FIRST IMAGES FROM TARSEM SINGH'S NEW RETURN MOVIE DRAMA DEAR JASSI BASED ON A TRUE LIFE HONOUR KILLING TRAGEDY CASE

  FIRST DEAR JASSI IMAGES  

FROM TARSEM SINGH'S NEW MOVIE

After winning an award at Toronto, moving new drama movie DEAR JASSI is moving over to London Film Festival in October. It took director Tarsem Singh almost twenty years to shoot the film and it is his first one after almost ten years. He is known as a director of exquisite visual splendour as seen in Mirror, Mirror, Immortals, The Fall and The Cell, but now he is dealing with a tragic love story and the tradition of honour killing in India. The real life story is set during the 1990s, when on a trip to visit her extended family in Jagraon, Jassi (Pavia Sidhu) meets Mithu (Yugam Sood), a rickshaw driver who lives down the street. She quickly falls for him, but their time is cut short as Jassi is expected to return with her mother to their home in Canada. The sweethearts begin exchanging love letters, and Mithu starts making travel plans. But when Jassi sees her family lash out at one of her cousin's suitors, she realizes there's no easy way to pursue their relationship and that terrifying consequences could await them. The film is based on the true story from June 8, 2000, when beautician Jassi Kaur was murdered in the Punjab province of India. The 24-year-old Indo-Canadian was killed by hitmen hired by her mother and uncle who felt she had brought shame on their family for marrying a rickshaw driver she had fallen in love with while visiting relatives. It took more than 10 years for them to be arrested. Tarsem comes from the same village as Jassi and has also lived in Canada just like her.

DOMINIC COOPER, SARAH GADON, SARAH BOLGER, AIDAN QUINN TO STAR IN CRY FROM THE SEA PERIOD SET IRISH MOVIE DRAMA

 CRY FROM THE SEA MOVIE 

TO STAR SARAH GADON, DOMINIC COOPER AND SARAH BOLGER

Vic Sarin is helming a new Irish period set drama movie CRY FROM THE SEA set in the aftermath of World War I and the Irish Civil War. It revolves around Seamus (Dominic Cooper), an Irish lighthouse keeper who has created a life of isolation and ritual in penance for a tragedy he feels he should have prevented. Seamus’s only company is Maire (Sarah Bolger), his housekeeper and protector, who enables him to remain closed off from the world while quietly waiting for him to see her. His meticulously structured world begins to crack when he meets Edith (Sarah Gadon), an outspoken American war widow whose quest for closure ignites something in Seamus that will forever change them all. Aidan Quinn also stars.

SEE LOVE BETWEEN TWO MEN SPANNING DECADES IN THE FIRST TRAILER FOR NETFLIX PERIOD SET ROMANCE NUOVO OLIMPO!

  NUOVO OLIMPO TRAILER  

FOR NEW NETFLIX ROMANTIC MOVIE

Netflix has sent us the first trailer for Ferzan Ozpetek's new movie NUOVO OLIMPO which will be available for streaming worldwide from November 1st. The film follows two 25-year-old men (Damiano Gavino and Andrea Di Luigi) who meet by chance in the 70s, fall madly in love, and are then separated due to an unexpected event. For the next thirty years, during which one of them becomes a renowned movie director, they pursue the hope  of finding each other again because they still love each other. This decades spanning gay romance, produced in Italy, was also written by the renowned Turkish filmmaker Ozpetek. See the trailer below:

TOM SHARP TO LEAD THE EPIC TV SERIES ADAPTATION OF THE PENDRAGON CYCLE AS A YOUNG MERLIN

   TOM SHARP TO LEAD  

PENDRAGON CYCLE EPIC SERIES

Earlier this year I informed you that Daily Wire is turning Stephen R. Lawhead’s THE PENDRAGON CYCLE series into a TV show and now they haveannounced young Tom Sharp as the lead star! With an unusual number

Tom Sharp is new Merlin the Wizard!

of seven episodes this reimagining of the myth of King Arthur, will be set at the end of Roman Britain when pagan tribes warred with Saxon and Pict invaders, and with each other. Tom Sharp is taking the role of young Merlin, the son of an Atlantean princess and the bard, Taliesen, who pursues his father’s vision of a ‘Kingdom of Summer’, a Briton unified in peace. To achieve this dream, Merlin will have to overcome ancient evils and navigate both the fall of the Roman occupation and the rise of Christianity in search of a king who can unite the Island of the Mighty. The series is currently shooting in Hungary for a 2024 release.

SEE THE ENCHANTINGLY MAGICAL TRAILER FOR THE FLYING SHIP FANTASY MOVIE ADVENTURE BASED ON THE LEGENDARY RUSSIAN FAIRY TALE

    THE FLYING SHIP MOVIE  

The movie is out next March

FIRST FANTASY TALE TRAILER

I of have yet another fairy tale movie trailer coming from Russia for you today, I already shared first photos from it earlier this year featuring young Russian actor Aleksandr Metyolkin, but now we have the first magically enchanting and utterly colourful trailer for lavish fantasy fairy tale adventure movie THE FLYING SHIP (Летучий корабль) directed by Ilya Uchitel which is set to hit their cinemas next March. Beside Metyolkin, this colourful and picturesque movie filled with imaginative sets and wild costumes will also star Andrey Burkovksiy, Leonid Yarmolnik, Kseniya Rappoport and even popular Russian pop star Polina Gagarina. She will play Lady Jane, an original role written specifically for the film adaptation of the popular cartoon based on a folk tale. The new adaptation will feature unforgettable songs by Maxim Dunayevsky and Yuri Entin since it will also have the musical element. Stay tuned with your spy as I will bring you more news from Russia in the future.

