CATE BLANCHETT IS "CAROL"! IS OLIVER WALKER THE LEAD STAR OF BBC FANTASY SHOW "ATLANTIS" WITH MARK ADDY, CIARAN GRIFFITHS & ROBERT EMMS? COOKING FOR MR PRESIDENT IN DELIGHTFUL "HAUTE CUISINE" COMEDY TRAILER!

  CATE BLANCHETT

IN 'CAROL'

I can't say I liked their previous work together (I'M NOT THERE is still officially the most monotonous and self- observed movie I have ever watched) but Cate Blanchett and director Todd Haynes will work together again: Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska will star in CAROL, a movie adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel THE PRICE OF SALT. It's a love story about pursuit, betrayal and passion that follows the burgeoning relationship between two very different women in 1950s New York. One, a girl in her twenties working in a department store who dreams of a more fulfilling life, and the other, a wife trapped in a loveless, moneyed marriage desperate to break free but fearful of losing her daughter in the process. According to "Deadline" the filming should start this Autumn!

  IS OLIVER WALKER LEAD IN

BBC 'ATLANTIS' EPIC SHOW? 
Ever since BBC has revealed their cast for the new fantasy show ATLANTIS, which will take over the primetime spot from MERLIN this Autumn, I've been puzzled as to who will play the lead role since BBC has been very mysterious not giving us any detail on the characters. It was recently announced that young British actor Oliver Walker has joined the already announced cast which includes  Mark Addy (Game of Thrones, probably playing Hercules), Juliet Stevenson (White Heat), Sarah Parish (Mistresses), Jemima Rooper (Lost In Austen, to play Medusa), Aiysha Hart (to play Ariadne), Jack Donnelly (Dancing On The Edge) and Robert Emms (War Horse, he will play Pythagoras, Greek philosopher and mathematician), Ciaran Griffiths (from SHAMELESS, to play a Greek archaeologist). I wonder if Oliver Walker is actually the lead actor who will play young Jason who arrives to the city of ATLANTIS: a mysterious ancient place; a world of bull leaping, of snake haired goddesses and of palaces so vast it was said they were built by giants. Maybe that is why they kept his name a secret before? He certainly has the breathtaking looks for the role! Jack Donnelly (MISFITS, DANCING ON THE EDGE) could also be the hidden lead and he was in the cast from the start! The shooting has already started earlier this April for one of the most expensive BBC productions to date!

 HAUTE CUISINE

 DELIGHTFUL COMEDY TRAILER

Our trailer for today comes from France: it is the first, and a delightful, one for French comedy HAUTE CUISINE which will be released in US cinemas August 16th!  Hortense Laborie (Catherine Frot), a renowned chef from Perigord, is astonished when the President of the Republic (Jean d'Ormesson) appoints her his personal cook, responsible for creating all his meals at the Elysée Palace. Despite jealous resentment from the other kitchen staff, Hortense quickly establishes herself, thanks to her indomitable spirit. The authenticity of her cooking soon seduces the President, but the corridors of power are littered with traps. The comedy is based on the extraordinary true story of President François Mitterand's private cook!

HENRY CAVILL TO BE "MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E."? DAVID BOREANAZ, TOM FELTON, JULIAN MCMAHON IN "FULL CIRCLE" NEW TV SHOW! SPECTACULAR NEW "PACIFIC RIM" TRAILER WITH CHARLIE HUNNAM, IDRIS ELBA!

 HENRY CAVILL REPLACES

 TOM CRUISE IN 'MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E' MOVIE

Good news for all you fans of Henrilicious Cavill! According to "Variety" Henry Cavill is in talks to replace Tom Cruise in the lead role in Guy Ritchie's THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.! Cruise has left the sf project because he wants to focus on MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 5 and Warner wants to use Henry's hot popularity which surrounds him ahead of the premiere of MAN OF STEEL. If Henry gets the role he will star in the film remake of old TV show which followed two agents of the United Network Command for Law Enforcement as they fought the evil agents of Thrush. He will play Napoleon Solo, even though, while Cruise was still on for the role, Cavill actually talked with the studio to take the second role of  Illya Kuryakin  which later on went to Armie Hammer, who is still attached. Alicia Vikander is also in the cast. Henry currently has no other roles in his plans after MAN OF STEEL!

