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May 13
Michael Rapaport has landed a role in Fox’s “Prison Break.”
The actor is joining the drama as a series regular for its upcoming fourth season. He will play a government agent who has an interesting offer for Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) and his brother, death-row inmate Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell).
Rapaport has had a recurring role on NBC’s “My Name Is Earl.”
May 13
“Will & Grace” star Megan Mullally has been cast opposite Alicia Silverstone in the ABC comedy pilot “Bad Mother’s Handbook.”
“Handbook” is a single-camera comedy about a 32-year-old woman (Silverstone) who’s too busy taking care of her teenage daughter (Alia Shawkat) and mother (Mullally).
Mullally is finishing a Broadway run in “Young Frankenstein.”
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May 12
“Boston Legal” co-star Saffron Burrows will co-star opposite Christian Slater in the drama series “My Own Worst Enemy” for NBC.
Slater plays Henry, a suburban dad whose alter ego, Edward, is a spy. Burrows will play Norah, Edward’s girlfriend and Henry’s shrink.
“Enemy” is slated to air in the Monday 10 p.m. slot in the fall.
May 12
Eric Stoltz has signed on to star opposite Esai Morales in Sci Fi Channel’s two-hour “Caprica” pilot, a prequel to “Battlestar Galactica.”
Alessandra Toressani also has joined the cast of the pilot.
Stoltz — whose numerous screen credits include “Mask,” ”Mr. Jealousy” and “The Butterfly Effect” — will play Daniel Graystone, a wealthy computer engineer who, after an emotionally crippling family tragedy, uses his technological wizardry to change the future of Caprica.
Toressani (”Malcolm in the Middle”) plays Daniel’s daughter, Zoe.
May 12
Frances Fisher will join Sci Fi Channel’s “Eureka” for an eight-episode arc.
The show, which returns for its third season July 29, centers on a secret, idyllic town that’s home to elite government researchers and inventors.
Fisher (“In the Valley of Elah”) will play Samantha Thorne, aka “the Fixer,” a corporate titan who is brought in to clean up Global Dynamics.
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May 9
Portia de Rossi (“Arrested Development”) will co-star in a comedy pilot for ABC.
The project, from “My Name Is Earl” writer-producer Victor Fresco, is a single-camera office comedy that centers on a moral guy trying to do right in an amoral world.
De Rossi recently had a recurring role on “Nip/Tuck.”
May 9
“Hellboy” star Ron Perlman will play the bad guy in the hybrid martial arts movie “Bunraku.”
The film is set in an original hyper-stylized universe, a la “Sin City,” and draws from a mixed bag of genres, including puppets, origami, comic books, video games and German expressionism. It follows a drifter (Josh Hartnett) who teams up with a samurai (Japanese actor Gackt) to take on an Eastern European gang lord, played by Perlman.
Also in the cast are Japan’s Shun Sugata, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Scottish actor Kevin McKidd and Spanish actor Jordi Molla.
Guy Moshe is directing the Snoot Entertainment production from his own script.
“I’ve always loved movies in the ‘no-name stranger coming to town and ending up in a bigger struggle (genre),”’ Snoot’s Keith Calder said. “I think this is an opportunity to take this genre and spin it on its head and bring a unique and strong visual style to it.”
Gackt is a Japanese Visual-kei Rock icon who recently starred in the NHK Taiga drama series “Furin Kazan” and sci-fi film “Moon Child,” which he also penned.
Sugata has appeared in “The Last Samurai,” “Kill Bill: Vol. 1,” and “Ichi the Killer.”
Perlman, who lent his voice to Snoot’s 2007 animated film “Terra,” will next be seen in Universal’s “Hellboy II: The Golden Army.”
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