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EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off his Emmy nomination for HBO comedy Barry, Stephen Root is joining Glenn Close and Mila Kunis in Rodrigo Garcia’s drama Four Good Days, about a mother helping her daughter work through four crucial days on the road to recovery from substance abuse. Launched at Cannes this year, the project is due…

EXCLUSIVE: Freestyle Digital Media, the recently acquired digital film distribution division of Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios, has acquired the North American rights to director/co-writer Nathan Adloff's Outfest audience award winner Miles for theatrical and digital distribution June 9. The film stars Tim…

“For me, what's interesting is the stories that societies tell themselves—and that people tell themselves—in order to live, in order to get on, in order to survive, stories which make them the central figure, the hero, the victim,” The Man in the High Castle star Rufus Sewell said Friday night, at an Amazon panel…

Amazon Studios said today that Stephen Root has landed the title role in The Man in the High Castle, its adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s alt-history novel about life in the former United States after the Allied Powers lost World War II. He’ll play the mysterious figure tied to the Resistance movement who collects the…

Stephen Root has booked a spot in Fox’s supernatural thriller The Empty Man, written and helmed by David Prior. Based on Cullen Bunn's graphic novel from Boom! Studios, the pic follows an ex-cop who discovers a sinister presence around him while investigating the disappearance of a friend's teenage daughter. Root…

Danny Jacobs (Growing Up and Other Lies) has booked a recurring role and Stephen Root (King of the Hill) and Romy Rosemont (Glee) will guest star on the fourth season of Showtime’s drama series Masters Of Sex. Starring Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan as real-life pioneers of human sexuality, William Masters and…

Teen Wolf co-star Shelley Hennig has been cast in When We First Met, the romantic comedy co-written by and starring Adam Devine along with Alexandra Daddario. Hennig will play the best friend to Daddario’s Avery in the pic, about a guy (Devine) who spends the perfect first night with the girl of his dreams (Daddario)…

Stephen Root has been cast as a regular opposite Bill Hader and Henry Winkler in Hader's HBO comedy pilot Barry. The project, co-written and directed by Hader, centers on an ex-Marine (Hader) who works as a low-rent hitman in the Midwest. Lonely and dissatisfied in his life he begrudgingly travels to Los Angeles to…

Stephen Root (Justified) and Marque Richardson (Dear White People) are the latest to join the cast of All The Way, HBO's adaptation of the Tony-winning Robert Schenkkan play. Directed by Jay Roach and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, the film covers LBJ (Bryan Cranston) from the moment the assassination of John…