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Movie Casting Round-Up: Thomas Brodie-Sangster Joins ‘Maze Runner’; Scott Glenn Added To ‘Trigger’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday March 13, 2013 @ 8:49pm PDTTags: Movie Casting, Scott Glenn, Thomas Brodie-Sangster

Thomas Brodie-Sangster has joined the cast of Fox’s The Maze Runner. Soon to be seen in the upcoming third season of HBO’s Game of Thrones in the role of Jojen Reed, the British actor will play Newt in the film. Maze Runner is directed by Wes Ball in an adaptation of the James Dashner novel. Produced by The Gotham Group and overseen by Peter Kang and Daria Cercek at the studio, the film is a post-apocalyptic tale about a group of boys trapped in an enormous maze who seek their freedom. Noah Oppenheim wrote the first draft of the script and Grant Myers wrote the next draft. Brodie-Sangster is repped by WME and Curtis Brown in the UK.

Scott Glenn has signed on to star in Trigger. The Right Stuff and Bourne franchise veteran actor will join Deadwood alumni Stephen Tobolowsky and Little Birds’ Chris Coy in the Chapman Filmed Entertainment thriller. Trigger focuses on a father and a son both obsessed with understanding evil and the chaos that causes for them. Produced by The Bucket List executive producer Travis Knox with Bob Yari and William Immerman executive producing, the micro-budget film is the first project from Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. The film is being directed by Chapman alumnus Basel Owies from a script by Max Enscoe. Glenn is repped by Innovative Artists and Parseqhian/Planco

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Casting Couch: ‘There’s Always Woodstock’ Adds Rumer Willis & Jason Ritter

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday February 6, 2013 @ 6:06pm PSTTags: Jason Ritter, Movie Casting, TV Casting

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There’s Always Woodstock has added several new actors to its cast. Rumer Willis, Brittany Snow, Parenthood’s Jason Ritter, Jimmy Wolk, Finesse Mitchell and Anna Anissimova have all joined the romantic comedy directed by Rita Merson. There’s Always Woodstock stars Katey Sagal and Allison Miller of NBC’s Go On. The film centers on Catherine Brown (Miller), a would-be songwriter who returns to her dead parents’ home in Woodstock, New York for the summer. Ritter will be playing the self-absorbed actor and unfaithful fiance of Brown. Willis will be playing a Goth waitress at the coffeehouse owned by Sagal’s character who becomes friends with Brown. Merson, Sunrise Pictures’ Peter Schafer as well Jenny Hinkey are producing the film. Joe Dain and Jim Klock are executive producers with manager David Guillod serving as Co-Executive Producer
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‘Suburgatory’s’ Jane Levy Joins ‘In A Dark Place’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday February 5, 2013 @ 3:29pm PSTTags: Jane Levy, Movie Casting

Suburgatory star Jane Levy has signed up to play the lead in In A Dark Place. The film is a psychological … Read More »

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‘Jane Got A Gun’ Adds Rodrigo Santoro

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday February 4, 2013 @ 10:55am PSTTags: 300, Jane Got A Gun, Movie Casting, Natalie Portman

Rodrigo SantoroEXCLUSIVE: The Last Stand actor has joined the cast of the Western action film Jane Got A Gun with Natalie Portman and Michael Fassbender. Rodrigo Santoro will play the character of Fitchum in the … Read More »

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‘Sons Of Anarchy’s’ Katey Sagal Joins ‘There’s Always Woodstock’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday December 18, 2012 @ 4:24pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Big Deals TV, Katey Sagal, Movie Casting, Sons of Anarchy

EXCLUSIVE: Katey Sagal is going from biker matriarch to coffeehouse proprietress. The Sons Of Anarchy actress has joined the cast of There’s Always Woodstock. Sagal will play Lee Ann, the suffer-no-fools owner of the SHOP coffeehouse in … Read More »

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Peter Fonda Added To Thriller ‘The Harvest’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday December 12, 2012 @ 3:19pm PSTTags: John McNaughton, Movie Casting, The Harvest

EXCLUSIVE: Peter Fonda will be joining Samantha Morton and Michael Shannon in The Harvest. The Oscar-nominated actor will play the grandfather of the teenage girl who moves in next door to the characters played by Shannon and Morton in … Read More »

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Movie Profits Driven By Stories And Directors, Not Stars, Academics Conclude

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Wednesday December 12, 2012 @ 1:20pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Movie Casting, Movie Profits, Scripts

Movie making is often an insane business. But moguls turn out to be pretty rational about it according to a chapter in an upcoming economics text and a recent article in an academic journal. Researchers say that studios wisely bet on stories and directors. Star worship “is all but a myth,” writes S. Abraham Ravid — a finance professor at Yeshiva University — in The Economics Of Creativity, to be published next month. “Stars can still sell magazines, but not movies.” Why do studios pay big bucks for Academy Award-winners? It’s part of a strategy, along with co-financing, to reduce the risk of making big-budget films — especially R-rated ones, which represent the biggest gambles. Stars should draw at least some fans, even to a stinker of a movie, the theory goes. “In an industry where a big failure is much more dreaded than a big success is wished for, insurance is worth its weight in gold, or in eight-figure salaries.” Read More »

