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EXCLUSIVE: Michael Patrick Thornton, last on the New York stage opposite Jessica Chastain in 2023’s A Doll's House, will return to Broadway in this fall’s much anticipated staging of Waiting For Godot starring Keanu Reeves, in his Broadway debut, and Alex Winter. Thornton will play Lucky to…

AMC Networks has begun production in Vancouver, Canada on its upcoming Silicon Valley drama The Audacity (new title) from Jonathan Glatzer. Thailey Roberge (Reginald the Vampire) and Ava Marie Telek (Happy Face) have joined as series regulars to round out the ensemble cast, headlined by Billy…

EXCLUSIVE: Jamie Bacon, Brandon Mychal Smith, Monroe Cline and James Oliver Wheatley are to front Pretty Boy Delaney, a gritty indie pic set to the backdrop of the fentanyl crisis. Filming is underway on the pic, which is billed as a character-driven drama tackling addiction, mental health, and…

EXCLUSIVE: New Amsterdam star Ryan Eggold rounds out the series-regular cast of FX’s drama pilot Seven Sisters. He joins Elizabeth Olsen, Cristin Milioti, Meredith Hagner, Odessa Young, Zoë Winters, Bridget Brown and Carolyn Kettig, who play the titular sisters; Philip Ettinger, who plays their…

Jenn Lyon (Claws) has been cast as the lead of Stumble, Jeff Astrof and Liz Astrof’s single-camera cheerleading comedy pilot for NBC. Underlining just how tight the job market is post-peak TV with well-paying series-regular role opportunities few and far between, there were six well known…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping has closed deals for its first two leads, enlisting Joseph Zada for the role of Haymitch Abernathy, Tribute from District 12, and Whitney Peak to play Haymitch’s girlfriend, Lenore Dove Baird. As you’ll recall, Haymitch is the…

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Ben-Victor (Nobody Wants This) is set for a key recurring role opposite Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre in HBO's upcoming drama series Lanterns, based on the Green Lantern DC comic. The series, from Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof and Tom King, follows new recruit John Stewart…

Antonio Banderas is set to co-star opposite Dominic Sessa in Tony, the Anthony Bourdain movie from A24, Star Thrower and Zapruder Films. Matt Johnson is directing from a script by Todd Bartels and Lou Howe. The logline is under wraps, but sources say the film takes place during the summer of…

EXCLUSIVE: Ella Rubin (Until Dawn, The Idea of You) and Amélie Elisabeth Hoeferle (Eddington, Night Swim) have been tapped as the co-leads of Amazon MGM Studios’ Sterling Point, a YA drama series from My Old Ass writer-director Megan Park, LuckyChap and Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage’s Fake…

Linear channel and streaming service MGM+ has greenlighted American Hostage (working title), a thriller anthology series co-created and executive produced by Shawn Ryan (The Night Agent, S.W.A.T.) and Eileen Myers (Big Love, Mad Dogs), from Sony Pictures Television. Emmy winner Jon Hamm will star in…

Jack Kesy (Hellboy: The Crooked Man, Deadpool 2) has been tapped for a main role in 12 12 12, Apple TV+’s contemporary international heist series starring and executive produced by Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan. Co-produced by Skydance Television and Anonymous Content, 12 12 12 unfolds across…

Three new players are coming to Westeros to join in on the game of thrones. House of the Dragon has added Tom Cullen (The Gold, Trespasses) as Ser Luthor Largent, Joplin Sibtain (Andor, Safe) as Ser “Bold" Jon Roxton, and Barry Sloane (Sandman, Revenge) as Ser Adrian Redfort. The trio will…