TV Castings: Will Chase Joins Smash, Raul Esparza Boards Gifted Guy, Judy Greer To Complete 2.5 Males, FEARnets Holliston Adds Two

Broadway actor Will Chase has became a member of NBC’s approaching Broadway-designed drama Smash like a recurring. On the program, which stories the mounting of the Broadway musical and stars Debra Playing because the musical’s lyricist, he'll play Steven, that has a brief history with Playing’s character. Chase, repped by Gersh and AC Management, has made an appearance such Broadway productions as Billy Elliot, High Fidelity and Rent. On Television, he recurred on Save Me. Another veteran Broadway actor, Raul Esparza, is going to do an arc on another new series, CBS’ medical drama A Gifted Guy, in regards to a neurosurgeon (Patrick Wilson) whose dead wife (Jennifer Ehle), the first kind mind of the free clinic, begins showing up to him. Esparza will have Ehles boyfriend, who's about the board from the clinic. Esparza, repped by ICM and Elin Flack Management, lately starred in Arcadia on Broadway. Judy Greer continues to be drawn on to have an arc on CBS’ refurbished 2 . 5 Males, playing new lead Ashton Kutcher’s soon-to-be-ex wife. This is actually the second time Greer plays an appreciation interest on the program. She once performed a squeeze from the former lead character, Charlie Sheen’s Charlie Harper. FearNet’s first original series, Holliston, is adding some heavy metal and rock royalty to its cast. Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider and GWAR lead singer Oderus Urungus have became a member of stars Adam Eco-friendly and Joe Lynch about the offbeat multicamera buddy comedy series produced by Eco-friendly. Referred to because the Large Bang Theory meets Evil Dead II, the show is occur the city of Holliston, Mass., and follows the lives of Adam (Eco-friendly) and Joe (Lynch), two buddies chasing after the imagine becoming effective horror movie filmmakers while battling to pay the bills within their publish-college jobs in a Boston cable access station where additionally they host a late-evening movie program calledThe Movie Crypt. Snider will have Adam and Joes boss, who also is surely a longtime person in a Van Halen tribute band. As they still hopes for as being a rock star, younger crowd takes the cable job very seriously and it has delusions of grandeur of how hes a part of Hollywood. Urungus will have themself and it is Adams imaginary friend who happens to reside in a closet and provides him advice that's very misguided and offensive. The six-episode series is slated to start production in September.

