Theatre

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