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The single camera comedy will be penned by Whitest Kids U’Know comedians Trevor Moore, Sam Brown, and Zach Cregger. The original film debuted in 1981 and starred Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, John Candy, and Sean Young.

Anne Heche and real-life husband James Tupper to play on-screen couple in Syfy series Aftermath, while Tim Matheson and Cynthia Nixon will play the Reagans for NatGeo.

Anna Paquin will topline the ABC’s drama pilot Broken from executive producer Reese Witherspoon; David Koechner, Megyn Price and Sarah Stiles bring the funny to Superior Donuts; Gossip Girl Leighton Messter join Lord and Miller’s new comedy and more in our daily casting round-up!

Screen legend Burt Reynolds is set to star in Adam Rifkin’s dark comedy Dog Years. Rifkin will direct from his own script, with Gore Verbinski on board to produce.

An aging movie star is forced to face the reality that his glory days are behind him when he’s invited to receive a lifetime achievement award from a tiny film festival.

Tony Danza and Arielle Kebbel each book NBC pilots; Kelly Oxford and Molly McNearey head to TV Land; Andy Daly joins Anna Gunn in Chuck & Bean; and more in today’s TV casting news!

The Social Network star Abhi Sinha has been cast in James Wan’s Conjuring sequel, set to play Harry Whitmark. In the film, Sinha’s character will assist two paranormal investigators that work alongside the Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga’s Ed and Lorraine Warren.

Crashing centers on a good-natured comedian whose wife leaves him, forcing him to stay on the couches of New York’s finest comics. The semi-autobiographical series is set to begin shooting this November,

Comedian and actor Patton Oswalt has agreed to join The Circle. James Ponsoldt’s adaptation of Dave Eggar’s best-seller also stars Tom Hanks, Emma Watson, John Boyega and Karen Gillan.

The third installment of government-sponsored anarchy has its cast.

The iconic character will serve as an adversary/love interest to Charlie Cox’s vision-impaired hero who’s determined to save NYC’s chaotic burrow. The slew of new characters appearing in season two signals that Matt Murdoch’s world is going to get a lot more involved, with new adversaries and love interests sure to complicate his hunt for justice.

James Gunn wrote and is producing the horror pic, which follows the employees as the American Belko company in South America who are ordered to kill each other or be killed themselves after the company is mysteriously sealed off at the beginning of a work day.

“Fresh Off the Boat” is the first Asian-American family sitcom in 20 years.

A roundup of the week’s TV casting news!

A roundup of the week’s TV casting news!

A roundup of the week’s TV casting news!

The pair will each have guest spots on the second season of the Fox comedy.

Logline: Tells the story of a 1961 siege of 150 UN troops by pro-Western mercenaries, after a coup in the Congo deposed the region’s previous leader.

A roundup of the week’s TV casting news!

Logline: A “Lego Movie”-esque family epic set the night before a Peeps diorama contest, when a wayward Peep gets misplaced and must adventure through the fantasy lands of different-themed dioramas before the contest’s judging begins.

Logline: An awkward, introverted teen from a bad neighborhood spends his time online trying to escape his life until a freak accident renders him completely invisible, enabling him to pursue the girl of his dreams while staying out of sight.

A roundup of the week’s TV casting news!

Logline: Kept under wraps, but pitched in the vein of “Chronicle.”

Logline: After inheriting a pristine Montana ranch, Dylan and his expecting wife Savanna fight to survive a century old blood feud raging on their land that has become known as the Devil’s Punchbowl.

Logline: When a father with a dark background finds his daughter brutally murdered, he seeks to uncover the truth – and revenge.

Logline: Kept under wraps.

Logline: After inheriting a pristine Montana ranch, Dylan and his expecting wife Savanna fight to survive a century old blood feud raging on their land that has become known as the Devil’s Punchbowl.

Logline: A boy’s estranged musician father turns up and bonds with his son as he begins teaching traditional Mexican regional music to the school’s marching band.

Logline: Trapped in a dysfunctional home with a mentally unstable mother and a cheat for a father, Tanis Kahlil dreams of becoming a writer and turns her back on school and her family and begins down a self-destructive course.

Logline: Story follows a group of cutting-edge scientists who believe they can link evil to a specific human gene. When they are recruited by the Vatican to spearhead a new global initiative to examine candidates for official exorcisms, supernatural forces threaten both faith and science in a battle of good versus evil.