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Seven Days in Utopia

Lucas Black learns life lessons from Robert Duvall in Matthew Dean Russells Seven Days in Utopia A Vision Entertainment presentation of a Utopia Films production in association with Prospect Park Pictures. Produced by Jason Michael Berman, Mark G. Mathis. Executive producers, David L. Cook, Jess Stainbrook, Joseph Coors Jr., Ray C. Davis, Robert A. Innamorati, Rick Jackson, Phil Myers, Ken Herfurth, Lucas Black, Robert Carliner, Mary Vernieu, Lou Waters. Co-producers, Susan Kirr, Kwesi Collisson. Directed by Matthew Dean Russell. Screenplay, David L. Cook, Rob Levine, Russell, Sandra Thrift, from the novel "Golf's Sacred Journey: Seven Days at the Links of Utopia" by Cook.With: Lucas Black, Robert Duvall, Deborah Ann Woll, Melissa Leo, Brian Geraghty, Kathy Baker, Joseph Lyle Taylor, Madison Burge, Jerry Ferrara, K.J. Choi, Rickie Fowler.Robert Duvall riding on a horse is one of the most satisfying images in all of cinema, and "Seven Days in Utopia" provides that sight on several occasions. Those moments represent the film's high points, however; the rest of the film provides little more than a pleasantly passable Christian sports parable delivered as a sort of Texan golfer's version of "The Karate Kid." Pic, based on a bestselling novel by David L. Cook (one of four screenwriters credited), should go over well with the book's fans and church groups, which could well represent a decent-sized homevid audience. Lucas Black plays burgeoning pro-golfer Luke Chisholm, and while his golf swing looks great, and he's perfect at projecting the uncomplicated external bonhomie of so many rural Southern residents, he fails to convey much character beneath it. This is a problem, as the pic requires Chisholm to portray intense inner struggle. The film opens with Chisholm in a state of existential and Oedipal anguish, having just blown a lead in a golf tournament by melting down on the final hole, causing his caddie/domineering father (Joseph Lyle-Taylor) to walk away in disgust. Furious and speeding aimlessly through the tiny town of Utopia, Texas (pop. 375), he is forced off the road by a stray cow, crashing through the fence of a ranch but quickly attended to by owner Johnny Crawford (Duvall, entering on horseback). With his car totaled, Chisholm is forced to shack up in Utopia for the night. Crawford introduces him around town, and he forges an instant connection with moony waitress Sarah (Deborah Ann Woll), as well as an instant, mutual hostility toward an aspiring rodeo star (Brian Geraghty, channeling the same mixture of loud-mouthed machismo and insecurity that he brought to "The Hurt Locker"). Afterward, Crawford proposes that Chisholm stick around for seven days, promising to improve his golf game. Pic was actually shot in the scenic Texan burg, which the film portrays as something out of a Merle Haggard song -- a nice little place for squares to have a ball. In fact, the laid-back sense of small-town warmth and strength of the supporting cast (which includes Melissa Leo and Kathy Baker) make the film much more watchable than it otherwise would be. Crawford's lessons are Miyagi-like in their ostensible lack of connection to golf (i.e., painting, airplane-flying, fly-fishing), but they put the wayward linksman back on track, as well as providing a nice bedrock for the old sage to plant a Bible upon his pupil. Makers of explicitly Christian films often have a difficult time presenting spiritual conversions and religious themes without making the whole film a mere coat rack on which to hang those subjects, but Russell has the inverse problem -- though the Christian plotpoints are hardly subtle (film opens by quoting Isaiah 30:21), the protagonist's relationship with God falls roughly on the level of his relationship with the local girl: a chemistry-free subplot that often feels shoehorned in. Technical specs are pro, although Russell occasionally ventures into some Aronofsky-esque rapid cutting ill-suited to the lackadaisical mood. Climactic sequence involves some well-paced, well-shot golf action (featuring Golf Channel commentators and real-life pros like Rickie Fowler and K.J. Choi), though the decision to reroute viewers to a website to learn the outcome of the final match is curious indeed.Camera (color), M. David Mullen; editor, Robert Komatsu; music, Klaus Badelt, Christopher Carmichael; production designer, Clark Hunter; costume designers, Molly Maginnis, Amy Maner; set decorator, Amy Bell; sound, Bayard Carey; re-recording mixer, Gary Coppola; visual effects, Baked FX, FuseFX; assistant director, Alisa Fredericks; casting, Lindsay Graham, Mary Vernieu. Reviewed at Sunset screening room, Hollywood, Aug. 25, 2011. MPAA rating: G. Running time: 96 MIN. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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Its Official: A&E Picks Up Longmire To Series

A&E Passes On Big Mike, Leans Toward Picking Up Longmire To Series The pickup had been pending for a while and became a forgone conclusion when A&E passed on its other pilot, Big Mike, last month. Longmire has been given a 10-episode order, including the pilot. Based on the Walt Longmire Mystery series of novels by Craig Johnson, Longmire is named after its central character, Walt Longmire (The Matrix‘s Robert Taylor), the charismatic, dedicated and unflappable sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyo. Widowed only a year, he is a man in psychic repair but buries his pain behind his brave face, unassuming grin and dry wit. Co-starring in the Warner Horizon-produced pilot, which was directed by Chris Chulack, are Katee Sackhoff, Lou Diamond Phillips, Bailey Chase and Cassidy Freeman. Hunt Baldwin and John Coveny wrote the project and are executive producing with Greer Shephard and Mike Robin.

Shari Redstone Launches Investment Firm

CBS Corp and Viacom vice chairman and National Amusements president Shari Redstone has co-founded Advancit Capital, an early-stage investment firm that has been involved in early funding for app maker Nettle. AllThingsD reports that the company, co-founded with Jason Ostheimer, is focusing on media, entertainment and technology companies. Redstone, the daughter of CBS Corp and Viacom chief Sumner Redstone, recently ran Midway Games before her father sold his stock in the game-maker. She is thought to be the eventual successor to the throne at Viacom and CBS Corp.

First video of Anne Hathaway on the Batpod

There was more shooting in Pittsburgh this weekend for The Dark Knight Rises, which means more spoiler videos on YouTube today - including the first shots of Anne Hathaway as Catwoman riding the Batpod!Check out the video below to see the action at full speed, then a handily slooooowwwwwed-doooooowwwwwn version straight after.This weekend's filming was the final stint in Pittsburgh and Christopher Nolan's production now moves to LA and New York.

