Karen Gillan Will Be Part Of The Circle

She's joining the tech thriller

With the likes of Tom Hanks, John Boyega and Emma Watson in its cast, James Ponsoldt’s tech thriller The Circle is adding one more good name to the list: Karen Gillan will be part of the team.

Ponsoldt adapted the script from Dave Eggers' 2013 book, which follows a young woman (Watson) hired to work for the titular internet megacorp. It’s a Google-like affair, with parties, goodies, music and the promise of being on the very edge of new concepts, and boasts Hanks and Boyega among its ranks. The big idea for the company is in uniting users' email, social media, banking and online shopping in its universal operating system as one identity, with this leading to a new age of transparency and civility. But, of course, there is a downside to the whole thing, one which Watson’s character soon discovers… 

Gillan is on board to play Annie, a warm, funny, confident and extremely intelligent member of the company. She’ll be back on screens in Ti West’s vengeful Western In A Valley Of Violence, and has a role in Adam McKay’s financial drama The Big Short. Plus, she should be getting back into prosthetics and make-up to return as Nebula for Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2, due to land here on April 28, 2017. 

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Josh Gad On To Play Roger Ebert

Joining Will Ferrell in Russ & Roger Go Beyond

The unlikely – but true – story of how film journalist Roger Ebert and thrifty-budget cinematic showman Russ Meyer came to work together was always destined to become a film. Russ & Roger Go Beyond has been developing for a while and Josh Gad has locked in the role of Ebert. 

Will Ferrell was attached to this one first, after flirting with the idea last August. Since then, Michael Winterbottom has come aboard to direct, working on a new draft of the script with Partridge/Veep laugh-generating experts Neil and Rob Gibbons.

Originally Written by Saturday Night Live and Simpsons veteran Christopher Cluess, the comedy focuses on Meyer's late 1960s desire to combine his pulp talents with big studio backing, hashing out a deal with 20th Century Fox boss Richard Zanuck to produce something for a low budget. Targeting soft-core tale Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, Meyer approached Ebert, then a low-on-the-roster film critic for the Chicago Sun Times, who had written one of the few positive reviews of a Meyer film. Despite the seeming gulf between their sensibilities, they meshed well, partied hard and ended up producing a film that struggled with the ratings board (eventually landing an X) and sparking a friendship that would last until Meyer died in 2004. 

Gad had been circling the Ebert role for a while, and needed to figure out if his schedule could accommodate the shoot, set for later this year. He’ll be heard in the Angry Birds movie, which will be flung into our cinemas on May 13 next year. And he’s also part of the cast for Disney’s new live-action Beauty And The Beast, though we’ll have to wait until March 17, 2017 for that one. 

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Vincent Cassel Joins The New Bourne Film

He'll be a villain...

With shooting set to kick off soon, Paul Greengrass is busily gathering the remaining cast for the next, as-yet-untitled Jason Bourne collaboration with Matt Damon. He now has a primary nemesis in line for our hero, with Vincent Cassel putting the film in its sights.

Exactly what he’ll be doing remains a secret for now, though Variety’s sources have heard he’ll be an assassin in the vein of Clive Owen and Edgar Ramirez, who have been among those to tussle with Bourne through the franchise to date. 

He joins a cast that already includes Julia Stiles (back as Nicky), Alicia Vikander and Tommy Lee Jones for a fresh Bourne outing whose plot is likewise being kept quiet. Damon, who is working on the film alongside Greengrass and the director’s co-writer Christopher Rouse, recently alluded to this film exploring a post-Edward Snowden world and one that has been hit hard by financial collapse and austerity.

The new film will arrive in UK cinemas on July 29 next year, having shot in Greece and Las Vegas, among other locales. Cassel, last seen here in Child 44, will next show up in the likes of Partisan, Mon roi and Xavier Dolan’s It’s Only The End Of The World.  

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Kerry Washington Reveals Her Favorite Scandal Monologues of All Time

No one delivers a monologue better than Scandal's Kerry Washington.

Whether Olivia is calling Cyrus (Jeff Perry) a "bitch baby" or she's telling Fitz he owns her, Washington has given us some of TV's greatest lines. (To be fair, so have her castmates.) So, after four seasons, does the Emmy-nominated

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All My Children's Vincent Irizarry Joins Days of Our Lives

All My Childrenstar and soap vet Vincent Irizarry is heading to Days of Our Lives, TVLine reports.

Irizarry is expected to debut on Days of Our Lives in mid-January, playing a new character named Deimos, who is connected to the Kiriakis family, according to TVLine.

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Chloe Grace Moretz Battles Aliens In The First Promo For The 5th Wave

When ETs attack

Movies based on YA tomes are still hot properties when it comes to movie fodder and The 5th Wave blends that with an alien invasion drama. While that combination doesn’t always work – see 2013's The Host, based on Stephanie Meyer’s book – the team behind The 5th Wave will be hoping for better luck. Check out the first trailer below.  

Chloe Grace Moretz is starring as Cassie Sullivan, a young woman who survives the four waves of deadly extra-terrestrial attacks from creatures known as “The Others” against the Earth’s population that have left our planet a darkened, doomed place where its new conquerors roam in near-human form, picking off survivors. First they came for our power, then they wiped out major cities. Next was a viral attack that sickened a vast swathe of Earth’s population, followed by the fourth incursion, aimed at wiping out survivors. The fifth is on its way, though no one is quite sure what that will entail? A Twitter outage causing madness and death? Instagram users forced to go back to square images? The mind reels. 

In the wake of this destruction, Cassie, who still hopes to rescue her younger brother, prefers to travel alone, figuring she’ll be safer that way. But then she meets Evan Walker (Alex Roe), a mysterious young man who could be her big hope. But can she trust him?

With Liev Schreiber, Ron Livingston, Maria Bello, Maika Monroe and Terry Serpico in the cast, this one was directed by The Disappearance Of Alice Creed’s J Blakeson, and adapted by Susannah Grant from Rick Yancy’s novel. It should hit cinemas in January.

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Saturday Night Live Sets First Season 41 Musical Guests

Miley Cyrus will pull double duty as host and musical guest on Saturday Night Live's Season 41 premiere, NBC announced Tuesday.

Cyrus, fresh off her gig hosting the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, will be hosting for the third time on the Oct. 3 season premiere, and performing for the second.

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