SEE TRAILER WITH ANYA TAYLOR JOY, DREW STARKEY IN APPLE TV + SERIES LUCKY WITH ANNETTE BENING AND TIMOTHY OLYPHANT

   LUCKY TV SERIES   

DREW STARKEY & ANYA TAYLOR JOY TRAILER

Apple TV Plus has released a trailer and July 15th starting date for their new limited series LUCKY executive produced by Reese Witherspoon. Drew Starkey and Anya Taylor Joy will lead the cast that will also have Annette Bening, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and Timothy Olyphant. 

 

BASED ON MARISSA STAPLEY'S

bestselling novel it centers on a young woman (Taylor-Joy) who left behind the life of crime she was raised in years ago, but must now embrace her darker, criminal side one final time in a desperate attempt to escape her past. She is forced to go on the run when a multi-million-dollar heist goes sideways. Pursued by both the FBI and a ruthless crime boss (Bening), Lucky must fight for her life — and a way out. Starkey will play Cary, Lucky’s husband. 

 

ANNA FRIEL TO LEAD CHANNEL 5 TV SERIES ADAPTATION OF LOUISE CANDLISH NOVEL THE HEIGHTS

    ANNA FRIEL TO LEAD   

THE HEIGHTS NEW CHANNEL 5 SERIES

Channel 5 has announced work on new six episode series adaptation of Louise Candlish novel THE HEIGHTS with Anna Friel as lead. She plays Ellen, who is happily living in London, a working mum, devoted to her family and fiercely protective of her children. But when her teenage son Lucas (Kit Redding), brings new friend Kieran (Conrad Khan) home, cracks began to appear in Ellen’s family life. Kieran is rude, reckless and manipulative – leading Lucas astray, wasting his promise. As Lucas falls deeper under Kieran’s influence, Ellen becomes increasingly desperate to protect him — but a devastating tragedy leaves her consumed by grief, rage and a growing obsession with the truth. Jumping between the past and present day, family secrets and lies unravel in this thrilling new series.

$25 MILLION HISTORICAL SERIES A LAND REMEMBERED BASED ON A BOOK BY PATRICK D. SMITH IN PRODUCTION

   A LAND REMEMBERED  

NEW HIGH END PERIOD SET TV SERIES

Currently in production is a four part $25 million expensive mini TV series A LAND REMEMBERED based on a historical novel by Patrick D. Smith and starring Philip Ettinger, Lily McInerny and William Catlett. As Deadline reports, it chronicles three generations of the MacIvey family in frontier Florida from the mid-19th to the 20th century, as they turn swamp cows, citrus, and unwanted land into a multi-generational commercial empire so successfully, it results in the eventual decline of the natural place they so loved. It will be offered to the buyers at the upcoming MipCom. 

EWAN MCGREGOR AND ANNE HATHAWAY DEFEND THEIR BLOCK FROM THE DINOSAURS IN THE END OF OAK STREET MOVIE TRAILER

  THE END OF OAK STREET  

THERE ARE DINOSAURS IN OUR YARD

The dinos will attack your block this August

After the mysterious teaser back in March, a full, an even scarier, trailer has been released now alongside a poster for David Robert Mitchell's sf movie THE END OF OAK STREET starring Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway. It will be released August 14th in cinemas. After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, a family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings. Watch the trailer below and tell us what you think.

 

NEW ZORRO EPIC COMEDY ADVENTURE SERIES WITH JEAN DUJARDIN STARTS THIS JUNE ON MHZ CHOICE FOR VIEWERS IN USA

  NEW ZORRO SERIES 

PUTS JEAN DUJARDIN UNDER THE MASK

Zorro is out as of September 6th

This one already streamed in France two years ago but will be hitting MHZ Choice for the viewers in USA and Canada June 30th! The new version of ZORRO is a comedy adventure in which Oscar winner Jean Dujardin takes the lead role! 

 

  THE STORY IS SET IN 1821 

Don Diego de la Vega becomes mayor of his beloved city of Los Angeles, which he intends to make prosper. However, the municipality is facing financial problems due to the greed of a local businessman, Don Emmanuel, against whom the mayor's powers prove insufficient to fight injustice. Diego hasn't called on his double Zorro in 20 years. But in the name of the common good, he has no choice but to pull out his mask and sword. Diego soon finds it difficult to reconcile his dual identity as Zorro and mayor, and this puts a strain on his marriage to Gabriella, who is unaware of his secret. Can Diego save his marriage and his sanity in the midst of chaos? Salvatore Ficarra plays his mute sidekick Bernardo, with Audrey Dana as his wife Gabriella. The series was shot in Spain where epic sets were build to reconstruct a whole 19th century Californian town. Check out the fun trailer for the new series below:

 

BRITBOX TO STREAM BRENDA BLETHYN IN THE GORGEOUS REBOOT OF CLASSIC SERIES WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE THIS JUNE

    WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE  

TV SERIES ARRIVES TO BRITBOX

Brilliant new series starts June 24th in USA

Channel 4 has already aired this one over in Britain and I actually finished watching it earlier this week and can tell you that it is probably the best period set series of the year so far, but I wanted to inform you today that it will start streaming for the audiences in USA and Canada on BritBox as of June 24th and you do not want to miss it. With Brenda Blethyn as the lead it is the reboot of A WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE  based on Barbara Taylor Bradford's novel with Jessica Reynolds playing the younger version. You can check out the gorgeous and dynamic trailer below and tell us what you think, will you tune in?

