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Well Dunder Mufflin fans, your prayers may have just been answered. Despite trying to throw us all off, more rumors have surfaced that Steve Carell might be back for The Office series finale later on May 16th.
If this rumor is true, executive producer Greg Daniels and Steve Carell did a great job concealing the cameo, releasing craftily worded statements denying an official Michael Scott return. Earlier this year, Daniels was quoted saying, “Steve is very much of the opinion that the ‘Goodbye, Michael’ episode and the story arc we did leading up to it was his goodbye to fans and the show. | Full Story
…for a movie role, of course. Emilia Clarke, most commonly known as Daenerys Targaryen on HBO’s Game of Thrones, will finally be playing a role from this world (and century). She will star in James Franco’s latest film, The Garden of Last Days, based on an Andre Dubus III novel of the same name.
The Garden of Last Days is Franco’s latest directorial attempt, in which he’ll also star. | Full Story
Kelsey Grammer is staying in the bad guy lane. After shedding his lovable Frasier Crane image to play a nefarious politician in Starz’s Boss, the actor has signed on to play a villain in Paramount’s Transformers 4.
Grammer will appear in the fourth installment of the franchise as a character named Harold Attinger, described as a counter intelligence agent and the main human antagonist in the movie.
The actor will join fellow new cast members Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Jack Reynor and Nicola Peltz in the film, which takes place four years after Transformers: Dark of the Moon. | Full Story
Michael B. Jordan is one of the actors to watch. After searing himself into the memories of smart television viewers everywhere with his tragic character Wallace on Greatest TV Show Ever The Wire, he went on to show promise in Friday Night Lights and have a bit role in the surprising hit Chronicle. And you’ll be hearing a lot more about him this year, as he stars in festival smash Fruitvale Station. | Full Story
Despite rumors of Emma Watson donning the glass slipper, it has been confirmed that Lily James will portray the rags to riches princess Cinderella.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, the Downton Abbey actress joins Cate Blanchett and director Kenneth Branagh in this live-action fairy tale.
This version of Cinderella comes on the heels of many other successful (and some not so successful) fairy tale adaptations, like Alice in Wonderland, Snow White and the Hunstman, Mirror Mirror, and the highly anticipated Malificent to name a few. | Full Story
Jay-Z’s Annie remake is still trying to put a cast together. 12-year-old Willow Smith recently exited the lead role and Southern Wild’s Quvenzhané Wallis had to step up to replace her.
Now Jamie Foxx is reportedly in talks with Sony Pictures to play Benjamin Stacks in the modern retelling of the Broadway classic, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Stacks is a modernized variation of the Daddy Warbucks character who helps the iconic orphan search for her parents. | Full Story
Gabourey Sidibe will spend no time in the unemployment line when her run on Showtime’s The Big C ends with its final season next month.
Showrunner Ryan Murphy announced via Twitter the Oscar nominee (Precious) has joined the third season of the FX anthology series American Horror Story, tweeting, “Thrilled to announce Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe is joining the cast of ‘American Horror Story: Coven.’”
Coincidently …or not, Murphy made the announcement on the same day the the cancer dramedy debuted the first of the final four episodes. | Full Story
Scarlett Johansson has taken her Marvel’s character Black Widow skills to leverage another kick-ass female warrior role in Luc Besson’s action thriller Lucy.
The Avengers actress will star as the title role working from the Besson written script. She will play a young woman that is forced to become a drug mule, but somehow the drugs find its way into her system turning her into a powerful street fighter. Along with the ability to fight, she becomes desensitized to pain, acquires telepathic powers and can learn new things instantly. | Full Story
In the midst of making a boodylicious splash on the small screen, Nicki Minaj is wasting no time expanding her career to the big screen.
Minaj is reportedly in negotiations to join Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Kate Upton in FOX’s revenge comedy, titled The Other Woman.
Nick Cassavetes will direct the film, which follows a woman (Diaz) who finds out that she’s “the other woman” in an affair. | Full Story
Movies have enriched Dan Schindel's life so much that he decided
the best way to give back was to become a critic. In addition to Who Got the
Role?, he writes for ScreenPicks, We Are Movie Geeks, Off to
See the Elephant, and several other sites. He spent a year watching and
reviewing a documentary every day for his blog, Days of Docs, so now he
knows everything.
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