EXCLUSIVE: Justin Hartley, Avan Jogia, and Ed Oxenbould are attached to star in The Exchange, a coming-of-age comedy which is being directed by Dan Mazer. Mazer is a long-time collaborator of Sacha Baron Cohen who got his start as a writer/ director/producer on Cohen’s Da Ali G Show and was recently part…

Starting tonight, Starz will release the full 10-episode premiere of its original series Now Apocalypse across its non-linear platforms, and will make the series premiere episode available for free on its Starz.com, Starz YouTube channel, Reddit and Pride Media platforms, including Pride.com, Out.com and…

Avan Jogia has an interesting name — a name many have said he should change when he first started in the business over a decade ago. With his mix of Indian and Irish heritage, Jogia refused to stray from his culture and decided against a stage name. Now, his name is becoming recognizable and distinct in a class of…

EXCLUSIVE: Avan Jogia has signed on to the Ruben Fleischer-helmed Zombieland 2, joining original stars Emma Stone, Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg and Abigail Breslin as well as franchise newbie Zoey Deutch in the sequel from Sony Pictures. Jogia will play Berkeley, the epitome of the bad boy musician that you would…

EXCLUSIVE: Avan Jogia (Shaft, Tut, Ghost Wars) has been cast as the lead in Now Apocalypse, Starz’s half-hour comedy series from Kaboom’s Gregg Araki and Steven Soderbergh. Co-written by Araki, who also directs, and Vogue.com sex columnist Karley Sciortino, Now Apocalypse is a 10-episode surreal, coming-of-age comedy…

EXCLUSIVE: Actor Avan Jogia has joined Bruce Dern, Lena Olin, and Juliet Rylance in The Artist's Wife, directed by Call Me By Your Name exec producer Tom Dolby, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Nicole Brending and Abdi Nazemian. It follows Claire (Olin), the wife of famed artist Richard Smythson (Dern), who lives in…

EXCLUSIVE: Can you dig it? Victorious alum Avan Jogia has been cast in New Line’s reboot of Shaft. He joins previously announced cast members Samuel L. Jackson, Jessie T. Usher, Regina Hall, Alexandra Shipp and Richard Roundtree. Details about Jogia’s role have been kept under wraps, but Tim Story will direct a script…

Eve Hewson and Avan Jogia have been tapped to topline Rebecca Addelman’s feature directorial debutPaper Year. Andie MacDowell and Hamish Linklater also co-star in the film, which commenced filming this week. Myriad Pictures is handling sales at AFM this week. Also written by Addelman, the film centers on Franny and…

Twisted‘s Avan Jogia has landed a role in Michael opposite James Franco for director Justin Kelly and executive producer Gus Van Sant. Franco stars as a gay activist who, after enduring years of taunts and struggle, becomes an anti-gay Christian pastor. Jogia will play Nico, a young man Michael (Franco) meets and…

Spike TV has found its King Tut. Avan Jogia (Twisted, Victorious) has been tapped to star opposite Ben Kingsley as young Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamun in the six-hour event series. It revolves around Tutankhamun, aka King Tut (who reigned c. 1333 to 1323 BC), the youngest Pharaoh to rule Ancient Egypt, whose famous…