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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has found the actor set to play President Garfield’s daughter in upcoming biographical series Death By Lightning produced by Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. British up-and-comer Laura Marcus (The Serpent Queen) will portray Mollie Garfield opposite Michael…

EXCLUSIVE: Niko Pepaj will kick off Season 8 of CBS’ S.W.A.T. on October 18 with a promotion. Returning as Officer Miguel Alfaro, Pepaj has been upgraded to a series regular fulfilling his character’s wish to be a permanent member of 20 Squad. Additionally, the new season will welcome Annie Ilonzeh…

EXCLUSIVE: EastEnders alumna Florisa Kamara is set as a series regular opposite Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch in Peacock’s upcoming series The Day Of The Jackal, Deadline has learned. The series is based on the Frederick Forsyth novel and 1973 film adaptation from Universal Pictures. However, it…

Karim Diané (One Of Us Is Lying) and Zoë Steiner (Significant Others) will be joining the new class of Starfleet cadets in Paramount+’s upcoming Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, the latest chapter in the Star Trek universe. Production is set to begin later this summer. The series, starring Holly Hunter…

EXCLUSIVE: Kate Siegel (The Fall of the House of Usher) is currently in production as the exec producer and star of Damned If You Do, a dark comedy marking the directorial debut of Jake Rubin and Evan Metzold. Written by Ellen Adair and Eric Gilde, and produced by Objectively Good Media, the film…

EXCLUSIVE: After landing the high-profile spec Apex earlier this year, the Netflix genre thriller has gained some serious momentum as Deadline is hearing that Charlize Theron is in final negotiations to star, with Baltasar Kormákur in final negotiations to direct. Jeremy Robbins penned the script…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy nominee Benjamin Bratt (Poker Face) is the newest addition to the cast of Balls Up, Amazon MGM Studios’ upcoming action comedy from director Peter Farrelly and Skydance. Details as to Bratt’s role are under wraps. As previously announced, Mark Wahlberg, Paul Walter Hauser, Molly…

EXCLUSIVE: Julia Mayorga (American Rust) and Allegra Leguizamo (Tin Soldier) have been tapped for roles alongside Academy Award winner Shirley MacLaine and Stephen Dorff in the indie drama People Not Places from director Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer). Written by Ellen Brown Furman (The Infiltrato…

EXCLUSIVE: Katy O’Brian (Love Lies Bleeding), Margaret Cho (Fire Island), Brigette Lundy-Paine (I Saw The TV Glow) and Cheyenne Jackson (American Horror Story) are among those set to star in Queens of the Dead, a new horror comedy directed by Tina Romero, daughter of legendary director George A. Romero (Ni…

Dan Stevens (Abigail, Downton Abbey) has been tapped as the lead and executive producer on the third installment of AMC Networks’ The Terror horror anthology, Devil in Silver. Written by Chris Cantwell (Halt and Catch Fire) and author Victor LaValle, on whose novel the season is based, The Terror: De…

In a recent interview with Jimmy Kimmel Live guest host Anthony Anderson,  former Friends star Lisa Kudrow recalled a moment when Sandra Bullock called her by her character’s name. “I just love this. I was at a big party and I was talking to Sandra Bullock — name-dropping, I have to, but it’s true,&#8221…

EXCLUSIVE: Mimi Rogers (Bosch: Legacy) and Cemre Paksoy (As the Crow Flies) are attached to star in Night Nurse, an erotic thriller from writer-director Georgia Bernstein, which will mark her feature debut. The film takes place behind the gates of a remote retirement community, where a starry-eyed…