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‘Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ Casts Chaff

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday August 10, 2012 @ 9:41am PDTTags: Jennifer Lawrence, Movie Casting, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

E. Roger Mitchell has joined the cast of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Chaff. The actor, who has appeared in TV’s The Shield and in films like Battle: Los Angeles and 2003’s S.W.A.T., will be playing a Tribute from District 11 who previously won the 45th Annual Hunger Games. In the original Hunger Games movie, Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen won the 74th Annual Hunger Games. The Catching Fire sequel has past winners like Chaff and Katniss participating in the Quarter Quell AKA the 75th Annual Hunger Games. Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson also return to the sequel and Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amanda Plummer have joined Catching Fire. Directed by Francis Lawrence, Lionsgate will be releasing The Hunger Games: Catching Fire on November 22, 2013. Mitchell is repped by Wyckoff and Associates and Atlanta Models and Talent.

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‘White House Down’ Adds Michael Murphy

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday August 9, 2012 @ 2:49pm PDTTags: Movie Casting, White House Down

EXCLUSIVE: Every administration needs someone to be one heartbeat away to take over the Oval Office in case something terrible happens. For the administration of White House Down, that someone is going to be Michael Murphy. … Read More »

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WWE Studios & 20th Century Fox Go Another ’12 Rounds’ With Randy Orton

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday August 3, 2012 @ 9:11am PDTTags: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Movie Casting, WWE Studios

Randy Orton is getting back in the action for 12 Rounds: Reloaded. The three time WWE World Heavyweight Champ will star in the second installment of the action franchise for WWE Studios and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. … Read More »

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Jennifer Ehle In Talks To Join ‘RoboCop’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday August 2, 2012 @ 7:06pm PDTTags: Jennifer Ehle, MGM, Movie Casting, RoboCop

EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Ehle is in negotiations to join the cast of RoboCop. The two-time Tony Winner would star in the role of Liz Kline in the movie aside the recently announced Jackie Earle Haley, The Dark Knight Rises’ Gary Oldman, House star Hugh Laurie, Abbie Cornish and The Avengers’ Samuel L. Jackson.  Jose Padilha is directing the remake of the 1987 crime action movie. Later this year, Ehle will be seen in Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty about the military team that found and killed Osama bin Laden. Read More »

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Terrence Howard Joins ‘A Girl And A Gun’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday August 2, 2012 @ 6:31pm PDTTags: Movie Casting, Terrence Howard

EXCLUSIVE: Terrence Howard has signed up to A Girl and a Gun. In the modern LA thriller, the Oscar nominee will play the lead of Ian, a hustler with big Hollywood dreams who’s going nowhere fast until he intervenes in a mugging and get pulled in to a world of intrigue. Juno Temple, who appeared in The Dark Knight Rises as Anne Hathaway’s sidekick, is in talks to appear in the film. A Girl and a Gun is directed and written by Filip Jan Rymsza. Read More »

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Dylan McDermott Joins ‘The Freezer’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday August 2, 2012 @ 4:16pm PDTTags: Dylan McDermott, Movie Casting

Dylan McDermott has signed up for The Freezer. The actor will play the abducted and mysterious Robert in the indie action thriller. Appearing to be the victim, Robert has a past in which he was a ruthless killer … Read More »

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‘CSI’s’ Elisabeth Shue In Talks For ‘Parental Guidance Suggested’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday August 2, 2012 @ 12:47pm PDTTags: CAA, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Elisabeth Shue, Movie Casting

EXCLUSIVE: Elisabeth Shue is in negotiations to join the cast of Parental Guidance Suggested. The CSI actress would be joining Selena Gomez, Nat Wolff, Austin Stowell, Cary Elwes and Dylan McDermott in the indie teen … Read More »

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‘Mortal Instruments’ Adds Kevin Zegers

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday August 1, 2012 @ 2:37pm PDTTags: Kevin Zegers, Movie Casting, The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones

Kevin Zegers has been added to the cast of The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones. The actor’s addition to the adaptation of Cassandra Clare’s fantasy series as tentative warrior Alec Lightwood was announced today on … Read More »

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‘Veep’s’ Matt Walsh Joins Steve Quale’s ‘Untitled’ Tornado Movie

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday August 1, 2012 @ 2:06pm PDTTags: HBO, Movie Casting, New Line Cinema, Steve Quale, Veep

EXCLUSIVE: Matt Walsh is going to chase tornados for Steve Quale. The Veep actor has joined Quale’s Untitled natural disaster thriller at New Line. Walsh will play Pete, a storm chaser looking to get a … Read More »

