EMMA LAIRD, ISABELLA ROSSELLINI TO LEAD MARIE ANTOINETTE COURT SET MOVIE DRAMA VERMILLION

    VERMILLION   

MARIE ANTOINETTE ERA SET MOVIE DRAMA

British director Jon Amiel is preparing a French revolution set movie drama VERMILLION. Leading the cast is Emma Laird as Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, a daughter of the lower middle classes who uses her skills as a portrait painter to hustle her way into the royal court of Versailles.

Emma Laird will lead the new movie

 She has an affair with the left leaning, impoverished Count Alexis de Ligne, a handsome aristocrat who makes his living as a toy-boy for wealthy older women, to get a commission to paint the naive young Queen Marie Antoinette. Isabella Rossellini plays the formidable Madame de Noailles, an old-school aristocrat devoted to Marie Antoinette and haunted by a lost love. Millicent Simmonds plays Berthe, Élisabeth’s young servant and frequent muse. Her portraits will make her as immortal as ‘The Girl With the Pearl Earring'. But each underestimates the subversive power of love. As the deadly firestorm of the French Revolution erupts and the guillotine looms, all three will come to learn the true meaning of loyalty, friendship and courage.

SEE RAFE SPALL AS PRIME MINISTER IN FIRST IMAGES FROM CHANNEL 4 SERIES NUMBER TEN WITH JENNA COLEMAN, LAURA HADDOCK, RICHARD RANKIN

    NUMBER 10 SERIES   

RAFE SPALL IS THE PRIME MINISTER

Channel 4 and Steven Moffat have produced new comedy series NUMBER 10 with Rafe Spall playing the prime minister, Katherine Kelly as his Chief of Staff, and Jenna Coleman as her deputy and today we have the first images to prove it. Laura Haddock and Richard Rankin also star! There’s a Prime Minister in the attic, a coffee bar in the basement, and a wallpapered labyrinth of romance, crisis and heartbreak in-between. Set in the only terrace house in history with mice and a nuclear deterrent, it’s the only knock-through in the world where a hangover can start a war. The government will be fictional and unspecific, but the problems will be real. We’ll never know which party is in power, because once the whole world hits the fan it barely matters. The series will air sometime this year.

COLIN MORGAN, LUKE TREADAWAY TO LEAD NEW FAMILY ADVENTURE SERIES THE EMPEROR'S STONE FOR RAI, ZDF AND FRANCE TELEVISIONS

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TV SERIES STARRING COLIN MORGAN

We do ever so love European coproductions and now French France Television, German ZDF and Italian RAI are producing a six episode family adventure series THE EMPEROR'S STONE starring our dear Colin Morgan alongside Luke Treadaway! In the series, an ex-treasure-hunter

First look at Colin and Luke in the new series

 and descendent of a famous pirate uncovers a lost diary that could lead to the mysterious and powerful Emperor’s Stone. To repair his fractured family and save their home, they follow clues left by their ancestors, finding themselves facing dangerous powers on a high-stakes adventure to stop the stone from falling into the wrong hands.

RORY KINNEAR, ELEANOR TOMLINSON, EVE MYLES, DAVID THEWLIS TO LEAD CHANNEL 4 COMIC THRILLER WRONG MOVE

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ADS RORY KINNEAR, DAVID THEWLIS, EVE MYLES, ELEANOR TOMPLINSON

Channel 4 has announced cast for their comic thriller mini TV series WRONG MOVE which will be led by Rory Kinnear, Eleanor Tomlinson, Eva Myles, David Thewlis, David Bradley, in the story that follows complicated lives of the people trying to take the next steps up the property ladder, and the misguided notion that moving house can fix everything. The plot follows three couples who are tied in a property-buying chain, only for the person at the top to pull out the night before the deals are done, causing chaos for those lower down.

NIKOLAJ ARCEL CASTS CASPER KJAER JENSEN AS HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN IN MY FAIRYTALE LIFE EPIC BIOPIC

  CASPER KJAER JENSEN  

TO LEAD HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN BIOPIC

I told you before that Nikolaj Arcel is planning an epic biopic on Hans Christian Andersen MY FAIRYTALE LIFE and now he has revealed Casper Kjaer Jensen as the lead. In the film, Hans Christian Andersen, a socially awkward outsider, moves to Copenhagen with an impossible dream of conquering the city’s vibrant cultural life and becoming a famous artist. In a colourful world of actors, playwrights and benefactors, Hans Christian fights to gain recognition, acceptance, and love. The production should start towards the end of the year in Denmark. 

