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Actors Reggie Watts, Miles Fisher and Mike Castle are going to be giving (and receiving) some bad advice. The trio have been cast in Comedy Central’s comedy pilot Bad Advice From My Brother.
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Warner Bros. and DC Comics had a very happy Father’s Day weekend as their summer tentpole release Man of Steel found it’s way to an estimate $125.1 million opening. However, the big news came Monday morning, when anonymous WB sources suggested the studio’s plans for their Kryptonian hero may be moving forward much faster than anyone expected.
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West Bentley has been cast in the new HBO pilot Open, from Glee producer Ryan Murphy. Open is said to be a multi-character exploration of the complex, ever-evolving landscape of sexuality, monogamy and intimacy in relationships. Bentley’s role is that of the handsome but arrogant Evan Foster, who loves espousing his theories on human sexuality.
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All right, I did cry just a little when I heard that Matt Smith, Doctor #11, is hanging up his bowtie after four years flying around in my favorite bigger-on-inside police box. Yeah, I’m wearing extra large nerd pants on this one.
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Funny girl Melissa McCarthy has signed on to voice a character opposite Seth Rogen in DreamWorks Animation’s B.O.O. (Bureau of Otherworldly Operations).
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Actress Megan Hilty will be making a brand new smash very soon. The Smash star will be joining the cast of NBC’s Sean Saves the World in a starring role opposite Sean Hayes.
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The honeymoon is beginning for Chris Tucker. The actor/comedian has joined the cast of the the comedy film Second Honeymoon.
The plot focuses on a couple who are attempting to re-energize their marriage by returning to Antigua, where they eloped 10 years earlier after a wild week.
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Sandra Bullock may be the latest addition to the cast of Sony’s Annie remake. If she is to sign, Bullock will play Miss Hannigan, the harsh woman who runs the orphanage that houses Annie and her friends. The cast already includes Jamie Foxx as an updated incarnation of the Daddy Warbucks character named Benjamin Stacks, and Quvenzahne Wallis as the titular character.
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The latest thriller starring Shia LaBeouf, The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman, will be released in the U.S. later this year by Millennium Entertainment.
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Tarantino favorite Christoph Waltz has signed to star in the fact-based thriller True Crimes.
Adapted from David Grann’s 2008 New Yorker feature, the story involves the case of Krystian Bala, a Polish writer who was convicted of murder in 2007. The murder for which he was convicted had been a cold case which, for years, went unsolved by the Polish police force.
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The Fighter actress/Oscar winner Melissa Leo is going somewhere into the ever after. Leo is set to play a mystical individual who has an important impact on Webber and actress Teresa Palmer’s character’s relationship in director Mark Webber’s film The Ever After.
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Actors Daniel Henney and Brennan Brown are joining the occult. Both men are set to co-star in A&E’s drama pilot, called Occult. They will star opposite Josh Lucas and Lynn Collins.
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After a later career resurgence with a small but memorable turn in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, Don Johnson is now in final negotiations to play Cameron Diaz’s father in 20th Century Fox’s The Other Woman.
In the film, Diaz’s character discovers that she is “the other woman” in an affair. She teams up with her lover’s wife to get revenge on the cheating husband. Leslie Mann will play the wife, while Nikolaj Coster-Waldau will play as the husband. The cast also includes Kate Upton and Nick Minaj.
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Benicio Del Toro is the latest name to join the eclectic cast of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. It is unknown what character Del Toro will portray, though the actors deal, like those of most of the actors who sign to star in Marvel’s films, will involve roles in multiple films.
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30 Rock and Saturday Night Live veteran Tracy Morgan has closed a deal to star in the comedy pilot Death Pact for FX.
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She may be 70 years old, but Oscar nominated actress Glenn Close isn’t slowing down any time soon. Close is in final negotiations for a starring role in Marvel’s outer space film Guardians of the Galaxy. Close would take on a leadership role in Nova Corp., which is the “fictional intergalactic space patrol” that will be the focus of the movie.
