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ABC’s Kiefer Sutherland-fronted Designated Survivor has set in motion its first 24 reunion, with the casting of Mykelti Williamson.

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Premiering Wednesday, Sept. 21 at 10/9c, the freshman drama stars Sutherland as Tom Kirkman, a mild-mannered Secretary of Housing and Urban Development who at the end of a very bad day winds up as President of the United States, following a terror attack on the Capitol.

Per our sister site Deadline, Williamson will play Admiral Chernow, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who becomes one of Kirkman’s trusted advisors.

'Trumbo' movie: Bryan Cranston as screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and Helen Mirren as gossip columnist Hedda Hopper. 'Trumbo' movie review: Highly entertaining 'history lesson' Full disclosure: on the wall in my study hangs a poster – the iconic photograph of blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, with black-horned rim glasses, handlebar mustache, a smoke dangling from the end of a dramatic cigarette holder. He's sitting – stark naked – in a tub surrounded by his particular writing apparatus. He's looking directly into the camera of the photographer, his daughter Mitzi. Dalton Trumbo's son, Christopher Trumbo, gave me the poster after my interview with him for the release of Peter Askin's 2007 documentary also titled Trumbo. That film combines archival footage, including family movies and photographs, with performances of the senior Trumbo's letters to his family during their many years of turmoil before and through the blacklist, including his time in prison. The letters are read by,...

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The music and food festival, which celebrates film and TV projects that have been shot in Chicago, takes place this weekend on Aug. 28, 29 and 30, 2015. The festival is located on the grounds of Cinespace Chicago Film Studios, which is one of the largest film and TV studios outside of Hollywood. Each HollywoodChicago.com winner scores a weekend pass valid for all three days! Winning passes will be available at CineFest will call under your name.

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Exclusive: Warner Bros has put into development a new installment of The Fugitive, one of those rare times that Hollywood took a well-executed TV series and turned it into an even more exhilarating feature film. The studio has set Christina Hodson — whose The Eden Project was bought at auction by Sony, and whose script Shut In is completing shooting with Naomi Watts for EuropaCorp — to write it. Arnold and Anne Kopelson are returning as producers, but they would not say…...

It was the huge success of Brian de Palma’s The Untouchables back in 1987 that made Hollywood realise that vast amounts of money could be mined from a middle-aged audience by revisiting their childhood nights spent in front of the television. Fellow 1950s TV stalwart Dragnet arrived the same year to lesser acclaim – pairing Dan Aykroyd’s stoic Joe Friday against Tom Hanks’s impossibly-named Pep Streebeck – but the ball kept rolling.

In the 1990s, the ‘movie version of the classic 1960s TV show’ became a genre of its own. Some were huge hits (The Fugitive, Maverick), some spawned brand new franchises (Mission: Impossible, The Addams Family), some were absolute disasters (The Avengers, Wild Wild West). The best of them cooked up something fresh and new from the old ingredients, creating something with pan-generational appeal. If the recipe was right, there were huge dividends to reap.

Strange then that the...

From Oscar-winning to Homeland and more, here's what the cast of My So-Called Life have been up to over the past 2 decades...

Twenty years has passed since we were first introduced to the characters of My So-Called Life, twenty years! Where has the time gone? And more importantly when did I get so old?

While most of you won’t really care too much what I’ve been up to since the show finished, let’s take a look at what the actors have been up to in the years since the cancellation of what is frankly the greatest teen TV drama ever.

Claire Danes (Angela Chase)

After breaking out in My So-Called Life, Danes focused on her film career first with a leading role in 1995’s Little Women and then supporting roles in smaller but interesting films like Home For The Holidays, How to Make An American Quilt and...

Boy Meets World was one of the best shows of my young life. Each week I could look forward to swooning over Topanga, hanging with the boys at Chubbies, and learning a thing or two from Mr. Feeny.

The show had plenty of messages to deliver, something definitely lacking on today’s television channels. The show was creative and full of a wit and humor that I hadn’t seen before. Their self-awareness and occasional breaking of the fourth wall was delightful and risky for a children’s show.

Boy Meets World brought fantasy and enjoyment to my home and my family when I was a kid, so I can’t help but hope that the upcoming Girl Meets World will do the same for old and new audiences alike. While it may not capture the same charm, hopefully the morals that made Boy Meets World such a compelling and heartfelt show remain intact.

This week: Jesse Eisenberg heads up the Four Horsemen, a team of professional illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances in "Now You See Me," which also stars Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, Mark Ruffalo, Morgan Freeman and Melanie Laurent.

Also new this week is the based-on-a-true-story crime thriller "The Iceman" with Michael Shannon, the road-trip drama "Arthur Newman" with Colin Firth and Emily Blunt and the inexplicable cult hit "Sharknado" with Ian Ziering and Tara Reid.

