EXCLUSIVE: Kandoo Films, the Los Angeles-based production company run by 13th and Middle of Nowhere producer Howard Barish, is launching a distribution arm Kandoo Releasing and has set up its first projects under the new venture: with the noir thriller Hospitality starring Emmanuelle Chriqui and Sam Trammell which…

Entourage alumna Emmanuelle Chriqui is set as a new series regular in Fox's vampire drama pilot The Passage. She is one of three new actors added to the pilot as part of creative changes, along with recently cast Jamie McShane and Caroline Chikezie. The trio joins The Passage series regulars Mark-Paul Gosselaar…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmanuelle Chriqui is coming aboard Super Troopers 2, the sequel to the 2001 feature comedy Super Troopers. The film, which will be released by Fox Searchlight, is underway in Boston now. Chriqui (Entourage) will play Genevieve Aubois, a French/Canadian cultural attaché focused on relations with the…

Monterey Media has acquired U.S. rights to Andrew Currie's The Steps, a comedy starring Jason Ritter, Emmanuelle Chriqui, James Brolin and Christine Lahti. The pic, which premiered last fall at the Toronto Film Festival, is scheduled for a release in June. The deal was inked with Entertainment One's Seville…

The Americans’ Susan Misner and Entourage alumna Emmanuelle Chriqui are set to co-star opposite Jeffrey Donovan in the Hulu drama series Shut Eye. The show, from creator Les Bohem (Extant), TriStar Television and Mark Johnson's Gran Via Productions, takes a darkly comedic look at the underground world of Los Angeles…

Entourage alumna Emmanuelle Chriqui has joined the cast of TNT’s crime drama series Murder In The First as a regular for the upcoming second season opposite Taye Diggs and Kathleen Robertson. Murder, executive produced by Steven Bochco and Eric Lodal, is a departure for procedural-driven TNT as it chronicles a complex…