THE EIGHT EPISODE SERIES FOLLOWS

 the tale of an impoverished, ambitious maid Emma Harte in the 1900's Yorkshire who takes a dizzying climb to become the world’s richest woman in the 1970s, gazing down on her sprawling empire from a luxury New York penthouse. Emmett J Scanlan stars as Adam Fairley, Lydia Leonard as Olivia Wainwright, Leanne Best as Adele Fairley, Ewan Horrocks as Edwin Fairley, Harry Cadby as Gerald Fairley, Will Mellor as Jack Harte, Lenny Rush as Frank Harte, Niall Wright as Mac, Robert Wilfort as Murgatroyd, Toby Regbo as Jim Fairley, Hiftu Quasem as Priya Chandra, Sophie Bould as Elizabeth Harte and Georgina Sadler as Polly. 

 

SARAH SNOOK TO LEAD A MINI TV SERIES REMAKE OF THE BIRDS SET IN ALASKA

    SARAH SNOOK   

TO LEAD TV REMAKE OF THE BIRDS

More than sixty years after Hitchcock's legendary horror movie THE BIRDS are getting a mini TV series adaptation with Sarah Snook as the lead and Tom Spezialy penning the scripts for Universal International Studios. She is set to play a traveling magistrate Myra Massey as she returns to her isolated Alaskan hometown for a routine presumptive death hearing, expecting a simple cold case. Instead, she finds her childhood friend’s bullet-ridden body. When Myra is forced to step outside her role as judge to untangle the mystery, nature itself turns hostile with a wave of bird attacks. Now, Myra isn’t just trying to close a case, she’s fighting to survive in a place where death lurks in both the shadows and the skies.

ITALO CALVINO'S PERIOD SET CLASSIC THE BARON IN THE TREES TO GET A MOVIE ADAPTATION

  THE BARON IN THE TREES  

TO BE TURNED INTO A BIG SCREEN MOVIE

The casting for the movie is underway

The latest book to get a big screen adaptation is Italo Calvino's 1957 novel THE BARON IN THE TREES which tells the adventures of a boy who climbs up a tree to spend the rest of his life inhabiting an arboreal kingdom. Italian director Alice Rohrwacher is set to helm according to Variety. The novel brings the story of a young baron, Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò, firstborn of a noble family sadly behind the times. The main story begins with a dispute on June 15, 1767 in the villa of Ombrosa, between an adolescent Cosimo and his father, after which Cosimo, who had quarreled with his father because he had refused to eat a snail soup, climbs the trees of the home garden and promises never to come down again in his entire life.

FIRST LOOK AT MEGHANN FAHY AND ROSE BYRNE IN THE GOOD DAUGHTER THRILLER TV SERIES

    THE GOOD DAUGHTER   

FIRST LOOK AT THE NEW TV SERIES

Peacock has set stream date and first look at their new six episode thriller THE GOOD DAUGHTER which will start November 12th and will also stream on Stan in Australia. Based on the novel by Karin Slaughter, the drama centers on sisters Charlotte (Meghann Fahy) and Samantha (Rose Byrne), who have spent the last 20 years trying to piece together the lives that were fractured by a single night of violence. When another attack splinters the small town of Pikeville, Charlotte, a lawyer like her father, is the first witness on the scene. As the case unfolds and twists through painful memories and buried secrets, what emerges is not just a story of survival, but of enduring ties between a father, his daughters and the complex bond between sisters. Brendan Gleeson, Jake McDorman and Olivia Williams also star.

SAM WORTHINGTON, JAI COURTNEY, JACK QUAID TO BE SHACKLED TOGETHER IN BLOOD ON THE PROMONTORY WESTERN MOVIE

    CASTING NEWS  

BLOOD ON THE PROMONTORY WESTERN

Some casting news for you today coming from Ray Mendoza's western movie BLOOD ON THE PROMONTORY which has added Sam Worthington, Jai Courtney, Jack Quaid to the cast together with Jaeden Martell and LaMonica Garrett. Written by Evan Cooper, the film will follow five convicts trying to escape through the mountains following a violent train robbery, while shackled together by foot.