DEEPLY ENCHANTING 'BOXTROLLS' STOP MOTION ANIMATION TRAILER WITH TONI COLLETTE, BEN KINGSLEY! DELIGHTFUL 'LOOKING' TRAILER FOR HBO'S GAY SHOW WITH RUSSELL TOVEY, SCOTT BAKULA, JONATHAN GROFF

ENCHANTING 'BOXTROLLS'

SECOND ANIMATED TRAILER

Two lovely trailers for you this Saturday! First one for delightful stop-motion animation movie THE BOXTROLLS! Coming from the authors of CORALINE and PARANORMAN the film will open  in theatres next September with the story which, based on Alan Snow’s novel 'Here Be Monsters', revolves around a boy named Eggs who’s raised by an unconventional family of underground dwelling creatures who live in cardboard boxes.The voice cast is lead by two thespians Toni Collette and Ben Kingsley and also includes Simon Pegg, Elle Fanning, Jared Harris, Nick Frost....

DELIGHTFUL 'LOOKING' SHOW

 TRAILER WITH RUSSELL TOVEY AND SCOTT BAKULA

Your second trailer for today is a heartwarming and romantic one for HBO's upcoming new series LOOKING which begins airing in January! Portraying gay people without prejudices and clichés, and staring Jonathan Groff (GLEE), Russell Tovey (BEING HUMAN), Scott Bakula, Frankie J. Alvarez (SMASH), the new show centres on three gay friends who search for love in San Francisco. Tovey will play an accomplished video game wunderkind who has achieved financial and critical success at a young age and who works with Groff's character Patrick! STAR TREK's Scott Bakula will play a wealthy and popular figure in the San Francisco gay community.

BRITISH FRIDAY: TRAILERS FOR 18TH CENTURY ADVENTURE SERIES 'MOONFLEET' WITH RAY WINSTONE, BEN CHAPLIN, ANEURIN BARNARD & 'FLEMING' MINI SERIES ON JAMES BOND CREATOR WITH DOMINIC COOPER & LARA PULVER

'FLEMING' MINI SERIES

DOMINIC COOPER IS JAMES BOND CREATOR

While USA is in its festive mood, we're staying today over in UK: first of we're presenting you Sky One's new four part mini series FLEMING with Dominic Cooper playing the man who invented and created famous spy James Bond. Lara Pulver, Annabelle Wallis, Samuel West and Rupert Evans also star in the drama which, set against the permissive society of war-torn London, where the Martinis were always flowing and beds always being swapped, explores the early life of the charming, enigmatic 007 author. The outbreak of World War II saw the young Fleming working as an unsuccessful stockbroker, with a failed army career behind him and living off his rich family, while indulging in the very Bond- esque passions of womanising, alcohol and erotic literature. It wasn't until he was forced to join Naval Intelligence that Fleming found his true calling. Using his mischievous sense of humour, sharp charm and vivid imagination, he was responsible for some of the most outrageously dangerous counter intelligence missions against the Nazis honing his inspiration for Bond in the process.

'MOONFLEET' EPIC TRAILER

RAY WINSTONE & ANEURIN BARNARD IN PIRATE ADVENTURE

The first trailer has been revealed for Sky One's fantasy adventure movie MOONFLEET which will air in Britain December 27th starring Ray Winstone and WHITE QUEEN's Aneurin Barnard. Based on the novel by John Meade Falkner this 18th century movie follows the adventures of a young man who attempts to join a band of smugglers led by Ray Winstone’s Elzevir Block on a sea voyage to the Jewel quarter of the Hague. Ben Chaplin is also in the cast!

BRILLIANT NEW IMAGES FROM '300 RISE OF AN EMPIRE' EPIC WITH SULLIVAN STAPLETON, EVA GREEN, RODRIGO SANTORO! BAZZ LUHRMANN TO HELM HBO 'NAPOLEON' EPIC MINI SERIES? STUNNING NEW 'HERCULES: THE LEGEND BEGINS' TRAILER WITH KELLAN LUTZ, LIAM MCINTYRE!

