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It looks like it’s back-to-school for Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill and Ice Cube, who are in talks to return for a third installment in the 21 Jump Street movie reboot franchise. Deadline has learned that 24 Jump Street is in the works at Sony Pictures (despite 22 Jump Street being the previous…

EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Lang has joined the cast of director Kevin Lewis’ upcoming supernatural horror film Mercy Good, from Stoic Films. Written by Michael Caissie (Hangman, Hunter’s Moon) and directed by Lewis (Willy’s Wonderland), Mercy Good follows a family that relocates to Salem, Massachusetts…

EXCLUSIVE: Another new face is coming to Baywatch. John Beckwith (Song Sung Blue) has booked a heavily recurring role opposite Jessica Belkin on Fox’s upcoming reboot of the famous lifeguard action drama. Beckwith will play Julian, an extremely handsome, compassionate, and sophisticated Ph.D…

EXCLUSIVE: Miles Teller (Paper Tiger) has inked a deal to star in Copperhead, a new thriller from King Ivory helmer John Swab and Black Label Media. Written by Chad Feehan and J. Todd Scott, Copperhead‘s plot is thrust in motion when an undercover drug deal explodes into violence in West Texas…

EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Druski is the latest actor to join the Universal pic The Catch starring Emma Stone and Chris Pine. Ashley Padilla also recently joined the cast. Dave McCary will direct the film, which is set to bow on May 21, 2027. Jen Statsky and Travis Helwig wrote the most recent draft…

Homer Gere, Yvonne Chapman, Ellen Barkin, Willem Dafoe and Michael Douglas have rounded out the cast of Oliver Stone’s upcoming pic White Lies as principal photography commences. They join Josh Hartnett and Leila George. "The cast was a delight from beginning to end. And the Italian crew was the…

EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award winner Geena Davis has inked a deal to join The Kellys, Amazon MGM’s new action film from director Brad Peyton and Thunder Road Films. No word yet on the role to be played by Davis. She joins an ensemble that includes Arnold Schwarzenegger, Liam Hemsworth, Kelsey…

EXCLUSIVE: Edgar Ramírezis set to join Mark Ruffalo and Mahershala Ali in the second season of HBO's lauded crime drama Task. Harry Melling, Adam Nagaitis and Aminah Nieves also recently joined the ensemble. As previously announced, Ali plays Eddie Barnes, a seasoned and well-respected DEA agent…

Holmes has been upped to series regular on hit Prime Video show Overcompensating Season 2. Production is underway on Benito Skinner’s second season, with Connie Britton and Kyle MacLachlan among the guest starring and recurring cast returning. Holmes, who stars in Hacks and Welcome to Flatc…

Netflix has rounded out the cast for for Scooby-Doo: Origins, which is currently in production in Atlanta. They include Rusty Schwimmer (The Pitt, Righteous Gemstones), Peter Macon (Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, The Orville), Maxwell Simkins (Shifting Gears, Sleepover), Jona Xiao (The Pitt…

EXCLUSIVE: Soon after becoming Canada’s first Creator of the Year, actress and comedian Julie Nolke is set to star in Gov, a political satire from Red Imp Films. Nolke will play the lead role in the single-cam comedy as a social media influencer named Jenny Popovich who is appointed Governor…

Hugh Laurie's mystery role in the BBC and MGM+'s Legacy of Spies is secret no more. Deadline revealed last week that The Night Manager star had landed his second le Carré adaptation role in as many years and the team behind it has now revealed Laurie will play Control, the fiendish and…