'Now You See Me'

Box Office: $117 million

Rotten Tomatoes: 49% Rotten

Storyline: An FBI agent (Mark Ruffalo) and an Interpol detective (Melanie Laurent) try to bust a team of illusionists known as the Four Horsemen (Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher and Dave Franco), who somehow pull off bank heists during their performances and give the money to the audience. Morgan Freeman co-stars as a TV personality who debunks...

No stranger to superhero roles, he's already talking about his intense exercise regimen ahead of next year's much anticipated Captain America: The Winter Soldier! Here are five things you may not know about Chris Evans.

1. Born Christopher Robert Evans on June 13, 1981 in Boston, Ma -- his father is a dentist and his mother a dancer.

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2. One of his first roles was on the short-lived 2000 TV show The Fugitive, a remake of the 1960s classic.

3. Read for the part of Scott Smith in the 2008 biopic Milk that ended up going to James Franco.

Video: Chris Evans Talks Favorite Childhood Superhero

4. Played the role of boyfriend to his real-life then-girlfriend Jessica Biel in two films: Cellular (2004) and London (2005).

5. Appeared in Marilyn Manson's music video Tainted Love.

Video: What Legendary Superhero Inspired Stan Lee?...

He reprises his role as the buffed-out superhero Captain America in the box office smashing The Avengers and also portrayed Johnny Storm in the Fantastic Four flicks. Here are five things you may not know about Chris Evans.

1. One of his first roles was on the short-lived 2000 TV show The Fugitive, a remake of the 1960s series.

2. His father is a dentist and his mother a dancer.

3. Once said in an interview that an important test for his dates is whether they can get along with his dog East, an American bulldog.

4. Played the role of boyfriend to his real-life then-girlfriend Jessica Biel in two films: Cellular (2004) and London (2005).

5. Can be seen in Marilyn Manson's music video Tainted Love.

Exclusive: Showtime is developing Pure Evil, a drama series executive produced by feature producing duo Arnold and Anne Kopelson. The project, which is being written by Trey Callaway (CSI: NY), centers on a brilliant and sinister CEO of the world’s largest tech & media conglomerate. Callaway will executive produce with the Oscar-winning Kopelsons. Steve Barnett, president of Kopelson Entertainment, will also produce. This is the first TV effort in a decade for Arnold and Anne Kopelson who executive produced the CBS series The Fugitive, based on the it 1993 movie they also produced.

By Scott Mendelson

HollywoodNews.com: There’s not too much to say about a 24 minute slugfest. The story is pretty simple: Black Adam shows up, Billy Batson becomes Captain Marvel, action and thematic elements occur. Most of the entire second and third acts of this extended short film is basically a smackdown between Captain Marvel and Black Adam, with the occasional assist from Superman. There is just enough substance (what makes a hero, the difference between being good and doing good, etc) between the fistcuffs to make it a worthwhile endeavor. The animation is bright and gorgeous, and the vocals are solid per usual. James Garner brings the same warm authority as Shazam that he did in Battle For Terra. Arnold Vosloo makes a fine Black Adam, and he works well off of Jerry O’Connell’s virtuous but questioning Captain Marvel. But the best part of this little mini-movie...

All those USA Network teasers for the third season premiere of "In Plain Sight" on USA Network have the show's fans buzzing: What's up for professional partners Mary Shannon (Mary McCormack) and Marshall Mann (Fred Weller) now that she is engaged to longtime boyfriend Raphael Ramirez (Cristian de la Fuente)?

Get in line, says McCormack.

"I know that the tension that was there at the end of the season when I became engaged to Raph is still there as of now," she tells Zap2it. "It makes Marshall upset or melancholy that I am moving on with my life and committing to Raphael. But I don't really know very much. With episodic television, unless you're the show runner, you don't really know where the stories are going."

The hit USA series, which returns on Wednesday, Mar. 31, has a new show runner this season in John McNamara ("The Fugitive"), but McCormack...

Stephen Lang is one of those actors: You may not know his name, but you know his face, his voice and, most importantly, you don't easily forget his remarkable performances. Long before Jack Nicholson played Col. Nathan Jessup in the big-screen version of A Few Good Men (1992), Lang originated the role on Broadway. And his film and television credits include Manhunter (1986), Crime Story (TV), Tombstone (1993), the 2001 TV series edition of The Fugitive (he was the one-armed man), The Bronx Is Burning (2007), and more. And he's having a hell of a 2009, with roles in The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009), Public Enemies (2009) and now, the film that may finally help people match a name to that face and voice, James Cameron's sci-fi epic, Avatar (2009). Set for release on Dec. 18, Avatar is a big-budget, high-tech spectacle in which humans threaten the homeworld of the indigenous population, the Na'vi, on a moon called Pandora.

Welcome to another edition of Movies That Deserve a Second Life. If you need a refresher on what I’m referring to by “second life,” check out the Action/Adventure Edition. If you’re caught up, read on to see what funny flics I felt were unfairly ignored/disliked upon its release or have been forgotten in the years since its release.

