Showtime’s Uber Series ‘Super Pumped’ Adds Four to Cast (EXCLUSIVE)

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe Amazon YA pilot “Shelter” has added three new cast members, Variety has learned exclusively.Adrian Greensmith, Abby Corrigan, and Sage Linder have all joined the pilot, which is based on the first novel in Harlan Coben’s Mickey Bolitar book trilogy.

Joanne O’Riordan’s list of achievements is impressive. At just 25 years of age, the Cork native has already ticked giving an inspiring UN speech, appearing as a panellist of RTÉ’s Tokyo Paralympics coverage and working as a sports journalist, writing for the likes of the Irish Times, off her to-do list.

Costa Rica on Friday selected Nathalie Álvarez Mesén’s debut feature Clara Sola to as the country’s submission to the 2022 International Feature Oscar race. The pic, which made its world premiere in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, was later scooped up by Oscilloscope Laboratories which will release it in theaters early next year.

EXCLUSIVE: The venerable Power Rangers TV series is on the move. Netflix will be the exclusive US home for the upcoming second season of Power Rangers Dino Fury — Power Rangers‘ 29th season overall — which will debut on the streamer in spring 2022. Netflix has incensed the series from Entertainment One and Hasbro.

‘Super Pumped’ to life. We can’t wait for the world to see it.”The project was initially put into development as a limited series, but has since been re-conceived as an anthology.

Uma Thurman will join the cast of Showtime’s Super Pumped. The Oscar and Emmy-nominated actress is set to appear opposite Jospeh Gordon-Levitt and Kyle Chandler in the first installment of an anthology series from Billions co-creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterUma Thurman has been cast as Arianna Huffington in the Showtime series “Super Pumped,” which charts the rise of Uber, Variety has learned exclusively.Planned as an anthology, the first season of “Super Pumped” is based on Mike Isaac’s book of the same name.

Jamie Lang Chile’s Santiago International Film Festival (SANFIC) has unveiled the full list of films participating in its upcoming Labs for fiction and documentary features, running under the festival’s Sanfic Industria banner Oct. 27-Nov.

It has been over 10 years since Lucy Mallon, played by Lorna Quinn, has been seen around the streets of Carrigstown in Fair City, but now after all these years, she is making a comeback.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentSybel, France’s rising subscription-based podcast platform, has reached a two-year agreement with the French audio producers guild (PIA) to set up a revenue sharing model for content creators. The service is also expanding with the launch of a freemium model which will be financed by advertising and will include 500 more podcast titles.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentEuropean pay-TV platform Sky will unveil an Italian adaptation of French hit series “Call My Agent,” and thriller series “Europa,” directed by German filmmaker Oliver Hirschbiegel, who helmed the Oscar-nominated “Downfall,” at an event Friday at the Rome MIA Market.The Italian “Call My Agent” remake is being produced by Palomar, the Rome-based company controlled by France’s Mediawan, which originated the hit show set at a Parisian talent agency

Thursday night’s visit to Fair City is set to be an explosive one with residents of Carrigstown left fleeing for their lives after Carol’s Cabs is firebombed in dramatic scenes.

EXCLUSIVE: Mena Suvari (American Beauty, Reagan) will star alongside Dermot Mulroney, Darren Mann and more in Breakwater, an indie from writer-director James Rowe and Loose Cannon Pictures, which is currently in production in North Carolina.

The new Star Trek: Prodigy has added Daveed Diggs, Jameela Jamil, Jason Alexander and Robert Beltran to its voice casting for the show, which premieres on Oct. 28 on Paramount+.

Emiliano De Pablos Onza Distribution has taken worldwide sales rights outside Spain and Portugal to “Motel Valkirias,” a thriller series co-production led by Galician company CTV.Producer of Netflix’s 2018 Galician-language pioneering TV drama hit “O Sabor das Margaridas” (“Bitter Daisies”), CTV is teaming on “Motel Valkirias” with SPI, the Portuguese co-producer of HBO’s series “Auga Seca,” plus pubcasters TVG in Galicia and RTP in Portugal.Created by “El Sabor das Margaridas” writer-producer

Selome Hailu editorNetflix announced that Bryana Salaz, Keyla Monterroso Mejia, Ciara Riley Wilson and Shiv Pai have joined the cast of “Freeridge,” the upcoming spinoff of “On My Block.”The young adult comedy will reveal another side of the fictitious L.A.

Meghan Trainor made a surprising reveal about her and her husband Daryl Sabara…they have side-by-side toilets in their bathroom.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterThe second season of Tinder’s original series “Swipe Night” has named its lead cast, writer and director.On the heels of the successful first digital narrative experience — where Tinder users choose outcomes that impact the plot — comes the new installment, “Swipe Night: Killer Weekend,” a Gen-Z ensemble murder mystery.Emmy-nominated Sasie Sealy is on board to direct from a script by Brandon Zuck (“Stay,” Hulu’s “Into the Dark”).

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe FX series adaptation of the James Clavell novel “Shōgun” has rounded out its main cast.Anna Sawai has been cast in the lead role of Lady Mariko, joining previously announced leads Cosmo Jarvis and Hiroyuki Sanada.