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TV CASTINGS: Sally Pressman To Star In NBC Comedy Pilot ‘Joe, Joe & Jane’, Marcia Gay Harden Joins HBO’s ‘Newsroom’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday January 22, 2013 @ 2:50pm PSTTags: Joe & Joe & Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Sally Pressman, The Newsroom
Nellie Andreeva

NBC has cast one of the title characters in its multi-camera comedy pilot Joe & Joe & Jane. Army Wives’ Sally Pressman has been cast as Jane in the project, from writers-executive producers Joe Port and Joe Wiseman and 20th Century Fox TV. Loosely based on the relationship between Port, Wiseman and Wiseman’s wife, Joe, Joe & Jane centers on a conflict-avoidant children’s book author caught in an ongoing tug of war between two needy, flawed people: his wife (Pressman) and his co-author/ best friend. It’s not about a couple, it’s about a trouple. Pressman, whose casting was first reported by TVLine, became available for pilots after her regular role as Roxy on Army Wives was downgraded to recurring heading into Season 7. NBC has had its eye on Pressman for awhile. When she was in her then-last year on Army Wives in September 2011, the network signed the actress in a development deal. But then Lifetime ordered 10 additional episodes of the veteran drama series in November 2011 to film during last year’s pilot season. While her NBC deal eventually expired, Pressman is back at the network a year later as a lead of a pilot.

Marcia Gay Harden will replace Rosemarie DeWitt on Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom. DeWitt was originally cast in November for a recurring role on the series’ upcoming second season but recently pulled out because of a scheduling conflict. Harden will now play the role, Rebecca Halliday, a litigator who’s been hired to defend the fictional Atlantis Cable News channel, where the show is set, in a multimillion-dollar wrongful-termination suit.

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Zac Efron, Marcia Gay Harden Join Paul Giamatti, Billy Bob Thornton And Jacki Weaver In JFK Conspiracy Pic ‘Parkland’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday December 19, 2012 @ 11:52am PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Marcia Gay Harden, Parkland, Peter Landesman, Zac Efron
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Marcia Gay HardenZac EfronBREAKING: Zac Efron and Marcia Gay Harden have joined Paul Giamatti, Billy Bob Thornton and Jacki Weaver in Parkland, which Peter Landesman wrote and will direct based on Vincent Bugliosi’s book Reclaiming History: The Assassination Of President John F. Kennedy. The film is produced by Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman and also is being produced and financed by Exclusive Media and its co-chairmen Nigel Sinclair and Guy East.

Bugliosi’s mammoth book, which Playtone and Landesman originally set up at HBO, refuted the conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination that were embraced in the Oliver Stone-directed JFK. The film does not address the conspiracy aspect and focuses only on what happened at Parkland Hospital in Dallas on the day Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. The film, to be shot in Austin, is destined for a 2013 U.S. theatrical release around the 50th anniversary of the assassination.

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Marcia Gay Harden Set For CBS Films’ Comedy ‘Get A Job’

By BRIAN BROOKS | Wednesday March 21, 2012 @ 2:58pm PDTTags: CBS Films, Get A Job, Marcia Gay Harden

Marcia Gay Harden Get A JobMarcia Gay Harden will co-star in the film now known as Get A Job, directed by Dylan Kidd (Roger Dodger). The project began production March 12th in Los Angeles. … Read More »

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Marcia Gay Harden, Brian Geraghty, Vincent D’Onofrio, Jeffrey Dean Morgan Set For ‘Supreme Ruler’

By BRIAN BROOKS | Tuesday February 21, 2012 @ 10:58am PSTTags: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Marcia Gay Harden, Vincent D'Onofrio

EXCLUSIVE: Joining Oscar- and Tony-winner Marcia Gay Harden are Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Brian Geraghty and Vincent D’Onofrio in the film set in a small Midwestern town. Supreme Ruler follows Steve (Morgan) as he campaigns to become “Supreme Ruler” of his local Buffalo lodge. He soon finds himself challenged by Hank (D’Onofrio), an elder lodge member. To gain more support, he travels to the Order’s annual convention in Chicago where he befriends Nancy (Harden), a more established “Supreme Ruler.” The project is the directorial debut of Duane Edwards, who previously directed the shorts Hit And Run and The Confession. Steven A. Jones (Wild Things) will produce. Read More »

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Marcia Gay Harden To Star In NBC’s Comedy Pilot ‘Isabel’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 6, 2012 @ 11:00pm PSTTags: Isabel, Marcia Gay Harden, NBC
Nellie Andreeva

Marcia Gay Harden has been tapped to star in NBC’s comedy pilot Isabel. Inspired by the French-Canadian series Le Monde De Charlotte, Isabel centers on an otherwise normal, angry middle-class family that wrestles with the challenges of … Read More »

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Sony Classics Nears ‘God Of Carnage’ Deal

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday April 7, 2011 @ 12:49pm PDTTags: Christoph Waltz, God of Carnage, Hope Davis, ICM, James Gandolfini, Jeff Daniels, Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Kate Winslet, Marcia Gay Harden, Michael Barker, Sony Pictures Classics, Tom Bernard, Yasmina Reza
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: I’m told that Sony Pictures Classics partners Michael Barker and Tom Bernard are tying up a deal to acquire US rights to God Of Carnage, the  Roman Polanski-directed feature adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s Tony-winning play. Polanski shot the film … Read More »

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Andrew J. West, Marcia Gay Harden, Sherri Saum Get Pilot Leads

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday March 5, 2011 @ 4:18pm PSTTags: ABC, Grace, Marcia Gay Harden, NBC, Smothered
Nellie Andreeva

Andrew J. West (Greek) is set as the lead in NBC’s untitled Dan Goor pilot. The multicamera comedy, from writer-exec producer Dan Goor, centers on Adam Foote (West), a young doctor who joins his parents’ medical practice and spends … Read More »

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‘God of Carnage’ Original Cast Returns For LA Run

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday January 12, 2011 @ 9:50am PSTTags: God of Carnage, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini, Jeff Daniels, Marcia Gay Harden, Theater, Yasmina Reza
Mike Fleming

With a foot of snow on my Long Island doorstep, it’s already easy to envy anyone in Los Angeles. Now, the original cast of Yasmina Reza’s Tony-winning play God of Carnage has agreed to reunite for a six-week run at … Read More »

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Ellen Burstyn Rounds Out ‘Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You’ Cast

By TIM ADLER in London | Wednesday August 18, 2010 @ 2:58am PDTTags: Lucy Liu, Marcia Gay Harden, Stephen Lang

The Italian production starts shooting today in Central Park, New York City. The Oscar-winning actress joins Marcia Gay Harden, Toby Regbo (Harry Potter), Lucy Liu (Charlie’s Angels), Stephen Lang (Avatar) and Deborah Ann Woll (True Blood) in this coming-of-age story. … Read More »

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