Comedy is almost certainly the most subjective of all genres. What makes one person laugh is guaranteed to make another yawn or wrinkle his/her brow. Some find juvenilia in poor taste while others bust a gut. Everyone claims to have a sense of humor, but almost no one enjoys every type of humor there is, from dry wit and pungent satire to bodily fluid gags and intentionally groan-worthy puns. Therefore, I think it’s safe to say that no one (besides myself) will be satisfied with every choice.

Movie Jungle has images in from the sci-fi horror comedy "Alien Trespass," helmed by R.W. Goodwin ("The X:Files: Revelations," "The Fugitive" TV Series). James Swift and Steven P. Fisher make their writing debut on the film.   See all of the images from the gallery including the poster. Coming soon to a theater and drive-in near you: Alien Trespass, a thrilling sci-fi adventure from three-time Golden Globe winner and five time Emmy Award-nominated director/producer R.W. Goodwin ("The X-Files") and brought to you in glorious color! Alien Trespass is an exciting and entertaining homage to the great science-fiction movies of the 1950s, the post-war boom period when the country was filled with great hope and prosperity and, at the same time, lived under the threat of nuclear annihilation.   The story begins in 1957 in the star-filled skies above California's Mojave Desert. It is a special night for noted astronomer Ted Lewis (Eric McCormack...

Movie Jungle has images in from the sci-fi horror comedy "Alien Trespass," helmed by R.W. Goodwin ("The X:Files: Revelations," "The Fugitive" TV Series). James Swift and Steven P. Fisher make their writing debut on the film. Coming soon to a theater and drive-in near you: Alien Trespass, a thrilling sci-fi adventure from three-time Golden Globe winner and five time Emmy Award-nominated director/producer R.W. Goodwin ("The X-Files") and brought to you in glorious color! Alien Trespass is an exciting and entertaining homage to the great science-fiction movies of the 1950s, the post-war boom period when the country was filled with great hope and prosperity and, at the same time, lived under the threat of nuclear annihilation...

Movie Jungle has images in from the sci-fi horror comedy "Alien Trespass," helmed by R.W. Goodwin ("The X:Files: Revelations," "The Fugitive" TV Series). James Swift and Steven P. Fisher make their writing debut on the film. Coming soon to a theater and drive-in near you: Alien Trespass, a thrilling sci-fi adventure from three-time Golden Globe winner and five time Emmy Award-nominated director/producer R.W. Goodwin ("The X-Files") and brought to you in glorious color! Alien Trespass is an exciting and entertaining homage to the great science-fiction movies of the 1950s, the post-war boom period when the country was filled with great hope and prosperity and, at the same time, lived under the threat of nuclear annihilation...

Writer-producer John McNamara has inked a two-year overall deal with CBS Paramount Network Television. Under the seven-figure pact, McNamara has joined the studio's CBS drama pilot Orpheus as an executive producer and will develop new projects for the studio. "John is somebody that I'd admired and respected for years and years," CBS Paramount Network TV president David Stapf said. "He's uniquely talented in that he can create, develop and write in a variety of genres. He is a phenomenal writer as well as a great showrunner and a great team player." Stapf and McNamara's paths have crossed twice before, first at Warner Bros. TV where McNamara was working on such shows as The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and Stapf ran the publicity department; and later at CBS where Stapf was the head of current programming while McNamara executive produced the network's drama series The Fugitive.

Kate Walsh is in negotiations to join Will Ferrell and Robert Duvall in Universal Picture's Untitled Will Ferrell Soccer Movie. Marco Schnabel is making his feature directing debut, and Jimmy Miller is producing. Ferrell stars as the coach of his young son's soccer team who is forced to go up against his ultracompetitive father (Duvall), who has a new son on the opposing team. Walsh will play Ferrell's sensible, outspoken and put-upon wife, who reacts strongly when the needs of her family are ignored as Ferrell takes on the coaching duties. The project is written by Leo Benvenuti and Steve Rudnick. Walsh appears onscreen as Sandra Oh's lover in Under the Tuscan Sun and is perhaps best known as Drew Carey's girlfriend on The Drew Carey Show. Her other credits include The Mind of the Married Man and The Fugitive. She is repped by Innovative Artists, Tiffany Kuzon at Evolution and attorney Rick Jenow of Stone Meyer & Jenow.

Veteran film and TV literary agent Paul Haas has been named a partner at Endeavor. Haas joined Endeavor three years ago as head of its television packaging business. His promotion brings the number of partners at the agency to 13. "In Paul's three years with the agency, he has brought an incredible amount of creativity and energy to the television department," the partners said in a statement. "He is a proven leader with the respect of all studios and networks." Haas represents some of primetime's most sought-after writer-producers and showrunners. He recently orchestrated a deal with CBS for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation executive producers Carol Mendolsohn and Ann Donahue that made them the highest-paid female showrunners in television. His other clients include John McNamara (Fastlane, CBS' The Fugitive), Marti Noxon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Jeff Pinkner (Alias), John Herzfeld (2 Days in the Valley), Brad Kern (Charmed) and actress-singer Eve, now starring in the UPN comedy Eve.