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Alex Pangburn has just completed shooting on feature film “Midnight Sun“.

Bella Thorne and Patrick Schwarzenegger have been cast as the leads of Midnight Sun, a young adult love story that will be financed by Boies/Schiller Film Group. Scott Speer (Step Up: Revolution) is set to direct the pic from a script by Eric Kirsten.

Based on a 2006 Japanese film, Midnight Sun centers on Katie (Thorne), a 17-year-old sheltered since childhood and confined to her house during the day by a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. Fate intervenes when she meets Charlie (Schwarzenegger) and they embark on a summer romance.

John Rickard and Zack Schiller, who are collaborating on the Fletch redo with Jason Sudeikis at Relativity, are producing; David Boies, James McGough, Alan Ou, Hiroki Shirota and Speer are executive producing; Devin Andre will co-produce. WME Global is handling the domestic sale.

Naika Toussaint finishes filming a role on Motive, Season IV.

Motive is a Canadian police procedural drama television series that premiered on the CTV television network in the 2012–13 season.  On June 2, 2015, the series was renewed for a fourth season.  Motive is set in Vancouver, B.C., following the investigations of working class single mother Detective Angie Flynn (Kristin Lehman). Each episode reveals the killer and the victim at the beginning; and the rest of the episode details the ongoing investigation, the killer’s efforts to cover up the crime, and, via flashbacks, the events leading to the crime. This format is similar to that of the TV series Columbo.

Mike Li has landed a role on DC Legends Of Tomorrow, Episode #104, an upcoming American television series developed by Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim, who also executive produce with showrunner Phil Klemmer, Sarah Schechter and Chris Fedak. It is scheduled to air on The CW, debuting in 2016 during the 2015–16 season. The series is a spin-off from Arrow and The Flash.
Rip Hunter travels back in time to the present day where he brings together a team of heroes and villains in an attempt to prevent Vandal Savage from destroying the world and time itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXmSz2HQF-8

Gigi Jackman finishes filming a role in Drama/Thriller Pilot “HOME“.

“Home” delves into the secrets lingering behind the facade of a seemingly idyllic suburban family. The series revolves around Rose Altman, a newly pregnant woman who has a successful business as an accomplished designer and a wonderful home life with her husband Joe, a highly regarded prison psychologist, and his two sons, to whom she’s enjoying being their stepmother. But when she discovers long-buried secrets, Rose’s perfect family and life is shattered.

TNT has picked up the Jerry Bruckheimer show.

One Tree Hill and Dexter alum Bethany Joy Lenz has been tapped as the female lead opposite Andrew Buchan . Rounding out the cast of the thriller are Bruce Greenwood (Thirteen Days) and Benito Martinez (The Shield), Nicole Muñoz (Defiance), and Roberta Colindrez (Birdman). In addition to Buchan, they join previously announced JoBeth Williams, Harris Dickinson and Sawyer Barth.

Aron Eli Coleite wrote the pilot. The writer-producer‘s past credits include “Crossing Jordan,” “Hostages” and “Heroes,” on which he served as a writer and producer for the majority of its four-season run, eventually rising to co-exec producer.
Coleite will serve as an exec producer on “Home,” along with Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman (“CSI” franchise,” “Without a Trace,” “The Amazing Race”) and Brad Anderson (“Fringe”), who will direct. KristieAnne Reed (“Hostages,” “Dark Blue”) will serve as a co-exec producer. Jerry Bruckheimer Television and Warner Horizon Television will produce.

Darcy Fehr is busy shooting on the feature film “Considering Love And Other Magic“.

“Roger”, an awkward teenager, who discovers the meaning of life and death…

Dressed in a baggy black sweater, troubled teenager Jessie Wilson arrives at the home of Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Veronica Guest, the long forgotten literary darling of 1948, and close confidant to the very late Truman Capote. In desperate need of extra high school credits, Jessie agrees to tutor young Tommy Faber in science and math, but when the timid boy insists he hasn’t left Veronica’s mansion in more than sixty years, Jessie knows she’s bitten off more than she can chew. Tommy is convinced he’s fiction, a make believe boy conjured from the pages of a short story that first appeared in a 1952 edition of Woman’s Home Journal. Jessie is determined to make Tommy a real boy. The lesson is life. You can hide from the world, but not for long. Sometimes friendship is the only magic we really need.

Eric McCormack is set to star in the indie drama and Dave Schultz, a Canadian-born writer/director/producer, will be directing. His directing credits include the cult classic
Jet Boy (2002) and 45 RPM (2008). His writing credits number more than a dozen television movies, including screenplay adaptations of works by New York Times bestselling authors Joy Fielding and Daniel Kalla. Documentary credits include the six-part television series Rebels – A Journey Underground, narrated by Kiefer Sutherland. Schultz is currently in development on the suspense television series Starlight.

