Tag: casting announcements

Jamie Dornan Joins “Barb and Star Go to Vista del Mar”

Jamie Dornan Joins “Barb and Star Go to Vista del Mar”

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jamie Dornan is joining Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo in their next comedy Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar! Wiig and Mumolo star as best friends Barb and Star, who leave their small...
Bill Murray will appear in ‘Ghostbusters’

Bill Murray will appear in ‘Ghostbusters’

After tons of rumors, Bill Murray, who played Dr. Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II, will appear in director Paul Feig's upcoming installment of the franchise, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Murray has long been resistant to star...

‘Ghostbusters’ cast update

According to The Wrap, actors Al Pacino (Ocean's Eleven), Michael Kenneth Williams (The Wire, The Spoils Before Dying) and Matt Walsh (Veep) will be joining the Ghostbusters reboot. The movie, which is currently filming in Boston, stars Kristen Wiig,...

Chris Hemsworth joins the new ‘Ghostbusters’

Sony and director Paul Feig have cast Chris Hemsworth to play the receptionist in the female-driven Ghostbusters reboot. Feig made the announcement Wednesday on Twitter. Variety reports that Hemsworth is set to join Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon...

‘Welcome to Me’ casting additions

According to Deadline Hollywood, Wes Bentley, Joan Cusack, James Marsden and Alan Tudyk have joined the cast of Welcome to Me starring Kristen Wiig and produced by Gary Sanchez Productions and Bron Studios. Directing is Shira Piven, from a screenplay...

Thomas Mann joins ‘Welcome to Me’

Project X star Thomas Mann will join Kristen Wiig in the indie comedy drama Welcome to Me, which is being produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay as well as Bron Studios, an individual familiar with the project has told The...

‘How to Train Your Dragon 2’ cast additions

Director Dean DeBlois announced at the DreamWorks Animation Comic-Con 2013 panel that Cate Blanchett, Djimon Hounsou, and Kit Harington have joined the voice cast of How to Train Your Dragon 2. According to Movie Web, Blanchett is playing a vigilante trying to free enslaved dragons, while Hounsou plays...

‘Welcome to Me’ casting update

According to Variety, Linda Cardellini, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Tim Robbins have joined the cast of the Gary Sanchez and Bron Studios comedy Welcome to Me. Kristen Wiig plays Alice, a women who suffers from dissociative personality disorder and wins the...

New cast additions to Wiig-projects

New casting announcements have been made for two new projects involving Kristen Wiig. Firstly, Al Pacino (who had come onto the film to replace Javier Bardem as the new antagonist) has left Despicable Me 2 due to creative differences. Although Pacino has done...

Kristen Wiig to join ‘Welcome to Me’

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Kristen Wiig is in talks to reteam with her Anchorman 2 cohorts Will Ferrell and Adam McKay on the indie comedy Welcome to Me. Kristen, who is shooting the McKay-helmed Anchorman: The Legend Continues opposite Ferrell, is eyeing the lead in the film that...