Brittany Snow Cast In 1600 Penn; Frontier & Next Caller Add To Casts

Brittany Snow has been cast in NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot 1600 Penn, about a dysfunctional first family. Conceived by Jason Winer, Jon Lovett and Josh Gad, the pilot is directed by Winer. Snow, repped by ICM and Brillstein Entertainment, will play Becca, the overachieving and perfectionist eldest daughter of the President who helped raise her siblings. She joins Gad, who is plays Skip, her gregarious and clumsy older brother. 20th TV is producing. Clancy Brown andMustafa Shakir have been added to NBCs drama pilot The Frontier, which revolves around a group that heads West from Missouri across the uncharted country in the 1840s. On the Sony TV-produced show, Brown, repped by ICM and Pop Art, will play Jack Ramsay/Lamazee; Shakir plays Rossignol. Joy Osmanski has been cast in NBCs comedy pilot Next Caller Please. The Lionsgate/Universal TV project, written by Stephen Falk, centers on Colorado public radio personality Stella Hoobler (Collette Wolfe), who is thrilled when shes recruited to co-host a radio show for Orbit Satellite Radio in NY City until she meets her co-host, Cam Doherty, an abrasive, hard-drinking, sexist loose cannon. Osmanski, repped by TalentWorks and Bohemia Group, will play the producer who recruits Stella.

'Brothers & Sisters' Star Joins ABC Drama Pilot 'Americana'

Ken Olin remains attracted onto co-star in ABC's drama pilot "Americana."Known to love a cleaning cleaning soap turning around popular designer and also the family, Olin may have Martin, who is the owner of a outfit manufacturing company whose daughter designs clothes for that organization.Anthony LaPaglia ("Without any Trace") stars since the designer with Natalie Mendoza ("Spider-Guy: Turn Off the Dark") playing a stylish thirtysomething bitch, Wendy. Michael Seitzman ("North Country") is penning the ABC Art galleries drama and may executive produce alongside Mark Gordon, Nick Pepper and Phillip Noyce, who'll direct the pilot.Olin carried out David Caplan for four seasons of ABC's "Brothers and sisters & Brothers and sisters, " they also executive produced and directed. The drama ended its five-season run in May.He's repped by Innovative Artists and Jackoway Tyerman. The Hollywood Reporter

New Snow Whitened & The Huntsman Photos

Spoiler: an apple is involvedIt might be a reinvention from the familiar fairytale, but Snow Whitened AndTheHuntsman continues to have most of the usual elements present and proper, knowing by these new pictures. Team of up and down-challenged gentlemen?Check. Wicked Full?Check. Youthful girl in unfortunate contretemps with a bit of fruit?Yup. Still, everything looks rather gorgeous so we are getting a little looking forward to that one.Whitened And Also The Huntsman PhotosShot at Pinewood and round the UKlast fall and winter, Snow Whitened stars Billy Burke because the titular princess, Chris Hemsworth because the equally titular woodsman and Charlize Theron because the evil monarch out for bloodstream.The dwarves are performed by Ray Winstone, Ian McShane,Toby Johnson, Eddie Marsan, Nick Frost,Bob Hoskins, John Gleeson and Johnny Harris. SamClaflin is Prince William, to not be mistaken with Mr Middleton. Snow Whitened AndThe Huntsman is directed by Rupert Sanders and hits movie theaters on June 1.

New viral site for The Amazing Spider-Man

If you're anything like us, you will have spent much of yesterday grinning like an idiot over the new trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man. However, amid your excitement over Peter Parker's new adventure, did you notice the hidden message at the end of the teaser?If you take another look at the trailer below, you'll see a very faint message written on one of the metallic bars when the film's release date is shown. It's somewhere around the 2:28 mark, in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen.See if you can spot it, below... The words read "Mark of the Spider-Man." Nothing very exciting about that, you might think, except when you add .com on the end, you get redirected to this brand new viral site.Now, at the moment there's nothing on the site except a sextet of screens showing static interference, and Spidey's aforementioned symbol. However, we'd wager that some footage is going to make itself apparent on those screens sooner rather than later.Keep checking the site over the coming weeks and let us know as and when you spot things. The Amazing Spider-Man will open in the UK on 4 July 2012.

Saban Capital opens first office in Asia

Haim Saban's Saban Capital Group Wednesday introduced the outlet of their first office in Asia as the organization activly works to expand its portfolio there. Situated in Hong Kong, work is brought by Sumeet Jaisinghani, that has re-situated there from Saban's La office. Saban Capital started trading in Asia this year and it has three core opportunities in the area: entertainment company Media Nusantara Citra Celestial Tiger Entertainment, a partnership with Astro and Lionsgate and Taomee, the biggest children's online entertainment company in China. Jaisinghani, who became a member of Saban Capital Group in 2008, continues to be involved wonderful them. "Asia hosts a few of the world's state-of-the-art and inventive entrepreneurs on television and communications. We're looking forward to growing our investment franchise," chairman-Boss Haim Saban stated. Chief operating officer Adam Chesnoff known as Asia "a proper priority." Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com