CBS Announces 16 New Survivor Castaways, Including Russell Hantz's Nephew

Survivor: South Pacific A lingerie football player, a medical marijuana distributor and Russell Hantz's nephew make up 16 of the 18 castaways who will compete on Survivor: South Pacific. The upcoming season's tribes, Savaii and Upolu, are named after two islands in Samoa. The "Redemption Island" twist will be back, which allows eliminated players an opportunity to return later in the game. Add Survivor: South Pacific to your Watchlist before the new season begins and never miss an episode The castaways on Savaii (with occupations and current hometowns):Mark Caruso, a 48-year-old retired NYPD detective, New York.John Cochran, a 24-year-old Harvard law student, WashingtonWhitney Duncan, a 27-year-old country music singer, Nashville, Tenn.Dawn Meehan, a 41-year-old English professor, South Jordan, Utah.Jim Rice, a 35-year-old medical marijuana dispenser, DenverSemhar Tadesse, a 24-year-old spoken word artist, Los AngelesKeith Tollefson, a 26-year-old water treatment tech, Edina, Minn.Elyse Umemoto, a 27-year-old dance team manager, Las Vegas The castaways on Upolu (with occupations and current hometowns):Sophie Clarke, a 22-year-old medical student, Willsboro, N.Y.Albert Destrade, a 26-year-old baseball/dating coach, Plantation, Fla.Brandon Hantz, a 19-year-old oil tanker crewman, Katy, Texas.Edna Ma, a 35-year-old anesthesiologist, Los AngelesChristine Shields Markoski, a 39-year-old teacher, Merrick, N.Y.Rick Nelson, a 51-year-old rancher, Aurora, Utah.Stacey Powell, a 44-year-old mortician, DallasMikayla Wingle, a 22-year-old lingerie football player, Tampa, Fla. Jeff Probst inks daytime deal with CBS Two former players, who'll be revealed later this week, will return for the 23rd installment of the CBS series. Meet the castaways: Survivor: South Pacific premieres Wednesday, Sept. 14 at 8/7c on CBS.

See Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson on Day One of Shooting for G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation

It’s hard to believe that G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation has become a legitimate summer tentpole from the time of its announcement to its first day of shooting, but that’s sorta what happened. Lots of that has to do with J.J. Abrams’s inability to get the ball rolling on Star Trek 2 in time for Paramount’s planned June 29, 2012 release date — resulting in Joe landing there — but with a cast featuring Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Channing Tatum, Adrianne Palicki and possibly Bruce Willis, it has become hard to ignore G.I. Joe 2’s potential for box office breakout next summer. Step one on that road is filming, which direct Jon M. Chu has commenced, and Johnson has commemorated on Twitter. Click through for a look. “1st day of shooting. 110 degrees. Bring It,” wrote Johnson on Twitter. The Rock stars as Roadblock in Retaliation, a name that could be literally judging from his biceps and general physique. G.I. Joe 2 arrives in theaters next summer. [via @TheRock]

Hot Trailer: 'Footloose'

Paramount Pictures has released its second trailer for the Craig Brewer-directed reboot of Footloose. The first trailer featured scenes that were very similar to the original film and the response from Deadline readers was less than enthusiastic. This trailer seems to have a bit more energy and showcases the film's leads, Kenny Wormald and Julianne Hough, who are playing the roles originated by Kevin Bacon and Lori Singer in the 1984 original. Better?

Karen Cries on the Bus

Karen discovers, after 10 years of marriage, she has left behind her dreams devoting herself to home chores and realizes it has been a mistake that cost her her youth. She decides then to separate and go in search of a life of its own. With her savings she rents a room in the center of Bogota and tries to get a job, but her age and inexperience makes it difficult. Karen will have to decide between returning to the stability of a relationship or facing life for herself.

Fantasy Football's $1 Billion-a-Year Business, 27 Million Gamers: 'It's a Sickness'

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ITV Studios America Signs Pod Deal With Bienstock Young

ITV Studios America has closed a producer pod deal with Bienstock Young Media, the company of veteran unscripted producers Jay Bienstock and Eugene Young whose credits include The Apprentice, Survivor, Bachelor Pad, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Deal or No Deal, The Price is Right, Family Feud andLets Make a Deal. Young, formerly chief creative officer at FremantleMedia North America, most recently created and is executive producing CBS' summer series Same Name.