Another new period set series coming over from Russia that I have to present to you is DUBROVSKY: RUSSIAN ZORRO which will start streaming on online cinema PremierSeptember 30th and will air on linear TV3 sometime next winter. The eight episode series is a reimagining of the future of Vladimir Dubrovsky after the events of the novel of the same name from Alexander Pushkin and gives the hero the features of the famous avenger in the mask of Zorro. After wandering around the world for a long time, Vladimir Dubrovsky (Oleg Gaas) returns to the Russian Empire with a new name and a new face. Now he is a mysterious foreigner, Don Diego de laVega. In his native Kistenevka, the hero discovers that the landowners do what they want, and on the roads there are robbers using his name. Here he meets his former beloved Masha again (Marina Vorozhishchev) and is drawn into a dangerous game against the family of the cruel Kirila Petrovich Troekrov (Alexander Semchev), with which Dubrovsky had old accounts to settle. Check out the teaser below and tell us what you think:
Netflix has cast Lindsay Lohan and Henry Golding as leads in Mark Waters directed romantic movie RETURN TO YOU which she is also producing. Eric Champnella has penned the script that follows a powerful but lonely female attorney (Lohan) who mistakenly receives a very emotional DVD sent by a dying woman to her husband (Golding). With only the clues from the DVD as her guide, she sets out to find him.
After our visits to Austria and France, I have flown again over to Moscow to bring you latest period set news from Russia as they are the capital of the genre. After the successful first season at the beginning of the year, they are now ready to air the second season of THE STORY OF HIS MAID (История его служанки) costume telenovella which will arrive to their streamers Ivi and Start October 6th with thirty new episodes arriving each Tuesday and Friday till the end of November!
WHAT IS THE STORY OF THE NEW SEASON?
As you remember the series set in Moscow of the 19th century follows a noble woman who has to work as a maid at a rich man's house in order to pay off family debts but at the same time he has to marry within a year to save his own inheritance. The whole world turns against the love of Anna Averina(Milana Bru) and Nikolai Sheremetyev (Matvey Lykov) – now the maid has to choose between her own happiness and the happiness of her beloved. Anna chooses the second and parts with the count right on the eve of the wedding - she can not allow the count to sacrifice for her position in society. But this does not cancel the deal: Anna will still remain in his house as the maid. And Nicholas still needs to find a bride to get an inheritance. In the second season in the life of the Count there is another young noblewoman – an educated, well-read and restrained architect Apollinaria. At first, Nicholaswill treat her in a purely professional manner, but very soon the joint choosing of fountains, arches and shrubs for the garden will turn into an unexpected offer for him, which he will not be able to refuse. Or will he? Watch the gorgeous trailer below and tell us what you think!
Netflix has released first images and a short teaser from the third and final season of their historical series THE EMPRESS about Austro Hungarian empress Sisi which will stream from November 12th with Devrim Lingnau back as kaiserin Elisabeth and Philip Froissant as kaiser Franz. After the romantic wedding of free-spirited Bavarian countess Elisabeth and Emperor Franz Joseph, life at court quickly became a golden cage for Elisabeth. The third season depicts the slow downfall of their marriage and their characters.
WHAT IS THE STORY OF THE NEW SEASON?
After the devastating Sardinian War, Emperor Franz (Philip Froissant) returns a traumatized man. The guilt of having lost thousands of young men on the battlefield weighs heavily on him. Elisabeth (Devrim Lingnau Islamoğlu) tries to stand by him — she fights passionately for her marriage while at the same time advocating for what would now be right for the empire — yet in vain. While Franz’s infidelity further shakes the marriage, resistance at court and her own health force Elisabeth to leave Vienna and set off to a distant island to recover. By chance, the Empress meets the leader of the Hungarian revolution, Count Andrássy (Dejan Bućin), on her journey. Their encounter is immediately marked by strong intellectual and physical attraction. Almost simultaneously, Franz’s brother Maximilian (Johannes Nussbaum) sets off on a great adventure with his wife Marie (Josephine Thiesen): he is to ascend the imperial throne in far-off Mexico. In the end, Elisabeth must decide: follow her heart unconditionally, or be a sincere empress to her people.
Das und noch so viel mehr. Die Kaiserin kehrt zurück für eine finale Staffel. Ab 12. November. pic.twitter.com/uQfYyYxVhK
Netflix has sent us the first images from their new movie about the famous Hunchback of Notre Dame which has French superstar Vincent Cassel in the lead role. Titled previously as QUASIMODO it will now be known as THE HUNCHBACK, SOUL OF PARIS directed by Jean-Francois Richet, it will be set in Paris on the eve of the July Revolution (1830), and will try to reimagine the life of the man said to have inspired Victor Hugo’s iconic character, Quasimodo. As the cholera epidemic spreads through the city, he’s caught between political turmoil and an impossible love. Benjamin Voisin plays the doctor who wants to hunt down the Hunchback,Daphne Patakia takes the female lead, while Karim Leklou is leading the relentless hunt through the plague-ridden streets of Paris during the 1830 July Revolution. The film will stream November 27th!
