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Sarah Wayne Callies To Reprise ‘Prison Break’ Role In Fox Event Series

Sarah Wayne Callies

It’s official. Sarah Wayne Callies (Colony) has closed a deal to reprise her role as Dr. Sara Tancredi, opposite fellow returning stars Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell in Fox's Prison Break event series, a nine-episode follow-up to the cult 2005 Fox action series. Production is set to begin in Vancouver in April. The casting won’t affect Callies’ series regular role on Colony, which was recently renewed for a second season on USA Network, since Prison Break is a… Read

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Julie Benz To Co-Star In ‘Training Day’ CBS Pilot

Julie Benz Training Day Pilot

Defiance star Julie Benz is set as a regular role opposite Bill Paxton in CBS’ drama pilot Training Day. Written by Will Beall and directed by Danny Cannon, Training Day is a present-day reimagining of Antoine Fuqua's acclaimed 2001 feature. Set 15 years after the film left off, the show centers on an idealistic young African-American police officer, Kyle Craig, who is appointed to an elite squad of the LAPD where he is partnered with seasoned, morally ambiguous detective… Read

Business

‘Bye Bye Man’ Moved From Fall To Summer 2016

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STX Entertainment has moved up the release date for its horror film Bye Bye Man to June 3, taking it out of October. The change from October 14 puts it in the same weekend as the next installment of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle franchise and a week after the Fox tentpole X-Men: Apocalypse. The film, directed by Stacy Title, stars Carrie-Anne Moss and Faye Dunaway. By moving the genre film to the summer, it also takes it off the weekend currently occupied by Sony’s Under… Read

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Antonia Thomas To Play The Lead In ABC Pilot ‘Spark’

Antonia Thomas Spark Pilot

In-demand British actress Antonia Thomas has been tapped to play the lead in the ABC drama pilot Spark, from ABC Studios. Written by Michael Cooney, Spark is a lavish primetime drama series of passion, greed and hope in a Steampunk reality, circa 2016. Set in an alternate history where gas and coal fuel the world, the drama centers on the battle for power between two rival families and Pin (Thomas), a rebellious young woman with a spark of invention that could level both… Read

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Justin Kirk To Topline Fox Drama Pilot ‘APB’, Eric Winter Co-Stars

Justin Kirk Eric Winter APB Pilot

Weeds alum Justin Kirk has been cast as the lead in Fox’s drama pilot APB. Also cast in the pilot, directed by Len Wiseman, is Eric Winter (The Mentalist). Written by David Slack, APB was inspired by the New York Times Magazine article "Who Runs The Streets Of New Orleans." It explores what happens when enigmatic tech billionaire Gideon Reed (Kirk) purchases a troubled police precinct in the wake of a dear friend's murder. Gideon, a creative genius with a childlike… Read

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Dylan Gelula Joins Hulu’s Casual; Tiffany Dupont in TNT’s ‘Murder In The First’

Dylan Gelula Tiffany Dupont

Dylan Gelula (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) has booked a recurring role on the second season of Hulu's comedy series Casual. Written by up-and-coming scribe Zander Lehmann, Casual follows the story of a dysfunctional family with a bachelor brother (Tommy Dewey) and his newly divorced sister (Michaela Watkins). Together, they coach each other through the crazy world of dating — online and off — while living under one roof again and raising a teenager (Tara Lynne Barr). Gelula… Read

Video

‘10 Cloverfield Lane’ Review: An Engrossing Anti-Sequel That Might Surprise You

10 CLOVERFIELD LANE

Originally developed as a completely separate movie, shot in secrecy and later rebranded with the imprimatur of the sleeper 2008 success Cloverfield, 10 Cloverfield Lane emerges this weekend as that rare kind of “surprise” in today’s movie universe and is all the better for it. Although I suppose it is a spiritual successor to the 2008 film, this one — with much of that creative team, most notably producer J.J. Abrams, relegated to producing status — is a totally… Read

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Trump Whodunit: Mystery Of Reporter’s Bruised Arm Grows Weirder And Weirder

Donald Trump

The press is quite literally having a field day, poring over videos of an incident at a Donald Trump event Tuesday in Florida. Michelle Fields, a reporter for conservative news site Breitbart News, says she was manhandled by Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski after trying to question the candidate following a press conference. This morning Fields, who posted photos of her bruised left arm on social media, filed a criminal complaint with the Jupiter Police… Read

Awards

Notes On The Emmys: JLo Vs The GOP, Aaron Paul Breaking Back To TV & More As NBCUniversal Kicks Off Season

Emmy statuettes

A new column chronicling events of the Emmy Awards season.  We have Oscar season barely in the rearview mirror when all of a sudden this week Emmy Season kicked in with ABC and the Television Academy’s official announcement of Jimmy Kimmel as host of the Primetime Emmys which will air September 18. That will be preceded by the first ever two — count ’em, two — nights of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday and Sunday, September 10-11 (with three identical matching… Read

Film

President Obama’s SXSW Keynote: Call To Action, Memes Aimed At Tech World

Barack Obama SXSW

UPDATE with more details: President Barack Obama today appeared at Austin’s The Long Center for the Performing Arts where he made an impassioned and unusually partisan plea to technology professionals and tech-minded citizens to apply their ideas and talents toward solving some of the country’s biggest challenges and philosophical divides. The pitch came as the inaugural keynote session of SXSW 2016, a SXSW Interactive-affiliated conversation with Texas Tribune CEO and… Read

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‘Marvel’s Luke Cage’ Set For September Bow On Netflix

Luke Cage Netflix Series

Marvel’s Luke Cage star Mike Colter stole a bit of the spotlight from the Season 2 red carpet premiere of Netflix’s sibling Marvel series Daredevil last night to reveal that his series will debut September 30 on the streaming service. Beautiful people, fighting, & BREAKING NEWS for @LukeCage! Have a look at last night's NYC premiere for @Daredevil.https://t.co/NvPgnU7rf7 — Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) March 11, 2016 September 30, we are heading to #Harlem. #LukeC… Read

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Milana Vayntrub Joins Fox’s Laura Steinel Comedy Pilot, Matthew Mindler In ‘Chad’

Milana Vayntrub Matthew Mindler

Milana Vayntrub (Other Space) is set as a series regular opposite Judy Greer in Fox's untitled Laura Steinel comedy pilot (aka HR). The project, from 20th Century Fox TV, centers around Jane (Greer), the over-used and under-appreciated head of H.R. for a Fox plastic molding plant, who is caught between trying to manage her charmingly incompetent human resources department and a new eccentric CEO who dreams of bringing the New Jersey plastics plant into the future… Read

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