The cast for the Viggo Mortensen drama, Captain Fantastic is expanding with kids. Mortenson plays an an idealistic father who, after a decade of living off the grid in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, must return with his six young kids to assimilate back into society. A worldwide search was undertaken to cast Mortensen’s brood, and Scottish BAFTA winner George Mackay (How I Live Now, For Those In Peril), Annalise Basso (Oculus, The Red Road), Samantha Isler (NBC’s Sean Saves The World), Aussie Nicholas Hamilton (Strangerland), Shree Crooks (Extant, The New Normal), and newcomer Charlie Shotwell landed the roles. Filming is scheduled to begin in July.
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Sex and the City‘s Sarah Jessica Parker may be returning to TV in the near future as a crime reporter in a new series. In the vein of Erin Brockovich, The Departed, and T. J. English’s Savage City comes Busted: A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love, the shocking true story of the biggest police corruption scandal in Philadelphia history. It’s a tale of drugs, power, and abuse involving a rogue narcotics squad, a confidential informant, and two veteran journalists whose reporting drove a full-scale FBI probe, rocked the City of Brotherly Love. The series is based on the police crime thriller written by Wendy Ruderman and Barbara Laker. Their non-fiction book, which chronicles their efforts to uncover the corruption in Philadelphia earned a Pulitzer Prize and will now be brought to television. Sidney Kimmel Entertainment has optioned the rights to Busted and it will serve as SKE’s debut television project with True Detective producers Anonymous Content.
Man Seeking Woman, the comedy series starring Jay Baruchel that FX ordered to pilot earlier this year, has now taken one huge step further. FXX, the FX sister network, has given the show a ten-episode order and added the quirky half-hour comedy to its 2015 lineup. According to FX, Man Seeking Woman is “a sweet and absurd look at the surreal life-and-death stakes of dating, and centers on Josh Greenberg (Baruchel), a naive romantic on a desperate quest for love.” Along with Baruchel, the series will co-star Eric André (The Eric André Show, Don’t Trust the B– in Apartment 23), Britt Lower (Unforgettable) and Maya Erskine (Betas).
Emilia Clarke is one of the hottest young actresses working today. Her break through role came on HBO’s most popular show of all time, Game of Thrones, where she plays the dragon queen Daenerys Targaryen. While that show is on hiatus, Clarke has taken on a couple of other big time projects. She is traveling from the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros to Italy for 1950s-set psychological thriller Voice From The Stone in the fall. She’ll topline the adaptation of Silvio Raffo’s award-winning Italian novel La Voce Della Pietra, about a nurse who helps a boy through the traumatic sudden death of his mother only to become ensnared by a malevolent force inside the family’s castle.
By Katherine Sharma
Katherine Sharma’s family roots are in Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. But after her early childhood in Texas, she has moved around the country and lived in seven other states, from Virginia to Hawaii. She currently resides in California with her husband and three children. She has also traveled extensively in Europe, Africa and Asia, and makes regular visits to family in India. After receiving her bachelor’s degree. in economics and her master’s degree in journalism from the University of Michigan, Katherine worked as a newspaper and magazine writer and editor for more than 15 years. She then shifted into management and marketing roles for firms in industries ranging from outdoor recreation to insurance to direct marketing. Although Katherine still works as a marketing consultant, she is now focused on creative writing.
Kate Lyn Sheil (House of Cards, You’re Next, V/H/S/) has joined Kristen Stewart (Twilight) and Nicholas Hoult (X-Men: First Class) in the futuristic love story, Equals.
A Long Way Down, based on Nick Hornby’s novel, is the story of four lost souls — a disgraced TV presenter, a foul-mouthed teen, an isolated single mother and a solipsistic muso – who each decide to end their lives on the same night, New Year’s Eve. When this disillusioned quartet of strangers meet unintentionally at the same suicide hotspot, a London high-rise with the well-earned nickname Topper’s Tower, they mutually agree to call off their plans for six weeks, forming an unconventional, dysfunctional family, becoming media sensations as the Topper House Four and searching together for the reasons to keep on living.
From Batman to Moses, Christian Bale has played his share of iconic men. In the Ridley Scott’s Old Testament epic Exodus: Gods and Kings, Bale takes on the role of the sea-splitting Moses, a role made famous by Charlton Heston in The Ten Commandments. Scott’s all-star film tells the story of Moses leading the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt, then under rule of the Pharaoh Ramses, played by an almost unrecognizable Joel Edgerton. Ben Kingsley, Sigourney Weaver, John Turturro and Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul are among the other actors who signed on to bring the ancient tale to life, shooting in the exotic locations of Almería, Spain, and Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands.