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Mary-Louise Parker joins Natalie Portman in The Days of Abandonment

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HBO Films’ The Days of Abandonment has cast Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds) to star opposite Natalie Portman in Maggie Betts’ adaptation of the Elena Ferrante novel. Parker will play the Mysterious Woman, “a mesmerizing but elusive woman that Portman’s Tess starts encountering everywhere she goes, which causes Tess to question her sanity.” The Days of Abandonment is “a […]

HBO Max’s Gossip Girl reboot gets a trailer and character posters

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HBO Max has released a teaser trailer and batch of character posters for Gossip Girl, the upcoming reboot of the pop culture phenomenon which will follow a new generation of Upper East Side teens and explore how social media and the landscape of New York has changed in the intervening years. Developed by showrunner Joshua […]

Marlene actor Merle Dandridge reprising role for HBO’s The Last of Us series

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With HBO and PlayStation Production set to begin filming their television adaptation of the hit PlayStation video game The Last of Us in July, the series has added another member to its cast. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Merle Dandridge, who originally played Marlene in The Last of Us video game series, has now signed on to […]

Next Game of Thrones spin-off 10,000 Ships sets sail with Helstrom writer

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HBO is sailing full speed ahead with another of its Game of Throne prequel spin-offs as Deadline reports that 10,000 Ships has gained Amanda Segel (Helstrom) as its lead writer. The series will take place 1,000 years before Game of Thrones and follow “the journey made by warrior queen Princess Nymeria and the surviving members of the Rhoynars, […]

Jason Schwartzman, Eric Roberts and Eric Andre join The Righteous Gemstones Season 2

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The second season of HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones has added Jason Schwartzman (Fargo), Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight) and Eric Andre (Bad Trip) to its cast. The Righteous Gemstones is the third HBO series from McBride, Hill and Green after Eastbound & Down and Vice Principals, and revolves around the Gemstones, a world-famous televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, […]

First look images from Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon

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HBO has released the first images from the Games of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon which offer a look at Emma D’Arcy as Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen, Matt Smith as Prince Daemon Targaryen, Steve Toussaint as Lord Corlys Velaryon – ‘The Sea Snake’, Olivia Cooke as Alicent Hightower, and Rhys Ifans as Otto Hightower; […]

Alexander Skarsgård joins season 3 of Succession

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HBO has announced Alexander Skarsgård (Godzilla vs. Kong) has been cast in the upcoming third season of the hit series Succession. Skarsgård will star as Lukas Matsson, “a successful, confrontational tech founder and CEO.” He joins Hope Davis (Your Honor) in the series, who was recently cast as the daughter to one of Logan Roy’s longtime […]

Lena Headey joins HBO Watergate drama The White House Plumbers

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Game of Thrones alum Lena Headey is the latest to join HBO’s upcoming Watergate miniseries The White House Plumbers, which follows the infamous political scandal that Richard Nixon’s presidency. She join Woody Harrelson (Venom: Let There Be Carnage), Justin Theroux (On The Basis of Sex) and Domhnall Gleeson (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker) in the series. […]

HBO adds Domhnall Gleeson to Watergate series The White House Plumbers

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Domhnall Gleeson (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker) is set to star in HBO’s upcoming political series The White House Plumbers that covers the Watergate scandal that ended Richard Nixon’s presidency, according to Deadline. He joins Woody Harrelson (Venom: Let There Be Carnage) and Justin Theroux (On The Basis of Sex) in the series. The […]