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Exclusive: Vincent Kartheiser (Mad Men) and Laura Slade Wiggins (Shameless) have signed on to star alongside Landon Ashworth (Space Force) in Go On, a fantasy drama marking Ashworth’s feature directorial debut, which will enter production in New Mexico in September.

Marking Ashworth’s first produced feature screenplay, the film follows two strangers on a remote mountain, scorched by forest fires, as they help each other process baggage from their previous lives so they can transition to the afterlife. Ashworth crafted the screenplay after losing his very young cousin, Landon Bellm, to suicide.

“Having my feature film directorial debut be my own screenplay which addresses real, meaningful, and relatable issues is an honor,” Ashworth told Deadline. “Also, having the opportunity to work with Vincent is beyond a dream come true. I’ve followed his career for over a decade and knew he needed to play the co-lead of this movie.

Exclusive: Raoul Trujillo (Mayans M.C.) has signed with Innovative Artists for representation in all areas.

Trujillo is an actor, dancer and choreographer with over 100 film, television and theater credits who recently wrapped filming his role as Conrad Carapax (Aka Carapax the Indestructible Man) in Warner Bros.’ DC Film Blue Beetle, in which he stars alongside Susan Sarandon, Harvey Guillén and more.

The actor also notably portrays Che ‘Taza’ Romero on FX’s crime drama series Mayans M.C., which has been renewed for a fifth season. He’s otherwise known for his performance as Zero Wolf in Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto and worked as both an actor and choreographer on Terrence Malick’s The New World, opposite Colin Farrell.

Additional film credits include Cold Pursuit opposite Liam Neeson and Emmy Rossum; the Sicario sequel Day of the Soldado opposite Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin; Jean Francois Richet’s Blood Father,...

Exclusive: Vincent Kartheiser is a major new cast addition to Season 3 of the DC series Titans, which is currently airing on HBO Max. But the Mad Men alum, who plays the villain Scarecrow, is not on the poster for the new season and was not actively involved in publicity efforts for the new season after his stint on the show triggered at least two complaints and two internal investigations by Titans studio Warner Bros Television, I have learned. The studio declined comment.

The allegations, which are believed to have included disruptive, juvenile behavior and inappropriate comments, were investigated by Wbtv’s Labor Relations department, which interviewed the relevant parties. The investigations were conducted remotely because of Covid protocols that did not allow for Burbank-based investigators to visit the series’ Toronto set.

According to sources, the first investigation into a complaint, said to be about verbal comments and outbursts, concluded that...

Mad Men and The Social Dilemma actor Vincent Kartheiser has joined the cast of HBO Max’s Titans and is set to take on Jonathan Crane, a.k.a. Scarecrow in season three.

Kartheiser’s Jonathan Crane is an inmate at Arkham Asylum who used to terrorize Gotham City using toxins to exploit his enemies’ phobias. While Kartheiser will make his debut as the DC villain in the series’ upcoming third season, Scarecrow has already appeared in a number of DC titles including The Adventures of Batman, Harley Quinn and even The Lego Batman Movie. Charlie Tahan previously portrayed the villain on Gotham and Cillian Murphy played Crane for Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins.

Kartheiser joins the Titans cast which stars Brenton Thwaites, Anna Diop, Teagan Croft, Ryan Potter and Conor Leslie, who teased the big bad’s appearance at DC FanDome 2020. Titans is produced by Weed Road Pictures and Berlanti Productions,...

Wes Studi, Q’orianka Kilcher and Tatanka Means will star in “Canyon Del Muerto,” the new film from writer and director Coerte Voorhees.

The movie is based on the true story of one of America’s first female archaeologists, Ann Axtell Morris, who spent years uncovering civilizations in the southwest and Mexico. Axtell Morris was married to Earl Halstead Morris, who was a primary inspiration for Indiana Jones.

The film also stars David Midthunder, alongside previously announced Abigail Lawrie (who plays Axtell Morris), Tom Felton (as Earl), Ewen Bremner, Bronson Webb, Elias Koteas and Val Kilmer.

“Canyon Del Muerto” is shooting on location across the southwest and the Yucatan thanks to special Covid-19 measures and safety protocols in place. It will also film in archaeological and cultural heritage sites throughout North America and Mexico in collaboration with the Navajo Nation, National Park Service and the government of Yucatan. The filmmakers say...

Married producers Grant Scharbo and Gina Matthews listed their architecturally pedigreed 1920s Italianate villa in the foothills above Hollywood between Beachwood and Bronson canyons at $2.85 million. Scharbo, an executive producer on the 2015 two-part Nat Geo mini-series “Saints & Strangers” as well as a producer on the upcoming romantic comedy “Isn’t It Romantic” starring Rebel Wilson, Liam Hemsworth and Priyanka Chopra, and Matthews, co-creator with Ryan Murphy of the cult favorite series “Popular” as well as a co-creator with her husband on the single season Oliver Hudson-starring 2004-5 series “The Mountain,” purchased the photogenic Italianate villa in 2002 for $1.33 million.

Set behind imposing wrought iron gates and perched high on a grassy hillside where it enjoys glittery city lights vistas, the about 2,650-square-foot vella presides over two parcels that together total around 17,000 square feet. Dubbed Villa Maria and recently identified as having been designed by illustrious architect Paul Williams, the...

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Mad Men alum Vincent Kartheiser has been cast in Danny Strong’s legal drama pilot at Fox, TVLine has learned.

The potential Fox series is set in a law firm that reopens investigations that led to wrongful convictions, with the team putting themselves at risk to exonerate the innocent. In February, Russell Hornsby was cast as male lead Ezekiel “Easy” Boudreau, “a savvy, pragmatic and cool” lawyer employed by the firm. The female lead character, whose history includes being wrongfully found guilty (and later exonerated) in a high-profile case and dealing with the publicity fallout that went along with it,...

Vincent Kartheiser, Mad Men’s Pete Campbell, plays the English separatist who served as Plymouth Colony’s governor for about 30 years in Nat Geo's first scripted miniseries Saints & Strangers. He says he had been looking to do a very different role than that he’d played the last seven or eight years. And, he told TV critics this afternoon at TCA, he knew “Nat Geo would honor and bring historical accuracy” to the story. On the heels of the record-breaking ratings for Killin…...

Hans Zimmer, the composer behind such film scores as “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, will provide the theme music for NatGeo’s upcoming film event “Saints & Strangers,” the network announced Wednesday at TCA. In addition the film’s score will be provided by Bleeding Fingers Music, a collaboration between Zimmer and Extreme Music. Zimmer has scored more than 120 films and has won numerous accolades throughout his career. He has been nominated for nine Oscars, winning in 1994 for Best Original Score for “The Lion King.” He has also won two Golden Globes, four Grammys, and a Tony Award. See video: National Geographic's 'Destination.