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Eva Longoria has signed on to star opposite Matt Walsh in the comedy Unplugging, replacing previously attached actress Isla Fisher. Lea Thompson, Keith David, Nicole Byer and Al Madrigal have also been added to the cast of the film, which will mark the feature directorial debut of film editor Debra Neil-Fisher. Walsh…

Twenty-five years after the first Caroline In The City episode was taped, the cast headed by Lea Thompson will reunite to read the pilot script and chat with Stars In The House hosts and viewers tomorrow night. The reunion was announced today by Stars hosts and exec producers Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley. Taking…

Set in the suburbs of the midwest, Dinner In America follows aggro punk rocker Simon (Kyle Gallner), who is on the run from the police. He meets the eccentric Patty (Emily Skeggs) who offers him a place to hide, not realizing he is the lead singer of her favorite band.  As a result, he ends up “hijacking” the space of…

Veronica Mars star Jason Dohring is set as one of the leads in the ensemble indie film, You Are Here, along with Lea Thompson (The Year of Spectacular Men), William Baldwin (Northern Rescue), Peter Vack (Someone Great), Anna Popplewell (The Chronicles of Narnia films), Jacqueline Byers (Roadies), and Cathryn Dylan (Ray…

Great Scott! Back to the Future stars Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, and Thomas Wilson reunited in 2018 to give a boost of nostalgia for fans at the Fan Expo in Boston this weekend. It’s been 33 years since the Robert Zemeckis-directed time-traveling sci-fi comedy was released in theaters. The actors…

In her return to comedy series two decades after her starring turn on NBC’s Caroline in the City, Lea Thompson has been tapped for a meaty series-regular role in Our People, Fox’s culture clash single-camera comedy pilot from Lee Daniels and Modern Family executive producer Vali Chandrasekaran. The project from Lee…

MarVista Entertainment has set a mid-June 2018 theatrical release for Lea Thompson’s directorial debut The Year of Spectacular Men, which it acquired after it premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Written by and starring Thompson’s daughter Madelyn Deutch, the film follows Izzy, who is comically unsuccessful in…

EXCLUSIVE: Lea Thompson, who just came off a successful run on ABC’s Freeform series Switched at Birth, has signed on to a modern adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott novel Little Women to play the lead role of family matriarch Marmee. Joining Thompson will be her Switched at Birth colleague and High School…

EXCLUSIVE: Lea Thompson and Alan Ruck have been cast as the parents of Shannon Purser’s title character in the Ian Samuels-directed comedy Sierra Burgess Is A Loser. Described as a contemporary retelling of the Cyrano de Bergerac tale, the film is being produced by Black Label Media’s Molly Smith, Rachel Smith, Trent…