GREGORY GADEBOIS TO LEAD LES MISERABLES PREQUEL ON THE ORIGINS OF JEAN VALJEAN

  LES MISERABLES PREQUEL 

VALJEAN TO STAR GREGORY GADEBOIS

As Variety reports Gregory Gadebois will take the lead role in Les Miserables prequel movie VALJEAN from Eric Besnard who directed French 18th century movie Delicieux. The film charts the journey of Jean Valjean, embittered when he is released from prison and does not believe in anything anymore. He’s ostracized and considered dangerous; but his life takes an unexpected turn after he meets a bishop who treats him with kindness and generosity, despite Valjean robbing him. This act of kindness is a turning point for Jean Valjean, as it shows him that there is still good in the world. He begins to question his own choices and starts to see that there is another path for him. The film follows the steps that lead to Jean Valjean to become the man he was always meant to be, a good man who wants to help others. Bernard Campan, Isabelle Carré and Alexandra Lamy also star.

SEE EDWARD BURNS, PATRICK WILSON, MORENA BACCARIN, GRETCHEN MOL, CAMPBELL SCOTT, BENJAMIN BRATT IN MILLERS IN MARRIAGE MOVIE DRAMA TRAILER

   MILLERS IN MARRIAGE   

EDWARD BURNS' NEW MOVIE TRAILER 

If you've wondered where has Edward Burns gone missing in recent years, he is back with a new movie he wrote and directed and we have a trailer to

The movie will have a limited release next month

prove it. MILLER IN MARRIAGE has premiered at Palm Springs Film Festival and will get a limited release in February boasting a rather stellar cast which includes Edward Burns himself and another of our favourite hunks Patrick Wilson, plus Benjamin Bratt, Morena Baccarin, Julianna Margulies and Gretchen Mol beside Campbell Scott. The movie brings a tale of three middle-aged married couples coming to grips with universal questions about marriage and fidelity, professional success and failure, and the challenge of finding a second act. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think. 

SPARTACUS IS BACK AFTER MORE THAN A DECADE WITH HOUSE OF ASHUR EPIC TV SERIES SPIN OFF TEASER FROM STARZ AND AN AIR DATE

   HOUSE OF ASHUR  

STARZ EPIC TV SERIES RELEASES TEASER

Starz has released epic first teaser for their SPARTACUS spin off series HOUSE OF ASHUR which asks: What if Ashur (Nick Tarabay) hadn't died on Mount Vesuvius at the end of Spartacus: Vengeance? And what if he had been gifted the gladiator school once owned by Batiatus in return for aiding the Romans in killing Spartacus and putting an end to the slave rebellion? Beside Lucy Lawless who will return later this Autumn as Lucretia in flashbacks, the cast will have Graham McTavish, Tenika Davis, Jamaica Vaughan, Ivana Baquero, Jordi Webber, Claudia Black, India Shaw-Smith and Leigh Gill. Jackson Gallagher will appear as Caesar alongside Dan Hamill as Celadus, Andrew McFarlane as Gabinius, Jaime Slater  as Cornelia, Simon Arblaster as Proculus, Arlo Gibson as Opiter, Cameron Rhodes as Uvidus, Evander Brown as Ephesius, Graham Vincent as Hedylus, Louis Hunter as Erato, Donald Ross as Salvius, and Duane Wichman Evans as Dacus! The series will have ten episodes.

 

SEE FIRST IMAGE OF MICHELE RIONDINO AS ANTONIO VIVALDI IN PRIMAVERA 18TH CENTURY VENICE SET BIOPIC ON THE FAMOUS COMPOSER

   ANTONIO VIVALDI  

PRIMAVERA BIOPIC FIRST IMAGE IS HERE

Back in October I told you that we are getting a biopic on Antonio Vivaldi the Italian Baroque composer and violinist who composed “The Four Seasons”! And now we have first image from PRIMAVERA  the feature debut of Damiano Michieletto, an opera director. Set in 18th century Venice, the movie follows Cecilia (Tecla Insolia), a 20-year-old violin virtuoso who lives at the Pièta orphanage. Despite her talent, Cecilia remains confined within the orphanage, knowing that marriage is the only way out. Yet, her life takes a turn after she meets Antonio Vivaldi (Michele Riondino), a brilliant and ambitious composer who becomes the new violin teacher. Guided by Vivaldi and his music, Cecilia finds the strength to challenge the destiny that once seemed inevitable!

