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Trace Adkins will return to the small screen by way of the ER this May. The singer/sometime actor has scored a role as a military veteran on the NBC medical drama, The Night Shift. According to TheWrap, Adkins will play the leader of a therapy group attended by Dr. Tc Callahan, one of the show's main characters, portrayed by actor Eoin Macken. The series, now in its second season, depicts Tc dealing with Ptsd while trying to maintain a relationship with Dr. Jordan Alexander, who's played by Jill Flint.

Noah Wyle will star in Shot, the story of what happens to an innocent bystander and his fiancée when a teenager unintentionally shoots him and all of their lives are turned upside down. Jeremy Kagan directs from a script by William Lambom and Anneke Campbell. The film, which starts production in February, is being repped at Afm by Global Genesis Group. ER alum Wyle, who stars on TNT’s Falling Skies, next appears in the TNT series The Librarians, indie drama The World Made Straight and miniseries To Appomattox. He is repped by UTA and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

Showtime capped off a busy week of pilot casting by landing a pair of Emmy winners to topline its drama pilot "Billions." Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis will star in the pilot, which will shoot in New York City in early 2015. Written by Brian Koppelman, David Levien and Andrew Ross Sorkin, "Billions" is described a fictional drama that "takes a forensic look at the world of high finance by tracking the approaching collision between two titanic figures." Those figures are U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhodes (Giamatti) and hedge fund king Bobby "Axe" Axelrod (Lewis). Showtime also announced that Neil Burger ("Limitless") has signed on to direct the pilot. An Oscar nominee for "Cinderella Man," Giamatti has been making an aggressive push into TV in recent years. The "John Adams" Emmy winner earned Emmy nods for HBO's "Too Big to Fail" and earlier this year for "Downton Abbey." While FX opted...

“Free Fall,” the latest thriller from Anchor Bay Entertainment, is promising to make elevators your worst nightmare. The film, which comes from the producers of the “Halloween” and “Final Destination” franchises, stars D.B. Sweeney (“Taken 2,” “Fire in the Sky,” the upcoming “To Appomattox” miniseries), Sarah Butler (“I Spit On Your Grave,” “The Demented,” “Treachery”), Ian Gomez (“Cougar Town,” “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”) and screen legend Malcolm McDowell (“A Clockwork Orange,” “The Artist”). Here’s more about the film: “A top executive is killed in an apparent suicide leap from the skyscraper headquarters of Gault Capital. But when the dead man’s loyal protégé Jane Porter (Butler) uncovers some startling criminal [ Read More ]

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From the producers of “Halloween” and “Final Destination” comes the latest action thriller “Free Fall.” The film stars Sarah Butler (“I Spit on Your Grave,” “The Demented,” “Treachery”), D.B. Sweeney (“Taken 2,” “Fire in the Sky,” the upcoming “To Appomattox” miniseries), Ian Gomez (“Cougar Town,” “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”) and Malcolm McDowell (“A Clockwork Orange,” “The Artist”). The film will make its way to Blu-ray and DVD Oct. 28. Also, speaking of “Halloween,” “Free Fall” is the directorial debut of one of the “Halloween” franchise producers, Malek Akkad. “Free Fall” is a horrifying journey through the corporate world and promises to do for elevators what Alfred Hitchcock’s amazing thriller [ Read More ]

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Anchor Bay Entertainment will be releasing the directorial debut from Malek Akkad, titled Free Fall, onto DVD & Blu-ray on October 28th. I know very little about this film, other than what was just made available with the press release that just went out. Malek Akkad, if you are unfamiliar, is the man that produces all things Halloween as his birth right. That doesn’t mean he will be a great director, but here’s hoping, right? Check out the press release below, and click here to pre-order your copy.

From the producers of the Halloween and

Final Destination franchises

Anchor Bay Entertainment Takes The Elevator To Terror With

Free Fall

On Blu-ray™ And DVD October 28th

The Only Way Out…Is Down

Beverly Hills, CA – Just like people, corporations can hold secrets. And for those who uncover them, silence is not only golden, but sometimes it is the difference between life and death.

Homeland star Damian Lewis is finalizing a deal to star opposite Nicole Kidman in Werner Herzog's Queen of the Desert, according to Deadline. Lewis would play Lieutenant Colonel Charles Doughty-Wylie, an unhappy British war hero who has a torrid affair with archeologist, cartographer, writer, and political attache Gertrude Bell (Kidman) until his death in World War I. Lewis played a Civil War general in To Appomattox, a World War II soldier in Band of Brothers, and of course plays a former Marine on Homeland. He just has a military-ish face, apparently.

Laurence Fishburne is once again defending the fate of humanity in a new sci-fi action film, The Colony. Fishburne (Man of Steel, The Matrix) stars with Kevin Zegers (Titanic: Blood and Steel, Gossip Girl) and Bill Paxton (To Appomattox, Big Love) in this film written by Patrick Tarr, Pascal Trottier, Svet Rouskov and director Jeff Renfroe (Stranger with My Face, One Point O).

Check out the first still from The Colony from Sierra /Affinity.

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Synopsis:

Beneath the icy surface, survivors of Colony Seven struggle as food supplies dwindle and temperatures continue to drop. Plagued by illness and internal conflict, the colonists suspect the worst when they mysteriously lose contact with Colony Five – the only other known settlement. Sam (Kevin Zegers,) a strong-willed mechanic with a tragic past, joins a team headed up by Briggs (Laurence Fishburne) on a dangerous expedition to find out what happened. After a hellish trek, they...

William Petersen is taking his first steps toward a return to television.

The Emmy-nominated CSI vet (who left the CBS series in 2009, after nine years) is set to star in and executive-produce Hurt People, a drama series in development at Gk-tv, a production company launched by Camelot EPs Graham King and Tim Headington.

The hour-long project centers on Hollis Brown (Petersen), a veteran hitman who is actually employed by the crime family responsible for killing his wife. In an even bigger twist, he’s been enlisted to hunt down his estranged daughter, who is hellbent on destroying those responsible for her mother’s death.

I’ll give you a second to read that headline again so you know that the next few paragraphs are not written in stone. In a report from The Sun (via Slashfilm), they suggest that former ER co-stars George Clooney and Noah Wyle are in competition for the role of Apple-icon Steve Jobs for a biopic by Sony. While there is no factual evidence to support this, Wyle did once portray Jobs in the TV biography Pirates of Silicon Valley and Clooney is being courted to play in almost everything. Rumor or not, Sony is definitely anxious to get production moving on the biopic and is banking on Aaron Sorkin to pen the script. Hit the jump for more on this project. While Clooney certainly has the chops to play the role, I can’t imagine he’d give up that Hollywood hair to more adequately portray Jobs. Perhaps, since we’re talking crazy anyway,...