Academy Award-winning Room star Brie Larson is reportedly in early talks to play Captain Marvel – and she’s the studio’s number one choice for the role.
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Academy Award-winning Room star Brie Larson is reportedly in early talks to play Captain Marvel – and she’s the studio’s number one choice for the role.
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.
Oprah Winfrey is set to star in HBO Films’ The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks. George C. Wolfe penned the adaptation and will direct.
Bryce Dallas Howard is teaming up with RatPac Entertainment for the adaptation of The Swans Of Fifth Avenue. Plus, Jackie Earle Haley books The Tick, and Jodie Comer has won the title role of The White Princess on Starz.
Jessica Henwick has won the lead female role as martial arts expert Colleen Wing in Netflix Marvel series Iron Fist. Plus, SNL alum Brooks Wheelan books a regular role on the Shondaland comedy Toast, and more in today’s TV casting round-up!
Working Title has picked up the rights to Delia Ephron’s novel Siracusa and tapped Me And Earl And The Dying Girl helmer Alfonso Gomez-Rejon to direct the project.
Follows a marriage and the deceit involved as two couples and a child head for vacation in the sun-drenched coast of the Ionian Sea in Italy.
Micah Fowler has been cast in the ABC comedy pilot Speechless opposite Minnie Driver, while Bosch and
Follows a marriage and the deceit involved as two couples and a child head for vacation in the sun-drenched coast of the Ionian Sea in Italy.
Game of Thrones star Gwendoline Christine joins Jane Campion’s Top Of The Lake, Peter Serafinowicz swipes Patrick Warburton’s mantle for The Tick, and more in tonight’s TV casting round-up!
Once Upon A Time taps Hank Harris and Sam Witwer for recurring roles, while Tina Fey’s The Kicker and Mike Schur’s Good Place add to their casts.
Straight Outta Compton breakout star Jason Mitchell and the boy at the center of Boyhood, Ellar Coltrane, have joined the forthcoming Barack Obama biopic Barry.
A24 has picked up the U.S. distribution rights to the crime thriller Free Fire, starring Brie Larson and Armie Hammer. The pic, directed by Ben Wheatley, was executive produced by Martin Scorsese.
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!
Gina Torres joins The Death Of Eva Sofia Valdez; Blair Underwood is tapped for Reese Witherspoon pilot; 24: Legacy builds up its cast and more in this week’s TV casting round-up!
Vanessa Williams to star in a new series based on the book from former The View host Star Jones, Jason Lee signs up for CBS comedy, Katie Aselton joins Noah Hawley’s FX pilot Legion, and more in our daily casting round-up!
Another day gearing up for pilot season, another onslaught of casting news. Luke Perry, Elisabeth Shue, and Dermot Mulroney have all landed new roles in new series.
Vanessa Hudgens joins NBC’s DC Universe-based office comedy Powerless, Felicity Huffman and John Ridley extend their relationship, Hina Abdullah joins The Jury and more in today’s TV Casting news.
Tracy Morgan is teaming with Jordan Peele for a new FX comedy, Netflix’s Black Mirror taps Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Mackenzie Davis, Chicago P.D. and Fire bring in new blood.
Peter Sarsgaard is in negotiations to star opposite Natalie Portman in Jackie as Robert Kennedy. Portman is set to star as the First Lady, in a film that follows Jackie Kennedy in the first days after the assassination of the president.
Marya Cohn has made an auspicious directorial debut at the Los Angeles Film Festival, and Myriad Pictures has picked up the domestic rights for her drama starring Emily VanCamp and Michael Nyqvist.
Brie Larson is in talks to reteam with Short Term 12 director Destin Cretton on the film adaptation of Jeannette Walls memoir The Glass Castle. The book tells the story of Walls life growing up as the child of an alcoholic father, unbalanced mother, and their nomadic lifestyle.
After months of various reports speculating who the female lead will be in Rian Johnson’s Star Wars Episode VIII, it seems Disney has finally decided on Belle‘s Gugu Mbatha-Raw.
Showtime adds Peter Sarsgaard to cult series, Twin Peaks. The series is currently filming in Washington and is set to premiere in 2017. He joins Amanda Seyfried, Balthazar Getty, and Robert Knepper, as well as original series lead Kyle MacLachlin.
Voight joins Eddie Redmayne, who leads a cast consisting of Alison Sudo, Dan Fogler, Ezra Miller, Faith Wood-Blagrove, Katherine Waterston, Jenn Murray, and Samantha Morton. Fantastic Beasts, which began production in August, follows Redmayne’s Scamander as he travels to NYC documenting magical creatures and encountering fellow wizards.
The dramedy follows an improv group that loses the lease on their home theater at the same time that one of their cast members gets chosen for the biggest sketch comedy show on television.
Follows a team of explorers setting off to the unknown Skull Island, where they encounter 8th wonder of the world King Kong and a slew of strange new creatures and mysteries.
The MGM/Sony joint venture follows a sharp-shooting widow who hires a bounty hunter and a team of wanted criminals to avenge her husband’s death and take back the town from the ruthless grip of a tyrannical outlaw.
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