NETFLIX LAVISH ITALIAN 19TH CENTURY SICILY SET SERIES THE LEOPARD GETS A MARCH STREAMING DATE

  THE LEOPARD SERIES  

NETFLIX SETS MARCH STREAMING DATE

Leopard will premiere March 5th at Netflix

Netflix has set a March 5th streaming start date for their rather lavish six episode  THE LEOPARD historical series which will arrive to the streamer around the world directed by Tom Shankland.

 

WHAT IS THE STORY? 

 While Sicily is struggling in the turmoil of the Risorgimento in 1860, the Prince of Salina Fabrizio Corbera (Kim Rossi Stuart) reigns over his family and his possessions, convinced that even these disorders are destined to pass. He hasn’t come to terms with the idealism of young people like his nephew Tancredi (Saul Nanni), who joins the rebels risking his own life, or the ambitions of men like Sedara, a vulgar man who rides change by pandering to the nascent power of mafia criminal organizations and intends to use his beautiful daughter Angelica (Deva Cassel) to get what he wants. At Don Fabrizio’s side remains Concetta (Benedetta Porcaroli), his favourite daughter, who shares his intelligence and foresight. Her happiness will eventually be sacrificed in an attempt to ensure the survival of the power and of the name of the lineage. 

FIRST IMAGES FROM BBC'S RIOT WOMEN MIDDLE AGED LADIES PUNK ROCK BAND TV SERIES WITH JOANNA SCANLAN, TAMSIN GREIG, BEN BATT, ANNE REID

    BBC'S RIOT WOMEN   

PUNK ROCK TV SERIES FIRST IMAGES

Originally titled Hot Flush and now known over at BBC and Britbox as RIOT WOMEN is a six part series that will star Joanna Scanlan, Tamsin Greig,Ben Batt, Rosalie Craig, Lorraine Ashbourne, Anne Reid and Amelia Bullmore. I announced the series to you last Autumn if you remember, but today we have the first photos from the series that will air sometime later this year on BBC and on BritBox in USA.

 

NEW SERIES WILL FOLLOW

a group of middle-aged women who decide to enter a talent contest by forming a punk-rock band. After writing their first song, however, they realize they have plenty to say and now, the means to say it. As they juggle demanding jobs, grown-up children, complicated parents, husbands who’ve buggered off, and disastrous dates and relationships, the band becomes a catalyst for change in their lives, and it’s going to make them question everything. As the story progresses, it’s more than music that binds them; a deeply potent, long-buried secret begins to surface, one that unexpectedly entangles the two unlikely creative masterminds behind the band, in a complex triangle, and threatens to tear everything apart

 

A PIANIST MUST PLAY FOR THE ENEMY TO SAVE HIS LOVE IN THE PIANIST'S CHOICE WW2 SET MOVIE! SEE THE TRAILER

 THE PIANIST'S CHOICE 

TRAILER FOR NEW WORLD WAR II MOVIE

Out January 29th in French cinemas is their new historical drama movie THE PIANIST'S CHOICE (Le choix du pianiste) directed and written by Jacques Otmezguine with gorgeous Oscar Lesage in the lead role.

The movie is out this month in France

At the dawn of the Second World War, François Touraine, a great piano virtuoso, has no choice but to go and play in Germany to save the woman he loves, his teacher. Rachel is Jewish in a time that no longer allows it... Upon his return to France, he is only a shadow of himself when he meets Annette. She will make an incredible gesture to allow him to get back on stage. The film takes place over three dark decades of the 20th century: The Great Depression, the Second World War and the Liberation, told through the personal stories of François, Annette and Rachel.