STUNNING SECOND TRAILER

FOR KELLAN LUTZ' 'HERCULES THE LEGEND BEGINS' EPIC!

We're having an epic day at HOLLYWOOD SPY this festive Thursday! First, check out the second trailer for HERCULES: THE LEGEND BEGINS which will arrive to cinemas this January 10th with Kellan Lutz playing the mythical hero! The blond hunk portrays Hercules, demigod and son of Zeus, who, betrayed by his King and sold into slavery, must use his formidable strength to fight for his freedom and return to his true love, Hebe, the Princess of Crete (played by Gaia Weiss)! The cast also includes SPARTACUS star Liam McIntyre as Hercules' sidekick Captain Sotirus, along with Johnathon Schaech, Scott Adkins, Rade Serbedgia, Roxanne McKee.... Unlike the first trailer which mostly showed Hercules fighting in the arena, this one offers a look into many magnificent epic scenes with enchanting visuals.

DID YOU KNOW? This is not Kellan's first time to wear nothing but a loin cloth and sandals on his muscly body! He played God Poseidon in Tarsem's Greek epic IMMORTALS next to Henry Cavill and Luke Evans. 

BAZZ LUHRMANN TO DIRECT

STEVEN SPIELBERG PRODUCED 'NAPOLEON' MINI SERIES?
And here's another epic piece of news: earlier this year I told you that Steven Spielberg plans to produce a historical mini series on infamous French general and emperor NAPOLEON at HBO based on the material that Stanley Kubrick left behind him. Now, the rumour has it that MOULIN ROUGE director Bazz Luhrman is being courted to direct the whole thing! According to 'Deadline' it would become the highest profile television miniseries at HBO! If you remember, back in the days, Bazz was supposed to direct another huge epic - ALEXANDER THE GREAT (which was supposed to have Leonardo Dicaprio, Mel Gibson and Nicole Kidman in the cast) but was beaten by Oliver Stone and his craptastic epic with Colin Farrell. Now he is facing a similar situation since Warner has hired Rupert Sanders from SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN to helm a film on NAPOLEON, but that will be a big screen project.

300 RISE OF AN EMPIRE

NEW IMAGES FROM GREEK EPIC

And to finish the day in epic style, check out mindblowing pictures from next year's biggest epic adventure 300 RISE OF AN EMPIRE  the long awaited stunning sequel to legendary Spartan epic 300! After his victory over the famous Spartan king Leonidas' 300 brave warriors who sacrificed their lives to save the country, the Persian Army under the command of infamous tyrant Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) marches  south towards the major Greek city-states. The Democratic city of Athens, first on the path of Xerxes' army, bases its strength on its fleet, led by admiral Themistocles (Sullivan Stapleton). Themistocles is forced to an unwilling alliance with the traditional rival of Athens, oligarchic Sparta whose might lies with its superior infantry troops. But Xerxes still reigns supreme in numbers over sea and land. Greek general Themistokles must attempt to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war. 300 RISE OF AN EMPIRE pits Themistokles against the massive invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god Xerxes, and Artemisia (Eva Green), vengeful commander of the Persian navy. Produced by Zack Snyder, the naval attack starts next March!

NEW TV SERIES: 'THE CODE' SLAVERY DRAMA BASED ON 'SONG YET SUNG' BOOK! 'KNIFEMAN' 18TH CENTURY LONDON DRAMA! 'GALYNTINE' POST APOCALYPTIC SHOW! FIRST 'GANGSTA GRANNY' PICTURE WITH JULIA MCKENZIE, ROBBIE WILLIAMS, JOANNA LUMLEY

'THE CODE' TV SERIES

ON AMERICAN SLAVERY PERIOD

Deadline reports that FX is preparing yet another historical mini series: THE CODE will be based on James McBride's novel SONG YET SUNG describing the life of famous abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Born a slave, she escaped and, with the help of the hard-bitten white watermen of Maryland’s Eastern Shore, fostered an intricate escape network of secret routes and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad that she used to smuggle more than 300 slaves to the North. The main character will be Liz, a black woman making a desperate dash to freedom, on the run from an able slave catcher, who takes on one last job only to find himself in a war against a notorious female slave stealer. As Liz makes her way through forbidding swamplands using the black codes of the underground, the complexities of slavery play out in full force, pitting slave against slave, white against white, and plantation owner against plantation owner!

