Movie and Television News (Wizbang Pop!)

The Tony Award winners Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth will play Gomez and Morticia Addams in the new Broadway musical "The Addams Family," its producers said on Monday in a news release. The show will revolve around the couple's daughter Wednesday, now 18, and her family's adjustment to her coming of age, her new boyfriend and his parents.

A few of next seasons pilots and the star they're a vehicle for have been leaked: Alyssa Milano (ABC's "Romantically Challenged"), Kim Raver (ABC's "Inside the Box"), Courteney Cox (ABC's "Cougar Town"), Julianna Margulies (CBS' "The Good Wife), Jenna Elfman (CBS' "Accidentally on Purpose"), Alex O'Loughlin (CBS' "Three Rivers") and Jackie Earle Haley (Fox's "Human Target").

Keanu Reeves will be pulling double duty for his next big screen adventure. Reeves will star in "Jekyll" -- the modern-day remake of the classic split-personality tale "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."

Tina Sinatra tells Sun Media that a new biopic on the way, from Universal, that would focus on her Rat Pack dad, Frank. She also says Martin Scorsese will direct. She says the flick wont focus on too accusingly on his involvement with the mafia saying "I don't want him to be driving the getaway car. That would not be fair. But I trust him (Scorsese) implicitly."

Al Pacino is in talks to star in "Blink", an adaptation of Malcolm Gladwell's nonfiction bestseller to be directed and written by Stephen Gaghan (Traffic). Script centers on the relationship between an older man (Pacino) and the twentysomething son he was never close to.

Kevin Spacey is set to play disgraced Washington power broker Jack Abramoff in a new film for director George Hickenlooper ("The Man from Elysian Fields"). "Casino Jack" will star Spacey as the once high-powered lobbyist whose bribery schemes and fraudulent dealings with Indian casinos ultimately landed him in prison.

Comments (3)

Definitely CBS must choose ... (Below threshold)

1. Posted by Marisa | May 14, 2009 8:22 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)

Marisa:

Definitely CBS must choose Three Rivers with Alex O'Loughlin, after taking a year removed from the Tv by the unjust cancellation of Moonlight, all the Alex's fans we deserve to see him again in a big project like this one, so that it could demonstrate all his talent and qualities as big actor.
After his amazing interpretation in Criminal Minds, we all wait much more of Alex, CBS have now the occasion to rectify his error of having cancelled Moonlight, we want to see Alex on our screens every week.