Mason Cook
Spy Kids 4 star Mason Cook has been cast as Eddie Munster in the NBC Munsters reboot, Mockingbird Lane, Deadline reports.
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Hugh Laurie, House
Bolstered by American Idol, House quickly became a huge hit. At the end of the third season — which remains the show's highest-rated — the producers blew up the formula and forced House to rebuild his entire diagnostic team. It was the first of many bold (and controversial) storytelling choices. In Part 2 of our oral history, the show's creators and cast look back at the show's most memorable plots. (Read Part 1 here.)
In the Season 3 finale, House...
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Hugh Laurie
House, a risky, challenging and altogether different kind of medical drama, premiered on November 16, 2004, and turned the genre on its head with a true antihero lead: a doctor who has overt disdain for his patients — and people in general. But thanks to compelling writing and a career-defining performance by British improv-comedy vet Hugh Laurie, the show stayed on the air for eight seasons of abuse (both drug and verbal) and countless diagnoses that were almost never lupus. As House prepares to sign off for good (Monday, May 21 at 8/7c on Fox), TVGuide.com talked to the show's creators and cast about building the Emmy-winning drama from the ground up. This is the first of a two-part series....
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The Munsters
Fans hoping to see The Munsters back on the small screen will have to wait a little bit longer.
NBC is taking the hourlong pilot, based on the original 1964 TV series, out of contention for the fall 2012 TV schedule to give it extra attention, Variety reports.
NBC picks up Munsters reboot pilot
Recently renamed Mockingbird Lane, the pilot was ordered in...
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The Munsters
The Munsters reboot has tapped Bryan Singer as executive producer, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Henry Cavill
Henry Cavill has been cast as in the title role of Superman: The Man of Steel, Deadline reports.
The British actor, 28, is best known for his portrayal of Charles Brandon on Showtime's The Tudors. He will next appear on the big screen as the mythical Greek god Theseus in Immortals, followed by a starring role in...
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Bryan Fuller & Bryan Singer
NBC is sold on a pair of Bryans: The Peacock has partnered with Bryan Singer and Pushing Daisies' Bryan Fuller to adapt Augusten Burroughs' Sellevision into a series.
The one-hour dramedy, to be written by Fuller and directed by Singer, will focus on the inner workings of a fictional home shopping network, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Singer and Fuller will executive-produce the project with Galgos Entertainment's Russell Nuce and Mark Bozek. A former CEO of the Home Shopping Network and QVC, Bozek had originally planned ...
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Valkyrie
Despite his couch-jumping on Oprah and his bickering with Matt Lauer, Tom Cruise remains one of the heroes of American cinema. But in his first leading role since 2006, Cruise plays a German hero — one many Americans know little about.
In Valkyrie, a gripping World War II suspense thriller about one of the many attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Cruise plays Claus von Stauffenberg, a German army officer who works with the Resistance movement to try to remove the Nazis from power ...
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Director Bryan Singer has wooed Tom Cruise into taking a role in an untitled thriller based on an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the height of World War II.... The Devil Wears Prada's Emily Blunt will topline The Young Victoria, a biopic of the 19th-century monarch.... Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Martin Landau, Christopher Plummer, John C. Reilly and Elijah Wood will voice rag dolls from a parallel universe in the animated 9.... Emile Hirsch is in talks to star in the Wachowski siblings' Speed Racer, to film this summer and to be released next year.... New Line has acquired film rights to the hit video game Gears of War.
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ABC has ordered pilots for X-Men director Bryan Singer's Dirty Sexy Money, described as "Dynasty meets Six Feet Under," and Judy's Got a Gun, about a single-mom detective solving crimes in suburbia. Please, please, please cast Gail O'Grady! C'mon, we said please.
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