GANGSTA GRANNY 1ST IMAGE

JULIA MCKENZIE, JOANNA LUMLEY, ROBBIE WILLIAMS
Here's a delightful first picture from BBC TV movie GANGSTA GRANNY which will air over the festive period. The movie follows the story of Ben (Reece Buttery), who is bored staying with his granny  (Julia McKenzie) until it is revealed that she used to be an international jewel thief. Miranda Hart and David Walliams play the boy's parents, Joanna Lumley is Queen of England, and pop star Robbie Williams is also in the cast.

NEW DRAMAS AT AMC!

18TH CENTURY LONDON SET 'KNIFEMAN' SERIES

And new series are coming to AMC too! They have ordered two pilots. KNIFEMAN, based on Wendy Moore's book “The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching And The Birth of Modern Surgery,” will be set in 18th Century London following a charming, arrogant genius who challenges societal norms to transform his visions into cutting-edge discoveries. A surgeon or “barber” in a time when blood-letting and praying was the norm,  he is a hard living man not afraid to push the boundaries of modern medicine, even if it takes digging up a few graves to do it. While he makes his living running an unlicensed operating theatre out of his residence, he picks up extra cash harvesting organs for his brother Julian, favorite son and prized physician of the St. Stephen’s teaching hospital.

POST APOCALYPTIC 'GALYNTINE'

Second pilot is for GALYNTINE, a sf show taking place at a time after a cataclysmic technology induced disaster has resulted in a new society

that has eschewed any form of technology. This catastrophic event leaves small numbers of survivors scattered around the planet and forced to adapt to isolation and unique challenges.

ENCHANTING FIRST PICTURES FROM 'HEDDA GABLER' LAVISH 19TH CENTURY MOVIE ADAPTATION WITH RITA RAMNANI & SAMANTHA HUNT! 'THE WHALE' BBC TV MOVIE WITH JONAS ARMSTRONG, MARTIN SHEEN, ADAM RAYNER!

THE WHALE BBC TV MOVIE

JONAS ARMSTRONG, ADAM RAYNER, MARTIN SHEEN

Set to premier this December at BBC is two hour television movie THE WHALE (we're currently waiting for first pictures and a trailer) which will describe the whaling disaster which inspired Melville's MOBY DICK. The story follows the ill-fated voyage of The Essex ship through the eyes of the cabin boy Thomas Nickerson who, at 14, was the youngest member of the crew and one of only eight survivors of the shipwreck. The action packed narrative follows Nickerson as, against all odds, he comes through the worst that nature throws at him, growing up fast in the process. He faces the destructive force of sea-storms, the power of whales, the brutal desolation of the sun and sea after the shipwreck, and finally the grim realities of dark deeds as his only means of survival. Jonas Armstrong (ROBIN HOOD) leads the cast as First Mate Owen Chase with Adam Rayner (THE SAINT) as Captain Pollard, Paul Kaye (GAME OF THRONES) as Joy, David Gyasi (WAR HORSE) as Peterson and Jolyon Coy (THE HOLLOW CROWN) as Lawrence. Martin Sheen plays old Nickerson. The film will air over in USA next summer at Animal Planet.

LAVISH 'HEDDA GABLER' MOVIE

ADAPTATION BY MATTHEW JOHN

Staying on the isle, here's the first look on the lavish movie adaptation of famous 1890's Henrik Ibsen's literary classic HEDDA GABLER. Directed by Matthew John, the movie centres on Hedda, beautiful daughter of the late General Gabler, who returns from her honeymoon with scholar husband Jorgen to confront the boredom and banality of married life. Although she has little more than amused contempt for her husband, she is pregnant by him and is revolted by the thought of carrying his child and the changes that motherhood will impose upon her future. When the re-appearance of an old flame of hers threatens both Jorgen's career prospects and her own amour propre, Hedda contrives to bring about Lovborg's destruction but, in the process, also brings about her own.

