Riley Keough to Lead 'The Girlfriend Experience' Series; Shea Whigham joins 'Agent Carter'

Steven Soderbergh may have retired from directing feature films, but fortunately for us he's turned his attention to the small screen. His new Cinemax series The Knick is one of the best things on TV right now, and earlier this year we learned Soderbergh would be turning his film The Girlfriend Experience into a series for the Starz network. Now we know who will be taking on the lead role, and it's Riley Keough, who worked with Soderbergh on Magic Mike. Amy Seimetz and Lodge Kerrigan will spearhead the show about the life of a high-priced call girl who provides the complete "girlfriend experience" as part of her job. [ThePlaylist]

The final season of Boardwalk Empire is now underway, but one of its stars has already found his next project and it's a pretty big one. Shea Whigham has landed the male lead in Marvel's Agent Carter series, joining Hayley Atwell, Chad Michael Murray, and Envar Gjokaj. He'll play SSR Chief Roger Dooley, who in the comics was a sex-obsessed SHIELD agent who usurped control of the organization and illegally imprisoned She-Hulk. That probably won't happen on Agent Carter given that it's set around WWII, but you never know. [Deadline]

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Helen Mirren and Aaron Paul Join 'Eye in the Sky'; Tilda Swinton Goes Feline for 'The Infinity Engine', and More

More Cannes deals keep rolling in, including what may be Tilda Swinton's weirdest role yet.

First up, Helen Mirren and Aaron Paul have joined Pierce Brosnan in Eye in the Sky, a drone warfare thriller directed by Gavin Hood. Guy Hibbert's script "centers on London-based military intelligence officer Colonel Michelle Madden who is remotely commanding a top secret drone operation that aims to capture a group of terrorists in Nairobi. The mission suddenly escalates from a “capture” to a “kill” operation when she realizes the targets are about to embark on a suicide mission, which would result in the deaths of many innocent civilians. Meanwhile, American drone pilot Steve Watts is poised to destroy the safe-house when a nine-year-old-girl enters the kill zone."

Next, Tilda Swinton has starred in three films for Lynn Hershman Leeson (Strange Culture, Teknolust), but the fourth will have her playing a cat. That's right, an actual feline. A phosphorescent cat at that. In The Infinity Engine she'll be "a rebel talking cat that glows because she has genetic code from a jellyfish. The cat is on a search for freedom, enlightenment, and humane humans in the halls of a biotechnology company". Ever seen the famous glowing cat used to study HIV/AIDS? Well, this character is based on it, and yep that is really friggin' weird.

Anton Yelchin, Catherine Keener, Kiernan Shipka (Mad Men), Riley Keough, and Annie Starke (Glenn Close's daughter) have joined The Greens are Gone, directed by Peer Pedersen. The story centers on "a matriarch who is pushed to her tipping point over the disappearance of her son," while she has "a bipolar daughter whose reality is warped in magical realism."

Amanda Peet, Jason Mantzoukas, and Natasha Lyonne have joined the previously-cast Alison Brie, Jason Sudeikis, and Adam Scott in Sleeping with Other People. Directed by Leslye Headland (Bachelorette), the story follows “a womanizer who befriends a serial cheater, only for a romantic attraction to develop between them."

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Trailer Time: 'The Good Doctor', starring Orlando Bloom and Riley Keough

What happened to Orland Bloom? The guy seemed to have it all working in his favor after The Lord of the Rings, but since then he's wasted away in one bad movie or another. Are his angelic good looks holding him back? That's possible, but the real reason is probably that he's not that great of an actor. Playing an elf with a bow and arrow is cool, because we expect him to be a little inhuman, but that doesn't explain why Bloom seems so stiff in practically every other role. His movies now have no buzz, even when Bloom is surrounded by a solid supporting cast.

Such is the case with The Good Doctor, the new thriller from director Lance Daly and co-starring Taraji P. Henson, Riley Keough, Michael Pena, J.K. Simmons, Troy Garity, and Rob Morrow. Bloom, and his unfortunate haircut plays Martin Blake, an enthusiastic and anxious young doctor. While he's handsome and charming, he's really arrogant and has something of a God complex, so it shatters him when things don't seem to go his way. When he successfully treats the kidney infection of 18-year old Diane(Keough), it gives him the boost of confidence he needs. However when she starts to improve, Martin can't let that feeling go and starts to take her treatment a step too far.

The trailer doesn't look all that bad, but there's just one major problem: THEY GIVE THE WHOLE FRIGGIN' MOVIE AWAY! So if you're interested in checking out The Good Doctor when it hits Itunes on July 27th, or in theaters on August 31st, you might want to turn back now....

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Finally a female joins the cast of Magic Mike

Everyday this week has brought some new bit of casting for Steven Soderbergh's male stripper flick, Magic Mike. Matthew McConaughey, Matt Bomer, and yesterday True Blood's Joe Manganiello have all signed on to strip down to their skivvies and shove their man parts in chick's faces. This comes with the assumption the story focuses on hetero male dancers, otherwise this just turned into a Larry Clark/Gregg Araki Production.

While all the guy roles have fallen into place pretty seamlessly, there's been some behind the scenes wrangling over one of the female roles. Ted Casablanca over at E! reports that Riley Keough, daughter of Lisa Marie Presley and last seen in The Runaways, has nabbed a part which Lindsay Lohan's people had been saying she was on the verge of getting. Oh darn. Another crash 'n burn for Lindsay, who seems to be up for everything until she actually isn't. Man of Steel, the Linda Lovelace biopic, that John Gotti movie. At this point I'm wondering who'll play her in the Lindsay Lohan TV Movie of the Week.

In case you've forgotten since yesterday, Magic Mike stars Channing Tatum as an experienced male stripper who decides to teach a younger dancer(Alex Pettyfer) the ropes(or the pole). McConaughey plays Dallas, an ex-dancer turned club owner. Bomer and Manganiello are two other dancers, with the latter's name reported to be "Big  Dick Richie". Keough will play the troubled girlfriend of Pettyfer's character.

If I were Keough I'd watch my back. She won't have an understudy or anything, will she? Stay away from long flights of stairs or walking anywhere alone. No telling how far some jealous actress will go to be in her lucky shoes.

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