 'FULL CIRCLE' NEW TV SHOW

DAVID BOREANAZ, MINKA KELLY, JULIAN MCMAHON, TOM FELTON 
Quite a lot of television stars will gather up in the cast for new ten episode TV series FULL CIRCLE! According to "The Hollywood Reporter" David Boreanaz from BONES, Minka Kelly who is also starring in Karl Urban's new sf show ALMOST HUMAN, Tom Felton from HARRY PLOPPER, Julian McMahon from NIP/TUCK, and Cheyenne Jackson, are just some of the stars who will appear in  Neil LaBute drama about a group of 11 people whose lives are intertwined! Each episode takes place in a restaurant with a conversation between two characters, with one of the character's story lines carrying over into the next episode through a conversation with a new character. Tom Felton is an exchange student from England,  Minka Kelly is his love interest Bridgette while Julian McMahon is her husband, a charismatic and intense entertainment lawyer, David Boreanaz is his client a famous comic known for his outlandish behavior etc. The final episode brings the characters together  for an explosive ending that is sure to change all of these characters' lives irreparably.

  PACIFIC RIM

SPECTACULAR NEW TRAILER

Your trailer for today is the latest one for this summer's biggest science fiction epic PACIFIC RIM which will be unleashed into cinemas this July starring Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba and Rinko Kikuchi. As you've already read in HOLLYWOOD SPY's spotlight on the film, the story focuses on  humongous alien monsters Kaiju who have appeared from the depths of the ocean in order to destroy Earth, and they're attacking all the way from USA to Japan, Russia and Australia. In desperate attempt to fight off these monsters the nations of the world have gathered to create giant metal robots of their own, known as Jaegers which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge.

EVANGELINE LILLY SPILLS INFO ON TAURIEL FROM "THE HOBBIT DESOLATION OF SMAUG"! MATTHEW RHYS & MATTHEW GOODE IN "DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY" BBC SERIES! NEW "WORLD WAR Z" POSTER WITH BRAD PITT

  EVANGELINE LILLY ON HER

TAURIEL CHARACTER FROM "THE HOBBIT" EPIC FANTASY

Are you excited about THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG which should bring fairy tale to cinemas this December? As you know, one of the characters we haven't seen in THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY is of Elven archer Tauriel who is being played by stunning beauty Evangeline Lilly. Her character appears in the upcoming sequel as a member of Elven king Thranduil's royal guard. Speaking for the latest issue of Total Film, Evangeline has revealed that Tauriel, the character which doesn't exist in J.R.R. Tolkien's book and was invented for the film to add more female characters, will be a very young elf, only 600 years old, unlike Legolas who is 1,900 years old and Thranduil who is about 3,000 years old. Because of this she doesn't have quite the wisdom and pose that those two have and is more gritty, spontaneous, and passionate. Although graceful and refined as all other Elves, she is still a ruthless warrior!

  MATTHEW RHYS & MATTHEW GOODE

DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY 
And here's something for my ladies: according to: "Digital Spy" two dashing gents Matthew Goode and Matthew Rhys have been cast for BBC new mini series DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY! Based on P.D. James novel, which is set six years after the events in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" and centres around a murder mystery plot, the three part mini series will see Rhys playing Mr Darcy, Goode playing George Wickham and Anna Maxwell Martin playing Elizabeth Bennett! The story picks up six years into Elizabeth and Darcy’s marriage as they prepare for the annual ball at their magnificent Pemberley home. When Elizabeth’s wayward sister Lydia arrives, she brings a shocking halt to the proceedings. A murder investigation unfolds and a web of secrets and deceit threatens all that the Darcys hold dear.  Rhys currently stars in THE AMERICANS show, while Goode is set to star in Showtime's VATICAN series!

  WORLD WAR Z

NEW ZOMBIE POSTER!

Today you can also check out a brand new poster for upcoming zombie action epic WORLD WAR Z which will be released into cinemas June 21st! Directed by Marc Forster, this is a big screen movie adaptation of Max Brooks apocalyptic horror novel  in which Brad Pitt plays United Nations employee Gerry Lane who traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, and threatening to decimate humanity itself. The cast also includes James Badge Dale and Matthew Fox! Now we only wait to see if the extremely expensive $170 million movie will be apocalyptic for Paramount or will the hordes of crazed zombies bring them some cash!

"GAME OF THRONE"S EMILIA CLARKE IN "ROSALINE" REVISIONIST LOOK ON ROMEO & JULIET! "HERCULES" POSTER WITH KELLAN LUTZ! DREAMWORKS' ANIMATED "TURBO" MOVIE POSTERS!

