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Mid-May TV Casting News Round-Up: ‘Downton Abbey’, ‘Dexter’, ‘Homeland’ & HBO Pilots

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Much of what Game of Thrones may have you believe, Summer is coming! We’re heading off into the off-cycle of the regular Network TV season, but production on other TV series keeps on chugging. Check out who the new host of the Late Night talk show on NBC is, Dexter‘s newest nemesis for the final season and additions to American Horror Story: Coven, Pretty Little Liars spinoff Ravenswood and where Sean Bean’s next character may (not!) die next.

‘Hercules’ Rounds Out Cast With Major Additions

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It’s a been a long while since we last heard from any major casting additions after Dwayne Johnson was selected to be the titular hero in Brett Ratner’s Hercules. Look no further than the sage faces of Ian McShane, Joseph Fiennes and more as the latest to join the mythological blockbuster film from MGM-Paramount.

Casting News Round-Up: March 18-22

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Mar. 18

• WWE Wrestler Dave Bautista Cast As “Drax the Destroyer” in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’
• Kate Beckinsale Joins ‘Eliza Graves’
• Hugh Grant Returns To Rom-Com In Marc Lawrence’s Castle Rock Comedy
• Josh Lawson, Greg Kinnear Join ‘Anchorman 2’
• Tom Hooper May Direct Sacha Baron Cohen in Freddie Mercury Biopic
• Fan Bingbing & Boooboo Stewart Joining Bryan Singer’s ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’; Daniel Cudmore’s “Colossus” Returns
• Ridley Scott Wants Christian Bale As Moses in Biblical Epic ‘Exodus’

Casting News Round-Up: Jan. 21-25

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Jan. 21

• Emma Stone & Charlie Hunnam To Join Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Crimson Peak’?
• Ray Liotta, Jeremy Piven & Juno Temple Join ‘Sin City: A Dame To Kill For’
• Rob Corddry Wanted For ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’ Sequel

Strange Ideas: Jim Carrey & Adam Sandler Woo-ed For ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’, Dwayne Johnson To Become ‘Teddy Bear’

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We’re serious, this is not some kind of early April Fool’s Joke: Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler are being courted to join Marvel’s upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy and Dwayne Johnson is producing and possibly starring in the movie adaptation of Teddy Bear, based on the drawing on DeviantArt. Yes, that DeviantArt. Both are “cute” ideas, but someone please pinch me.

Dwayne Johnson and Brett Ratner Labouring For ‘Hercules’

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Unfortunately, no, it isn’t a remake of the 1997 Disney classic Hercules. Nor is it a reboot of the legendary 1995 television series Hercules: The Legendary Journey starring the great Kevin Sorbo. This Hercules is instead based off the comic book series Hercules: The Thracian Wars, which stars Dwayne Johnson as the demi-god who “trains the Thracian army into one that excels in its ruthlessness.” Still, try as Brett Ratner might, Disney’s incarnation will always be the best…

Casting News Round-Up: Nov. 5 – 9

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Nov. 5

• Saoirse Ronan Cast in ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ & Jude Law Heads To ‘Queen of the Desert’
• Mark Wahlberg Remaking French Thriller ‘Point Blank’; Simon West Directing ‘Heat’ Remake
• Electro Unchained: Jamie Foxx In Talks for ‘Spiderman 2′ Villain?
• Kristen Stewart Joins Ben Affleck’s ‘Focus’
• Vince Vaughn Finds ‘Triple Time’ From Director Peter Billingsley
• John Cusack Developing Rush Limbaugh Biopic
• Allison Janney, Phillip Baker Hall Join Jason Bateman’s ‘Bad Words’
• Kim Basinger Find’s Herself In A ‘Grudge Match’
• Sam Trammell Joins Thriller ‘Deadweight’
• Gael Garcia Bernal, Alice Braga Sense ‘The Ardor’
• Erotic Drama ‘Addicted’ Fleshes Out Cast With Sharon Leal, Tasha Smith, William Levy, Emayatzy Corinealdi & Tyron Beckford
• Zoe Levin Heads To ‘Palo Alto’; Troian Bellisario Cast in ‘C.O.G.’; Bar Paly Finds Herself ‘Non-Stop’

Michael Bay’s ‘Pain & Gain’ Teaser Poster Wants to Pump YOU Up!

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Beefy beefcakes in the world of body building live by a simple motto, No Pain No Gain. By that rationale, pain equals gain and so we come to Michael Bay’s new film. So far we’ve seen Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson cooking a severed hand, which most might not consider the most appetizing image. With that in mind this first teaser poster for the film features a jar of  chocolate flavoured protein powder that is sure to PUMP YOU UP for the film. Better?

