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EXCLUSIVE: Pamela Adlon’s untitled pregnancy comedy has rounded out its cast with John Carroll Lynch, Hasan Minhaj, Stephan James, Oliver Platt, the Lucas Brothers and Sandra Bernhard joining the already announced Ilana Glazer and Michelle Buteau. Adlon, who directed many of the episodes of her Emmy-nominated FX…

EXCLUSIVE: Marlyne Barrett has signed a new, multi-year deal to remain on NBC’s Chicago Med.  Barrett, who is an original cast member, is about to begin her eighth season on the series. She plays Nurse Maggie Lockwood. Last year, original cast members S. Epatha Merkerson, Oliver Platt, Nick Gehlfuss and Brian Tee reupp…

EXCLUSIVE: Dick Wolf’s NBC medical drama Chicago Med has secured the bulk of its original cast. S. Epatha Merkerson, Oliver Platt, Nick Gehlfuss and Brian Tee have closed new multi-year deals to continue on the popular Chicago Fire spinoff series from Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television. Remaining original…

IFC is out with its 2018 development slate that includes nearly a dozen comedy projects. Among the highlights are NGO from EP Oliver Platt, about the party-happy head of a private West African charity, and How to Rig an Election, based on the book by a former political consultant. Among other projects in the works is F…

EXCLUSIVE: Connie Britton and Oliver Platt have been added to the cast of Professor Marston & The Wonder Woman, the biopic from writer/director Angela Robinson. The two join Rebecca Hall, Luke Evans and Bella Heathcoate. The film details the true story of Dr. William Moulton Marston (Evans), Harvard psychologist and…

“It’s not my son. It’s just a body that I feed and wash and clothe.” Setting aside the inherent sadness of that quote, here is the first trailer for Shut In, starring Naomi Watts, Oliver Platt and Jacob Tremblay. Two-time Oscar nominee Watts plays a child psychologist whose husband was killed and son (Charlie Heaton)…

Deadline’s studio at the Tribeca Film Festival, hosted by the Lincoln Motor Company, has been greeting such fest-goers as James Franco and Christian Slater (King Cobra), debut director Katie Holmes (All We Had), Oliver Platt (The Ticket) and many more. Photographer Mark Mann is behind the lens for a series of video…

Oliver Platt and four others have been cast in EuropaCorp and Lava Bear Pictures’ thriller Shut In starring Naomi Watts, rounding out the cast of the pic that recently began filming in Montreal before moving to other locations. It already has a February 19, 2016 release date. Charlie Heaton, Jacob Tremblay, Medium‘s…

Oliver Platt has been tapped to co-star in NBC's Chicago Fire planted spinoff, Chicago Med. Platt is joining S. Epatha Merkerson, Yaya DaCosta and Laurie Holden in the ensemble medical drama project whose cast will be introduced in Episode 19 of Chicago Fire this season. Platt will play the intelligent head of…

Oliver Platt, Molly Parker, Barbara Hershey and Aiden Longworth are joining Jamie Dornan, Aaron Paul and Sarah Gadon in The 9th Life Of Louis Drax. Alexandre Aja (Horns) is directing for Miramax, AntColony Films and Brightlight Pictures. Principal photography began today in Vancouver. Platt (X-Men: First Class, Chef, F…

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…