EXCLUSIVE: Samuel Goldwyn Films has taken domestic rights to Joseph Cross' feature directorial debut Summer Night for a release next spring. Cross is the star of such films as Lincoln, Milk and the HBO Emmy-winning limited series Big Little Lies.  Summer Night follows a group of young best friends confronted with a…

Jennifer Westfeldt (Younger) and Victoria Justice (Victorious) have been cast opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones in the upcoming Facebook Watch series Queen America. Created, written, and executive produced by Meaghan Oppenheimer and directed by Alethea Jones, the dark comedy is set in Tulsa, OK. It revolves around Vicki…

EXCLUSIVE: Victoria Justice and Colton Haynes have boarded George Gallo’s Bigger about fitness forefathers the Weider Brothers. Actress-singer Justice who has made her mark in in Fox’s Rocky Horror Picture Show, Nickelodeon’s Victorious and Blumhouse/MTV’s Eye Candy, will portray Kathy,  Joe Weider's (Tyler Hoechlin)…

Victoria Justice and Ryan McCartan (Heathers The Musical) have been tapped to star as younger leads Janet and Brad opposite Laverne Cox in Fox’s TV remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Reeve Carney (Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark) and Staz Nair also have been cast in the two-hour taped event, described as a…

Young actresses with enough experience, name recognition and chops to carry a show are always a hot commodity, especially during the highly competitive pilot season and especially when it comes down to one of the hardest casting types: a beautiful and funny twentysomething actress with star quality. Fox and 20th Centur…

The first season of MTV’s technothriller series Eye Candy will be the only one. The network has cancelled the freshman series, as confirmed today on Twitter by star Victoria Justice. “I wanted you guys to hear it from me first, that the cast and I received news that Eye Candy will not be returning for season 2.  Even…

For those who still miss Veronica Mars on TV, there’s a new twentysomething femme super sleuth hitting the air, Lindy Sampson in MTV’s Eye Candy. Sampson is rather daring as seen in the new trailer for the MTV thriller series which debuts on Monday, Jan. 12 at 10 PM ET/PT: She actually dates the stalker who is…

UPDATED: MTV's new regime has gone 4-for-4, picking up all four of its scripted pilots to series. The latest to get a series nod is thriller drama pilot Eye Candy, which has received an order for 10 episodes. The pilot, which will undergo extensive recasting and will be reshot, joins recently picked up coming of age…

MTV has cast Victoria Justice in the cyber thriller Eye Candy based on RL Stine’s bestselling novel. Justice plays Lindy, a beautiful but reclusive hacker whose blog exposes everything from terrorist plots to suspected killers. Convinced by her roommate to begin online dating, Lindy is targeted by a dangerous cyber…

The Paramount pic stars Victoria Justice, Josh Pence, Johnny Knoxville and Chelsea Handler and centers on a troubled but whip-smart girl who loses her oddball little brother on Halloween and has one desperate night to track him down. Josh Schwartz directs a screenplay by Max Werner. It’s slated for release October 26…