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Michael Fassbender is circling the lead role in Broad Green Pictures’ adaptation of John Leake’s true crime novel, Entering Hades.

The Ready Player One star and The Witch breakout have boarded the indie drama from Oscar winners Nat Faxon and Jim Rash.

Starz continues fill out their cast for the adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods as they add Cloris Leachman, Peter Stormare, Chris Obi, and Mousa Kraish.

Alan Cumming is the latest actor to join the growing cast of the Billie Jean King biopic Battle of the Sexes, which will focus on the groundbreaking 1973 “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match between King and Bobby Riggs.

Musician Tom Waits is to join Hulu’s Citizen. The drama pilot is set against the backdrop of a vibrant, ‘supernaturalized’ Los Angeles. It is a hero origin story, blending gritty vigilantism with elements of magical realism.

Sean Harris and Yetide Badaki have joined the Starz series American Gods, opposite Ian McShane; Bojana Novakovic will play the female lead opposite Wilmer Valderrama in Four Stars; Speechless adds John Ross Bowie and more in today’s TV casting round-up!

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!

The sequel to Assassin’s Creed, which follows a man who discovers that he’s the descendant of a secretive society of deadly assassins at war with the Knights Templar. Based on the video game from Ubisoft.

New Regency’s adaptation of the blockbuster video game Assassin’s Creed isn’t set to bow until December, but the studio is officially underway with plans for the sequel. With star Michael Fassbender on board, the stage is set for a new action-adventure franchise starring the two-time Academy Award nominee.

Edgar Wright has signed on for his first animated feature. It was announced today he is set to helm an untitled project from DreamWorks Animation. Wright will co-write the script with David Walliams.

Kaluuya will star as a young African-American man who visits his white girlfriend’s family estate, to be played by Girls star Allison Williams. Jason Blum is producing under his Blumhouse banner, along with QC Entertainment’s Sean McKittrick and Edward H. Hamm Jr.

Carice van Houten of Game Of Thrones has signed on for the drama The Parts You Lose where she will star opposite Aaron Paul. The film is planned to shoot in Manitoba, Canada early next spring.

Tom Felton, best known for his portrayal of Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter, will join Kate Mara and Edie Falco in the Iraq war drama inspired by the true story of Megan Leavey and her bomb-sniffing dog.

The Witch‘s Anya Taylor Joy is joining Betty Buckley, Jessica Sula and Haley Lu Richardson in M. Night Shyamalan’s untitled thriller. James McAvoy, who joined the picture last week, is set to lead the Blumhouse-produced indie.

Actor Simon McBurney has joined The Conjuring 2. The cast already includes Francis O’Connor, Vera Farmiga, and Patrick Wilson, with the latter two reprising their roles as Lorraine and Ed Warren.

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.

Sources exclusive to The Tracking Board report that CAA is working to package the script with a star and that Michael Fassbender, Henry Cavill and Charlie Hunnam are circling the historical action/drama.

Get ready Fowl fans, as it looks as though Walt Disney Pictures and The Weinstein Company are finally moving forward on the seriously long-awaited Artemis Fowl adaptation, securing Kenneth Branagh to direct.

Guardians of the Galaxy actress Karen Gillan will join Tom Hanks, Emma Watson and John Boyega in The Circle, James Ponsoldt’s adaptation of Dave Eggers’ novel.

Findlay is cast as the lead in Simon Aboud’s film just days before principal photography is set to start.

Tells the story of a young man who survived an unsteady upbringing, the deaths of his entire family, and yet, created a worthwhile life for himself and found success as a musician, founding the group the Eels.

Set in post WWII England, the series will showcase the efforts of Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who together forged the war-torn country’s future in the aftermath. Lithgow will play Sir Winston Churchill and Smith will portray Philip Mountbatten.

The “Dr. Who” star and the “Game Of Thrones” star have joined the upcoming drama.

The actors have signed on to play the dwarves in the upcoming prequel “The Huntsman”.

A round-up of this week’s TV casting!

A round-up of this week’s TV casting!

Logline: Set in Blackpool, the story centers on a widower who saves an orphan on the run from a drug dealer, sparking an unlikely friendship.

A round-up of this week’s TV casting!

A round-up of the week’s TV casting!

The “Downton Abbey” star boards Jonathan Mostow’s thriller.