  EMILIA CLARKE

 IN ROSALINE

Are you enjoying the glorious rise of Daenerys Stormborn the Dragon Queen in GAME OF THRONES? We do love her dragon gorgeousness, don't we? Emilia Clarke, who plays her, has a new gig: now that ROSALINE, the movie adaptation of Rebecca Serle's bestseller WHEN YOU WERE MINE has moved from Fox to Universal, instead of Lily Collins and Deborah Ann Woll, the roles of Julia and Rosaline will go to Emilia Clarke (who recently ended her hot fling with Seth MacFarlane) and Allison Williams (GIRLS). Dave Franco could play Romeo in this revisionist look on Romeo and Juliet story this time told from the perspective of Rosaline, Juliet's cousin who was Romeo's first love which he dumped after meeting Juliet. Michael Sucsy from THE VOW is directing.

  HERCULES 3D EPIC POSTER

  WITH KELLAN LUTZ 
Here's something fresh for you: the first poster for upcoming epic adventure HERCULES 3D which will hit cinemas next February with Kellan Lutz in the lead role! Unlike the rival Hercules project with   Dwayne Johnson, Rufus Sewell, Joseph Fiennes, Rebecca Ferguson and Ian McShane which will portray him as a mercenary and will not have mythological elements, Kellan Lutz's version is a historical love story in which Hercules is falling for the mortal princess of Crete, who was promised to his older brother. This one will be cheaper with $70 million budget. Liam McIntyre from SPARTACUS will play young army captain Sotiris, who is initially an antagonist of the mythical hero Hercules. The two of them become close friends before being sold into slavery by a treacherous king.

  TURBO ANIMATED FILM

 CHARACTER POSTERS!

Funny character posters have arrived for Dreamworks' new animated film TURBO which is out this October! Introducing the fastest snail on the planet (Ryan Reynolds), the film will also have  Whiplash (Samuel L. Jackson), Burn (Maya Rudolph), Smoove Move (Snoop Lion), White Shadow (Michael Bell) and Skidmark (Ben Schwartz). TURBO is the story of a garden snail with an impossible  dream: to win the Indy 500. When a freak accident gives him extraordinary speed, Turbo sets out to try to make this dream come true!

CELINE DION TO SING FOR "THE MUPPETS... AGAIN!" EVAN PETERS IS QUICKSILVER IN "X MEN DAYS OF FUTURE PAST"! ROSAMUND PIKE & SHILOH FERNANDEZ IN "RETURN TO SENDER"!

  CELINE DION TO SING FOR

 "THE MUPPETS ... AGAIN!" SEQUEL

 I've recently told you how I like the returning trend of big music stars singing promotional songs for blockbuster movies, and after we've recently seen Adele singing for SKYFALL, Leona Lewis for AVATAR, Mariah Carey for OZ GREAT AND POWERFUL and now Beyonce singing "Rise Up" for EPIC, the biggest pop star in history Celine Dion will again sing a movie song after her glorious success with "My Heart Will Go On" for TITANIC. She will now sing a theme song for MUPPETS ...AGAIN! Her song "Something So Right" will appear in next year's sequel in which Miss Piggy, Animal and the company will get caught up with a diamond thief called Constantine (played by British comedian Ricky Gervais) - a doppelgänger for Kermit - while on their world tour. Celine Dion is currently finishing her 25th album to be titled WATER AND A FLAME and she is also continuing her residence in Las Vegas where she is to sing in her own palace till 2019 for a head spinning salary! Her previous three year contract with Caesars Palace (which built Coloseum Theatre just for her) was apparently worth $100 million!

  EVAN PETERS IS QUICKSILVER

IN X MEN DAYS OF FUTURE PAST 
And while we have rumours that Saoirse Ronan might join AVENGERS 2 playing Scarlet Witch in Joss Whedon's sequel, X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST has stolen Scarlet's brother Quicksilver for their own superhero gallery. In Bryan Singer's film he will be played by Evan Peters from AMERICAN HORROR STORY! This complicates things a lot since Whedon has announced recently that both Scarlet and her twin brother Quicksilver will appear in AVENGERS 2 but it seems that Fox who is producing X-MEN has the rights on those two characters. They can apparently appear in AVENGERS but under their real names Pietro and Wanda Maximoff and cannot be portrayed as mutants! Quicksilver is Magneto's son, who has the power of super-human speed. X-MEN DAYS OF FUTURE PAST stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult and Hugh Jackman!

