JONATHAN BAILEY AND BILL NIGHTY TO FALL IN LOVE IN INSOMNIAC CITY TRUE STORY FILM, EMILY WATSON TO NURTURE A BABY GORILLA IN JOHN DANIEL POST WW1 MOVIE

   INSOMNIAC CITY MOVIE  

WITH JONATHAN BAILEY AND BILL NIGHY 

Well, that will be an unusual big screen couple: Jonathan Bailey and Bill Nighy are set to lead INSOMNIAC CITY film from Dominic Cooke about writer and photographer Bill Hayes and celebrated neurologist Oliver Sacks. It follows Hayes as he arrives in New York City from San Francisco in the wake of a devastating loss. As he begins to rebuild his life, he falls unexpectedly in love with both the city and Oliver Sacks, whose writing and groundbreaking work in neurology made him one of the most distinctive voices in modern medicine.

 

  EMILY WATSON TO LEAD JOHN DANIEL

Also coming from Dominic Cooke is true story drama JOHN DANIEL that will star Emily Watson as Alyce Cunningham, a fiercely independent English woman who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a baby gorilla in the aftermath of the First World War. In 1918, the Cotswolds village of Uley is still raw from the losses of WWI, and Alyce Cunningham has built a solitary life behind a wall of wit and stoicism. That changes when her reckless nephew impulsively rescues a baby gorilla from the window of a London department store and, ignoring her protests, leaves her no option but to take him in. 

 

HEATED RIVALRY SERIES SHOOTING THIRD SEASON BACK TO BACK WITH THE SECOND AND GETTING A CHRISTMAS MOVIE SPECIAL?

    HEATED RIVALRY   

SETS 3RD SEASON & A CHRISTMAS MOVIE

While the first season of hit TV series HEATED RIVALRY is currently scoring millions released in cinemas as well, Deadline reports that together

Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie are back in season 2

 with the second season the third is also shooting! The second season will see Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams return as rival hockey players in love Illya and Shane. As you know, all of the books in the series feature a different hockey player and his sweet secret gay lover.

A CHRISTMAS MOVIE AS WELL?   

There will also be a Christmas movie to be released next December with book one characters Scott Hunter (François Arnaud) and Kip (Robbie

Francois Arnaud and Robie G.K. will lead the festive movie

 G.K.) in the focus as it will probably be based on Rachel Reid's festive story Merry Christmas, Scott and Kip! which depicts the series most popular duo’s first Christmas together. 

 

A NEW COUPLE IN SECOND SEASON

The second season will be based on Book 6, The Long Game, which continues Illya and Shane's story, while also introducing a new couple from

Justice Smith and Charlie Gillespie join the second season

 Role Model book, Harris Drover and Troy Barrett, played by Justice Smith and Charlie Gillespie. Troy Barrett is a hockey player on Ilya Rozanov’s team with a history of bullying while Harris Drover is the team’s cheerful social media manager.

BBC ORDERS THE OTHER ELLIOT SISTER PERIOD SET TV SERIES BUILDING UPON JANE AUSTEN'S PERSUASION

  THE OTHER ELLIOT SISTER  

BBC ANNOUNCES NEW COSTUME SERIES

It will be a ten part costume series

After The Other Bennet Sister, which is getting a three part Christmas special this December, BBC has announced work on a 10 part series THE OTHER ELLIOT SISTER that will tell the story of Elizabeth Elliot, the overlooked eldest daughter from Jane Austen's Persuasion! Sarah Quintrell is adapting from author Janice Hadlow’s forthcoming novel of the same name. Persuasion focuses on Anne Elliot, whose family moves to Bath to reduce their debt by renting their estate to an admiral and his wife. The new series will build on the approach established by The Other Bennet Sister, placing Elizabeth Elliot, a character confined to the margins, at the heart of her own story. The series will stream on BritBox for viewers in North America.

NEW BOOK MOVIE ADAPTATIONS: HEARTSTRING DUET DARK ROMANTASY HORROR FROM LIV ZANDER AND AM I THE WAVE BASED ON SAY HER NAME FROM FRANCISCO GOLDMAN

    NEW BOOK ADAPTATIONS   

HEARTSTRING DUET MADE INTO A FILM

Two new upcoming book adaptations for you today, starting with dark romantasy horror HEARTSTRING DUET series which consists

The book was self-published in April

 of two books Crown Me Dead and Crown Me Yours and which will get a movie treatment at Sony Pictures. Written by Liv Zander it is set in a kingdom cursed by a deadly plague, where Elara, the daughter of gravediggers, tends to the dead alongside what remains of her family. When her brother falls ill, a mysterious palace steward offers her a bargain that could save his life: seduce the reclusive king and make him fall in love with her, breaking the curse by dying at his hand. But as Elara uncovers the truth behind the curse, she must decide whether to become a willing sacrifice or fight for her own survival.It has been translated into 14 languages so far.

  

SAY HER NAME FEATURE ADAPTATION

Also getting a big screen movie treatment is Francisco Goldman's Say Her Name book based on his own life which will be titled as AM I THE WAVE? in movie take. Alejandra Márquez Abella is directing with Manuel García-Rulfo and Renata Vaca in the lead roles. It follows Francisco, an American novelist splitting his time between New York and Mexico, and Aura, a fellow writer and force of nature fighting to establish herself on her own terms. Their love story is passionate, funny, intellectual, and deeply alive, until a single, tragic wave on a beach in Oaxaca changes everything. 

 

 

MEGHANN FAHY AND ROSE BYRNE HIDE A SECRET IN THE GOOD DAUGHTER THRILLER TV SERIES WHICH STARTS THIS WEEK

    THE GOOD DAUGHTER   

 NEW TV SERIES STARTS THIS WEEK

The series starts this Thursday

The upcoming week ahead of us will be the week richest with premieres in the month of November. Beside the second batch of the second season episodes of Rivals at Disney and the premiere of the third season of epic series Rings of Power at Prime Video on Wednesday November 11th, the day after that, on Thursday we can expect not just the final season of The Empress historical series at Netflix but also the start of the new six episode thriller THE GOOD DAUGHTER which will air on Peacock and will also stream on Stan in Australia. You can check out the trailer below the post and tell us what you think. Will you be watching and streaming?

  

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.

 

EMILE ZOLA'S CLASSIC NOVEL NANA TO BE TURNED INTO A 19TH CENTURY SET MOVIE DRAMA

    ZOLA'S NANA   

TO BE TURNED INTO A MOVIE DRAMA

Olivier Dahan will direct the movie

Under the French Greek co-production, and with the support of France Télévision and Canal+, Emile Zola's classic novel NANA will be turned into a movie by director Olivier Dahan known for La Vie en Rose. The book tells the story of Nana Coupeau's rise from streetwalker to high-class cocotte during the last three years of the French Second Empire. She grows up in the slums of Paris and then has a brief career as an untalented actress before finding success as a courtesan. Although vulgar and ignorant, she has a destructive sexuality that attracts many rich and powerful men. Cruelly contemptuous of her lovers’ emotions, Nana wastes their fortunes, driving many of them to ruin and even suicide.

DANIELE STEEL'S 200TH BOOK MANHATTAN SET THE WHITTIERS TO BE TURNED INTO A TV SERIES

   THE WHITTIERS TV SERIES  

BASED ON DANIELE STEEL'S BOOK

It was her 200th book and Daniele Steel's book THE WHITTIERS will now be turned into a TV series by Cottage Industry Entertainment. It is a heartwarming story about the importance of family, home and being true to yourself. Connie and Preston Whittier raised their six children in a 

The book will become a TV series

once-grand Manhattan mansion. With the kids now grown-up, the family home remains somewhere they all love to return to. But on Connie and Preston’s annual skiing holiday in Europe, an avalanche hits their resort, resulting in unspeakable tragedy. Struggling to process their loss, each member of the Whittier family must also face their own personal struggles. Lyle is successful, but has an unhappy marriage, and Gloria is a genius on Wall Street but deeply lonely. Twins Caroline and Charlie work all hours on their growing fashion brand, but have no time to enjoy life. Benjie has personal challenges and requires additional support, and rebellious Annabelle has fallen in with a bad crowd. With the future of the family, and their home, in jeopardy, the siblings must come together to support one another, and each one must learn the importance of being true to oneself.

JACK WHITEHALL, NINA DOBREV, GREG KINNEAR TO LEAD HONEYMOONERS ROME SET ROMCOM

   HONEYMOONERS ROMCOM  

JACK WHITEHALL & NINA DOBREV TO LEAD

Daryl Wein has set lead cast for his new romantic comedy movie HONEYMOONERS. Modern Londoners Freddy (Jack Whitehall) and Cleo (Nina Dobrev) have just secretly divorced, convinced they’re better off as best friends. But their amicable split takes an unexpected turn when Freddy’s parents, Marty (Greg Kinnear) and Julie (Andie MacDowell), and Cleo’s mother, Rose, surprise them with the honeymoon of their dreams in Italy. The catch? The whole family is coming along. As the family descends on an idyllic vineyard outside Rome, long-buried secrets, unexpected attractions, and increasingly tangled loyalties threaten to unravel the entire holiday.

SEE DOMINIC COOPER WHO THE HELL IS HAMISH? THRILLER TV SERIES TRAILER AND STREAM DATE

 WHO THE HELL IS HAMISH? 

DOMINIC COOPER TV SERIES TRAILER

Australian Paramount + has released a trailer for new series WHO THE HELL IS HAMISH? with Dominic Cooper which

The series arrives this December

 will stream from December 10th. The six-episode drama inspired by the true story of an industrial fraudster and the victims who banded together to take him down, follows Hamish McLaren (Dominic Cooper) as he returns to Australia from Canada, not as a man in exile but as a man surveying his old domain, setting his sights on Bec (Claire van der Boom), a recently divorced single mum with three sons and access to a significant family trust. But when Bec begins to notice discrepancies in Hamish’s story and some strange behaviour, what starts as personal doubt quickly widens into something far larger: a pattern of deception spanning continents and suspected of leaving a debt of more than $70 million in his wake. Our dearest Joel Jackson also stars. Check out the trailer for the brand new series below and tell us what you think, will you be watching?

 

SEE LUCY HALE FALL FOR IAN HARDING IN THE 12 DATES OF CHRISTMAS DISNEY AND HULU FESTIVE ROMANTIC COMEDY

  IAN HARDING TRAILER  

FOR THE 12  DATES OF CHRISTMAS COMEDY

You can stream the film from today

Continuing our festive movie trailers we end this week with one for THE 12 DATES OF CHRISTMAS which is available for streaming on Hulu and Disney Plus as of today November 6th with our dearest Ian Harding starring next to Lucy Hale. Directed and written by David Lipper (who also has a cameo in it), this festive romantic comedy movie follows Christina Walker, a successful shop owner who has devoted her energy to her career at the expense of her dating life, as she goes on 12 dates in the 12 weeks leading up to Christmas hoping to find Mr. Right. Penelope Ann Miller and Paul Ben Victor also star. See the trailer below and tell us what you think.