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Exclusive: Jon Hamm, Ed Harris and Lewis Pullman have been set to join the cast of Top Gun: Maverick, the sequel to the iconic original that is in the works at Paramount Pictures. They join a cast toplined by Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, Glen Powell, Jennifer Connelly and Miles Teller in the pic, which Joseph Kosinski is directing.

The film is slated for release July 12, 2019. Teller plays the son of Maverick’s former partner Goose (played by Anthony Edwards), who met his in the 1986 original. The plot is mostly under wraps but it follows Cruise’s Pete Mitchell who is now an instructor at the Top Gun school and taking Teller under his wing.

No word on the character descriptions of the new three so far, but Harris and Hamm add instant gravitas to the proceedings. Pullman is the son of actor Bill Pullman whose film credits include The Strangers: Prey at Night,

Exclusive: Justin Sundquist, who sued CBS Corp. and CBS TV Studios last year after being injured on the set of Hawaii Five-0, has sustained a serious head injury during a stunt on another CBS/CBS Studios series, MacGyver, which is shooting in Atlanta..

“We have learned about an injury to stunt coordinator Justin Sundquist that occurred late Monday on the set of MacGyver in Atlanta,” CBS TV Studio said in a statement to Deadline. “The production team is cooperating with the authorities investigating the accident, and our primary concern at this time is Justin’s health and well-being.”

A source tells Deadline that Sundquist was injured during a stunt that involved transferring from one vehicle to another. We hear he was conscious after the accident and was put in a medically induced coma because of the seriousness of his head injury. We hear that he remains hospitalized.

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The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has submitted a sexual assault investigation on Kevin Spacey to the District Attorney's Office for review, Variety has confirmed.

The case was submitted on Tuesday. The D.A.'s office did not provide any details about when the alleged incident occurred. The Sheriff's Department also did not reveal any information about the case.

In April, the Sheriff's Department submitted another investigation involving Spacey to the D.A.'s office. That case involved an allegation of sexual assault from October 1992.

The D.A.'s office has received numerous investigations from the Sheriff's Department, the Los Angeles Police Department, and the Beverly Hills Police Department involving Hollywood figures over the last 10 months. However, the office has yet to file charges in any of them. Many remain under review, but others have also been discarded because the allegations fall outside the statute of limitations.

Prosecutors have declined

This is the end. Despite recent remarks by CBS that the network was exploring another season of The Big Bang Theory, the network and producing studio Warner Bros. TV just announced that the top-rated comedy series will end its run in May 2019. It still will rank as the longest-running multi-camera series in television history, 12 seasons and a record-breaking 279 episodes.

In a joint statement, Warner Bros. Television, CBS and Chuck Lorre Productions said, “We are forever grateful to our fans for their support of The Big Bang Theory during the past twelve seasons. We, along with the cast, writers and crew, are extremely appreciative of the show’s success and aim to deliver a final season, and series finale, that will bring The Big Bang Theory to an epic creative close.”

The final season of The Big Bang Theory will debut Monday, September 24 (8/7c) on CBS before moving to its regular time period on Thursday,

The DC Universe SVOD service that launches in the fall is getting a daily news show focused on all things DC.

DC Daily will kick off August 29 with a 4:30 Pm Pt livestream hosted by Kevin Smith, who will introduce viewers to the show’s format, sets and exclusive content and provide an in-depth look at the DC Universe service.

The DC Daily logline: Hosted by a variety of faces familiar to DC fans, the show will offer an added depth of news content that ties back to the original series, comics and community on the new service. The format is scheduled to include “Headlines,” a down of daily news briefs; “Reports,” a single-topic segment that might feature an in-depth interview or deep dive into an upcoming book, film or series; and “Talk,” a panel discussion including analysis about the day’s big topics and news. Special guests and other

Published in 2013, Crazy Rich Asians became a very popular novel and spawned two fictional sequels. Like the original novel, the film version revolves around preparations for an elaborate wedding that has become the talk of the aristocracy in Singapore.

Greeted with positive reviews from critics and moviegoers alike, Crazy Rich Asians is a box office success. It's already earned an estimated $34 million, against its reported $30 million production budget and it's just getting started. Plans for a sequel are now moving forward, per THR. Here's what we know so far.

“Crazy Rich Asians” author Kevin Kwan is accused of dodging Singapore’s compulsory military service and could face up to three years in jail if convicted of draft-dodging.

“Mr. Kevin Kwan failed to register for National Service (Ns) in 1990, despite notices and letters sent to his overseas address. He also stayed overseas without a valid exit permit,” Singapore’s Ministry of Defense said in a statement. “Mr Kwan is therefore wanted for defaulting on his Ns obligations. In 1994, his application and subsequent appeal to renounce his Singapore citizenship without serving Ns were rejected. Mr Kwan has committed offences under the Enlistment Act, and is liable to a fine of up to $10,000 and/or imprisonment of up to three years upon conviction.”