 

 WHAT IS THE FILM ABOUT?

The Tsar is having his daughter Zabava marry a charmingly handsome and a handsomely charming Paul, a rich heir and a foreign fancy pants. However, it's a bit of a challenge, since Zabava wants a marriage of love, not of calculation. Her unexpected encounter with sailor Ivan, a simpleton yet an honest and endearing guy, messes up Paul's plans of snatching the crown. Deeply in love with the princess, Ivan enlists help from the residents of an enchanted forest to build a Flying Ship which would then take him and his beloved away. The brave sailor is in for serious confrontation with the sneaky Paul, who's using dark magic to bring his unwanted opponent down. However, true love is going to win this battle: with the evil mastermind punished, Ivan and Zabava step aboard the magic Flying Ship and set sail towards a new common dream of theirs. It is one of the most expensive productions coming from Russia next year! Check out the enchantingly magical first movie trailer below and tell us what you think, do you like the costumes?

ROALD DAHL'S THE TWITS BEING TURNED INTO AN ANIMATED MOVIE ADVENTURE AT NETFLIX

  ROALD DAHL'S THE TWITS  

MOVIE ADAPTATION AT NETFLIX

Netflix and Oscar nominated Phil Johnston are going to turn Roald Dahl's THE TWITS into a 2025 animated movie with the help of JellyFish Pictures. Children's favourite book follows the nasty Mr. and Mrs. Twit, who also own and operate a disgusting and dangerous amusement park, Twitlandia. When the Twits rise to power in their town, two brave orphans and a family of magical animals will be forced to become as tricky as the Twits in order to save the city.

SPOTLIGHT ON RUSSIAN HISTORICAL TV SERIES: 19TH CENTURY GOLD RUSH SAGA KRASNY YAR AND WW2 SET WAR SERIES KATYUSHA

  KRASNY YAR TV SERIES  

19TH CENTURY RUSSIAN GOLD RUSH

I promised I will introduce you to a number of upcoming new historical series coming from Russia in the following days, but today I have two that have

Krasniy Yar aired from January in Russia

already aired this year on their channels, and you might catch it on some of the streamers or broadcasters around Europe. KRASNY YAR (Красный яр) was a historical mystery set in 1860 in The Yenisei province which was covered by a gold rush, and prospectors from all over the country came running to develop the gold mines. A real war broke out between fugitive convicts, exiled officers, merchants and gendarmes for a bit of that precious golden sand. Echoes of the passions that raged in the vastness of the taiga, through the centuries, reached modern Krasnoyarsk, when the "Russian Frenchwoman" Barbara (Sofi Shutkina) and the young historian Viktor Antonov (Makar Zaporozhskiy) arrived in the city. The official version of the visit - the preparation of a documentary film about Siberia - is far from reality. In fact, the young adventurer came to Siberia to see her "small homeland" with her own eyes and verify the truth of one card she inherited. The search for a mysterious gold deposit leads to a new round of drama and a direct confrontation with crime. The series aired on NTV earlier this January.

 

  KATYUSHA TV SERIES  

WAR KNOWS NOT FOR LOVE

Meanwhile, the Day of Victory, May 9th brought the premiere of eight part World War II saga KATYUSHA (Катюша ) with Karina Razumovskaya in

Katyusha aired earlier this spring on Russia 1

the lead role. 1944 Great Patriotic War. During the offensive, Russian soldiers find a wounded soldier on the front line. He is dressed in a uniform without insignia, and because of a severe concussion, he does not remember anything. A check in the Special Department shows that this is a reconnaissance major Egor Petrov (Pavel Harlanchuk), who a week ago, as part of a reconnaissance group, went on a mission and returned alone. Petrov is appointed commander of an engineering and sanitary company, which is called "dog" among the common people - dogs and their instructors serve there. The commander of the girl's platoon, Captain Ekaterina Golikova, takes hostility to Egor's appearance. And there are reasons for this - major takes her beloved shepherd Vilma on a dangerous mission. But it’s not just about Vilma. Katya has her own secret. Her ex-husband lost courage at the very beginning of the war and became a policeman. Katya went to the front. The betrayal of her beloved man, the feeling of guilt and shame changed Katya forever - she is ready to fight, but not to love...

