REBECCA YARROS' NEW DESERTED ISLAND SET ROMANTIC NOVEL PECULIAR STARS TO BE TURNED INTO A TV SERIES AT APPLE TV

   PECULIAR STARS  

TO BE ADAPTED INTO TV SERIES AT APPLE TV

The book is out this  November

After she scored worldwide fame with her Fourth Wing fantasy saga Rebecca Yarros has a new book PECULIAR STARS set for November release into the bookshops, but it has already been sold to Apple TV for a TV series adaptation. In the romantic novel, after a cyclone strands a young woman on a deserted island for 543 days with a member of her fiancé’s family, survival upends everything she thought she knew about love. But when they’re finally rescued and re-enter their world of privilege, expectation and secrets, homecoming proves far more dangerous than the island they left behind. Her Fourth Wing saga will also be turned into series but over at Prime Video.

SEE A HEARTWARMING TRAILER FOR FEEL GOOD TRUE STORY MOVIE AGNES & AMIR ON AN UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN A REFUGEE AND A 101 OLD YEAR GRANNY

     AGNES & AMIR   

FEELGOOD COMEDY MOVIE TRAILER

Here is something heartwarming for you today: a trailer for German movie drama AGNES & AMIR which is out in their cinemas this November based on an inspiring true story with Beta Film handling the international sales. The film follows Iranian Amir (Bardo Böhlefeld), who is waiting to hear if his refugee status in Germany will be accepted or whether he’ll be deported. He moves into the Berlin apartment of Agnes (Katharina Thalbach, one of Germany's most acclaimed actresses), a 101-year-old who is trying to avoid being sent to live in a retirement home. Despite their differences, the flatmates form a close bond that helps them confront the challenges that life throws their way. 

 

SEE ENCHANTING TRAILER FOR NEW NETFLIX AUSTRALIAN PERIOD SET TV SERIES MY BRILLIANT CAREER WITH PHILIPPA NORTHEAST AND ANNA CHANCELLOR

  MY BRILLIANT CAREER  

New series arrives August 13th to Netflix

TRAILER FOR NETFLIX 1900S SET SERIES

Netflix has released a rather lovely trailer for their new original Australian series MY BRILLIANT CAREER which will be available for streaming from August 13th! Based on the Miles Franklin novel, the six part saga sees Philippa Northeast playing Sybylla, a fiercely modern young woman with one burning ambition: to be a writer, even as her family pushes her toward marriage. Sybylla breaks every convention of 1900 Australia as she chases a story that could write her way to independence, until she falls in love. Will she marry, or risk it all for a creative life? Christopher Chung stars as Harry, Anna Chancellor as Mrs Bossier, Genevieve O’Reilly as Helen, Kate Mulvany as Augusta, Jake Dunn as Frank, Alexander England as Julius, Sherry-Lee Watson as Nell and Miah Madden as Betty.

 

BILL NIGHY, GEMMA ARTERTON, HUGH SKINNER, JIM STURGESS, MIRANDA RICHARDSON TO LEAD NEW BBC AND PBS THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY TV SERIES ADAPTATION

  THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY 

GETS NEW TV SERIES ADAPTATION

PBS Masterpiece and BBC have announced new TV series adaptation of Henry James' classic novel THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY with Nell Tiger Free leading the cast as Isabel Archer, a vivacious New World ingénue who leaves America for Old World Europe, keen to experience all that life has to offer. A young woman with charm and an innate intellectual curiosity,

Gemma Arterton, Jim Sturgess, Hugh Skinner will star

 Isabel rejects a series of marriage proposals, but when she inherits an unexpected fortune that promises to grant her freedom, she falls prey to two American ex-pat schemers: the elegant Madame Merle (Gemma Arterton), and the charming but calculating Gilbert Osmond (Jim Sturgess). Bill Nighy plays Mr. Touchett, who is enamored with Isabel’s youth and spirit and

Bill Nighy, Nell Tiger Free and Hamish Frew will also star

 hopes to help her in her quest for freedom, while Miranda Richardson is Mrs. Touchett, Isabel’s fantastically eccentric aunt, who takes her to Europe in search of a husband. Jack Wolfe is Ralph Touchett, Hugh Skinner is Lord Warburton, Hamish Frew is Casper Goodwood, Thomas Coombes is Mr Bantling, Lydia Leonard is Countess Gemini and Edward Rosier will be played by Dean-Charles Chapman.

SEE NEW IMAGES OF RHYS IFANS AND LAURA LINNEY IN BBC ONE FEATURE LENGTH MOVING DRAMA ONWARD AND SIDEWAYS

    ONWARD AND SIDEWAYS  

FIRST LOOK AT NEW BBC TV MOVIE

BBC One has released some new images from their new feature length drama ONWARD AND SIDEWAYS which stars Laura Linney and Rhys Ifans in a touching story about two people with lots in common - a great sense of humour, a love of dance, and Parkinson’s. Rhys plays Tony Evans, the deputy head of a local primary school. Laura stars as Emma Dretzin, a pianist, composer and single mother of two daughters. Neither knows the other until a startling encounter changes the course of their lives: on the same morning, they are both confronted with a diagnosis of Parkinson’s. This film is their story - a friendship which unfolds unexpectedly. A story of humour and emotion, of challenge and courage, of music and dance - transcending the assumptions of a little understood condition, and triumphing over the odds to find joy, release and love. Joining Laura and Rhys are Monica Dolan, Rory Kinnear and Paul Mayhew-Archer. 

FINN WITTROCK AND ALEXANDRA DADDARIO ARE BUILDING A CHOCOLATE EMPIRE IN NEW PERIOD SET MOVIE HERSHEY TRAILER

    HERSHEY MOVIE TRAILER    

HISTORY OF THE CHOCOLATE EMPIRE

Finn Wittrock stars in Mark Waters directed movie on famous HERSHEY chocolate with Alexandra Daddario playing his wife. Wittrock is 

The movie is out this November in cinemas

Milton Hershey, who, alongside his wife Kitty, built a candy empire that powered a philanthropic legacy. In 1909, Milton and Kitty founded the Hershey Industrial School, which provided free education and housing to orphans and underprivileged children. Twenty years before his death, Milton transferred the majority of his fortune into the Milton Hershey School Trust, planting the seed for one of the wealthiest educational endowments in the country. In developing a town around their chocolate factory, the Hersheys also built theaters, recreation centers and public transportation for their workers. The movie is out this Thanksgiving November 25th.

 

SEE ALAN RITCHSON TRYING TO SAVE A YOUNG GIRL'S LIFE IN RUNNER HIGH SPEED EXPLOSIVE THRILLER MOVIE TRAILER

    RUNNER TRAILER   

FOR NEW ALAN RITCHSON ACTION MOVIE

Runner starts running September 11th

This one is not to be confused with Gal Gadot's The Runner movie which I announced a few days ago, but it also has its lead hero running! RUNNER also hits cinemas the same month, but September 11th and beside Alan Ritchson also stars Owen Wilson and Rodrigo Santoro. This high octane dynamic action thriller was directed by Scott Waugh. 

 

Wonderfully ripped Alan Ritchson takes the lead role as a former soldier who is thrown into a brutal race against time when a critical medical delivery makes him the target of a ruthless cartel. The delivery is liver which will save a little girl's life. In the movie set in Brisbane he has just three hours to fulfill the life saving delivery! The movie comes from Angel studios whose movies are becoming more and more lucrative at the box office!

  

RUFUS SEWELL AND FRANCES O'CONNOR TO LEAD NEW NETFLIX NEW ZEALAND SET LUXURY SKI RESORT SERIES QUEENSTOWN

    QUEENSTOWN SERIES   

RUFUS SEWELL GETS THE LEAD ROLE

Netflix has announced cast for their first New Zealand eight part original series QUEENSTOWN. This is the official synopsis released by the streamer: Beneath the glamour of Queenstown’s luxury ski scene, a privileged family and the people who work for them collide over power, loyalty and desire. Rufus Sewell and Frances O’Connor have been set as leads and will be joined by Alycia Debnam-Carey and Te Kohe Tuhaka!

SEE ANDREW GARFIELD, JAMIE BELL, COSMO JARVIS, JONNY LEE MILLER IN THE UPRISING TRAILER FOR HISTORICAL MOVIE ON KING RICHARD II

     THE UPRISING TRAILER    

IN THE LAND OF KINGS, RISE OR DIE!

Paul Greengrass has unveiled first poster and trailer for his new period set movie previously known as The Rage and now

The people will rise September 11th

 THE UPRISING in which Andrew Garfield stars as the legendary leader of a ferocious rebellion against the tyranny of King Richard II in 1381. As war burns across England, he forms an army of the people to face the King’s might in a fight for justice and survival! He is joined in the rather stellar cast by Jamie Bell, Cosmo Jarvis, Thomasin McKenzie, Jonny Lee Miller, Katherine Waterstone and Woody Norman. The movie will rise in theatres September 11th this year.

  

JAMES PUREFOY AND COLIN O'DONOGHUE ARE KING HENRY AND PRINCE RICHARD IN THE SECOND SEASON OF ROBIN HOOD EPIC TV SERIES

   ROBIN HOOD SEASON 2  

ADS JAMES PUREFOY AND COLIN O'DONOGHUE

Although I cannot say that I liked the first season, MGM Plus has renewed their ROBIN HOOD epic series for season two which has started production in Serbia and has added James Purefoy, Colin O'Donoghue and Luke Roberts to the cast in the royal roles as the new season will see the arrival of King Henry (Purefoy), Prince Richard (O’Donoghue) and the ambitious Amaury D’Montfort (Roberts), who will reshape the political landscape, forcing Rob and his allies to navigate shifting loyalties, royal power struggles and dangerous new threats. In the new season we will visit the treacherous courts of England, France, and Rome, with the outlaw rebellion transformed into a high stakes battle for the soul of a kingdom. As the Angevin empire threatens to tear itself apart, Rob and Marian are drawn into the orbit of kings and queens, forced to wield the very instruments of Norman power to secure a future for the Saxons. Jack Patten, Lauren McQueen, Sean Bean, Lydia Peckham, Steven Waddington and Connie Nielsen all return.