Rumer Willis has been tapped for a recurring role on the current third season of Fox’s hit hip-hop drama series Empire, co-created by Lee Daniels and Danny Strong. Willis will play Tory Ash, a brilliant but volatile singer/songwriter whose talent becomes invaluable to Jamal (Jussie Smollett) as he creates his most…

EXCLUSIVE: Rumer Willis and Aquarius‘ Emma Dumont are toplining Rob Gardner's indie thriller What Lies Ahead, which has now started principal photography in Kentucky. Gardner and writer William J. Viglione are producing via their Lago Pictures along with Joel Segal and Joe Burke. The pic centers on a woman (Dumont)…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry, the only stipulation being no holds barred. GERARD: As a longtime champion of non-traditional casting,  I couldn’t resist starting off with this clip from MCC Theatre’s MisCast gala…

The cast is set for Hello Again, an indie feature adaptation of Michael John LaChiusa’s 1994 chamber musical. Audra McDonald, Martha Plimpton, T.R. Knight, Rumer Willis, Jenna Ushkowitz, Nolan Gerard Funk, Sam Underwood, Tyler Blackburn and Al Calderon will star in the pic for director Tom Gustafson. Cory Krueckeberg…

A key factor in making Chicago the longest-running revival in Broadway history is the savvy deployment of stars in limited runs — as with the current appearance of Dancing With The Stars star Rumer Willis as ballsy murderess Roxy Hart (through November 10). The producers announced this morning that beginning January…

Dancing With The Stars winner Rumer Willis will make her Broadway debut on August 18, when she joins the cast of Chicago, the long-running revival at the Shubert-owned Ambassador Theatre. Willis will play jailed murderess Roxie Hart in the show for a limited 8-week run thorough October 11. Willis’ previous stage…

EXCLUSIVE: “I used to think that any guy would be a sex addict if he could, and now that I know one, it’s real — and it is scary.” That line is delivered at the expense of Mitch (Michael Doneger), a sex-obsessed writer who needs a big story to land a big job. He turns to Natalie (Lyndsy Fonseca), a Stanford-schooled…

EXCLUSIVE: Romantic comedy The Escort has found its lead in Lyndsy Fonseca, the Kick-Ass actress who’s coming off a four-season run on The CW’s Nikita. Pic tracks a sex-obsessed journalist (Michael Doneger) who throws himself into the world of high class escorts when he starts following a Stanford-educated prostitute…