After the first images from new epic adventure series TREASURE ISLAND which will sail onto MGM+ on October 11th and then to Paramount + for viewers in Europe the next day, we now have a trailer as well which you can check out below the post. The six part small screen adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic seafaring tale has a rather, I must admit, boring cast which includes Hayley Atwell as Bess Hawkins, always wooden David Oyelowo as Long John Silver, Tom Sweet as Jim Hawkins, Jack
The series will stream in six episodes
Huston as Aaron Graham, and Tomer Capone as Billy Bones.
WHAT IS THE STORY OF THE NEW TV SERIES?
When young Jim Hawkins and his fiercely determined mother Bess come into possession of Captain Flint’s legendary treasure map, they are swept into a brutal race for unimaginable riches. They cross the Atlantic aboard the Hispaniola. During their journey, Jim enters a world of shifting loyalties, ruthless ambition, and deadly secrets. In fact, trust can be as dangerous as betrayal. At the heart of the expedition is Long John Silver. He is a charismatic and deeply complex survivor whose ambitions challenge every certainty Jim holds. Through treacherous landscapes and escalating conflict, the hunt for treasure becomes a battle between loyalty and ambition. As a result, it will change them forever. See the trailer below and tell us what you think:
Terence Winter and Dan Farah are teaming up on the TV series adaptation of the memoir of former U.S. Intelligence official Jay Stratton
The book will be turned into a TV series
OUT OF THE SHADOWS. Out this October, the book delves examines his experiences investigating unidentified anomalous phenomena and non-human intelligent life. He said: "In the early days of my investigation into UAP and non-human intelligent life, my work was so classified I couldn’t even tell my wife and kids that I had learned we are not alone in the universe or about any of the paradigm shift information I was learning. I had to live a double life, where the front door to my house served as a boundary between two distinct identities… but that all changed when we started having UAP activity and encounters with non-human intelligent life at our house and my wife and kids saw it with their own eyes."
Netflix has released a trailer for their animated movie RAY GUNN from director Brad Bird who previously did The Incredibles franchise.
Ray Gunn will stream December 18th
The film is a blend of sci-fi and classic detective movies from the ’40s and has the story set in Metropia, a gigantic city in an alternate future as seen from 1939, where our lead character private eye Raymond Gunn is drawn into a case involving aliens, murder, and a multimedia star named Venus Nova. Coming from Skydance Animation the film will stream from December 18th but will have a December 8th limited cinema release as well. Sam Rockwell lends his voice to the titular character, with Scarlett Johansson as Venus Nova and Tom Waits also in the voice cast. See the trailer below and tell us what you think.
Eagle Eye Drama has bought adaptation rights on Matthew Sweet's biography of world's third most sold author of all times
The book will be turned into a series
Barbara Cartland titledTHE GREAT DICTATOR. Published this month it shows Cartland as one of the most recognizable English public figures of the 20th Century. Born in 1901, she was a fixture of British society for nearly a hundred years, rubbing shoulders with press barons, politicians, the aristocracy, and of course the Royal Family. But her private life was more compelling and unbelievable than her most outlandish plot! Known for her outlandish pink chiffon clothes and thick black shoe cream mascara, she is a figure who has been loved and scorned in equal measure. She was a ferocious champion of romantic love with a less than idyllic and rather scandalous love life of her own.
We are still in Russia as Hollywood is sleeping and I have first images for you from historical epic movie THE BATTLE OF MOLODI (Молодинская битва) which will arrive to cinemas in November 2027 directed by Konstantin Buslov and with Mikhail Porechenkov, Nikita Kologriviy, Peter Rykov, Alexander Ustyugov, Fyodor Lavrov, Oleg Vasilkov, Dmitry Kulichkov, Vladimir Lyubimtsev, Alexander Fisenko, Fyodor Malyshev, Diana Ogai and Leonela Manturova leading the cast of the film that depicts famous 1572 battle during the reign of Ivan the Terrible when 60,000 brave Russians faced against the horde of 120,000 wild Tatars! Check out all the images and tell us what you think.
WHAT IS THE STORY OF THE FILM?
The fight between the Russian troops under the leadership of the princes Mikhail Vorotynsky and Dmitry Khvorostinina and the army of theCrimean Khan Devleta I Gire, which also included Turkish and Nogai detachments, became one of those that will determine the future of the country. Despite the considerable numerical superiority, the Crimean Turkish army was forced to turn and run away and suffered heavy losses. Thesignificance of the victory was huge, it allowed Russia to defend independence, unity, as well as control over Kazan and Astrakhan.1572. One year after the burning of Moscow by the army of the Crimean Khanate, the enemy is again on the way. Now the goal of the Crimean Khan is a complete seizure of power in the Moscow state. The Russian army was tied in battles on the western front, the Tsar was in Novgorod. A small army is defending Moscow. To resist enslavement, units of "oprichniki" join forces with the regular army. By using a ruse to lure the invading horde of Crimean Khan Devlet Giray away from Moscow, the troops, led by commanders Vorotynsky and Khvorostinin, bear the brunt of the attack!
Vega. In his native Kistenevka, the hero discovers that the landowners do what they want, and on the roads there are robbers using his name. Here he meets his former beloved Masha again (Marina Vorozhishchev) and is drawn
into a dangerous game against the family of the cruel Kirila Petrovich Troekrov (Alexander Semchev), with which Dubrovsky had old accounts to settle. Check out the teaser below and tell us what you think:
