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EXCLUSIVE: We'll never know if Ashley Judd ended up becoming CIA director because Epix has canceled Berlin Station. Just more than a month after the Season 3 finale, the MGM-owned premium cabler has pulled the plug on a fourth season of the Paramount TV spy drama, I've learned. Epix confirms the critically acclaimed…

The Hobbit and Berlin Station star Richard Armitage is to front a crime drama for Netflix as the SVOD service reunites with the team behind crime drama Safe. Armitage, whose Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz-directed feature The Lodge is at the Sundance Film Festival, is fronting The Stranger. The eight-episode series…

EXCLUSIVE: “The far right continues to rise.” A New World Order has taken root and is deepening. But there’s also a new CIA station chief in the German capital, and a new Agency recruit. Here’s the debut trailer for Season 2 of Berlin Station, Epix’s first original drama series. BB Yates (Ashley Judd) steps in as the…

EXCLUSIVE: Richard Armitage has joined the cast of Julie Delpy's My Zoe, which is being sold at the EFM in Berlin by Protagonist Pictures. He'll join Daniel Brühl, Lior Ashkenazy and child actor Sophia Ally in the pic, which is written and directed by Delpy and produced by Philomena and The Invisible Woman producer…

EXCLUSIVE: British actor Richard Armitage, who's had roles in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit franchise and Alice Through the Looking Glass, has joined the cast of Ocean's Eight. Details of his character are being kept under wraps but he's in good company in the female-driven caper with stars Sandra Bullock, Cate…

Richard Armitage (The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies, Hannibal) has been tapped as the lead in Berlin Station, Epix ‘s 10-part contemporary spy series from Paramount TV and Anonymous Content. Also cast in the drama was The Killing‘s Michelle Forbes. Berlin Station follows Daniel Meyer (Armitage ), a newly…

Carrie-Anne Moss and Richard Armitage are joining the cast of Gerard Barrett’s Brain On Fire opposite Chloe Grace Moretz. Broad Green Pictures made the announcement today in partnership with Denver & Delilah and Foundation Features. The project is based on Susannah Cahalan's critically acclaimed memoir about a rising…

Bella Thorne has joined the cast of Fox’s sequel Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Road Chip. Walt Becker is directing the fourth film in the animated/live-action franchise, which is set for release December 23. In the film, a series of misunderstandings has led chipmunks Alvin, Simon and Theodore to believe that Dave is…

EXCLUSIVE: The Help’s Ahna O’Reilly and The Hobbit’s Richard Armitage are in the midst of filming Sleepwalker, a psychological thriller from writer Jack Olsen and director Elliott Lester (Nightingale). O’Reilly leads the cast as a grad student who goes to a campus sleep clinic to treat her insomnia and nightmares, but…

Warner Bros./New Line released a full-length trailer for their Aug. 8 title Into the Storm  and amid the onslaught of franchise films bowing that weekend (Lionsgate/Summit‘s Step Up All In and Paramount’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) this is one of the more underrated spectaculars on the summer release schedule…

BREAKING: Richard Armitage, who plays Dwarves’ leader Thorin Oakenshield in the Peter Jackson-directed The Hobbit, will move over to star in another New Line film. He’ll topline the untitled tornado film, the one that originally was set up under the title Category 6. Armitage has an accomplished resume, and was…