3/05/2014

Emily Ratajkowski joins 'Entourage'; Ashley Greene Enters 'Shangra-La Suite'; Shea Whigham Gets 'Term Life'



* From video vixen to movie star, Emily Ratajkowski has made the most of being the hot chick in Robin Thicke's 'Blurred Lines'. She's already wrapped up her role in David Fincher's Gone Girl opposite Ben Affleck, and now she's joined the starry cast of Entourage. Adrian Grenier, Kevin Connolly, Jerry Ferrara, Kevin Dillon and Jeremy Piven are back in the big screen version of the HBO series, with new faces including Billy Bob Thornton, Haley Joel Osment, Kid Cudi, and Liam Neeson. Directed by Doug Ellin, Entourage opens June 12th 2015.

* Strange casting as Ashley Greene will play Priscilla Pressley in Shangra-La Suite, opposite Ron Livingston as Elvis. Directed and co-written by Eddie O'Keefe, the film doesn't seem to have all that much to do with their relationship at all. Instead it's "set in 1974 and focuses on two troubled 20-year-olds who set out to kill The King." Interesting premise. [Deadline]

* Shea Whigham, who tends to be awesome in pretty much everything, has joined the Vince Vaughn action flick, Term Life. Directed by Peter Billingsley (Ralphie from A Christmas Story), the film has Vaughn as a low life that the entire criminal underworld wants dead. In a rare act of selflessness he takes out a $1M insurance policy to benefit his estranged daughter, only to discover that it doesn't take affect for 21 days, meaning he'll have to stay alive until then. Pretty cool concept, and with a cast that includes Hailee Steinfeld, Bill Paxton, Mike Epps, Jordi Molla, Jonathan Banks, and William Levy, this could be the first Vaughn in awhile worth getting excited over. Whigham will play a vice cop estranged from his own family. [THR]