News

News

Film

Sympathy For Mr Vengeance to be remade

Film casting

Zac Efron to star in Narc

Trailers

Final trailer for Man of Steel
New trailer for The Wolverine
New trailer for The Lone Ranger
Trailer for Byzantium with Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton
Trailer for Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England

UK TV

Monday ratings: The Fall steady

US TV

Netflix acquires Derek
Teaser for season 5 of Royal Pains
Monday ratings: Motive and The Goodwin Games start low
Monday cable ratings: Bates Motel up

New US TV shows

Microsoft and Steven Spielberg developing live-action Halo

New US TV show casting

Jonathan Hyde and Richard Sammel join FX’s The Strain

Tuesday’s “Mia Maestro to star in The Strain and NBC heads for Siberia” news

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Film casting

Kate Hudson joins Zach Braff’s Wish I Was Here
Liam Hemsworth to star in Aurora Rising
Anthony Hopkins joins Gotti

Trailers

Trailer for Cool As I Am with Claire Danes, James Marsden and Sarah Bolger

UK TV

Daniel Mays et al join BBC1’s Common

US TV

Clip from Holliston, season 2
Trailer for Teen Wolf, season 3
Trailer for The Glades, season 4

New US TV shows

NBC green lights: Siberia
Trailer for Showtime’s Ray Donovan

New US TV show casting

Mia Maestro to star in FX’s The Strain

Monday’s “Matt Smith, Steven Moffat back for season 8, Marton Csokas to fight The Equalizer and Marvel Phase 3 update” news

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Doctor Who

Steven Moffat returns for season 8…
…with Matt Smith

Film

Red 3 in the works
Plans for Marvel Phase 3, including new characters for Avengers 2

Film casting

Marton Csokas to be the villain in The Equalizer
Dev Patel to play Srinivasa Ramanujan
Olga Kurylenko joins Pierce Brosnan in November Man

Trailers

Teaser for Anchorman 2

French TV

France 2 renews: Candice Renoir

Theater

Vincent Kartheiser to play Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice in Minneapolis

UK TV

Trailer for BBC1’s The White Queen
Friday ratings: Life of Crime gets 3.23m viewers

US TV

Teaser for Dexter, season 8
Mark Roberts leaving Mike & Molly
The CW to stream shows to Apple TV
Thursday ratings
Friday ratings

US TV casting

Cristin Milioti to be a regular on How I Met Your Mother [spoilers]

Friday’s “BBC2’s Cold War, Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut and Warehouse 13 and Nikita to end” news

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Film

Scarlett Johansson to direct adaptation of Truman Capote’s Summer Crossing

Film casting

Amber Heard and Zac Efron to star in Autobahn
Michelle Yeoh joins Crouching Tiger 2
Anna Kendrick joins Wish I Was Here

Trailers

Trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim
Trailer for Last Vegas, with Morgan Freeman, Robert De Niro and Michael Douglas

UK TV

BBC2 working on Cold War season

US TV

SyFy red lights: Warehouse 13 with six-episode final season
The CW red lights: Nikita with six-episode final season
BSG‘s David Eick joins Falling Skies as new show runner
Amazon gets streaming rights to NBCU shows
Samantha to appear in second season of The Carrie Diaries
Wednesday ratings

New US TV shows

USA green lights: Sirens remake and Playing House to series, pilot of Love Is Dead
HBO green lights: Mike Judge comedy
Amazon red lights: Zombieland
Aron Eli Coleite replaces Allan Heinberg on The CW’s Amazon
Josh Friedman joins Crossbones
Teaser for CBS’s Under The Dome

Thursday’s “Scarlett Johansson and the duelling Chefs, Riddick returns with Starbuck and BBC1’s new Norse Noir” news

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Film

Bradley Cooper joins Chef, Scarlett Johansson joins Jon Favreau’s Chef, Jon Favreau’s Chef gets a cease-and-desist notice
Peggy Carter to be focus of Marvel short

Film casting

Philip Seymour Hoffman joins God’s Pocket
Josh Gad joins Zach Braff’s Wish I Was Here
Michelle Williams, Joel Edgerton to star in remake of The Double Hour
Chris Pine, Amanda Seyfried, Chiwetel Ejifor to star in Z for Zachariah adaptation

Trailers

Trailer for Riddick with Vin Diesel and Katee Sackhoff

International TV

Australian government gives ABC and SBS an extra A$120m

UK TV

BBC1 developing detective series based on Anne Holt’s books [subscription required]
Casting on BBC1’s Truckers
Tuesday’s ratings: Frankie gets 4.6m viewers

US TV

TBS and TNT to offer live streaming
Tuesday ratings

US TV casting

Sarah Shahi to be a regular on Person of Interest

New US TV shows

CBS red lights: NCIS: Red

New US TV show casting

Michael Rapaport and Mary Elizabeth Ellis leave CBS’s The Millers

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Reviewing the best and worst media from around the world for 17 years

Wednesday’s “Live-action Halo, trailers galore and The Fall stays steady” news

Tuesday’s “Mia Maestro to star in The Strain and NBC heads for Siberia” news

Monday’s “Matt Smith, Steven Moffat back for season 8, Marton Csokas to fight The Equalizer and Marvel Phase 3 update” news

Friday’s “BBC2’s Cold War, Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut and Warehouse 13 and Nikita to end” news

Thursday’s “Scarlett Johansson and the duelling Chefs, Riddick returns with Starbuck and BBC1’s new Norse Noir” news

The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List

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Ms Marvel, Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Time Traveler's Wife and The Old Man

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