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Shaked Berenson’s production and distribution company Entertainment Squad has acquired Christopher Fox’s dramatic thriller Rub and is launching international sales on the Croisette this week.

Micah Spayer portrays Neal, a lonely everyman who is bullied at work and unlucky in love. At the suggestion of a co-worker he decides to go to a massage parlour which changes his life.

Jennifer Figuereo (Lola) plays a sex-worker who forms an unlikely bond with Neal. Westley Barrington Artope (The Get Down) and Pj Landers (Kingpin) round out the key cast.

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Exclusive: Garret Dillahunt (Army of the Dead), Jeanine Serralles (Utopia), Kaya Rosenthal (The Time Traveler’s Wife), Michael Drayer (Mr. Robot), newcomer Ellie Barone and Taja V. Simpson (The Oval) have signed on for recurring roles in the third season of Starz’s crime drama, Hightown.

Created by Rebecca Cutter (Gotham), Hightown is set in the beautiful but bleak world of Cape Cod, watching as Jackie Quiñone’s (Monica Raymund) journey to sobriety is overshadowed by a murder investigation dragging her into its fold. The show’s second season saw the picture-perfect version of summer on Cape Cod clash with its off-season reality. Quinones (Raymund), achieving her dream of becoming a real cop, was out to do some good in this world. Thrust immediately into the crime wave of deadly carfentanyl flooding the Cape, she was laser-focused on bringing down drug dealer Frankie Cuevas (Amaury Nolasco), the man she holds responsible...

Exclusive: Bet has added 11 series regulars to the cast of Tyler Perry’s White House drama series The Oval. Javon Johnson (The Hate U Give), Ptosha Storey (Empire), Vaughn Hebron (TiTi Do You Love Me), Teesha Renee, Lodric Collins (Grimm), Ciera Payton (She’s Gotta Have It), Taja V. Simpson (Boo 2: A Madea Halloween), Walter Fauntleroy (Grey’s Anatomy), Brad Benedict (Castle), Travis Cure (Nocturnal) and Matthew Law (The Paynes) join previously announced cast Ed Quinn, Kron Moore, Paige Hurd and Daniel Croix Henderson. The 25-episode The Oval was the first series greenlighted under Perry’s multi-year content deal with Viacom. Principal photography is underway at Tyler Perry Studios.

Written, directed and executive produced by Perry, The Oval tells the story of a family placed in the White House by people of power while also highlighting the personal side and everyday lives of the staff who...