Tag Archives: Paradigm
IDOL (SPEC)
Project, which is being pitched as Panic Room meets Ex-Machina, is a grounded Sci-Fi thriller about a married couple who become victims of the perfect artificial intelligence they’re creating for the house of the future.
“Outlander” Star Tobias Menzies to Play Prince Philip in “The Crown”
Menzies takes over the role from Doctor Who alum Matt Smith. The actor has been seen in Game of Thrones, Outlander, The Night Manager, and most recently in The Terror.
“The Handmaid’s Tale” Star Yvonne Strahovski Joins Noomi Rapace in “Angel of Mine”
The film follows a mother who is struggling to cope with the loss of her daughter who died several years earlier when she becomes convinced that a stranger’s daughter is her own.
The Emmy-winning series has already announced the return of season one stars Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, and Shailene Woodley, as well as the addition of Oscar-winner Meryl Streep.
Mendes will play Shelby Pace, a beautiful, fashionable, private school student who is bored by her wealthy male suitors.
The Big Bang Theory is continuing to add to Sheldon’s family in adulthood with Jerry O’Connell joining the show for a guest-starring role as Sheldon’s brother, Georgie. The character appears on the spin-off series Young Sheldon played by Montana Jordan. All this and more on today’s TV casting round-up.
Actor-comedian Sinbad is headed to the small screen for Fox’s comedy pilot Rel. Joining him is Jessica “Jess Hilarious” Moore who replaces previously cast Angel Laketa Moore. All this and more on today’s TV casting round-up.
The 100 alum Tati Gabrielle joins Netflix’s Riverdale spinoff, Frequency star Peyton List boards Fox’s Gone Baby series, and Chuck‘s Ryan McPartlin signs on for a co-starring role opposite Jessica Alba in Bad Boys.
“Stranger Things,” “Annabelle” Producers Team for Coming-of-Age Slasher Movie at Netflix
Based on the bestselling novel by Stephanie Perkins, the Nebraska-set story follows a young girl whose high school friends begin to die in a series of gruesome murders.
About a young girl whose high school friends inexplicably begin to die in a series of gruesome murders.
Just days after announcing her exit from Grey’s Anatomy, Sarah Drew has landed the the role of Cagney in CBS’s Cagney & Lacey reboot. Michelle Hurd has nabbed the role of Lacey. All this and more on today’s TV casting round-up.
Written by Babaloo Mandel, the story follows two self-centered men whose lives become intertwined, forcing them to become caring human beings in spite of one of them being a thoroughly outrageous punk rocker who died in 1977.
After several years away from television, Mad Men alum Vincent Kartheiser is back and set to star opposite Rachelle Lefevre in an untitled legal drama from Empire creator Danny Strong. All this and more on today’s TV casting round-up.
The drama will have Golding playing Kit, a British Vietnamese man who travels from London to his birth country of Vietnam to scatter his parents’ ashes.
The premise for the sci-fi thriller involves scientists exploring the afterlife. Chase will be writing and directing a feature version of his horror short Larry for Amblin Partners.
The storyline is under wraps but is said to be about a crew of scientists who explore the afterlife.
Producer Mike Medavoy and Towne had been trying to turn Crumley’s novel into a film for TriStar, but they’re now retooling it for an hour-long cable pilot.
The studio hopes to mirror the success of horror films Mama and Lights Out, which both originated from short films.
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GUCCI MANE (FILM RIGHTS)
Chronicles the life and career of musician Mane from childhoor poverty to hip-hop royalty.
Emma Thompson, Ralph Fiennes and Tom Holland will provide their voices to some of the animals to which Downey’s title character will speak. Production will begin later this month in London to prepare for an April 2019 release date.
A man and his girlfriend are on their way to a secluded farm when the two take an unexpected detour and the woman is left stranded in a deserted high school, wondering if there is any escape at all.
RESET (PITCH)
The storyline is under wraps but will be a blend of horror and science fiction centered on a mother and daughter.
Bareilles has been nominated for multiple Grammy nominations including one for the cast album from her Tony-winning musical Waitress.
Stephen Dorff is joining Mahershala Ali and Carmen Ejogo in Season 3 of HBO’s True Detective.
As high school senior, Dill, feels the coils of his future tightening around him, his only escapes from the vipers he’s wrestled with his entire life are his music and his feelings for Lydia.
An uptight, high-achieving, black post-grad becomes irreverent and destructive when she realizes that the life she’s living is not the life she wants.
In a slightly futuristic, hyper-efficient Manhattan, a newly single book editor purchases a customizable sex android to assuage her broken heart. When her toy’s closed feedback loop starts to alter her personality, she must reevaluate the merits of a perfectly compatible partner.
A new bride becomes involved in a horrific game of hide-and-seek with her in-laws.
The story is set in West Texas during a Reconstruction period plagued by a deadly virus infecting thousands with a rabies-like disease that turns people into murderous “Shakes.” When the teenage protagonist’s father disappears, she hires two Shake-hunters who specialize in killing the infected, and sets off into the terrorscape of the western frontier to find him.
