heard’s new movie “London Fields”.
4. Musician Toby Sebastian has joined the cast of Kyle Newman’s “Barely Lethal”.
5. Cult fave “Trick ‘r Treat” is getting a sequel, Legendary CEO Thomas Tull announced at a special screening of the film this week.
6. Sofia Boutella will play the female lead in Matthew Vaughan’s “Secret Service”, opposite Colin Firth.
7. “12 Years a Slave” director Steve McQueen is developing a new series for HBO described as “an exploration of a young African-American man’s experience entering New York high society, with a past that may not be what it seems.”
8. Vin Diesel has shared a new photo from the set of “Fast & Furious 7”.
9. A Couple of new “LEGO Movie” teasers have hit the web; one features President Business, the other features Metal Beard.
10. “Triplets” co-writer Josh Gad says the sequel to the 1989 hit “Twins” will be “reverential to the original, but have our tongue firmly in our cheek. As it needs to be, it’s very modernized. It’s taking them into the new world and it’s acknowledging that comedy’s changed a lot in 20 years.” He also laughed and pointed out, “If you saw Twins and it was released as a movie currently, you’d be like, ‘This is really strange,’ so we honor that and we respect it, but we also play on it.”
