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Film

Tom Cruise to star in The Magnificent Seven
Rupert Everett to direct The Happy Prince
Robert De Niro to star in Luc Besson’s Malavita
Chloe Moretz and Jessica Biel to star in The Devil in the Deep Blue Sea
James McAvoy and Jessica Chastain to star in The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her

Trailers

Trailer for Whole Lotta Sole with Brendan Fraser and Colm Meaney
Trailer for Terrence Malick’s The Master

Comics

A major DC character to come out as gay

US TV

DirecTV acquires Sky Atlantic’s Hit and Miss [registration required]
24‘s Sarah Wynter joins Californication
Rules of Engagement gets a seventh season
Community‘s Donald Glover to guest on Girls
Smash to add three regulars for season two
SyFy cancels Sanctuary
Gabriel Byrne to star in Vikings

US TV pilots

Charlie Kaufman and Catherine Keener developing comedy for HBO

Monday’s “Community showrunner fired, Ryan Reynolds to be the Highlander? and Jackie Chan quits action movies” news

21 May 2012 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Film

Blade Runner 2 to have a female protagonist
Rachel McAdams joins A Most Wanted Man
BBC Films announces its production slate
Simon Pegg to star in Hector and the Search for Happiness
Duncan Jones working on Ian Fleming biopic
Robin Williams, Mila Kunis, Peter Dinklage and James Earl Jones to star in The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
Peter Weir to adapt The Keep
Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy to star in a cop comedy
Ryan Reynolds to star in Highlander?
Jackie Chan to quit action movies
Elizabeth Banks to star in Alan Ball’s What’s The Matter With Margie?
Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska to star in adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s Carol

Trailers

Trailer for Hyde Park On Hudson, starring Bill Murray

Theatre

Will Young to star in Cabaret

Canadian TV

Kate Kelton and Southland’s Dorian Missick join Haven

UK TV

Seven new episodes for The Thick of It
Big Bang Theory gets 1.4m viewers
Trailer for Sinbad
Tim Vine quits Not Going Out
Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm to star in Sky Arts’ A Young Doctor’s Notebook

US TV

Lost‘s Harold Perrineau joins Sons of Anarchy
David Guarascio and Moses Port to take over from Dan Harmon on Community…
…after Harmon was fired…
…The cast offer their support
Friday ratings: Grimm finishes up 33%

US TV pilots

Tim Roth working on FX bank robbery drama

Monday’s “Community showrunner fired, Ryan Reynolds to be the Highlander? and Jackie Chan quits action movies” news

21 May 2012 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Film

Blade Runner 2 to have a female protagonist
Rachel McAdams joins A Most Wanted Man
BBC Films announces its production slate
Simon Pegg to star in Hector and the Search for Happiness
Duncan Jones working on Ian Fleming biopic
Robin Williams, Mila Kunis, Peter Dinklage and James Earl Jones to star in The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
Peter Weir to adapt The Keep
Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy to star in a cop comedy
Ryan Reynolds to star in Highlander?
Jackie Chan to quit action movies
Elizabeth Banks to star in Alan Ball’s What’s The Matter With Margie?
Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska to star in adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s Carol

Trailers

Trailer for Hyde Park On Hudson, starring Bill Murray

Theatre

Will Young to star in Cabaret

Canadian TV

Kate Kelton and Southland’s Dorian Missick join Haven

UK TV

Seven new episodes for The Thick of It
Big Bang Theory gets 1.4m viewers
Trailer for Sinbad
Tim Vine quits Not Going Out
Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm to star in Sky Arts’ A Young Doctor’s Notebook

US TV

Lost‘s Harold Perrineau joins Sons of Anarchy
David Guarascio and Moses Port to take over from Dan Harmon on Community…
…after Harmon was fired…
…The cast offer their support
Friday ratings: Grimm finishes up 33%

US TV pilots

Tim Roth working on FX bank robbery drama

Friday’s “Partridge flies to Sky, bye bye Breakout Kings, Alex Proyas’s Gods of Egypt and Sean Bean’s 4th Reich” news

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Film

Sean Bean joins The 4th Reich
Alex Proyas to make Gods of Egypt
Original Blade Runner writer Hampton Fancher to write the sequel
Mickey Rourke returning for Sin City 2
Emma Thompson updating Annie

Trailers

Trailer for The Words with Bradley Cooper
Teaser for Slasher with Elijah Wood

UK TV

Channel 5 acquires Person of Interest
Cast for The Paradise
Alan Partridge moves to Sky Atlantic

US TV

Trailer for ABC Family’s Bunheads
Trailer for Political Animals with Sigourney Weaver
A&E cancels Breakout Kings

US TV pilots

USA picks up Paging Dr Freed (again) and Sirens, announces development slate

Thursday’s “BBC1 loses kids programmes, Chris Moyles is King Herod and new Cougar Town showrunners” news

17 May 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

Steve Coogan and Lisa Stansfield to star in Northern Soul
Morgan Freeman joins Last Vegas
Olivia Wilde and Liam Neeson join Paul Haggis’ Third Person
Peter Mullan joins Terence Davies’ Sunset Song
John Cleese joins Hunting Elephants
Jude Law and Richard E Grant to star in Dom Hemingway
Jane Fonda joins Better Living Through Chemistry
Rubicon‘s James Badge Dale joins Iron Man 3
Anthony Hopkins, Andy Garcia and Annette Bening joins Hemingway & Fuentes
John Woo to direct Day of the Beast

Trailers

Trailer for Won’t Back Down with Maggie Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Holly Hunter, Rosie Perez and Lance Reddick
Trailer for Hit and Run, written by, co-directed by and starring Parenthood‘s Dax Shepard

Theatre

Mel C, Chris Moyles and Tim Minchin to star in Jesus Christ Superstar
39 Steps creator to adapt Ben Hur

UK TV

BBC greenlights adaptation of Emile Zola’s Ladies’ Paradise
BBC to move kids TV to digital channels, cut BBC3 and BBC4 drama and factual budgets, shut BBC HD for BBC2 HD and launch regional BBC1 HD channels
Silk gets 5.6m viewers

US TV

Bill Lawrence steps down as Cougar Town showrunner
Tia Mowry leaves The Game
Noah Bean promoted to series regular on Nikita
FNL‘s Jesse Plemons joins Breaking Bad [minor spoilers]
Tuesday’s ratings: NCIS finishes with 18.7m viewers

US TV pilots

TBS and TNT unveil their development slates

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