Just two short movie bulletins for you today with latest castings news from Hollywood. First up, a rather stellar ensemble is being assembled for WARFARE movie to be directed by Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland! Not much is known about the story as the plot is being kept under tight wraps (Deadline says it will be about Naval Special Warfare Task Unit) but the cast gathered for it is very impressive: Heartstopper's cutie Kit Connor and Shogun's Cosmo Jarvis alongside Will Poulter, Charles Melton, our dear Joseph Quinn and Finn Bennett are the latest to join! Meanwhile, Alan Ritchson is set to lead sf movie WAR MACHINE for Netflix. Patrick Hughes directs the film set in the final 24 Hours of the world’s toughest selection process, when a team of Army Rangers encounter a threat beyond their imagination.
And in a movie with such an intriguingly scary plot: Luke Sparke is directing new fantasy action thriller PRIMITIVE WAR with Jeremy Piven, Tricia Helfer, Ryan Kwanten, and Nick Wechsler leading the
Jeremy Piven and Ryan Kwanten will lead the movie cast
cast. An adaption of Ethan Pettus’ novel follows a squad of soldiers in 1968 who discover that dinosaurs have been let loose in the jungles of Vietnam.
The recon unit known as Vulture Squad is sent to an isolated jungle valley to
Nick Wechsler and Jake Ryan will also star in the movie
uncover the fate of a missing Green Beret platoon, only to discover they are not alone. Anthony Ingruber, Aaron Glenane, Carlos Sanson Jr, Ana Thu Nguyen, Adolphus Waylee, Richard Brancatisano, Marcus Johnson, and Jake Ryan will also star.
MGM Plus has ordered a six episode mini series adaptation of George R. Stewart's sf novel EARTH ABIDES and has set Alexander Ludwig as the lead. When a plague of unprecedented virulence sweeps the globe, the human race is all but wiped out. In the aftermath, as the great machine of civilization slowly and inexorably breaks down, only a few shattered survivors remain to struggle against the slide into extinction. Ish is a brilliant but solitary young geologist living a semi-isolated life who awakens from a coma only to find that there is no one left alive but him. A plague of unprecedented virulence has swept the globe, and yes, there are a few scattered survivors, but there are no rules.
Hallmark is launching their Spring Into Love movie line up next month so your spy is here to present you with the selection of the best of their romantic movies
Blind Date Book Club starts this April
that will premiere this spring, beginning with our dearest hunkster Robert Buckley, possibly the hottest man on Earth, who is leading BLIND DATE BOOK CLUB which opens its club doors April 6th when Saturday evening will bring us Erin Krakow in the role of Meg who struggles to choose between running her late mother's bookstore or pursuing her own career dreams, so she decides to start a "blind date book club," where readers pick books wrapped in brown paper with a few key clues about the story. When bestselling author Graham (Robert Buckley) hears about Meg's initiative on the radio, he asks for her help testing out his new novel with her book club.
FALLING IN LOVE IN NIAGARA
Falling in Love in Niagara starts April 20th
Saturday
April 20th will bring us another of our dearest Hallmark boos Dan
Jeannotte in new romantic movie adventure FALLING IN LOVE IN NIAGARA in
which he stars together with lovely Jocelyn Hudson. She takes the lead
female role of Madeline, a woman who is dealing with being left at the
altar by her fiancé, so she decides to embark on her Niagara Falls
honeymoon without him. Along with discovering her love for adventure,
she learns to let go while falling for a new guy named Mike played of
course by our gorgeous Canadian hunk Dan Jeannotte whom you can also
catch in new Star Trek: Strange New Worlds series as Captain Kirk's
brother.
CURIOUS CATERER: FOILED PLANS
And what would any Hallmark line up be without the most gorgeous one among them all - Andrew Walker, who stars in CURIOUS CATERER: FOILED PLANS over at Hallmark Mystery April 26th with Nikki DeLoach. Like some of the Jane Austen movies last February, this one will also bring us some period set costumes when Goldy Berry's Medieval feast at Hyde Castle gets interrupted by a murder. She teams up with Detective Shultz to solve the mystery before the murderer strikes again. This is the fourth film in the Curious Caterer series based on Diane Mott Davidson's books.
