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.

 

TV NEWS: TONI COLLETTE TO LEAD DRAMEDY SERIES LENNI AT APPLE TV +, THREE REASONS FOR REVENGE PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER TO BE TURNED INTO TV SERIES

   LATEST TELEVISION NEWS  

TONI COLLETTE TO LEAD LENNI SERIES

Apple TV + has cast Toni Collette as the lead of their new dramedy series LENNI next to Ciaran Hinds, Dan Wyllie, Josh McKenzie, Celeste

Toni Collette will lead the new series

Barber, Genevieve Hegney, Arka Das and Wayne Blair. Toni will play a divorced social worker who, after a family tragedy, tries to protect her loved ones from the rough-and-tumble of life. It is a darkly comedic mystery about family — what it means to have one, to lose one, to pull one apart. Lenni, a child welfare worker and divorced mother of two, spends her days fighting for other people’s families while her own is in a constant state of hilarious chaos. The season will follow Lenni through a new case, where the stakes couldn’t be higher as her work and personal life collide. 

  

The book has become a massive hit

THREE REASONS FOR REVENGE

Down in Australia Easy Tiger company has bought TV series rights on THREE REASONS FOR REVENGE hit book by Dervla McTiernan. Shaun Grant will pen the script for the series which tells the story of three seemingly unconnected people caught in a lethal web of deceit and unhealed wounds. Three mysterious gifts are delivered to three very different houses in Melbourne; each gift is perfectly tailored to its recipient – and each will tear apart the life of its intended victim. Easy Tiger previously did The Twelve, Scrublands and Territory series! 

 

NEW ROBIN HOOD MOVIE THE LIE OF SHERWOOD FOREST CASTS FINN COLE, ANTONY STARR, THOMASIN MCKENZIE

 THE LIE OF SHERWOOD FOREST 

NEW ROBIN HOOD FILM SETS CAST

A new retelling of Robin Hood legend has set its lead cast. THE LIE OF SHERWOOD from Patrick Vollrath will star Thomasin McKenzie, Finn Cole and Antony Starr. The story sees Robin Hood and his companions deceived by a young woman into undertaking a daring mission to rescue her captured brother, an operation that spirals into a perilous heist. As loyalties fracture and hidden motives emerge, the outlaws must confront the true cost of their choices and the price of challenging those in power. But what begins as one desperate lie will inadvertently change the course of the legend forever.

SEE RICHARD MADDEN AS SECRETARY OF DEFENSE IN THE TRAILER FOR NETFLIX THRILLER SERIES TRINITY FROM BODYGUARD CREATORS

  RICHARD MADDEN TRAILER  

FOR TRINITY THRILLER SERIES AT NETFLIX

Coming straight from the creators of his most successful series Bodyguard is Richard Madden's TRINITY thriller series which will start December 1st over at Netflix. Gugu Mbatha Raw joins him in the eight part drama as a heroic female Naval Officer who becomes involved with the outwardly charismatic Secretary of Defense (Madden), only to discover he may be at the heart of a dangerous conspiracy. Commander Katherine Decker is described as serving as second-in-command on the USS Kansas, a nuclear submarine and one of the deadliest weapons on Earth. Madden's Secretary of Defense is called Webb Preston. With a technology background that makes him different from most politicians, Webb’s innovation and purpose are seen as a threat in more ways than one. Watch the trailer below:

 

NEW BOOK ADAPTATIONS: HOUSE OF HUDSON HISTORICAL SERIES ON THE FOUNDATION OF CANADA, AND NETHER STATION AND NETHER VORTEX SF MOVIES FROM PAUL W.S. ANDERSON

  NEW BOOK ADAPTATIONS 

RISE AND FALL OF HUDSON BAY EMPIRE

The book will be turned into a TV series

As Deadline reports, Canadian Titan1Studios will develop HOUSE OF HUDSON historical series based on Stephen R. Bown‘s historical book The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson’s Bay Empire. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the 1820s, the story of the series will be exploring the bloody war of attrition between the Hudson’s Bay Company and its hyper-violent rival, the North West Company, culminating in their forced corporate merger and the ruthless rise of Sir George Simpson, the cold-blooded governor known as ‘The Little Emperor.' The story will shift between the opulent, scheming boardrooms of London and Montreal and the unforgiving wilderness.

  

NETHER STATION & NETHER VORTEX

A completely different, but also epic genre will be Paul W.S. Anderson's movie adaptations of sf books NETHER STATION and NETHER VORTEX by Kevin J. Anderson. The novels follow Cammie Skoura, a brilliant, neurodivergent young scientist aboard a deep-space expedition that uncovers a trail of ancient ruins and long-dead alien civilizations leading toward a mind-shattering discovery. The filmmaker is known for his adaptations of Resident Evil games.

 

JOSH O'CONNOR, DAMIAN LEWIS, PATSY FERRAN, LESLEY MANVILLE SET FOR PERIOD SET GOTHIC MOVIE JACK OF SPADES AT NETFLIX

    JACK OF SPADES   

NETFLIX GOTHIC MOVIE SETS LEAD CAST

Joel Coen is set to direct the gothic mystery movie adaptation JACK OF SPADES of Frederica Montresor classic novel The Alien: A Story of Middle Age, a story of intrigue and betrayal set in the Scottish Highlands, which will star Patsy Ferran, Josh O’Connor, Damian Lewis and Lesley Manville. To arrive in Fall 2027, it sets lead character Esther Mordaunt in a bleak, gray English estate, where memories and a chance friendship begin to reshape what middle age might mean. Esther, now well into her thirties invites a world of experience into Applehurst and we follow her evolving bond with Jasper, a traveler with a vivid past and a talent for storytelling. Through his tales of sailing, revolutions, and distant lands, the story explores how a single life can stretch across time, risk, and longing without losing its humanity.