Zachary Gordon as Greg

Where You’ve Seen Him: Primarily on TV (How I Met Your Mother, 24), and as the voice of Baby Melman in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008). His limited big-screen roles include “Kid #6 in Jump-Jump” in Four Christmases (2008) and “Young Bloom” in The Brothers Bloom (2008). This is Zachary Gordon’s big break.

Casting Grade: As we’ve previously noted, Zachary Gordon looks to be a dead-ringer for the role of a charmingly dorky middle-school kid because the 11-year-old plays one in real life.

Source: www.reelzchannel.com

ER” alum Goran Visnjic is in negotiations to star opposite Katee Sackhoff in the ABC drama pilot “Boston’s Finest,” which also has cast Nia Long.

Additionally, Dougray Scott and Molly Parker are set to star in CBS drama presentation “Quinn-Tuplets.”

In other pilot castings, Josh Henderson is leading the cast of the CW’s drama “Betwixt,” Randall Park has joined the Fox comedy “Tax Man,” and Omid Abtahi has boarded Fox drama “Pleading Guilty.”

“Finest” centers on a detective (Katee Sackhoff) who teams with a disgraced ex-cop (Visnjic) to solve crimes and untangle the conspiracy that sent him underground. Long, repped by Gersh and Hyphenate’s Glenn Riberg, will play her friend, mentor and partner. Read More

By Dorothy Pomerantz, Forbes

Daniel Radcliffe was just 11 years old when he played Harry Potter for the first time in 2001’s “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” It was the young actor’s first major role, and for better or worse, it has come to define him. When the series ends in a few years, it will be difficult to see Radcliffe as anything but a grown-up Potter.

He’s making grown-up money for the last two installments of Warner Bros.’ huge franchise: $20 million per film. The studio was happy to pay him — the “Harry Potter” films have earned a total $4.3 billion at the box office so far.

That makes Radcliffe and his co-stars Emma Watson (Hermione) and Rupert Grint (Ron) the teens with the biggest hauls at the box office.

Studios love finding teen talent. Young actors (except Radcliffe) always earn far less than an adult would. Kids love to see movies featuring teens, and those kids will go see movies more than once and stock up on film merchandise. Read More

Coen Brothers cast newcomer in Western Drama.

Hailee Steinfeld has won the role of 14-year-old Mattie Ross in Paramount’s redo of Western classic “True Grit,” which Ethan and Joel Coen begin lensing next month in New Mexico.

She’ll star alongside Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and Josh Brolin.

The Coen brothers, who penned the script, are producing “True Grit” with Scott Rudin. Pic is set to open Christmas Day.

In “True Grit,” Mattie Ross teams with Rooster Cogburn (Bridges), a trigger-happy, drunken U.S. marshal, in the hunt to find her father’s killer (Brolin), who has fled into Indian territory. A Texas Ranger (Damon) is searching for the same criminal, but for a different murder.

Steven Spielberg is exec producing.

Steinfeld is repped by ICM, Coast to Coast Talent Group and Protege Entertainment

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

In her role as Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s little sister in (500) Days of Summer, the joke was that Chloë Moretz is wise beyond her years. We’d all better get used to it. The 13-year-old actress has lined up a series of challenging, mature parts over the next several months: She’ll first be seen as the ultraviolent Hit Girl in Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass, then star as a child vampire in Let Me In (a remake of the recent Swedish sleeper Let the Right One In). In between, a more G-rated audience might catch Moretz in Diary of a Wimpy Kid, though the actress herself is no pushover.

As Moretz prepares for the release of the already controversial Kick-Ass, she talked to Movieline about her suddenly high-gear career.

You so often get cast as these young characters who are mature for their age. Do you feel that way in real life?
In real life, when I’m around my friends and family, I’m basically like a three-year-old. [Laughs] When I’m on set, I’m “Actor Chloë,” but when they say, “Cut,” I turn into a three-year-old. Read More

Casting actors in “second position” on pilots has been on the rise during the past few years.

The process — in which actors in on-air series are cast in pilots — also has become increasingly aggressive, with broadcast networks even going after actors whose shows have not yet premiered.

This pilot season, Kyle Bornheimer and Alyssa Milano, stars of ABC’s upcoming comedy series “Romantically Challenged,” and Tyler Labine, star of Fox’s upcoming comedy series “Sons of Tucson,” were pursued for pilots. After fielding several offers, Bornheimer signed on as the lead in CBS’ hot comedy pilot from “How I Met Your Mother” creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas.

Overall, more than a dozen actors on existing series already have been cast in pilots this year.

Casting executive Marc Hirschfeld, who cast one of them — “Numbers” star Rob Morrow, in ABC’s drama pilot “The Whole Truth” — is not surprised.

“I think this is probably the most competitive pilot season in about eight years,” he said, pointing to the number of broadcast pilots (83) and increased competition from original series on cable.

Casting already-committed actors has gone on for years, focused primarily on talent from “bubble” shows, but increased competition in the past couple of years has been driving the number of second-position pilot castings up. Read More

HOW TO BE A BETTER AMERICAN (ABC) - Emily Rose Everhard (”Jack and the Beanstalk”) has joined the cast of the comedy pilot, about a father (Jason Jones) who embarks on a journey to be a better person and drags his family kicking and screaming along. She’s believed to be playing Lola, the man’s prickly daughter who “has purple lipstick, straight jet black hair over her eyes and purple and black striped stockings.” Johnny Sneed and Missi Pyle co-star in the ABC Studios-based half-hour, which has tapped Adam Bernstein (”Worst Week”) as director. Brian Bradley and Steven Cragg are the co-creators.

In the new film She’s Out of My League, actress Alice Eve’s looks are evaluated on a ten-point scale, and they almost break the system. Certainly, Eve is a blond bombshell in the Christie Brinkley mold, but there’s more to her than just that; for starters, the 28-year-old actress has a lovely British accent in real life (and among Brits attempting to emulate a sun-kissed blonde aesthetic, she’s unique in her ability to not resemble an orange gorgon). She plays American in League, and she’ll play Irish in the upcoming Sex and the City 2, where her pretty nanny has the potential to play spoiler in Charlotte’s marriage.

So how does Eve feel about her coronation as one of the most beautiful starlets in Hollywood? Conflicted, as she told Movieline.

I first saw you in Starter for Ten playing James McAvoy’s dream girl, and now in She’s Out of My League, you play Jay Baruchel’s dream girl. Do you enjoy that sort of typecasting, or does it make you feel a little self-conscious? Read More

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