Shea Whigham

Sydney Poitier, Shea Whigham, Hong Chau, and Jeremy Allen White are joing Julia Roberts-starrer Homecoming and Netflix’s second season of American Vandal has set its two leading men. All this and more on today’s TV casting round-up.

 

Wind River‘s Gil Birmingham is set for a recurring role on the 3rd season of TNT’s Animal Kingdom. Meanwhile, Frasier alumna Jane Leeves has been tapped for a leading role in Fox’s untitled Erin Foster single-camera comedy pilot. All this and more on today’s TV casting round up.

The veteran character is poised for a busy month between his turn in the Paramount Network’s Waco TV series and a pair of Sundance movies — The Catcher Was a Spy starring Paul Rudd, and Beirut starring Jon Hamm.

The talented character actor is making a deal to play Gus Grissom, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts.

YouTube star Anna Akana to recur on Freeform’s sci-fi drama Stitchers and Laurel Lance is set to return to Arrow once again as Katie Cassidy signs on for series regular role in season six.

The only Major League ballplayer whose baseball card is on display at the CIA, Moe Berg has the singular distinction of having both a 15-year career as a catche and that of a spy for the OSS during WWII.

Everyone wants Nick dead. A desperate man, Nick takes out a life insurance policy on himself, payable to his estranged daughter. But the policy doesn’t take effect for 21 days and he might not live that long.

A thief on the run from the law must now contend with a ruthless gang of assassins.

Whigham and Taylor-Joy are joining the multi-listed script right before Taylor-Joy’s TIFF premiere. Eric England is set to direct with Luisa Iskin and John Wunder producing.

In a sleepy southern town a man with a haunted past encounters an attractive young woman who moves in next door.

Follows a pair of ten-year-olds who go for a joyride in an abandoned car only to find that the owner has left something valuable behind and is desperate to get it back.

Mason Skiles, a former U.S. diplomat, is called back to Beirut to save a former colleague from the group responsible for the deaths of his family.

A round-up of this week’s TV casting!

A round-up of today’s distribution sales, deals, and awards at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.

Peggy Carter becomes a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent during WWII after Steve Rogers (Captain America) is feared dead in an explosion.

Peggy Carter becomes a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent during WWII after Steve Rogers (Captain America) is feared dead in an explosion.

Peggy Carter becomes a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent during WWII after Steve Rogers (Captain America) is feared dead in an explosion.

A roundup of the week’s TV casting news!

Entering its fifth and final season, the crime drama follows Nucky Thompson, an Atlantic City bootlegger, as he navigates an increasingly hostile underworld.

Logline: Follows a pair of ten-year-olds who go for a joyride in an abandoned car only to find that the owner has left something valuable behind and is desperate to get it back.

Logling: A Berkeley record store clerk begins to experience strange visions transmitted from an extra-terrestrial source he calls VALIS. He moves with his family to L.A. where he becomes a successful music executive with a secret mission to overthrow the oppressive government led by U.S. President.

Logline: A darkly comic suburban noir about a mysterious suicide and the kids who try to uncover a community’s deep-seated corruption.

“Boardwalk Empire” star joins thriller.

Logline: A thief on the run from the law must now contend with a ruthless gang of assassins.

Logline: Nick Barrow plans heists that he sells to the highest bidder, but when one of them goes bad, everybody from the mob to the cops want him dead. He hopes to stay alive long enough for his life insurance policy to kick in and pay out for his estranged daughter.

“Boardwalk Empire” star joins Scorsese pic.

“Boardwalk Empire” star joins Terrence Malick’s latest effort.

A man who suffers a mental collapse is eventually released from a health facility and sets out to discover the silver linings in his life.

Logline: A Berkeley record store clerk begins to experience strange visions transmitted from an extra-terrestrial source he calls VALIS. He moves with his family to L.A. where he becomes a successful music executive with a secret mission to overthrow the oppressive government led by U.S. President.

Logline: Follows a man navigating certain facets of the Hollywood fast-life – temptations, celebrity, and excess – and questioning who he’s become.