MARTIN CLUNES IS LEADING A BATTLE FOR HIS HOMESTEAD IN NEW ITV'S THRILLER MINI TV SERIES OUT THERE

   OUT THERE TRAILER  

FOR NEW ITV THRILLER TV SERIES

The year has started relatively blandly, with only Tim Allen's new sitcom Shifting Gears making a big splash with huge 6+ million viewers for the 1st episode, marking it the best Wednesday premiere in years, but the rest of

The series starts Sunday, January 19th

January will lack much excitement. One of the very few new shows to hit the small screens this month is OUT THERE six part thriller opening at ITV January 19th (2nd episode on the 20th) with Martin Clunes in the lead role. 

 

  OUT THERE

depicts the surreptitious invasion of the land our farmer cherishes, with devastating consequences, as his livelihood, homestead and family life are threatened by local county lines drugs dealers: urban gangs using the British countryside as a field of operations, moving drugs and money between their inner-city hubs and provincial areas. Martin Clunes plays Nathan Williams, a man who runs a farm which has been in his family for generations, caught in a numbing rhythm of work and grief following the death of his wife, Sabine, two years previously. A single parent to teenager Johnny (Louis Ashbourne Serkis), Nathan is uniquely placed and possesses enough pent-up energy to take on the gangs that threaten to engulf his son. Consequently, he embarks on a personal journey that will take him ever further out of his comfort zone into a dark alternative world as he fights to protect his family, his homestead and his legacy. He’s missed all the clues that the country idyll around him has been fatally compromised, contaminated by waves of criminality spreading and mutating virus-like from the city. Now Nathan must accept that the rustic atmosphere of his childhood is long gone, replaced by something altogether more perilous. And the only way for Nathan to survive in this brave new world is to learn the rules and fight back.

 

SEE STEVE COOGAN AND HARRIET WALTER IN FIRST TRAILER FOR BRIAN AND MAGGIE STEPHEN FREARS' MINI SERIES ON THATCHER

  BRIAN AND MARGARET  

FIRST TRAILER FROM NEW TV SERIES

Channel 4 will release it sometime this year, but we have the first trailer from their two part mini series BRIAN AND MARGARET by Stephen Frears, which features Steve Coogan as Brian Walden, the much feared inquisitor and Harriet Walter as prime minister Margaret Thatcher. The series is based on Rob Burley’s book Why is This Lying Bastard Lying to Me?: Searching for the Truth on Political TV.

  THE STORY OF THE SERIES IS SET

in 1989. When Brian and Margaret came together for their last ever TV interview, little did they know they were about to embark on one of the most famous political exchanges of all time. The 45-minute showdown became a national talking point and set in train a series of events that ended with Margaret’s resignation. Afterwards, they never spoke again…

 

SEE NEW WILLIAM TELL EPIC MOVIE TRAILER WITH CLAES BANG, CONNOR SWINDELLS, BEN KINGSLEY, JONAH HAUER KING, RAFE SPALL, ELLIE BAMBER, JONATHAN PRYCE, EMILY BEECHAM

  WILLIAM TELL TRAILER 

FOR NEW HISTORICAL EPIC MOVIE

It had its world premiere over at Toronto International Film Festival months ago, but since it is due to hit cinemas January 17th, a new trailer

William Tell is out in UK January 17th

has been released for   WILLIAM TELL historical adventure movie based on the famous Swiss folk legend. Ben Kingsley, Claes Bang, Jonathan Pryce, Solly McLeod, Jonah Hauer King, Emily Beecham, Connor Swindells, Ellie Bamber Eanna Hardwicke and Rafe Spall lead the star studded cast in the monumental tale about the legendary 14th century warrior marksman who liberated Switzerland, becoming a folk hero for the ages. The film will start opening in the rest of Europe from February and March written and directed by Nick Hamm.

 THE STORY STARTS IN YEAR 1307

Nick Hamm wrote and directed the film

a cruel Austrian Hapsburg king (Ben Kingsley) occupies the bordering Swiss cantons. His tax collectors oppress and violate the citizens, driving one farmer to thoughts of murderous revenge. Fleeing across a vast landscape, this farmer finds only one man who will come to his aid: William Tell (Claes Bang). Tell has returned home weary after fighting with the Knights Templar in the Holy Land. Now seeking only a quiet life with the wife he met there (Golshifteh Farahani), he’s nevertheless bound by his principles. When pushed beyond his limits by the villainy of the Hapsburg court, Tell picks up his weapons and rides into battle.