HEDDA GABLER MOVIE CAST

The new adaptation will also feature some new characters which did not appear in the play itself. The audience will also enjoy intricate costumes and rich Victorian sets! The cast is lead by enchanting Rita Ramnani, and also features lovely Samantha Hunt as Thea Elvsted, David R. Butler as Jorgen Tesman, Francisco Ortiz as Ejlert Lovborg and Jon Paul Gates as Judge Brack. Photos by Stephanie Bourgeois and Robert Lipnicki.

WALKING DEAD'S NORMAN REEDUS TO JOIN LUKE EVANS IN 'THE CROW' REMAKE? 'TEN COMMANDMENTS' NEW TELEVISION MINI SERIES! ANDREW J. WEST JOINS 'THE WALKING DEAD' AFTER THE MIDSEASON BREAK

NORMAN REEDUS TO JOIN

LUKE EVANS IN 'THE CROW' REMAKE?

I'm sure that you are already excited about the remake of famous THE CROW movie from 90's which is currently being shot in USA with charismatic Welsh star Luke Evans in the lead role. To add to that excitement here's a spicy piece of news: according to some rumours THE WALKING DEAD crossbow wielding zombie slayer Daryl might join the movie since Norman Reedus is allegedly currently in talks to join the cast. To be directed by F. Javier Gutierrez, the remake will see Luke Evans playing rock star Eric Draven, who was killed alongside his fiancée and then comes back from the grave to avenge his own death. Luke Evans, who has just finished shooting DRACULA epic, is currently undergoing physical training for the role. You will watch him as Bard the Bowman next month in THE HOBBIT THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG.

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

NEW BIBLICAL MINI TV SERIES
In television news this Monday, WGN America is preparing new mini series: according to 'Deadline' they will turn THE TEN COMMANDMENTS into a ten part event series with the idea of each episode being directed by another famous Hollywood filmmaker. The Ten Commandments, or the Decalogue, feature a set of biblical principles delivered by God to Moses that include prohibitions against idolatry, blasphemy, murder, theft, dishonesty, and adultery.

ANDREW J. WEST JOINS

THE WALKING DEAD MIDSEASON!

And speaking of THE WALKING DEAD, how do you like the fourth season so far? I'm kinda missing the sudden twists and unexpected shocking surprises which were much more present in previous runs of the zombie show. The latest update from the show is that young Andrew J. West has been cast and will take a significant role with a large presence in the second part of the fourth season which airs from February after the break. He will play a character named Gareth, who is a changed version of a character from the comic books and might get a regular presence in the story later on.

CHARMING NEW POSTERS AND SPOTLIGHT ON 'THAT AWKWARD MOMENT' ROMANTIC COMEDY WITH ZAC EFRON, MICHAEL B. JORDAN, MILES TELLER, IMOGEN POOTS, JESSICA LUCAS!

THAT AWKWARD MOMENT

NEW CHARACTER POSTERS

One of the delightful romantic comedies which will set the mood for the Valentines Day next year when it premiers on January 31st is hilarious comedy THAT AWKWARD MOMENTS. Today you can see charming new character posters for the film starring three young heartthrobs Zac Efron, Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, and two gorgeous young ladies Imogen Poots and Jessica Lucas. The original title of the movie was ARE WE OFFICIALLY DATING before it was changed?

THAT AWKWARD STORY

WHERE IS THIS GOING?
The plot follows three best friends who find themselves where we've all been - at that confusing moment in every dating relationship when you have to decide - so... where is this going? In support of a friend devastated by a recent breakup, the three guys vow to maintain their single status for as long as possible. The plan gets derailed when they each fall in love and have to secretly work around their pledge to bachelorhood, while trying to figure out the complications of modern day relationships.

