EXCLUSIVE: Black Sails alum Ray Stevenson has been cast as one of the male leads opposite Poppy Montgomery, joining previously cast Desmond Chiam, in Reef Break, ABC's 13-episode summer crime drama. Montgomery also executive produces the series, which is based on her idea, along with Ken Sanzel, who will write as well…

Kicking off a TCA Q&A for Season 3 of  Starz’ Treasure Island prequel Black Sails, one TV critic wondered if the show’s pirates were the “terrorists” of their day. “I take umbrage with that statement,” Ray Stevenson (who plays Blackbeard) said, pointing out that European nations at the time were “raping and pillaging…

Starz has found its Blackbeard. Divergent‘s Ray Stevenson has joined the cast of Black Sails as the iconic pirate, also known as Edward Teach, for the upcoming third season. One of the most notorious pirates to have ever lived, Edward Teach (Blackbeard) returns to settle some unfinished business, but a great deal has…

Sure, Jason Statham has abandoned his own drive-fast-shoot-things franchise in order to join the <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdeadline.com%2F2015%2F03%2Ffurious-7-teaser-vin-diesel-paul-walker-michelle-rodriguez-1201387272%2F&ei=…

Oscar winner Jim Broadbent and Ray Stevenson (Thor, GI Joe: Retaliation) have joined the cast of action adventure pic Big Game. Samuel L. Jackson is playing the president of the United States in the film that starts shooting today. It’s written and directed by Jalmari Helander, the Finnish helmer of 2010′s Rare Exports…

The management company will represent the actor in all areas. As well as joining Anonymous Content, Ray Stevenson will continue to be repped by WME and Conway van Gelder Grant. The actor also joins Showtime’s Dexter this season as crime boss Isaac Sirko. Season seven of the serial killer series debuts this Sunday…

Joe Mazzello has been set to play the role of Mouse in G.I. Joe 2: Cobra Strikes, a role a lot of young guys wanted in the Jon M. Chu-directed Paramount film that stars Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson, Adrianne Palicki and Ray Stevenson. Mazzello, the kid in the original Jurassic Park, most recently co-starred in the…

Billy Bob Thornton has set Robert Duvall, John Hurt, Kevin Bacon, Robert Patrick and Ray Stevenson to star with Thornton in Jayne Mansfield’s Car, the first dramatic feature that Thornton has directed since 2001’s Daddy and Them. The film is being funded by AR Films, whose principal, Alexander Rodnyansky, will produce…

Luke Y Thompson is covering the Con for Deadline: SUNDAY AM UPDATE: I think the biggest news of the Marvel Studios panel tonight is that The Punisher is now owned by Marvel Studios again, and will probably figure into a future film. I’ve learned The Punisher rights reverted to Marvel in 2009 following the release of P…