"Veronica Mars" director Rob Thomas has confirmed that Krysten Ritter will reprise her role as Gia Goodman in the feature adaptation of the popular TV series.

Ritter sent a note to fans who donated to the project's Kickstarter effort:

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George Wendt is going to a place where everybody knows his name -- because most of them have worked with him before.

Wendt, who played gruff but amusing barfly on "Cheers," is reuniting with his former costars Kirstie Alley and Rhea Perlman via a guest-starring spot on the upcoming TV Land series "Kirstie."

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If all goes as planned, HBO's James Costos will add another job to his plate soon.

President Obama plans to nominate Costos, HBO's vice president of global licensing and retail, as ambassador to Spain.

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News Corp. chairman-CEO Rupert Murdoch filed for divorce from his wife, Wendi Deng Murdoch, on Thursday, putting his many media outlets in a tough spot: How to report on a sensitive subject about the man who controls 40 percent of the parent company.

Most kept their reports simple and straight-forward.

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Hurley and Jin are back together again... and on an island, of course.

Jorge Garcia will be appearing in an episode of "Hawaii 5-0" early next season, a rep for the actor told TheWrap.

Garcia will play a conspiracy theorist, and reportedly share scenes with Daniel Dae Kim, also an alum of ABC's "Lost."

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"Hell-ooo!" Your voice might crack, too, if you were trying to report entertainment news next to a naked Giuliana Rancic.

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ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" has promoted Camilla Luddington, Gaius Charles, Jerrika Hinton and Tessa Ferrer to series regulars for Season 10, a studio representative confirmed to TheWrap.

The four actors joined the medical drama's last season in recurring roles: Luddington as Jo Wilson, Charles as Shane Ross, Hinton as Stephanie Edwards and Ferrer as Leah Murphy.

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In honor of Happy Father's Day, TheWrap salutes infamously awful film and TV dads.

Nicolas Winding Refn's "Only God Forgives" did not receive a warm welcome at the Cannes Film Festival this year, but the new trailer still promises enticing suspense, tension, violence and borderline incestual relations.

"I have a very special relationship with my son," Kristin Scott Thomas says, over the image of her character stroking Ryan Gosling's bicep.

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"The Purge" opened at the number one spot at the box office, moving it up on TheWrap's PowerGrid this week. The film wasn't alone: its director, James Demonaco is on the way up thanks to the film's success.

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Oscar-nominated actor Matt Damon is being sought to star in Tom McCarthy's untitled movie about the Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize-winning reportage on the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal, numerous individuals close to the project have told TheWrap.

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The Montreal-based visual effects company Newbreed, which is working on the Daniel Radcliffe horror film "Horns," hasn't paid its workers in weeks and is financially struggling, a half-dozen current and former employees have told TheWrap.

Some workers report that when they have been paid, their checks have bounced.

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"EDtv" costars Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson partner up to share the screen once again in the upcoming HBO anthology series "True Detective," due to premiere next year,

In the series, McConaughey and Harrelson play a pair of detectives who encounter each other as they try to solve a 17-year-old serial murder case in Louisiana.

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Three men in the Bay Area of California have been arrested for allegedly pirating more than 1,000 movie and television titles, including "How I Met Your Mother," "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1" and "Black Swan," California attorney general Kamala Harris' office said Friday.

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Scott Foley is making D.C. his home next season on ABC's "Scandal."

A network representative confirmed to TheWrap that Foley will not only be back for Season 3, but he has been promoted to a series regular.

"I'm thrilled to join such a talented, enthusiastic and professional group of people," Foley said in a statement.

"[Show creator] Shonda [Rhimes] and company have created a troupe of layered complex characters and to be able to be part of that is both exciting and humbling."

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It's now official that John C. Reilly will play Rhomann Dey in Marvel Studios' "Guardians of the Galaxy," a rep for the actor told TheWrap Friday.

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Billy Campbell and Clea DuVall have joined Lifetime's upcoming biopic on Lizzie Borden, the Fall River, Mass. woman who was accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an ax in the 1890s.

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Having wrapped the "Dark Knight" and "Harry Potter" franchises, Gary Oldman is planning to direct a biopic of photographer Eadweard Muybridge titled "Flying Horse," two individuals familiar with the project have told TheWrap.

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Warner Bros. has been releasing some of the top blockbuster franchises for the last decade, including "Harry Potter," "The Dark Knight" and "The Hangover," but recently the studio has stumbled a bit. Now it's up to "Man of Steel" to swoop into the box office this weekend and save the day.

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Jimmy Kimmel welcomed musical guests Robin Thicke and Pharrell to his show Thursday night. The company came with perks -- specifically being in the music video for the unofficial song of the summer, "Blurred Lines." Kind of.

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