Vera Farmiga Joins Ricky Gervais' Special Correspondents

America Ferrara also signed up

Despite being at work on his latest film, Special Correspondents, Ricky Gervais took a moment out for a cast photo showing off his new ensemble. And with that, brought word that Vera Farmiga, America Ferrara, Kelly Macdonald, Bill Lake, Kevin Pollak, Mimi Kuzyk, Raúl Castillo, Megan Heffern, Ari Cohen and Benjamin Bratt are on board. 

Gervais has written and is directing the film, which finds Bana as a Manhattan-based radio journalist who enjoys privileged status but has slowly being undoing himself thanks to arrogance and his decadent lifestyle. 

When his bosses decide they’ve had enough, he volunteers to report from the front lines of a conflict – only to fake the dispatches from his hideout above a Spanish restaurant in the heart of the Big Apple, aided and abetted by his technician sidekick, played by Gervais.

Filming has been underway since last month in Toronto and will finish in New York in a little under a month. With Netflix aboard to distribute, the comedy will hit the streaming service next year. 

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Guardians Writer To Tackle Sci-Fi Adaptation Wool

Nicole Perlman to re-work Hugh Howey's dystopian bestseller

Nicole Perlman wrote the initial drafts that helped Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy start its journey to the screen, and the studio has kept her around as one of the duo writing Captain Marvel. Now she’s found another, much darker science fiction project to work on at the same time, signing on to re-write the adaptation of Wool for 20th Century Fox. 

Hugh Howey’s high concept novel was something of a sensation when the self-published e-book became a massive success and 20th Century Fox quickly dived in to snap up the rights. The book is set in a dystopian future where the planet’s air has become toxic and the population lives crowded in a giant underground silo. We follow several characters as they begin to learn that all is not quite how the authorities have told them.

Ridley Scott and Steven Zaillian are producing the adaptation, for which J Blakeson has written a couple of drafts. Perlman will now take over before the team starts looking for a director. If the film is a success, there are several Wool stories, plus prequel trilogy Shift and follow-up tome Dust just waiting to serve as source material for other movies.

As mentioned above, Perlman is busy co-writing Captain Marvel along with Meg LeFauve, who was one of the screenwriters on Pixar’s Inside Out.

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Mega Buzz: Why Major Crimes Is Finally Moving Past Philip Stroh

For three seasons, Major Crimes has been haunted by the threat of serial rapist Philip Stroh. But not anymore.

Even though Stroh (Billy Burke) escaped custody at the end of Season 3, executive producer James Duff tells TVGuide.com that Rusty (Graham Patrick Martin), the material witness against

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Ariana Grande Just Dropped Some Serious Feminist Wisdom

While most of us spent our Sunday nursing hangovers and watching Netflix, Ariana Grande took the time to share an empowering feminist message with her fans.

In a long note posted on Twitter, Grande responded to the backlash to saying she isn't Big Sean's ex. "I am tired of living in a world where

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Box Office: Entourage Flops, Humanity Wins

Apparently you weren't the only one who thought the world didn't need any more Entourage.The big-screen adaptation of the hit HBO series had a disappointing opening weekend, earning a meager $10.4 million, Box Office Mojo reports, coming in fourth.

However, Melissa McCarthy's R-rated comedy Spy was a

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Zayn Malik's Ugly New Hair Hurts Our Heart

One Direction alum Zayn Malik seems determined to cut ties with his former life - including his dreamboat status.

Malik's fiancée Perrie Edwards posted a photo of the singer with lime green hair, making him look like a Suicide Squad reject rather than someone who inspires swoons all over the world.

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New Look At Ridley Scott's The Martian Touches Down

Meet Matt Damon and the crew of the Ares 3 mission

Chances are you got your first proper look at Ridley Scott’s new sci-fi film The Martian from the exclusive pictures we put in print and online late last month. If you were hoping to see footage of Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain and some of the rest of the cast, we have you covered for that too, as the first promo video for the film is now online.

Yes, before we’ve even had a formal trailer for the film, here comes a glimpse of the various astronauts who crew the Hermes, the ship that makes up the Ares 3 mission. They’re shown in happier times as botanist Watney leads an introductory tour of the vessel and its team before they leave for Mars. Included here are Michael Pena as pilot Rick Martinez, Jessica Chastain as Commander Melissa Lewis, Sebastian Stan as Dr. Chris Beck, the flight surgeon, Aksel Hennie as German astronaut Aleks Vogel, and Kate Mara as computer expert Beth Johanssen.

It’s helpful way to show the various characters, especially Watney, with Damon easily channelling the personable, slightly sarcastic central figure that, after a catastrophic incident during the mission, is left for dead on the Red Planet, and must survive until a rescue ship arrives. Assuming one can even be sent… {First Look At The Martian}With Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sean Bean and Donald Glover also aboard the film, The Martian will hit our screens on November 27. 

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