Carmlike Cinemas Drops ‘The Interview,’‘Suicide Squad’ Casts a Big Role, ‘Creed’ Finds Its Female Lead, Roadshow Invests in FilmNation

Carmike Cinemas Bows To the Pressure, Refuses To Show ‘The Interview’

With the Sony hackers threatening violence, the theater chain became the first to take up the studio’s offer to exhibitors to pull The Interview if they desire in advance of its wide release this Christmas. Sony remains committed to the planned opening. (VAR)

‘Suicide Squad’ Continues Its Impressive Casting Run By Setting Viola Davis as Amanda Waller

Waller is the cold, pragmatic head of Task Force X, aka The Suicide Squad, and Davis joins a cast that already features Will Smith, Tom Hardy, Margot Robbie and Jared Leto, with David Ayer set to direct. (COL)

Ryan Coogler Has Found Michael B. Jordan’s Co-Star In the Upcoming ‘Creed’

And her name is Tessa Thompson. The actress, who appeared this fall in Dear White People, joins Jordan — playing Apollo Creed’s grandson — and Sylvester Stallone, who will once again reprise his role of Rocky Balboa. (IW)

Roadshow Films Makes an Investment In FilmNation To Make More Movies

The subsidiary of Australia’s Village Roadshow Limited, is making an equity investment of $18 million in FilmNation Entertainment that will allow it to ramp up from producing one movie a year to three or four a year. (THR)

Danny McBride’s Next HBO Show Casts a Couple Key Roles

DDa’vine Joy Randolph has been cast as a female lead in Vice Principals, HBO’s 18-episode comedy series from McBride and co-writer Jody Hill. Show tells the story of a high school and the people who almost run it: the vice principals, one of them played by McBride. (DH)

Marriott International, the Hotel Chain, Is Getting Into the Original Content Business

The company has plans to publish, distribute and share digital content across multiple platforms and on all screens, as they move forward with the film Two Bellmen, starring Henry Simmons and to be directed by Daniel "Malakai" Cabrera. (SAA)

Four-Fifths Of the Broken Lizard Team Is Bringing a New Sitcom To TBS

Paul Soter, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme and Erik Stolhanske, who also co-wrote and starred in Super Troopers and Beerfest, will be behind Quality Time, an “untraditional” look at fatherhood. (CB)

Would You Like ‘Taken’s Brian Mills To Endorse Your “Special Set Of Skills”? Now’s Your Chance

A publicity promotion for the upcoming third and final installment of the Taken franchise allows contest winners to have Liam Neeson, as Mills, endorse their abilities on LinkedIn. (CO)

Trailer Buzz: ‘The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’

The first look at the trailer to the surprisingly successful first film, which starred Judi Dench and Bill Nighy and grossed over $136 million worldwide. New film opens March 6th. (CS)

Screenwriters: ‘Noah’

Undated, unspecified, 124-page draft by Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel. (DS)