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Eric Roberts and Dr. Rico Simonini will topline My Dinner With Eric Roberts (Julia's brother), a platonic rom-com bromance that will be shooting this month in Los Angeles. Described as along the lines of Louie Malle's My Dinner With Andre, the film follows Roberts having dinner with his cardiologist and friend, Dr…

After nearly a decade, Kate Del Castillo will reprise her role as Teresa Mendoza in the return of the Narco drama La Reina del Sur, set to debut in 2019 on Telemundo. The original story, based on the novel of the same by Arturo Perez-Reverte, follows Mendoza's climb to the top of the male-dominated Narco world that…

EXCLUSIVE: Wu-Tang Clan member and filmmaker RZA and Eric Roberts will co-star opposite Michael Dorman, Sophia Bush, Dermot Mulroney, and Melora Walters in Hard Luck Love Song. The Americana music-inspired indie hails from Synthetic Pictures and Dime Box Entertainment with Justin Corsbie attached to direct from a…

John Savage and Blanca Blanco have joined the cast of Fake News, an indie noir thriller being toplined by Eric Roberts. The pic, co-directed by first-timer Craig Edwards and screenwriter Samuel Morris, is shooting in Ontario, CA. Sofia Milos, Torri Higginson and Martin Kove co-star. Roberts stars as a tabloid…

EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has secured worldwide rights to The Summoning, a supernatural thriller written and helmed by Alberto G. Rodriguez, and has attached a January 10 release date. Starring Eric Roberts, the pic, based on hauntings around the town of Sugar Land TX, follows law student Rachel Iverson who places…

EXCLUSIVE: Freestyle Digital Media has set a release date for coming-of-age feature KTown Cowboys. Directed by Daniel Park, the film will get a limited theatrical release March 18, followed by a nationwide digital platform bow March 25. Based on the web series, the pic revolves around a group of…

EXCLUSIVE: There's going to be an Expendables reunion of sorts October 8 on NBC. That's when Eric Roberts will show up on the Wesley Snipes-led series The Player. In what I hear is a one-time appearance, The Dark Knight actor will play imprisoned ex-crime boss Pauly Agostino on the new 10 PM drama, which debuts…

The origins of Ktown Cowboys go back about five years when director Daniel Park and writer Danny Cho created a web series about the late-night high jinks of best friends in Los Angeles’ Koreatown. That series followed fresh-off-the-bus Johnny (Lanny Joon) from Richmond, VA, who, jobless and hearbroken by his…

Eric Roberts, Adam Brody and Demi Moore have joined the cast of Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s Lovelace. Brody will play Deep Throat co-star Harry Reems, Roberts is coming aboard as lie detector expert Nat Laurendi and Moore will do a turn as play feminist author-activist Gloria Steinem. Amanda Seyfried and Peter…

Part of a series that takes an analytical look at the current broadcast pilot season and some of its trends and heroes. Maybe it’s the Tom Selleck/Kathy Bates effect, but the broadcast networks seem more open than ever to shows fronted by older leads this pilot season. Until recently, actors in their 60s and late 50s…

From Celebrity Rehab stars to pilot leads — that’s the career trajectory for Eric Roberts and Tom Sizemore, who landed major roles on pilots this season: Roberts is the star of ABC’s dance drama Grace, and Sizemore co-stars opposite Ethan Hawke in Fox’s Exit Strategy. (Sizemore was a cast member of the third season of…

Eric Roberts is set to star in ABC drama pilot Grace, from writer Krista Vernoff.  A dysfunctional family drama set in the world of professional dance, it centers on Michael Grace (Roberts), a famous choreographer who tends to sleep with his dancers and has three daughters  with different mothers. A much better dance…