A spokesperson for Kwan has not yet responded to TheWrap’s request for comment.

According to Newsweek, every male over the age of 18 is required in Singapore to serve two years of national service in the army, police or civil defense.

The box office has been surprisingly strong this August, and now it’s up to Melissa McCarthy and a gaggle of raunchy puppets to keep the momentum going.

That’s the hope, as “The Happytime Murders” aims for a mid-teens opening when the black comedy launches across 3,224 locations this weekend. Analysts are comparing the result to Seth Rogen’s bawdy R-rated animated comedy “Sausage Party.” Rogen’s film became a massive box office hit, picking up $140 million off a $19 million production budget. “The Happytime Murders,” however, carries double the price tag, at $40 million.

“The Happytime Murders” is set in the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles — a world where humans and puppets coexist — as McCarthy’s character, an Lapd detective, re-teams with her former puppet partner to solve a series of brutal murders. [Cue “SNL’s” Stefon voice] This movie has everything: Sex, offensive puppet jokes, murder, Melissa McCarthy snorting something through Twizzlers. At last, we

The stars are ready to shine once again. Today, VH1 announced they've renewed RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars for a fourth season.

A spinoff of RuPaul's Drag Race, the competition series allows fans "to catch their favorite queens as they return for a second chance to earn the crown and a place in the 'Drag Race Hall of Fame.'"Read More…

Exclusive: Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under) and Nell Tiger Free (Game of Thrones) have been cast as two of the three leads in Apple’s upcoming psychological thriller series from M. Night Shyamalan and British TV writer Tony Basgallop.

While the plot of the series has not been revealed, I hear it follows parents Dorothy and Sean Turner, who have hired young nanny Leanne to help care for their newborn child. Not to spoil the big twist, let’s just say things are not quite as they seem.

Ambrose will play the mother, Dorothy Turner. Free will portray the nanny, Leanne Grayson.

The untitled project, which received a straight-to-series order, was created by Basgallop, who will write and executive produce the series. Shyamalan is executive producing and will direct the first episode.

The series will be produced by Shyamalan’s Blinding Edge Pictures, with the company’s Ashwin Rajan serving

John Lithgow will play Roger Ailes, the Fox News chief who masterfully exploited the country’s political divisions to rise to the top of the cable news heap, in Annapurna’s upcoming drama about the sexual harassment scandal that ended his career.

The Tony and Emmy winner joins a cast of heavyweights that includes Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, and Charlize Theron. The currently untitled film focuses on Ailes’ downfall, zeroing in on a group of female employees who bucked the culture of sexism at the network to oust the news baron from power. Kidman will play Gretchen Carlson, the Fox News anchor who sued Ailes for harassment in July 2016, and Charlize Theron will portray Megyn Kelly, a star at the network whose decision to go public with her own story of abuse was seen as a key turning point. Robbie’s character is said to be a fictional Fox News associate producer.

Yellowstone is a national park. “Yellowstone” may be a national treasure — or at least, the drama series is to the new Paramount Network.

With its Season 1 finale looming on Wednesday, the first series developed by the rebranded cable channel has averaged 5.0 million total viewers each week, per Nielsen’s most current ratings, which counts seven days of delayed viewing where available. That makes it the second most-watched series on all of cable television, behind only AMC’s “Walking Dead.”

It also makes “Yellowstone” the channel’s most-watched series ever — and that includes the network’s Spike TV days. No wonder Paramount already renewed its prized pony.

In terms of ratings, “Yellowstone” has averaged a 1.42 among adults 18-49, which is the demographic most-coveted by advertisers.

Below is a nifty grid showing off the cable

Fear the Walking Dead alum Kim Dickens has been tapped to star opposite Lily Mae Harrington In Queen Fur, Showtime’s drama pilot from writer Eileen Myers (Masters of Sex). Michael Mosley (Seven Seconds), Jon Foster (Like Father), Joshua Mikel (The Walking Dead), Keith Machekanyanga (Timeless) and Spencer Howell (Ithaca) also have been cast as regulars should the pilot go to series.

Created, written and executive produced by Myers, Queen Fur is set in a small town in Central Florida – a place where beauty pageants, gun culture, Cuban revolutionaries and Southern hospitality co-exist and collide. And at the center of it all is Macy Dunleavy (Harrington) – a curvy, sexy, unapologetic high school dropout who is finding her womanhood and is ready to seize a big opportunity.

Dickens will play Macy’s mom, a former local beauty queen.

Mosley will play Todd, a local gun salesman. Mikel is Ryan, an associate of Todd.

The date that golf fans have been anxiously awaiting has officially been set.

Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson will face each other in an historic head-to-head, 18-hole duel over Thanksgiving weekend at Shadow Creek in Las Vegas, it was announced Wednesday.

While both past the prime of the careers, the championship golfers have won a combined 19 Majors and 42-year-old Woods has seen a huge resurgence in both his performance and his popularity in 2018.

WarnerMedia has secured worldwide media rights to “The Match,” and Turner Sports will produce the pay-per-view telecast of the event, which will offer $9 million to the winner and will be played Friday, Nov. 23. It will air on Turner’s TNT and HBO’s 24/7 Reality franchise.

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“The iconic Tiger Woods and five-time Major Champion Phil Mickelson are generational talents who

SAG-AFTRA has signed Jessica Alba’s The Honest Company as the newest signatory to the union’s commercials contracts.

“I am thrilled that The Honest Company has chosen to provide our members with the protection of a SAG-aftra contract. This partnership is the result of meaningful collaboration between SAG-aftra and Honest and helps sustain and build a flourishing industry for performers and employers,” said President Gabrielle Carteris. “Kudos to our member Jessica Alba for recognizing that the protections of a strong union contract are crucial to all workers. She is a model of ethical leadership and we’re proud to move forward together.

In today’s film news roundup, “Beyond the Sky” and “Hotel Mumbai” are acquired for distribution and seven-time Oscar nominee Lee Orloff is set for a career achievement award.

Aquisitions

Rlje Films has bought North American rights to sci-fi thriller “Beyond The Sky,” starring Ryan Carnes, Jordan Hinson, Martin Sensmeier, Don Stark and Peter Stormare, Variety has learned exclusively.

Fulvio Sestito directed from a story he wrote with Rebecca Berrih and Warren Thomas. The script was written by Thomas and Marc Porterfield. Rlje plans to release the film in theaters and on VOD and Digital HD on Sept. 21, 2018.

“The question of if we are alone in the universe is still talked about today,” said chief acquisitions officer Mark Ward for Rlje Films. “With its unique approach to the story of alien abduction and its great special effects, we are thrilled to be able to bring ‘Beyond The Sky’ to audiences.

Loads of love — and London accents — filled Hollywood Boulevard on Wednesday, Aug. 22, for Simon Cowell’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star dedication ceremony. The “America’s Got Talent” creator and judge, whose credits also include launching “The X Factor” and serving nine seasons on “American Idol,” was welcomed by scores of fans – not coincidentally, “Agt” was taping its semifinal round feet away in the Dolby theater – but it was the constellation of stars from music and beyond that made it something other than Wednesday in Hollywood.

As Cowell took the podium, he cracked, “Why did this take so long?” And

Jon Hamm, Ed Harris and Lewis Pullman have been cast in Tom Cruise’s “Top Gun: Maverick” for Paramount Pictures.

“Oblivion” helmer Joe Kosinski is directing the film, a sequel to the 1986 “Top Gun,” from a script by Peter Craig, Justin Marks and Eric Warren Singer. Jerry Bruckheimer, who produced the first film with the late Don Simpson, will produce with Cruise and Skydance CEO David Ellison.

This latest project will be set in a world of drone technology and will explore the end of the era of dogfighting, with Cruise portraying a flight instructor. In late May, Cruise posted a photo of himself in front of what appeared to be a Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet.

Variety reported on July 3 that “Only the Brave” star Miles Teller had been tapped to play the son of the Goose character and Maverick’s new protege. Goose, the co-pilot to Cruise’s Maverick character in the original,

Mark Johnson, who has headed the Oscars’ Foreign Language Film Award Executive Committee for 17 of the last 18 years and is one of the driving forces behind the current three-step process of selecting nominees, will not return in that position this year, theWrap has learned.

Johnson, an Oscar winner for “Rain Man” and a member of the Academy’s Board of Governors from the Producers Branch, has opted not to return after a year in which significant changes were made to the process, an individual with knowledge of his decision told TheWrap.

Academy President John Bailey, who has been an enthusiastic participant in foreign-language voting for years, will choose a successor to Johnson. Bailey has not named this year’s chair yet, but is expected to do so soon.

The Academy did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.

Johnson headed the committee every year in this century except

Basilica Hudson’s biennial Pioneering People fundraiser will honor Courtney Love. Dubbed “A Tribute: Celebrating the Magic and the Power,” this year’s event features a star-studded group of hosts, including Michael Stipe, Chloë Sevigny, the National’s Aaron Dessner, director Miles Joris-Peyrafitt, photographer Ryan McGinley and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, among others.

Produced and creative directed by Love’s former Hole bandmate Melissa Auf der Maur, alongside artist Joe Mama-Nitzberg, the event will feature conversations, readings, videos and performances that will “shine a light on all of the ways that Love