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News

Film casting

Abigail Breslin joins Maggie
Titus Welliver joins Transformers 4
Andrew Garfield to star in 99 Homes

Trailers

Trailer for 47 Ronin with Keanu Reeves
Trailer for A Single Shot with Sam Rockwell
New trailer for Jobs with Ashton Kutcher

UK TV

Knightmare to return on YouTube for Geek Week
Tuesday ratings: Luther gets 4.83m

New UK TV shows

Trailer for Comedy Central’s Big Bad World

US TV

Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Henry Winkler and Heidi Klum to guest on Parks and Recreation
Michael Eklund to recur on Bates Motel
Nicole Ari Parker to recur on Revolution
Lauren Stamile to guest on The Mentalist
Freddie Prinze Jr to recur on Bones

New US TV shows

Trailer for CBS’s The Millers
ABC developing: Sarah Watson/Jason Katims romcom

New US TV show casting

Cary Elwes to star in USA’s Horizon, Jordan Hayes joins SyFy’s Helix
Daniella Alonso joins NBC’s Night Shift
Roger Cross joins FX’s The Strain
Luke Roberts and Katie Boland join The CW’s Reign

Wednesday’s “John Travolta/Kirstie Alley reunion, Sean Maguire is Robin Hood and more Maron” news

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Film casting

Kellan Lutz, Ronda Rousey and Victor Ortiz join The Expendables 3
Christopher Walken joins Jersey Boys
Jessica Alba joins Stretch
Topher Grace joins Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar
Rosemarie DeWitt to star in Poltergeist remake
Danny McBride joins new Cameron Crowe movie

Canadian TV

Ratings for week of July 8

US TV

IFC renews: Maron
Trailer for season 3 of Once Upon A Time
Trailer for season 3 of Hell On Wheels [US only]
Monday ratings

US TV casting

Michael Vartan, Rebecca Creskoff and Kenny Johnson join Bates Motel
Michelle Forbes to recur on Chicago Fire, Leslie Odom Jr to recur on Person of Interest
David Anders to guest on Criminal Minds
Sean Maguire to replace Tom Ellis on Once Upon A Time

New US TV shows

ABC developing: The Assets…
…and Shonda Rhimes’s legal drama
WEtv green lights: The Divide

New US TV show casting

John Travolta to guest on TV Land’s Kirstie
Terrence Howard to co-star in Fox’s Wayward Pines, Adriana Barraza to co-star on FX’s Saint George
Taylor Handley and Mark Femiglietti join USA’s Horizon

Tuesday’s “12 Monkeys TV show, Fight Club sequel, The Professionals movie and Russian Hot in Cleveland” news

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Doctor Who

A returning enemy for the 50th anniversary special [spoilers]

Comics

Fight Club sequel to be a graphic novel

Film

The Professionals to be adapted
New writers for Star Trek 3

Film casting

Sacha Baron Cohen leaves Freddie Mercury biopic

International TV

Russia’s Channel 1 adapting Hot in Cleveland

UK TV

Channel 4 acquires: Showtime’s Masters of Sex
Channel 4 red lights: Bad Sugar
E4 renews: The Midnight Beast

New UK TV show casting

Sarah Hadland et al join Comedy Central’s Mummy’s Boys

US TV

ABC Family cancels: Bunheads
BBC America to co-produce Atlantis
Sunday ratings

US TV show casting

Felicia Day returning to Supernatural
Stephen Collins to join Revolution
Kris Humphries to guest on The Mindy Project
David Denman to recur on Parenthood

New US TV shows

Trailer for TNT’s The Last Ship
New trailer for NBC’s Dracula
SyFy developing: 12 Monkeys adaptation…
…and post-apocalyptic Wizard of Oz
The Kingkiller Chronicle to be adapted for TV

Monday’s “Supernatural spin-off, Avengers 2: Age of Ultron plus new season trailers” news

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Film

Avengers 2 to be Age of Ultron
Man of Steel 2 to feature Batman
Duncan Jones to direct World of Warcraft

Trailers

Trailer for Riddick [NSFW]
Trailer for The Hunger Games 2: Catching Fire
Featurette and trailer for Veronica Mars

UK TV

Sky Living acquires: NBC’s The Blacklist
Saturday ratings: Top of the Lake down 650k

New UK TV shows

Geri Halliwell developing Life Sucks for Channel 4
Clips from BBC3’s Going Native

New UK TV show casting

Casting for Channel 4’s New Worlds
Chris Langham to appear in Lee

US TV

Sizzle reel for season 2 of Arrow
Trailer for season 4 of The Walking Dead
Trailer for season 2 of The Vikings
Trailer for season 2 of Revolution
Trailer for season 2 of Banshee
Friday ratings

US TV show casting

Michael Jai White and Kevin Alejandro to appear on Arrow
Lindsey Gort to play Samantha on The Carrie Diaries
Naveen Andrews joins Once Upon A Time In Wonderland
Adam Pally to recur on The Mindy Project
Amy Acker promoted to regular on Person of Interest
Josh Stamberg to recur on Parenthood

New US TV shows

The CW developing spin-off from Supernatural
Robert Kirkman’s Clone being adapted

New US TV show casting

Cobie Smulders to appear on ABC’s Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD
Jason Momoa to star in Sundance’s The Red Road

Friday’s “Sky Arts acquires Isabel, Idris Elba’s Long Walk To Freedom and Agents of SHIELD featurette” news

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Film casting

Vladimir Kulich joins The Equalizer
Paula Malcomson, Annabeth Gish and Ryan Lee joins Grass Stains
Gina Carano to star in Avengelyne series

Comics

J Michael Straczynski to write Terminator comic for Dark Horse

Trailers

Another teaser trailer for Ridley Scott’s The Counselor
Trailer for Long Walk To Freedom, with Idris Elba
Trailer for Last Vegas with Michael Douglas

UK TV

Sky Arts acquires: Television Española’s Isabel

US TV

TV Land orders 10 more episodes of The Exes

US TV casting

Adam Pally to guest on The Mindy Project
Caity Lotz to play Black Canary on Arrow

New US TV shows

Agents of SHIELD featurette
Teasers for SyFy’s Helix

New US TV show casting

Bailee Madison to recur on ABC’s The Trophy Wife

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Wednesday’s “John Travolta/Kirstie Alley reunion, Sean Maguire is Robin Hood and more Maron” news

Tuesday’s “12 Monkeys TV show, Fight Club sequel, The Professionals movie and Russian Hot in Cleveland” news

Monday’s “Supernatural spin-off, Avengers 2: Age of Ultron plus new season trailers” news

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