Channing Tatum
Channing Tatum's stripper past is no secret (video footage of his pre-fame gyrations leaked in 2009), and now he's set to share even more of it on the big screen. Steven Soderbergh (Ocean's Eleven, Erin Brockovich) has signed on to direct Tatum in a film based on Tatum's actual past as an adult entertainer, EW.com reports. He's set to play an older stripper mentoring a younger one...
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S. Epatha Merkerson
Law & Order alum S. Epatha Merkerson has joined CBS' untitled medical drama pilot from Susannah Grant, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The project follows a competitive surgeon (Patrick Wilson), whose life is changed forever when his ex-wife (Jennifer Ehle) dies and begins teaching him about life from the hereafter. Merkerson will play Wilson's administrative assistant.
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Cherry Jones
Cherry Jones has joined the cast of NBC's REM pilot, TVGuide.com has confirmed.
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The series stars Jason Isaacs as Mark Britton, a police detective who's involved in a traumatic car accident and wakes up in two fractured realities. Jones, 54, will play...
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Bubble's Debbie Doebereiner
The latest film from Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh seeks not to break box-office records, earn countless awards or chronicle what's next for Danny Ocean and his band of merry thieves. No, all it wants to do is change the way Hollywood makes movies. Forever.
Bubble, starring absolutely no one you have heard of — unless, per chance, you are a resident of Parkersburg, W. Va., or Belpre, Ohio — presents the story of two doll-factory drones whose very, very quiet world is turned upside down by a shocking murder. Sounds good and typically art-housey so far, right? But the reason all eyes in Hollywood are on this little film that could — made for a pittance of $1.6 million — is that Bubble will be released in theaters and on cable (via HDNet Movies) today, and will then become available on DVD on Tuesday.
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