Peacock has ordered a series based on a short story by Manuel Gonzalez. THE MINIATURE WIFE will be high-concept marital dramedy examining the power (im)balances between spouses Lindy (Elizabeth Banks) and Les (Matthew Macfadyen) who battle each other for supremacy after a technological accident induces the ultimate relationship crisis! Jennifer Ames and Steve Turner will be the executive producers and show runners.
After leading God's Own Country, inarguably the best gay film ever, Josh O'Connor is set to lead Luca Guadagnino's SEPARATE ROOMS adaptation of Pier Vittorio Tondelli's novel. He will play 30-something Leo who travels across Milan, Paris, London and Florence, while Thomas is a young Berlin-based pianist who is temporarily living in Paris when he first intersects with Leo. After meeting in Paris, the lovers begin a long affair, meeting and traveling together in different European cities over a three-year period. The two meet when they wish, but live separately, secluding themselves in their respective loneliness, though they often write each other. At one point, Thomas starts an affair with a girl, which makes Leo deeply jealous. Then Thomas is diagnosed with an illness that will lead to his death in his hometown of Munich.
Hitting Russian streamer Wink March 15th is four-part series AT THE CALL OF THE HEART (По зову сердца) about the tragic events of the summer and autumn of 1941, the unparalleled heroism and
The series starts March 15th, this Friday
great tragedy of the Moscow people's militia. About those hundreds of thousands of civilians who helped the army save Moscow by signing up as volunteers. At the call of their hearts, they went to defend their city, their homeland, and remained there forever, on the battlefields, blocking the path to the heart of their country, to the capital. People without military experience, who should not have fought, detained the tanks and soldiers of the most powerful and merciless army in the world. Apart from faith in victory and a sincere human desire to be useful to the Motherland, these people had nothing to oppose the enemy. There were no weapons, there were not even simple everyday skills to survive in field conditions. But they survived. The script is based on the memories of militias and front-line soldiers.
After Shogun which arrived in February and scored success for the streamer, Hulu will continue with historical shows in March as well launching WE WERE THE LUCKY ONES, a mini series adaptation of Georgia Hunter's best selling historical novel, from March 28th, which is next Thursday, with three opening episodes and will then stream the rest of the episodes weekly.
NEW HISTORICAL SERIES DEPICTS the
incredible true story of one Jewish family from Poland separated at the
start of World War II, determined to survive and reunite separated by
long years and whole continents. The story will take viewers from Poland
to Siberia, to France, to West Africa and even Brazil.
Hunter based his book partially on his own family's history.
WHO IS IN THE CAST?
Logan Lerman leads the cast that also includes Hadas Yaron, Henry-Lloyd Hughes, Amit Rahav, Sam Woolf, Anita Adam, Michael Aloni, Moran Rosenblatt, Andre Refig, Eva Feiler, Lior Ashkenazi, Robin Weigert and Ido Samuel! Julia's Erica Lipez is the showrunner. You can also check out the trailer below and tell us what you think.
It is yet to be published this June, but it sparked a war amongst the buyers at London Book Fair and Lucy Foley's new novel THE MIDNIGHT FEAST has been sold to UIS for a TV series adaptation. Guests gather for the opening of The Manor Hotel, the new jewel on the Dorset coastline. The champagne is flowing, the guest list sparkling, the sun setting on an unforgettable summer solstice. But under the cloak of celebration, something dark is stirring. The Manor has a secret history; built in the shadows of an ancient wood. Now old friends and enemies are creeping out of the shadows. And they’ll soon discover what other deadly secrets come out at night.
French Gaumont will make a TV series about the rise of the iconic GUCCI brand which will follow the company’s beginnings with founder Guccio Gucci and delve into the conflicts that ensued within the fashion family dynasty that led to the sale of their empire. Gucci family will produce the series which starts with Guccio Gucci who worked as a bellboy at the Savoy Hotel in London, where he became inspired by the luxury leather suitcases carried by British aristocrats. In 1921, he opened his first retail location in Florence and his four sons were soon brought into the family business. Aldo, the eldest of the five sons, opened the first Gucci boutique in Rome in the 1930s. His intuition and innovative use of quality materials turned Gucci into the iconic brand.
Long-simmering family feuds over the course of the following decades ultimately caused the family-controlled brand to be sold in the early 1990s to French conglomerate Kering.