SEE EPIC TEASER WITH CHRISTOPHER ABBOTT, FLORENCE PUGH IN NETFLIX MINI TV SERIES ADAPTATION OF EAST OF EDEN

   EAST OF EDEN   

FIRST LOOK AT TV SERIES ADAPTATION

East of Eden will arrive sometime this Autumn

After casting Florence Pugh and Christopher Abbott in the lead role, Netflix added Ciaran Hinds, Mike Faist and Hoon Lee to the cast of EAST OF EDEN mini series adaptation of Steinbeck's classic novel producedby Zoe Kazan, whose grandad Elia directed the original film, and now we have the first teaser for the series that will arrive sometime this Autumn. Set in California’s Salinas Valley over a period that stretches from the Civil War to the end of World War I, the epic novel tells the interconnected stories of the Hamilton family, an Irish immigrant family with nine children, and the Trask family, lead by the wealthy Adam Trask (to be played by Abbott in the seven part series). Check out the rather epic teaser trailer below and tell us what you think, will you watch?

 

ALEX PROYAS TO DIRECT A HISTORICAL EPIC BIOPIC THE HAKIM ON THE LEGENDARY RULER OF BAHRAIN AND HIS 63 YEARS LONG RULE

     THE HAKIM   

BIOPIC ON THE RULER OF BAHRAIN

The casting is currently underway

According to Deadline, Alex Proyas is set to direct historical epic THE HAKIM about legendary Bahrain ruler Shaikh Isa bin Ali Al Khalifa who led his country through an immense period of change over the course of 63 years from 1869 to 1932. The storyline will follow Shaikh Ali from his time as a young ruler who inherits Bahrain’s throne at 19-years-old following the death of his father. He must hold his family and nation together amid piracy, the collapse of the pearling economy, natural disaster and the discovery of oil that will reshape the future of the region.

PRIME VIDEO ORDERS REBECCA YARROS' FOURTH WING EPIC SAGA TV SERIES ADAPTATION PRODUCED BY MICHAEL B. JORDAN

    FOURTH WING   

TV SERIES ORDERED AT PRIME VIDEO

Beside setting the third season of Rings of Power epic series for November 11th, Prime Video has also ordered a TV series adaptation of Rebecca Yarros' hit saga FOURTH WING. The story of the world wide bestseller is set inside the brutal world of Basgiath War College, where there is only one rule: graduate or die. Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was always expected to live a quiet life — but she’s sent on an entirely different path when her mother, a general in the military, orders her to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become dragon riders, the elite of  Navarre. Michael B. Jordan is executive producing with Meredith Averill as the showrunner.

SEE OCTAVIA SPENCER, HANNAH WADDINGHAM, BILL NIGHY, ED SKREIN, CALAM LYNCH IN RIDE OR DIE ACTION COMEDY SERIES FROM PRIME VIDEO

    RIDE OR DIE SERIES   

FIRST IMAGES WITH OCTAVIA SPENCER, HANNAH WADDINGHAM AND BILL NIGHY

Prime Video has unveiled first images from their new action comedy series RIDE OR DIE which will be available for streaming from July 15th starring Octavia Spencer, Hannah Waddingham, Bill Nighy, Ed Skrein and Calam Lynch. It follows best friends Debbie Claybourne (Spencer) and Judith Burton (Waddingham), who thought they knew everything about each other, except Judith turns out to be an international assassin. When a mysterious figure emerges from Judith’s past and a hit goes horribly wrong, both of their worlds are turned upside down as they’re forced to go on the run together. It’s a race against time and a road trip across Europe, with law enforcement, highly trained assassins, and some very dangerous criminals at their heels.

FELICITY JONES AND VINCENT CASSEL TO LEAD ELEVEN MISSING DAYS AGATHA CHRISTIE DISAPPEARANCE THRILLER MOVIE

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AGATHA CHRISTIE IN ELEVEN MISSING DAYS

It has been announced that Felicity Jones will take the lead in ELEVEN MISSING DAYS thriller movie about that time when Agatha Christie disappeared. In December 1926, at the height of her fame, Agatha Christie became front-page news when she vanished in bizarre circumstances from her home. In a case of life imitating art, this whodunnit explores the investigation behind her disappearance, strangely resembling an Agatha Christie novel itself where everyone in her life became a suspect. Vincent Cassel will play a retired Belgian police detective who gets drawn into the case, similar to Christie’s most famous detective Hercule Poirot.