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EXCLUSIVE: Harvey Guillén (What We Do in the Shadows), Adrianne Palicki (John Wick) and John O’Hurley (Seinfeld) are leading the cast of the indie pickleball mockumentary, Pickleheads. The film’s cast also includes Pej Vahdat (The Old Man), Kristine Froseth (Sharp Stick), Eric Nelsen (1883), Ryan…

Amazon MGM Studios and Mattel’s live-action Masters of the Universe film has four new villains, Deadline has learned. Jared Leto (House of Gucci) is confirmed for the role of Skeletor, having initially been linked to the project back in September. Others now aboard include Sam C. Wilson (House of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Sean Hayes is lining up a busy 2025 as sources tell Deadline that he has joined the cast of Paramount’s The Running Man as well as the Searchlight pic Is This Thing On. Hayes would shoot Running Man first and follow that up with Is This Thing On next year. For The Running Man, he joins an…

It’s been more than seven years since Martin Henderson left ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy after two seasons as a series regular, playing Dr. Nathan Riggs. While the venerable medical drama is known for bringing back cast members, Henderson is one of few who have never been back. During an interview about…

EXCLUSIVE: Revival, Syfy's upcoming drama series adaptation, based on Tim Seeley and Mike Norton's Image comic book series, has added eight to its cast in recurring roles. Gia Sandhu (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds), Katharine King So (The Voyeurs), Maia Jae Bastidas (Gen V), Nathan Dales (Letterkenny), Mar…

EXCLUSIVE: Director A.J. Tesler (Hero Mode) has wrapped on Maybe We Should, an inspirational drama based on a true story. Pic’s cast includes Heather Graham (Chosen Family), Jeremy John Wells (Oppenheimer), Kevin Nealon (Saturday Night Live), Lil Rel Howery (Vacation Friends), Matt Walsh (Veep), and…

EXCLUSIVE: Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett are set to star opposite Anne Hathaway in Amazon MGM Studios' upcoming feature Verity. Michael Showalter is helming. Based on the No. 1 New York Times bestseller by Colleen Hoover, the current script is written by Nick Antosca. Prior drafts were penned by…

SPOILER ALERT: The story includes a detail about Season 6 of Netflix’s Virgin River. Mark Ghanimé is leaving Virgin River as a series regular. Showrunner Patrick Sean Smith confirmed the departure in a wide-raging interview with Deadline addressing Season 6 and 7 burning questions. The news is…

Like their human counterparts, canine actors have to deal with rejection too. That includes being recast through no fault of your own. That’s what is happening on the hit Netflix romantic drama Virgin River where the role of Mel (Alexandra Breckenridge) and Jack’s (Martin Henderson) dog Pony is…

EXCLUSIVE: David Zayas (Dexter, Oz) has joined the cast of Edgar Wright’s Paramount feature The Running Man, based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King that the author first published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. He portrays Richard Manuel, sources close to production tell Deadline…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy Award nominee Joseph Lee (Beef, Star Trek: Picard) has been cast as a series regular in the Apple TV+ series Neuromancer, a new 10-episode drama based on the award-winning novel of the same name by William Gibson. He joins the previously announced Callum Turner and Briana Middleton…

EXCLUSIVE: Parasite star Song Kang-Ho has signed on to the Season 2 cast of Netflix anthology series Beef as a guest star, joining previously announced Carey Mulligan, Oscar Isaac, Charles Melton, Cailee Spaeny and Youn Yuh-jung.  In Season 2, a young couple witnesses an alarming fight between their…