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James Marsden On ‘Walk Of Shame’ With Elizabeth Banks

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday December 6, 2012 @ 11:40am PSTTags: Elizabeth Banks, James Marsden, Movie Casting, Walk of Shame

James Marsden is heading to Walk Of Shame with Elizabeth Banks. He will play Gordon, Banks’ character’s love interest in the comedy written and directed by Steve Brill. Walk Of Shame follows an uptight news anchor … Read More »

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‘Go On’s Allison Miller Joins ‘There’s Always Woodstock’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday December 5, 2012 @ 2:39pm PSTTags: Allison Miller, Go On, Movie Casting

Allison Miller is heading to Woodstock. The Go On series regular will play the lead role of Catherine Brown in the Rita Merson-directed romcom. There’s Always Woodstock follows would-be songwriter Brown as she returns to her dead parents’ home … Read More »

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‘Royal Pains’ Paulo Costanzo Joins Indie ‘That Burning Feeling’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday November 15, 2012 @ 2:12pm PSTTags: Movie Casting, Royal Pains

EXCLUSIVE: Paulo Costanzo has signed up for That Burning Feeling. The Royal Pains star will play the lead role of Adam Murphy in the independent romantic comedy. The film has Murphy as a guy who has … Read More »

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Kelsey Grammer & Kyra Sedgwick Join ‘Reach Me’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday November 15, 2012 @ 1:25pm PSTTags: Kelsey Grammer, Kevin Connolly, Kyra Sedgwick, Movie Casting

EXCLUSIVE: Boss star Kelsey Grammer and former Closer star Kyra Sedgwick have been added to the ensemble cast of Reach Me. Entourage’s Kevin Connolly, former Hung star … Read More »

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‘Man Under’ Adds Tim Robbins, Michelle Pfeiffer & Chloe Moretz; Robbins To Direct

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday November 7, 2012 @ 5:05pm PSTTags: Chloe Moretz, Michelle Pfeiffer, Movie Casting, Tim Robbins, UTA

Tim Robbins, Michelle Pfeiffer and Chloe Moretz have all signed on for Man Under. Robbins will also direct the dysfunctional family … Read More »

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‘August: Osage County’ Adds Julianne Nicholson

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday October 3, 2012 @ 4:59pm PDTTags: August: Osage County, Movie Casting, The Weinstein Company

EXCLUSIVE: The former Law And Order: Criminal Intent star has joined the John Wells-directed film. In August: Osage County Julianne Nicholson will play Ivy Weston, one of the sisters to Julia Robert’s Barbara in the adaptation of … Read More »

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Vince Vaughn’s ‘Starbuck’ Adds ‘Secret Circle’s Britt Robertson

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday September 11, 2012 @ 1:12pm PDTTags: Britt Robertson, Movie Casting, Vince Vaughn

EXCLUSIVE: The former Secret Circle star is getting Vince Vaughn as a Dad. Britt Robertson will play Kristen in the American remake of the 2011 French-Canadian film Starbuck. Kristen is a troubled teen who is … Read More »

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Max Martini In Talks To Join ‘Breacher’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday August 21, 2012 @ 8:41pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, David Ayer, Movie Casting
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EXCLUSIVE: Max Martini is in negotiations to join the cast of Breacher. The actor will play Pyro, a member of the elite DEA team at the heart of the David Ayer-directed action thriller. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Avatar’s Sam Worthington, and Terrence Howard, Breacher chronicles the team as they are systematically killed off one by one following their theft of drug cartel money. Skip Woods wrote the script. QED International is providing the financing, with Open Road distributing. Read More »

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‘2 Broke Girls’ Kat Dennings Back In ‘Thor 2’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday August 21, 2012 @ 4:27pm PDTTags: Kat Dennings, Marvel, Movie Casting, Thor: The Dark World

EXCLUSIVE: The 2 Broke Girls star is coming back to hang out with the God of Thunder. Kat Dennings will reprise her role as Darcy Lewis for Thor: The Dark World.  While details are scant … Read More »

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‘August: Osage County’ Signs Up Dermot Mulroney

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday August 14, 2012 @ 12:18pm PDTTags: August: Osage County, Dermot Mulroney, Movie Casting

EXCLUSIVE: Dermot Mulroney is heading to Oklahoma. Joining the cast of August: Osage County, the actor will be going to the state this fall to start filming on the John Wells-directed film. Mulroney will play … Read More »

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‘Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ Adds Its Cashmere

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday August 14, 2012 @ 9:51am PDTTags: Jennifer Lawrence, Movie Casting, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

District 1 has a Tribune in the Quarter Quell. Stephanie Leigh Schlund has joined The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Cashmere. The Atlanta-based actress appeared in The Last Song and will be seen on TV in Fox’s The … Read More »

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‘Last Vegas’ Adds Mary Steenburgen

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday August 10, 2012 @ 5:44pm PDTTags: Last Vegas, Mary Steenburgen, Movie Casting

EXCLUSIVE: Last Vegas has a love triangle and the guys are fighting over Oscar winner Mary Steenburgen. The actress joins the cast of the CBS Films and Good Universe comedy about a group of old pals who … Read More »

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