Casting News -- July 15, 2009

Hugh Jackman will star in Avon Man, a Full Monty-style comedy about a car salesman who reluctantly becomes an Avon makeup salesman after being laid off, but uses his charms and good looks to become a top seller who must recruit his buddies into the makeup business to save their financially-strapped familes.

Pierce Brosnan, Patricia Clarkson, and Julianne Moore will star in The Hunter, a comedic drama written and directed by Stanley Tucci. Brosnan plays a middle-aged man "who finds himself desperately clinging to the vestiges of his once-charmed life and world" amid the aristocracy of New York's Upper Westchester County.

Cate Blanchett will star as Lady Edwina Mountbatten in Indian Summer, based on the book about about the last days of Britain's colonial rule of India in 1947.

Miley Cyrus will star in Wings, a Disney film adaptation of the bestselling young adult novel about a 15-year-old who grows up sheltered and home-schooled in a small town, then learns that she is a fairy while trying to adjust to a new high school. 

Martha Plimpton will be part of the new season of ABC series Grey's Anatomy. The Tony-nominated actress will appear in a multi-episode arc on the hit series as a young patient's mother.

Russell Brand will provide the voice of the Easter Bunny in I Hop, a live-action/CGI family comedy about an out-of-work slacker who runs over the Easter Bunny and is forced to save Easter, while both the bunny and the slacker realize they are running from adulthood.

Stephen Graham has been cast in London Boulevard, which revolves around a romance between a former con (Colin Farrell) and an actress (Keira Knightley). Graham will play the lead detective.

Keegan Michael Key has been cast a regular in the CBS sitcom Gary Unmarried. Key will play Clean, Gary's old high school friend and a former minor-league baseball player.

-- Daniel Lehman