‘Moonhaven’: Ayelet Zurer Joins Cast Of AMC’s Peter Ocko Drama Series

Tom Hanks has joined the burgeoning cast of Wes Anderson’s next movie, it has been reported.Anderson is currently putting together his 10th feature-length film, following the Cannes premiere of The French Dispatch.Hanks’ appearance in the upcoming new movie will mark his first collaboration with the director.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaTom Hanks will enter the jewel-box world of Wes Anderson. The Oscar-winning “Forest Gump” star will play a cameo role in the director’s next, as-yet untitled effort.He will play an unspecified minor role, joining a cast of heavyweights that includes Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray and Adrian Brody.

EXCLUSIVE: Grantham Coleman is set to join Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu latest film, which is currently shooting in Mexico City. The Spanish-language movie going by the title Limbo also stars Daniel Giménez Cacho, the Mexican actor who starred in Lucrecia Martel’s Zama.

EXCLUSIVE: ABC’s The Wonder Years revival has cast Allen Maldonado (The Last O.G, Heels) in a recurring role.

She’s Gotta Have It alumna DeWanda Wise is set as a lead opposite Shailene Woodley in Three Women, a Showtime hourlong series based on the No. 1 nonfiction bestseller by Lisa Taddeo, who is adapting her book. Principal photography is set to begin in the fall.

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EXCLUSIVE: Josh Close (Fargo, Solace) has joined the cast of Andrea Pallaoro’s Monica.

Till, a film about Black teenager Emmett Till who was murdered by a white mob in Mississippi in 1955.The actor, who is in the rare stratosphere of EGOT recipients (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony), will star as Till’s grandmother Alma Carthan in the film. Goldberg will also produce the film.Directed and written by Chinonye Chukwu, the film will focus on Till’s mother Mamie Till-Mobley (played by Danielle Deadwyler) and her fight for justice.

EXCLUSIVE: Longtime ABC Studios/ABC Signature development executive Lisa Lang McMullen is leaving Disney after 12 years for Netflix where she will serve as Director on the Drama Development team run by Jinny Howe.

EXCLUSIVE: Adam Rodriguez (Criminal Minds) has signed on for a recurring role in Ordinary Joe, NBC’s upcoming drama series starring Jimmy Wolk from House veterans Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner and The Batman writer/director Matt Reeves and his 6th & Idaho banner. The project, which co-stars Natalie Martinez, Charlie Barnett and Elizabeth Lail, is a co-production of 20th Television, Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, 6th & Idaho and 3 Arts.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterPam Grier is set to star in the prequel to Paramount’s 2019 horror film “Pet Sematary.”Grier joins a cast that includes Jackson White (“Mrs. Fletcher”), Forrest Goodluck (” The Revenant”), Jack Mulhern (“Mare of Easttown”), Natalie Alyn Lind (” The Goldbergs”) and Isabella Star LeBlanc.

Bridgerton's Regé-Jean Page, The Crown's Emma Corrin and David Tennant have joined the cast for The Sandman: Act II on Audible. The audio drama series, based on the best-selling graphic novel series by Neil Gaiman and published by DC, will be an adaptation of Volumes Four (Seasons of Mist) and Five (A Game of You) for the follow-up.

It has been reported that Meghan Markle’s half-brother Thomas Markle Jr will be joining the upcoming season of Big Brother VIP in Australia.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the sequel to the hit 2018 Marvel film Black Panther.Variety reports that details on Coel’s role are currently locked up, as are plot details of the highly anticipated sequel. The I May Destroy You star has not yet made a public statement about the news, and Marvel Studios declined comment to Variety.This role in Black Panther 2 will mark Coel’s debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Emmy Award winner America Ferrera (Ugly Betty, Gentefied) has joined the cast of WeCrashed, the AppleTV+ limited series about the greed-filled rise and inevitable fall of WeWork, one of the world’s most valuable startups, and the narcissists whose chaotic love made it all possible.

EXCLUSIVE: Kadeem Hardison (Black Monday, Teenage Bounty Hunters) has joined AMC’s utopian drama Moonhaven as a series regular opposite Emma McDonald, Dominic Monaghan and Ayelet Zurer. The series hails from Peter Ocko.

EXCLUSIVE: AMC’s Moonhaven has found its Bella Sway in Emma McDonald, Deadline has learned exclusively. She will lead the Peter Ocko utopian drama opposite Dominic Monaghan and Ayelet Zurer.

Oliver Hudson has been tapped as a male lead opposite Elodie Yung in Fox’s new drama series The Cleaning Lady.