Naika Toussaint books a role in eOne series, “YOU ME HER“.

DirecTV has made a straight-to-series order for the Entertainment One TV comedy You Me Her, created by John Scott Shepherd and inspired by the Playboy Magazine article “Sugar on Top” by John H. Richardson. Ten half-hour episode series will air on DirecTV’s Audience Network. The series is described as a twist on the indie rom-com, a “polyromantic” comedy that centers on a three-way relationship — two of the parties a suburban married couple.

Zack Lavoie has recently finished filming on SYFY’s “The Magicians”.

This drama fantasy horror show, based upon Lev Grossman’s best-selling books, The Magicians, stars Jason Ralph (A Most Violent Year, Aquarius) as Quentin Coldwater, a brilliant grad student who enrolls in Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, a secret upstate New York university specializing in magic. He and his 20-something friends soon discover that the magical fantasy world they read about as children is all too real— and poses a grave danger to humanity.  Stella Maeve (Chicago P.D.), Olivia Taylor Dudley (Vatican Tapes, Paranormal Activity 5), Hale Appleman (Teeth), Arjun Gupta (Nurse Jackie), and Summer Bishil (Towelhead, Lucky 7) also star in this one-hour drama.
Groundswell Productions’ Michael London and Janice Williams (Milk) will executive produce. John McNamara (Aquarius) and Sera Gamble (Supernatural), writers of the pilot, will serve as executive producers.

Lev Grossman’s Magicians trilogy is an international sensation, published and widely praised in more than twenty countries. The epic conclusion to the series, The Magician’s Land, opened at #1 last summer on The New York Times Hardcover Best Seller’s list, and was widely acclaimed as one of the best books of the year.

Magicians Trailer

Gigi Jackman has wrapped a role on CW’s iZombie

Seattle medical resident Olivia “Liv” Moore is turned into a zombie while attending a boat party. To cope with her new appetite for brains, Liv takes a job at the King County morgue and shares her secret with her boss, Dr. Ravi Chakrabarti. In order for Liv to survive, Ravi encourages her to eat the brains of murder victims who are delivered to the morgue. Whenever she eats a victim’s brain, Liv inherits some of their personality traits temporarily. She also experiences flashbacks which often give her clues as to the nature of the murder. Liv uses this new ability to help the Seattle Police Department solve crimes, passing herself off as a psychic consultant.

The series is created by Diane Ruggiero and Rob Thomas. Starring Rose McIver as Olivia “Liv” Moore, and Malcolm Goodwin,  Rahul Kohli,  Robert Buckley, and David Anders.

Conor Gomez books a role in Motive.

CTV’s hit original “whydunit” crime drama “Motive” began production of Season 4 this fall in Vancouver.

In addition to recently being nominated for a whopping 21 Leo Awards, “Motive” was CTV’s top nominee for the 2015 Canadian Screen Awards, garnering nine nominations, including for Best Dramatic Series and for the Golden Screen Award for Best Drama/Comedy Series. With an average audience of 1.3 million viewers, “Motive” is among the Top 3 most-watched Canadian dramas this season.

This unconventional crime drama poses the question of “whydunit” rather than “whodunit.” Each episode begins by revealing not only the victim but the killer as well with the rest of the episode showing the ongoing investigation and the killer’s efforts to cover up the crime. A team of investigators, led by homicide detective and single mother Detective Angie Flynn (Kristin Lehman) tries to piece together the clues. Viewers navigate a complicated maze of clues themselves as they get a glimpse of the killer before and after the crime is committed. Angie and her team set out to uncover the motive by discovering the killer’s connection to the victim and the evidence needed to solve the crime.

Motive also stars Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Lauren Holly, Cameron Bright, Roger Cross, Valerie Tian and Warren Christie.

Isabelle Beech and Everett Shea book roles in Supernatural, Season 11, Episode #8.

Supernatural is an American supernatural drama television series, created by Eric Kripke, that follows brothers Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) as they travel throughout the United States hunting supernatural creatures. The series borrows heavily from folklore and urban legends, and explores Pagan and Christian mythology, ?with the main adversaries throughout the series being demons.

The CW announced the renewal of Supernatural for an eleventh season in January.? Th?e? series will continue to air on Wednesdays on The CW.  The premiere episode of Season Eleven, Out of the Darkness, Into the Fire, ?was recently aired on October 7, 2015. Richard Speight, Jr., who has a recurring role on the series, will be directing? episode ?#8?.

In season 11 the ?show will be exploring pre-biblical territory such as “The Darkness”, an entity that predates God and even Death… the ominous tagline being “Between ?D?arkness and ?Deliverance.”