Julie Benz Gets Female Lead In Syfy Series Defiance, Pilot Rewind Casts First Actor

EXCLUSIVE: Dexter alumna Julie Benz will star opposite Grant Bowler Bowler in the Syfy series Defiance. Tony Curran (Pillars Of The Earth), Jamie Murray and Stephanie Leonidas also have been cast in the live-action drama, written/executive produced by Farscape creator Rockne S. OBannon, which was developed concurrently with an online video game. Set on a future Earth, Defiance is set in a world where humans and aliens live together on a planet ravaged by decades of war and transformed by alien terra-forming machines. It centers on Jeb Nolan (Bowler), the law-keeper in a bustling frontier boomtown that is one of the new worlds few oasis of civility and inclusion. Benz, repped by ICM and Vincent Cirrincione, will play Amanda Rosewater, the idealistic newly appointed mayor of the mining boomtown who is determined to maintain peace in the community. Leonidas will play Irisa, a beautiful warrior who is part of an alien race called the Irathients. After Nolan killed her criminal father, he adopted the girl and raised her as his clever and lethal right-hand. Curran, repped by Domain and Sanders/Arstrong/Caserta, will play Datak Tarr, a member of another elite alien race known as the Castithans who schemed his way out of his home planet before it was destroyed. Murray, repped by Sanders/Arstrong/Caserta, will play Dataks beautiful and proper wife. Scott Stewart (Legion) will direct Defiance, slated to begin production in April in Toronto. Kevin Murphy will executive produce. Benz just wrapped the indie Supremacy. Shane McRae is the first actor cast in Syfys two-hour pilot Rewind, from BermanBraun and Universal Cable Prods.Written by Justin Marks and directed by Jack Bender, Rewind revolves around a team of military field operatives and civilian scientists who must use untested technology to travel back in time to alter past events in order to change the future and avoid a devastating terrorist attack. McRae, repped by Gersh and TMT Entertainment, will play Henry Knox,ex-Special Forces who now ranks as a field operative in a special division of the Department of Homeland Security.Rewind is also set to begin production in April.

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Holden Snyder is back, baby! Well, at least for two episodes. Former As the World Turns star Jon Hensley is heading to CBS's The Bold and the Beautiful where he will play a doctor involved in the Hope-Liam-Steffy triangle. Hensley's character doesn't have a name yet but a rep for B&B tells TV Guide Magazine that the doc will come to the rescue when... Read More > Other Links From TVGuide.com Jon HensleyThe Bold and the Beautiful

British Actor Theo James Can get Charge In CBS Nick Wootton-Greg Berlanti Pilot

British actor Theo James has showed up charge in CBS’ untitled Nick Wootton-Greg Berlanti drama pilot also called Golden Boy. The project, from Warner Bros TV and Berlanti Prods concentrates on Clark (James), a cop, and tales his meteoric rise from officer to detective and ultimately police commissioner. Ryan Phillippe was attracted on for your role but left soon after that, triggering a extended who audition method that brought towards the casting of James. James, which has a quantity of credits within the native Britain, is virtually unknown inside the U.S. He gained his Hollywood debut inside the recent Underworld: Awakening. James might be the most recent non-American actor to get the lead in the pilot this pilot season. RELATED: American Stars Not Fairest Famous Them In Pilot Lead Castings

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April Fools' Day will be no joke for fans of Marvel Comics' iconic superheroes. That Sunday morning Disney XD launches a new block of animated programming, titled "Marvel Universe," which features Spider-Man, the Avengers and the various heroes and villains who fill the pages of the publisher's vast comic-book library.Kicking off the block at 11am/10c is the new series Ultimate Spider-Man, which ... Read More > Other Links From TVGuide.com Joe QuesadaJeph LoebAvengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes!Paul Dini

Scarlett Johansson Is Going To Be Jesse Leigh

For The Building Of PsychoAs Sacha Gervasi gears as much as bring a slice of motion picture history to existence with Alfred Hitchcock And The Building Of Psycho, he's locked lower two stars to experience probably the most legendary elements (besides Hitch themself) for that film-within-the-film: Scarlett Johansson is going to be Jesse Leigh and James D'Arcy is playing Anthony Perkins.The Building Of Psycho stories the legendary director's struggle to obtain the horror classic made at any given time once the thriller / horror genre was frowned upon and that he was made fun of for using the idea.John McLaughlin, Tom Thayer and Stephen Rebello (who authored it the film is dependant on) wrote the script and Anvil! director Gervasi already has Anthony Hopkins aboard to experience Hitchcock with Helen Mirren now confirmed as his wife, Alma Reville.Based on Variety, this might finish as a My Week With Marilyn-style honours baiter, with Johansson potentially in line for glory. But that is obtaining a little in front of things: first she needs to really come in the film.Presuming everything all comes together, the film ought to be shooting the following month.Johansson will next be observed in that quiet costume drama The Avengers, while D'Arcy includes a role (or most likely several, because of the character from the film) in Cloud Atlas.

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War film Act of Valor required home the very best place only at that weekend's box office, grossing $24.7 million, based on Box Office Mojo. The film, which stars mostly real active-duty Navy Closes, edged out Tyler Perry's Good Deeds, each of which opened up a few days ago. Perry's film arrived at No. 2 by having an even $16 million. Find Out More > Other Links From TVGuide.com Dwayne JohnsonRachel McAdamsTyler PerryChanning TatumGood DeedsGoneGhost Driver: Spirit Of VengeanceSafe HouseThe VowJourney 2: The Mysterious IslandThis Means WarThe Secret Realm Of ArriettyWanderlustAct Of Valor

Skyfall: Mike Mendes first Videoblog From Group Of 23rd Mission Impossible Film

While less than as revelatory as, say, Healing For Peter Jackson’s 10-minute+ digital missives from Hobbiton, Mike Mendes here presents a 90-second videoblog in the group of Skyfall. The brand new 007 director waxes by himself Bond nostalgia and you will find a couple of glimpses of filming (Difficulties stalking inside a glass building, a baggage claim slide carousel, the roads based in london…). Oddly enough, the British veteran Mendes notes this is actually the first picture he’s ever shot in England. Video below: