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EXCLUSIVE: In One Piece dream casting, Tony winner Cole Escola (Oh Mary!, At Home with Amy Sedaris) has been tapped as a series regular in Season 3 of Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Eiichiro Oda's beloved manga. Escola will play the fan-favorite character of Bon Clay (aka Bentham, aka Mr. 2…

Newcomer Mae Schenk and Ryan Reynolds are set to star in a live-action adaptation of Eloise with Netflix recently boarding the project to distribute. Amy Sherman-Palladino is directing from a script she co-wrote with Hannah Marks and Linda Woolverton. Reynolds will produce through his Maximum Effort…

Jameela Jamil Starring In BBC Spin-Off ‘The Split Up’ Jameela Jamil has joined the cast of BBC spin-off The Split Up. Her role is being kept under wraps but the BBC posted on Instagram this morning with a pic saying she will guest star in the show that brings “New cast, new city, and fresh…

Director Melissa Miller Costanzo’s Run has crossed the finish line, with Chris Redd rounding out the cast of the drama based on Barrie Levitt Knee’s debut novel Plain Jane. The Saturday Night Live alum joins Sarah Levy (Schitt’s Creek, SurrealEstate), Phillipa Soo (Broadway’s Hamilton, Shining Gi…

EXCLUSIVE: There is a major cast departure on CBS’ upcoming FBI offshoot CIA. Michael Michele, one of the series’ leads, has left, sources tell Deadline. CIA, headlined by Tom Ellis and Nick Gehlfuss, started production in September for a midseason premiere. There are rumblings that Michele would be…

EXCLUSIVE: Margaret Qualley (The Substance, Maid), Drew Starkey (Queer) and Michael Shannon (Nuremberg, George & Tammy) are set to star in Jeff Nichols’ next film King Snake. Nichols and his partners in Tri-State Pictures, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Sarah Green, will produce the Southern gothic horror…

Daisy Edgar-Jones and Emilia Jones are set to star in the film currently titled Bad Bridgets, from Kneecap director Rich Peppiatt, who will write and direct with sales being conducted at AFM. The script was inspired by the book Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem, and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women by…

EXCLUSIVE: A fitting one for Halloween. Former So You Think You Can Dance winner Dushaunt "Fik-Shun" Stegall is leading cast in short form mobile series Pizza Guys vs Vampires, which is due to debut this week on new U.S. vertical streaming platform Inverted.film. The Flashback Pictures…

EXCLUSIVE: Busy Philipps (Girls5eva, Cougar Town), Sean Kaufman (The Summer I Turned Pretty, For All Mankind) and Alfredo Narciso (The Summer I Turned Pretty, Manifest) have been set as guest stars in NBC’s new comedy Stumble, from Jeff and Liz Astrof. Stumble, which has a mockumentary style…

EXCLUSIVE: Sol Rodriguez (Peacemaker), Patrick Warburton (Seinfeld), David Koechner (Anchorman) and Kiara Liz (Panama) have begun production on New York Rom Com, an indie marking the feature writing and directing debut of Brent Webber. Based on Webber’s time working on Wall Street, the film…

EXCLUSIVE: Riverdale alum Casey Cott has signed on to star in Games We Play, an indie thriller marking the feature directorial debut of Rachael Dahl. Cott will star opposite co-writer and actor Margot Pitts, who also is making her feature debut. Production is underway in Long Island and is…

Deadline has confirmed that Warner Bros is in advanced negotiations for Shiver, which will bring Keanu Reeves together to star in a sci-fi pic directed by Deadpool‘s Tim Miller. Aaron Ryder is producing with Andrew Swett for Ryder Picture Company alongside Matthew Vaughn, who made…