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EXCLUSIVE: Janet Montgomery (The Ex-Wife) has been cast in the second season of the Paramount+ original drama series 1923 in a recurring role. Montgomery will play Hillary, a thoughtful woman who does not want to see injustice go unpunished. 1923 follows a new generation of Duttons led by patriarch…

Bob Hearts Abishola co-creator and star Gina Yashere has joined the cast of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy in a recurring role. Yashere will play an Academy instructor in the Paramount+ series. She joins previously announced cast Holly Hunter, Kerrice Brooks, Bella Shepard, George Hawkins, Karim…

EXCLUSIVE: Harvey Guillén (What We Do in the Shadows) will produce and star in That Friend, a bromance comedy about the dynamics of friendship and growing up, marking the feature directorial debut of writer-directors Will Sterling and Alex Wall. In the upcoming feature, Guillén portrays Paul, that…

EXCLUSIVE: Indie horror film If It Bleeds has added four to its cast. Khleo Thomas (Holes), Vanessa Decker (Stiletto), Adam Bucci (Brute 1976) and Maren Altman have joined lead actress Catherine Corcoran (Terrifier) in Matthew Hersh’s debut feature, which is billed as an “anthology-style&#8221…

UPDATED with latest: The Oscars, strike-delayed Writers Guild Awards and the 2023-24 awards season are history, and it’s time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a list of awards shows, events and the like ahead as we cruise into Emmy season and look ahead to Cannes, the fall film…

Josh Hartnett visited The Tonight Show on Wednesday, revealing the "unhelpful" acting advice that Matt Damon imparted about playing nuclear physicist Ernest Lawrence in Oppenheimer. "He gave me a lot of good advice,” recalled Hartnett. “One in particular — one thing that was just so unhelpful: he…

Percy Jackson and the Olympians has found its Tyson. Daniel Diemer has been cast in Season 2 of the Disney+ series as the lovable Cyclops, who is also Percy’s (Walker Scobell) paternal half brother, the son of Poseidon and a nymph. In addition to Scobell, Diemer joins returning Leah Sava Jeffries…

Mark Hamill will voice the Flying Dutchman in Paramount and Nickelodeon’s upcoming feature The SpongeBob Movie: The Search For SquarePants. The announcement was made during Thursday’s Comic-Con presentation in San Diego celebrating the franchise. Voice actors Tom Kenny (SpongeBob), Bill Fagerbakke…

Netflix’s House of Guinness has brewed its cast. James Norton (Happy Valley, Bob Marley: One Love) and Jack Gleeson (Game of Thrones, In The Land of Saints and Sinners) have been named among the cast for Steven Knight-penned Guinness factory drama series. Joining them are Niamh McCormack (Everyth…

Dermot Mulroney (My Best Friend's Wedding, Anyone But You) has been cast in NBC’s Chicago Fire as Chief Dom Pascal for the upcoming thirteenth season. As Deadline revealed exclusively in June, the hit Wolf Entertainment firefighter drama was adding a new series regular character to lead 51 following…

EXCLUSIVE: Judy Greer (The Best Christmas Pageant Ever) and Mark Hamill (The Life of Chuck) are the newest additions to the cast of The Long Walk, Lionsgate’s adaptation of the 1979 novel from Stephen King. Details as to their roles are under wraps. As previously announced, Cooper Hoffman and David…

EXCLUSIVE: Miranda Cosgrove (Mother of the Bride) and Pierson Fode (The Man from Toronto) have signed on to star in The Wrong Paris, a new romantic comedy that Janeen Damian (Irish Wish) will direct for Netflix. Written by Nicole Henrich, the film centers on Dawn (Cosgrove), who is desperate to get…