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON APPLE TV PLUS NEW PERIOD SET TV SERIES LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY WITH BRIE LARSON AS A HOST OF A TV COOKING SHOW

  LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY  

NEW APPLE TV PLUS SERIES

Lessons start this October at Apple

Beside the second season of Julia series which will see the outstanding Sarah Lanchashire reprise the role of famous TV cook Julia Child from November 16th over at HBO, there is another period set series on a pioneer (albeit a fictional one) of television cooking shows arriving to us this Autumn. Apple TV Plus streamer is launching the new season with a brand new eight episode mini TV series LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY which, set in the early 1960s, follows Elizabeth Zott whose dream of being a chemist is put on hold when she finds

The series will have eight episodes

herself pregnant, alone, and fired from her lab. But after she gets hired to host a cooking show she tries to make the most out of this new platform. You can check out the first trailer for the new show below the post.

 

LIFE RARELY FOLLOWS A FORMULA

In the 1950s, a woman's dream of being a scientist is challenged by a society that says women belong only in the domestic sphere. She accepts a job on a TV cooking show and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives way more than recipes.

WHO ELSE IS AT THE LESSONS?

The new series, based on the international best-selling fictional novel from author and science editor Bonnie Garmus, will see the first two episodes premiere on Friday, October 13th, with new episodes arriving weekly through Nov. 24. The series led by Brie Larson also stars gorgeous Lewis Pullman as her husband alongside, Aja Naomi King, Stephanie Koenig, Kevin Sussman, Patrick Walker, and Thomas Mann. This is Brie Larson's first major TV role in almost 15 years. After an unsuccessful role in Captain Marvel, this is her attempt to revive her career after a series of episodic roles in smaller shows and lending her voice in animated movies. Check out the series trailer below and tell us what you think, will you be tuning in this October?

SEE KIRILL ZAYTSEV AND YULIA PERESILD IN FIRST IMAGES AND POSTER FROM FINIST: THE FIRST WARRIOR EPIC FAIRY TALE ADVENTURE MOVIE

 FINIST: THE FIRST WARRIOR 

1ST KIRILL ZAYTSEV IMAGES

The movie will hit cinemas January 2025

Other than Wish of the Fairy Fish and The Bremen Town Musicians, there are some other fairy tale movies brewing currently in the movie making cauldron of sweet Mother Russia, and among them, probably the most anticipated one is FINIST: THE FIRST WARRIOR (Финист. Первый богатырь) in which our favourite of all mighty Russian hunksters, the blond grand prince himself Kirill Zaytsev is to return to the role of legendary Russian hero Sokol Finist! This epic movie adventure which is set to arrive in Russian cinemas January 2025 also starring Yulia Peresild, the first actress ever to shoot a film up in space, is basically a spin off or continuation of Russia's most popular epic saga The First Warrior, which had four ultra successful sequels previous years and will now focus on the first one among them all, Sokol Finist, from whom all legends and fairy tales begin and start.

 

  FINIST YASNIY SOKOL

 is the most famous hero of Belogorye, the strongest, most dexterous and most deserving. Well, and the most beautiful, of course. All other heroes look up to him, children want to be like him, and girls can't stop looking at him. And who could blame them? Finist is a real superstar. And he carefully protects and maintains this status. He needs more and more feats, he is simply obsessed with them. But there is a nuance. The practical benefit of the feat for Finist is no longer of decisive importance. Let's say, freeing a village from a herd of wild boars that tramples down crops is boring, uninteresting, futile: they won't spread tales about it, they won't admire it. But going to the end of the world, where Beauty is imprisoned in a tower, guarded by an unimaginable Beast, now that is a challenge.

 

 A GORGEOUS BABA YAGA

Beside our boo Kirill the Breathtaking, the cast also includes Russia's most beautiful female star Yulia Peresild who plays probably the most gorgeous Baba Yaga we have ever seen, with Fedor Dobronravov also in the ensemble alongside always funny Sergei Lavigin as Finist's assistant and right hand, albeit a very clumsy one, Meleha, and wildly handsome Fedor Gamaleya as some kind of Arabian or Persian prince or knight at least judging by the photos of him under a turban. Before this one arrives to the cinemas, TV Russia will also air, sometime later this winter, an eight part television series THE LAST WARRIOR: LEGACY which is also set in the same world with Finist also taking part in the story. I will post a trailer as soon as we get it.

ASHER KEDDIE, DAVID WENHAM TO LEAD FAKE MINI TV SERIES ON A RELATIONSHIP BASED ON LIES AT PARAMOUNT +

   FAKE DRAMA SERIES  

TO PAIR UP ASHER KEDDIE AND DAVID WENHAM AT PARAMOUNT +

Paramount Plus has set a new Australian project: Asher Keddie and David Wenham will lead FAKE series, a startling new story of love in a world of liars, cheats, fantasists and phonies, inspired by the book by Stephanie Wood. The eight episode series follows Birdie Bell (Keddie), a beautiful, smart and brilliant magazine features writer who thinks she has found “the one” when she meets successful grazier Joe Burt (Wenham) on a dating app. Convinced by her well-meaning friends and family that this couldbe her very own happily ever after, Birdie begins to believe that it is finally her chance to live the fairy-tale. As cracks start to form in Joe's stories, Birdie soon discovers her boyfriend isn't all he has led her to believe. Asher, who is also producing, has had a recent break out in her career after starring in Stateless and Nine Perfect Strangers.