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Virginia Madsen & Elias Koteas Join Indie ‘Jake Squared’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday August 1, 2012 @ 12:28pm PDTTags: Movie Casting, Virginia Madsen

Virginia Madsen and Elias Koteas have signed on to Jake Squared. Koteas will play the title character, a filmmaker whose self-examination movie spins … Read More »

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‘August: Osage County’ Adds Margo Martindale

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday August 1, 2012 @ 11:14am PDTTags: August: Osage County, Big Deals Film, Margo Martindale, Movie Casting

EXCLUSIVE:  Margo Martindale has joined the cast of August: Osage County. The Emmy winner will play the jaded sister of Meryl Streep in the feature adaptation of Tracy Letts’ family clan play. Martindale’s character is Mattie … Read More »

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Abigail Breslin Heading To ‘August: Osage County’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday July 19, 2012 @ 4:04pm PDTTags: Abigail Breslin, August: Osage County, Julia Roberts, Movie Casting, The Weinstein Co

EXCLUSIVE: Abigail Breslin is set to be Julia Roberts’ daughter in August: Osage County. The Oscar nominee will play Jean Fordham, the 14-year old angry and acerbic pot smoking child of Roberts’ Barbara character in the … Read More »

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‘CSI: Miami’s’ Adam Rodriguez & Rachael Harris Added To ‘Lovesick’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday July 18, 2012 @ 5:19pm PDTTags: Adam Rodriguez, CSI: Miami, Movie Casting, Rachael Harris

Adam Rodriguez and Rachael Harris have joined the cast of Lovesick. The duo will star with Matt LeBlanc, Ali Larter, Chevy Chase and Kristin Johnson … Read More »

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‘Paranoia’ Adds ‘Twilight’s Angela Sarafyan

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday July 17, 2012 @ 3:27pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Movie Casting, Paranoia, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh from a visit to Comic-Con with fellow Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part Two cast members, Angela Sarafyan has joined Paranoia. The actress has been added to a cast that includes The … Read More »

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Movie Casting Round-Up: ‘JOBS’ Adds Actors, Lorraine Nicholson on ‘Attachment,’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday July 13, 2012 @ 6:35am PDTTags: Movie Casting, Sharon Stone, Steve Jobs

Lorraine Nicholson has signed on to Attachment. The daughter of one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, Lorraine will play Sharon Stone’s daughter onscreen in the Tony Kaye-directed film. Attachment tells the tale of a good girl gone bad after be set up by her mother’s rotten lover. Christopher Denham wrote the script for Attachment. Panther Films’ Brad Epstein is producing. Adam Krentzman and W2 Media will executive produce.  Nicholson, who recently starred in Soul Surfer, is repped by ICM Partners and managed by Trilogy Talent. Read More »

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Anna Kendrick Joins ‘Drinking Buddies’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday July 10, 2012 @ 6:20pm PDTTags: Anna Kendrick, CAA, Drinking Buddies, Movie Casting

EXCLUSIVE: The actress has signed up for a lead role in the indie comedy. Anna Kendrick will start shooting Drinking Buddies in Chicago later this month. Joe Swanberg is directing. Andrea Roa, Anish Savajani and Alica … Read More »

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‘Olympus Has Fallen’ Adds Radha Mitchell

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Saturday July 7, 2012 @ 2:47pm PDTTags: Gerald Butler, Movie Casting, Olympus Has Fallen, Red Widow, The Twilight Saga

EXCLUSIVE: Radha Mitchell has joined the cast of Olympus Has Fallen. The actress will play “Leah” the wife of Gerard Butler‘s Secret Service character in the White House thriller. Mitchell, who starts filming next … Read More »

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Sharon Stone Joins ‘Mother’s Day’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday July 3, 2012 @ 1:00pm PDTTags: Mother's Day, Movie Casting, Paradigm, Sharon Stone

Sharon Stone Mother's DaySharon Stone is celebrating Mother’s Day. She joins Andie MacDowell and her real-life daughter Rainey Qualley, who were announced yesterday, in the indie drama about the relationship between 12 mothers and their daughters. … Read More »

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Justin Long In Talks For Stephen King’s ‘The Ten O’Clock People’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday June 29, 2012 @ 12:24pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Justin Long, Movie Casting, Stephen King, The Ten O'Clock People, Tom Holland

EXCLUSIVE:  Justin Long is in negotiations for the lead role in The Ten O’clock People. The Live Free Or Die Hard actor would play Brandon Pearson in the modernized adaptation of the Stephen King short story. As … Read More »

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