Matthew Settle Joins ‘Ouija’ Cast; Eric Bogosian Narrates ‘Listen Up Philip’

Matthew Settle Joins ‘Ouija’ Cast; Eric Bogosian Narrates ‘Listen Up Philip’

Matthew Settle has joined the cast of Ouija, Universal’s horror film inspired by the Hasbro board game. The pic follows a group of teens playing with a Ouija board, making contact with an evil spirit, and desperately trying to close the door they’ve opened before meeting their own fate. Settle will play Anthony Morris, the father of Laine Morris (Olivia Cooke). The cast also includes Douglas Smith, Daren Kagasoff and Bia nca Santos. Stiles White directs Ouija and co-wrote the script with Juliet Snowden. Michael Bay, Douglas Smith, Jason Blum, Brad Fuller, Andrew Form, Brian Goldner and Bennett Schneir are producing. Settle starred on Gossip Girl, and his other TV credits include Brothers & Sisters, Into the West and Band of Brothers. He is repped by APA and Intellectual Artists Management.

Eric Bogosian will narrate Listen Up Philip, writer-director Alex Ross Perry’s comedy that will have its world premiere at Sundance. Jason Schwartzman, Elisabeth Moss, Jonathan Pryce and Krysten Ritter star as New Yorkers living their lives somewhere between individuality and isolation as seasons and attitudes change. It’s produced by Katie Stern, Joshua Blum, Toby Halbrooks, James M. Johnston & David Lowery. Actor-novelist-playwright Bogosian w as a regular on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, appeared in such films as Cadillac Records and Blade: Trinity and wrote subUrbia and Talk Radio, starring in the latter. He is repped by Innovative Artists and Brookside Artist Management.

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