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.

SEE LESLIE MANN, ANNA FARIS, ISLA FISHER ESCAPE THEIR FAMILIES FOR A SPA WEEKEND IN HILARIOUS COMEDY MOVIE TRAILER

    SPA WEEKEND TRAILER  

FRIENDSHIP IS A REAL TRIP

Spa Weekend is booked for August 21st

If you are in the mood for something hilarious this summer, check out the trailer for crazy comedy SPA WEEKEND which will hit cinemas August 21st directed and written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. The cast is led by Leslie Mann, Anna Faris and Michelle Buteau who play three friends who decide to take a break from their husbands and families and go on a spa weekend that descends into chaos when their trainwreck friend, played by Isla Fisher, joins, leading to hilarious consequences. The hunk factor is also present in the form of Adam Demos who plays a love interest to Leslie Mann's character. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think. 

 

DAVID MORRISSEY AND ALAN CUMMING WILL ENGAGE IN WAR IN CHANNEL 4 NEW THRILLER TV SERIES TIP TOE THIS SUNDAY

   TIP TOE SERIES  

 STARTS THIS WEEK AT CHANNEL 4 

Channel 4 has released first trailer a few weeks ago featuring David Morrissey and Alan Cumming as leads in their new five part drama TIP TOE from Russell T. Davies but back then we did not have the air date. Today I can finally tell you that the series will start airing in UK this Sunday May 31st and that it will also stream down in Australia on their Binge streamer and Foxtel from June 2nd. 

 

IN THIS BRAND NEW TV SERIES

They will play Leo and Clive, who have lived next door to each other in Manchester for almost 15 years. But just as life should be settling down, the world around them is growing more tense. Words become weapons, opinions become radicalized, and gradually, two neighbors become deadly enemies in a tense, suburban thriller which challenges everything we consider to be safe. Pooky Quesnel, Jackson Connor, Joseph Evans, Paul Rhys, Charlie Condou will also star. 

 

HBO GIVES FIRST GLIMPSES AT THE GILDED AGE SERIES SEASON 4 AND THE WAR SERIES WITH DOMINIC WEST AND SIENNA MILLER

    FIRST LOOK AT   

THE GILDED AGE SERIES SEASON 4 

In their latest exclusive reel of what to expect in the second part of the year, HBO Max has unveiled, among others, first look at the fourth season of their popular costume drama THE GILDED AGE which arrives sometime this year and the trailer below shows Bertha dancing with her husband smiling which might mean the troubles in their marital paradise are over?  After Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon) changed society at a cost, her family must reckon with the consequences while Agnes van Rhijn (Christine Baranski) seizes in the new season an opportunity to regain her position. Meanwhile, Marian (Louisa Jacobson) forges a new path for herself, and Peggy (Denée Benton) works to be accepted by her future in-laws. There will also be a whole line of new characters in the fourth season.

 

THE WAR SERIES WITH DOMINIC WEST

HBO has also shared glimpses at their new six part thriller TV series WAR with Dominic West as tech titan Morgan Henderson and Sienna Miller as his estranged wife in a series that follows two of London’s most prestigious rival firms, Cathcarts and Taylor & Byrne, as they go head-to-head in the divorce case of the century. Each side is certain they’ll win. But as the case spirals and loyalties fracture, reputations are on the line, and everyone’s  playing to win. This is just the beginning as the series has been ordered for two seasons - season one’s explosive case is the first in an anthology of headline-making legal battles. Sky will air the series in UK. You can see other series coming up to HBO this year in the video below: