Matthew Lillard
Jay Mohr's Gary may be Unmarried, but wouldn't you know it, he still has in-law issues. Cue the arrival of Matthew Lillard, who will guest-star as ...
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Matthew Lillard has been added to the cast of Exit 19, the CBS dramedycedural pilot starring Geena Davis as Gloria, a quirky Manhattan homicide detective who also is a single mom. Lillard, says the Reporter, will play Old Christine's Gloria's younger brother who lives with her and (I'm guessing) occasionally derails her investigations thanks to the antics of his goofy Great Dane. — MWMRelated:• CBS Taps Geena Davis to Take a Bite out of CrimeMore pilot casting news:• Werewolf Is Elisha Cuthbert's Long-distance Lover• Billy Campbell Is Talkin' About a Revolution• Ex Marks the Spot for Grey's Jane Doe• Prison Breaker, Meet Simon Baker!• A Runaway Joins the New 90210
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Oh, if this isn't a match made in TV heaven, I don't know what is: Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino has tapped fast-talking Parker Posey to star in her Fox pilot The Return of Jezebel James. Per the Hollywood Reporter, the indie darling will play an infertile book editor who asks her estranged kid sister to have her baby. "I can't believe it's happening," AS-P said of landing the picky actress. "The character runs the gamut of emotions from laughing to flipping out to breaking your heart in 22 minutes, and only one in a zillion people has enough skill and charm to pull that off. Parker Posey is that person." I couldn't agree more. In other pilot-casting news: • Scream king Matthew Lillard has joined NBC's Area 52, a comedy about G-men babysitting an alien.• Anthony Anderson will topline Fox's K-Ville drama about cops in post-Katrina New Orleans.• Katheryn Winnick (House's recent rape victim) has been added to Philadelphia General, a Fox drama revolving arou...
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Per Variety, Ian McShane will star in the fantasy pic The Dark Is Rising.... Jennifer Garner will produce and possibly star in Devil in the Junior League, a comedy about a lawyer who agrees to help a socialite scorned if she will make over his trashy wife.... Per the Hollywood Reporter, Matthew Lillard and Efren Ramirez are set for an American Summer, playing a pool boy and gardener who squat in a Beverly Hills mansion and become neighborhood pimps. I can't decide who should sue first: Joel Goodson, Deuce Bigalow or Axel Foley.... Bend It Like Beckham's Gurinder Chadha is in talks to helm Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging, a comedy based on the best-selling 1999 novel.
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The latest pilot-casting news finds ER's John Leguizamo top-lining CBS' Edison, as an undercover cop; Ally McBeal's Jane Krakowski in Sex, Power, Love & Politics, CBS' comedy about Capitol Hill staffers; 2 Fast 2 Furious' Cole Hauser landing a lead in Fox's legal drama, Damages; Fred Willard as a toy-company owner in the CBS laffer Play Nice; Matthew Lillard in Fox's treasure-hunting thriller 13 Graves; and Ocean's Eleven's Scott Caan playing best bud to Danny Comden in an untitled ABC comedy.
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Zoinks! Is the Scooby-Doo franchise done for? Actor Matthew Lillard — who plays grungy hippie Shaggy — thinks this particular dog has had its day. Although the sequel, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, didn't play dead at the box office (domestic gross was more than $80 million) it wasn't a big hit by today's standards. Looks like it's time to let sleeping cartoon dogs lie, and give Sarah Michelle Gellar's Daphne poses a rest.
"I think it is done," the 34-year-old says. "At some point, that franchise will come back, but I don't think it will have any of us in it. It will probably be four or five years from now — that's my prediction. I actually think that the second movie was much better than the first movie; I think that we had a bad release date. "
Does that mean we'll never see Lillard scarf down Scooby Snacks again, even if Warner Bros. opts for a third Scooby movie? "Contractually, I would have to do
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