THAT AWKWARD CAST

 SUPERHEROES AND VOLCANOES

It is interesting that most of the male stars from this movie have been mentioned for some of the superhero or legendary heroes roles. Zac Efron has allegedly auditioned for a role in new STAR WARS, Michael B. Jordan has been announced as new Johhny Storm in THE FANTASTIC FOUR remake, while Miles Teller has been mentioned as one of the candidates for the role of Robin's new superhero identity Nightwingin SUPERMAN VS BATMAN.   Meanwhile, Imogen Poots will be seen in street racer movie NEED FOR SPEED next to Aaron Paul, and Jessica Lucas will play in POMPEII, an epic movie about ancient heroes and volcanoes.

AARON PAUL JOINS RUSSELL CROWE & AMANDA SEYFRIED IN 'FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS'! NOAH BEAN JOINS '12 MONKEYS' SF TV SERIES! MARLEY SHELTON LEADS 'THE LOTTERY' DYSTOPIAN SF SHOW

AARON PAUL JOINS

RUSSELL CROWE & AMANDA SEYFRIED IN 'FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS'  DRAMA 
Television star Aaron Paul is quickly moving onto the big screens and his latest gig is a role in FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS drama next to Russell Crowe and Amanda Seyfried. The story is set in two different time periods, 25 years apart, in New York City. Russell Crowe plays a famous novelist who is struggling to raise his five-year-old daughter while battling with his own mental illness. Amanda Seyfried is playing the adult daughter in present-day Manhattan, who is still coming to grips with her troubled childhood. Aaron is currently shooting Ridley Scott's epic EXODUS set in Ancient Egypt in which he plays Joshua next to Christian Bale as Moses, Joel Edgerton as Pharaoh Ramses and Sigourney Weaver and John Turturro as pharaoh's parents.

NOAH BEAN JOINS

12 MONKEYS TELEVISION SHOW
Deadline reports that the third lead actor has been cast for 12 MONKEYS sf show, the small screen adaptation of the famous movie with Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stove and Brad Pitt. The story follows the journey of Cole (NIKITA's Aaron Stanford), a desperate and haunted time traveller from the post apocalyptic near future who appears in present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will eventually decimate the human race. Amanda Schull will play Cassandra Railly, a brilliant doctor who is forced to choose between her idyllic life or joining Cole’s mission to uncover the dangerous conspiracy. They are now joined by another NIKITA star Noah Bean who will play the role that was done by Bruce Willis in the film.

MARLEY SHELTON LEADS

'THE LOTTERY' DYSTOPIAN SF SHOW

Another science fiction series to come to us next year has also found its lead star: I have already informed you that Lifetime is preparing their sf show THE LOTTERY and now 'Deadline' writes that Marley Shelton will lead the cast in the dystopian thriller.  The story is set in a world where women have stopped having children, threatening extinction of the human race. When 100 embryos are successfully fertilized, a national lottery is held to decide the surrogates. The series centres on Dr. Alison Scott (Shelton), the brilliant fertility specialist whose breakthrough in fertilizing 100 viable eggs may have life-and-death consequences she could not have anticipated. Earlier this month, Michael Graziadei, Lesley Ann Brandt and Louise Lombard were already cast in the show.

MICHAEL CHIKLIS TO MAKE 'PANTHEON' TV SERIES ON ANCIENT GREEK GODS! 'THE SPACE VAMPIRES' SF TV SHOW! TURKEY'S 'THE BUTTERFLY'S DREAM' TOUCHING DRAMA TRAILER WITH KIVANC TATLITUG!

MICHAEL CHIKLIS TO MAKE

PANTHEON GREEK GODS TV SERIES

Well, this sounds interesting: Michael Chiklis, the star of THE SHIED, NO ORDINARY FAMILY and VEGAS, is going to make PANTHEON comic book that he himself wrote into a television series. 'Deadline' writes that the 5-issue PANTHEON comic book series is a stylized story of ancient Greek gods returning to a ravaged, chaotic near-future Earth, where they battle for the fate of mankind. The television series is expected to feature Greek Gods resurfacing in present time. Chiklis is currently searching for a showrunner who would work on the project with him!