First Look: ‘The Way Way Back,’ ‘The Butler,’ ‘Jack Ryan,’ ‘Jack Reacher,’ and ‘Fast Six’

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We have several new photos from a whole host of films, over a wide range of genres, featuring ever-expanding casts, and we’re all kinds of excited. Check out Steve Carrell, Sam Rockwell, Oprah Winfrey, Lenny Kravitz, Alan Rickman, Jane Fonda, Forest Whitaker, Chris Pine, Kevin Costner, Kenneth Branagh, Vin Diesel, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and Paul Walker (along with some very special guests), after the jump.

Casting News Round-Up: July 16-20

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July 16

• ‘Game of Thrones’ Casts Several New Faces
• Daniel Radcliffe Grabs Lead in ‘Horns’
• Joel McHale Gets Leathery for ‘Sons of Anarchy’
• Alan Tudyk Voices Disney’s ‘Wreck-It-Ralph’
• Ken Jeong Joins ‘Hangover III’
• ‘True Blood’ Ryan Kwanten Joins ‘Sex and Sunsets’
• ‘Community’ Gillian Jacobs Heads to ‘Milo’
• Dianna Agron Joins’ Robert De Niro & Michelle Pfieffer in Luc Besson’s ‘Malavita’
• Todd Williams Hunts In ‘Vampire Diaries’
• Ed Asner Returns to ‘Hawaii Five-O’
• ‘Arrow’ Adds Kelly Hu As “China White”
• ‘Dr. Who’ Karen Gillan Joins Horror Film ‘Oculus’

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson In Consideration for DC Comic’s ‘Lobo’

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In an interesting bit of Hollywood trivia, it turns out that Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock, is interested in playing DC comic’s fringe character Lobo. Lobo, known to fanboys as a Hells Angel crossed with Kiss’ biggest fan, is an alien, the last of his kind, who has clashed with every major DC hero, from Superman to Batman.

Character Posters for ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ & New Trailer (UPDATE: New Photos)

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[UPDATE #4] Apparently that last awfully photoshopped poster wasn’t the last of its kind… See more after the jump.

Don’t Smell What The Rock Is Cooking in Michael Bay’s ‘Pain & Gain’

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Well, this is just plain old creepy if you ask me. Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson has been spied on the set of Michael Bay’s meathead/lunkhead film (when isn’t Bay making a film cranked on testosterone) in Pain and Gain. Check out the photo below.

Casting News Round-Up: April 16-20

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April 16

• Maggie Smith Wants to be Written Out of ‘Downtown Abbey’?
• Edward Norton, Gael Garcia Bernal & Rebecca Hall Circle ‘Robocop’ Remake, Sean Penn Eyed 
• Jesse Eisenberg in Aaron Sorkin’s HBO Drama ‘The Newsroom’
• Tinay Fey in Nancy Meyers Comedy ‘The Intern’
• Danny McBride To Write & Star in R-rated Road Trip Comedy ‘Clown’
• Dwayne Johnson in Sci-Fi Adventure ‘Lore’
• Vince Vaughn & Owen Wilson Team Up in ‘The Internship’
• ‘The Office’ To Get Rebooted?

Emma Roberts in ‘Empire State’ With Liam Hemsworth & Dwayne Johnson

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I’ll be the first to admit that I noticed Emma Roberts in Scream 4. She definitely owned the camp/narrative switcheroo for her character and kind of made sense for her to become [SPOILER] the first noticeable “me generation” serial killer in the film. Now Roberts has been cast alongside Liam Hemsworth and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in Dito Montiel’s heist film Empire State.

Casting News Round-Up: Mar. 5-9

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March 5

• Bruce Willis Joins ‘Five Bullet’
• Zachary Quinto, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Lily Rabe Join Jessica Lange on Returnings to ‘American Horror Story’
• Brad Pitt Now Starring in Andrew Dominik’s “Cogans Trade” Retitled as ‘Killing Them Softly’
• ‘Human Centipede 3: Final Sequence’ Has Returning Director and Cast
• Dan Byrd Cast in Comedy Pilot as 2^nd Position
• Taissa Farmiga in ‘Bling Ring’
• Owen Wilson May Join Tina Fey in Paul Weitz’s ‘Admission’
• Harvey Weinstein Woo-ing Katy Perry For Paul Potts Biopic
• Gabrielle Union in BET Pilot
• Judd Hirsch and Karine Vanasse Join Broadcast Pilots
• Paul Blackthorne and Jamey Sheridan Join CW Pilot ‘Arrow’
• Liev Schreiber As Lead in Showtime Pilot ‘Ray Donovan’, Adds Cast