THE SPACE VAMPIRES

TO BE MADE INTO SF TV SHOW
Another futuristic story will also be seen in a television version of the 80's LIFEFORCE sf movie. To be told in a form of new television series this small screen adaptation of Colin Wilson's 1976 novel THE SPACE VAMPIRES (to be also followed by a graphic novel and video games) has a plot which follows a group of astronauts who discover a derelict spaceship and return to Earth with three humanoid aliens that unleash a life-sucking plague upon humanity!

THE BUTTERFLY'S DREAM

TURKEY'S CANDIDATE FOR OSCARS

And here's a trailer for Turkey's candidate for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Awards for this year. Titled THE BUTTERFLY'S DREAM, this visually striking and deeply touching movie, starring Turkey's biggest and hottest hunk Kivanch Tatlitug, centres on two young poets in the 1940s of Turkey who make a bet on a pretty girl. Whoever’s poem the girl likes will win, and the other will step aside. The poets however have to deal with other problems like disease, poverty, compulsory work in the mines and the Second World War in the meantime. As the story unravels, the poets travel through cities and events in search of happiness. Is it the optimist who’s the bravest or the pessimist? This story will tell. With 10,000 extras and 3,000 costumes used in the film, THE BUTTEFLY'S DREAM has been seen by more than 10 million people in Europe so far.

DEZZY SPIES FROM TURKEY! 
Turkey's hottest heartthrob, Kivanch Tatlitug has been trying to cross over to Hollywood for years now and fresh rumours say that he has been offered a role in Russell Crowe's directorial debut THE WATER DIVINER which will see Russell playing a man who goes to Turkey to search for his sons, Australian soldiers, who took part in Word War I battle at Gallipoli. Kivanch is supposed to travel to USA next month for the audition. The film will also star Jai Courtney and Olga Kurylenko.

DRAMATIC 'DEVIL'S KNOT' TRAILER WITH REESE WITHERSPOON AND COLIN FIRTH! STARZ 'FLESH AND BONE' BALLET DANCING DRAMA SHOW! KELSEY GRAMMER & MARTIN LAWRENCE IN 'BRADDOCK & JACKSON' SHOW! JULIAN SANDS IN 'CROSSBONES' PIRATE SHOW

TELEVISION UPDATES

'FLESH AND BONE' BALLET DRAMA

In television news today, Starz has started casting actors for their upcoming new show FLESH AND BONE, an exploration of the dysfunction and glamour of the ballet world following a young ballet dancer, Claire, who has a distinctly troubled past, as she joins a prestigious ballet company in New York. Most of the cast members will be professional ballet dancers including famous American dancers Irina Dvorovenko, Sascha Radetsky, Emily Tyra. Thousands of dancers have so far auditioned nationwide for the role of Claire.

KELSEY GRAMMER & MARTIN LAWRENCE AS LAWYERS

Meanwhile, FX is preparing BRADDOCK & JACKSON ten episode comedy show in which Kelsey Grammer and Martin Lawrence play Chicago lawyers from vastly different backgrounds who develop a partnership after they unexpectedly meet in court on the worst day of their lives.

JULIAN SANDS JOINS PIRATES IN 'CROSSBONES' PIRATE SHOW

And famous drama actor Julian Sands has been cast in a reoccuring role in John Malkovich's NBC pirate show CROSSBONES! 'Deadline' reports that he will play William Jagger, an aristocrat turned privateer and governor of Jamaica who dispatches Tom Lowe (Richard Coyle) to accompany inventor mathematician Benedict Nightingale and his Marine Chronometer to England by way of a secret convoy.

'DEVIL'S KNOT' TRAILER

 REESE WITHERSPOON & COLIN FIRTH IN CRIME DRAMA

Your trailer for this Thursdays brings us a strange pairing of Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth in DEVIL'S KNOT true story drama which will come into cinemas early next year. Based on the true crime book by Mara Leveritt, DEVIL'S KNOT tells the compelling story of three teenagers accused of the brutal 1993 murder of three 8-year old boys in Memphis - two of them sentenced to life imprisonment and one to death. The film explores the lives of deeply misunderstood outsiders, their families and communities, and their darkest fantasies. The conviction of the West Memphis Three riled the American justice system, shocked a tightly knit religious town and outraged the nation. Dane Dehaan and Kevin Durand also star.