  ROSAMUND PIKE IN

RETURN TO SENDER THRILLER

British actress Rosamund Pike, whom we've seen as queen Andromeda in WRATH OF THE TITANS epic, has joined new thriller RETURN TO SENDER which already has Shiloh Fernandez and Nick Nolte in the cast.  The story follows a small town nurse (Rosamund Pike) who goes on a blind date with a mysterious man (Shiloh Fernandez), and suffers a life-altering event shortly thereafter. Nick Nolte plays her father. We shall watch Pike next year in HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS about a psychiatrist who searches the globe to find the secret of happiness. That one has a stellar cast: Toni Collette, Christopher Plummer, Simon Pegg, Jean Reno! She will again star with Toni Collette and also with Pierce Brosnan, Imogen Poots, Sam Neill and Aaron Paul in A LONG WAY DOWN which follows four people who meet on New Year's Eve while trying to commit suicides and form a surrogate family to help one another weather the difficulties of their lives.

HOLLYWOOD SPY EXCLUSIVE SPOTLIGHT ON NEW CBS SCIENCE FICTION SHOW "UNDER THE DOME" BASED ON STEPHEN KING'S NOVEL WITH MIKE VOGEL, RACHELLE LEFEVRE & JEFF FAHEY

Most of your favourite shows are currently having season finales and it means the summer with nothing interesting on TV is around the corner. But do not despair, beside new epic show THE WHITE QUEEN which hits BBC this June and Starz in August, you will also watch brand new science fiction mystery show UNDER THE DOME over at CBS. Based on Stephen King's book, the new show should start its 13 episode run from Monday June 24th!

  THE DOME STORY

FAITH, FEAR & FASCISM

Set in the not too distant future, UNDER THE DOME tells the story of the residents of the small town of Chester's Mill, Maine, who suddenly find themselves cut off from the rest of the world by a mysterious, impenetrable barrier that unexpectedly falls down from nowhere surrounding the town. As the town begins to tear itself apart through panic, a small group of people attempt to maintain peace and order while also trying to uncover the truth behind the barrier and how to  escape from it. Faced with the new situation, the people of Chester's Mill will first experience faith, then fear and then fascism since everything will go wrong under the dome and they will need an iron fist to bring them order!

  THE DOME CAST

MIKE VOGEL & RACHELLE LEFEVRE

Mike Vogel plays Dale "Barbie" Barbara, an Army veteran in town on a mysterious mission. Rachelle Lefevre is Julia, an investigative reporter who takes an interest in Barbie. Colin Ford is Joe, a smart teenager whose parents are trapped outside the barrier. Natalie Martinez is Deputy Linda, a loyal and ambitious sheriff's deputy. Ned Bellamy is Rev. Lester Coggins. Dean Norris is James "Big Jim" Rennie, politician and owner of Jim Rennie's Used Cars, who seeks to use the dome as a way to gain control of Chester's Mill. Alexander  Koch is Junior Rennie, Big Jim's emotionally disturbed son. Britt Robertson is Angie McAlister, an aspiring nurse with dreams of escaping the town. Nicholas Strong is Phil, a popular radio DJ with a dark secret. Jolene Purdy is Dodee, a radio engineer who makes contact with the outside world. Aisha Hinds is Carolyn Hill, a Los Angeles entertainment attorney who is trapped in the town with her partner and teenage daughter. Jeff Fahey is Howard "Duke" Perkins, chief of the police department.

JENNIFER ANISTON STRIPS IN NEW "WE'RE THE MILLERS" TRAILER WITH JASON SUDEIKIS! BIDDING WAR IN CANNES FOR JUDI DENCH'S DRAMA "PHILOMENA"! "THE DROWNED WORLD" SF MOVIE ADAPTATION

  JUDI DENCH'S NEW DRAMA

 PHILOMENA RAISES BIDDING WAR

In news from Cannes, in a huge bidding war for the distribution rights on Judi Dench's new drama PHILOMENA, The Weinstein Company won and will probably release the film this Fall. A few days ago a seven minute teaser was shown to potential buyers who were all left stunned and jaw-opened and this started a heated bid. The future film award contender directed by Stephen Frears (THE QUEEN, MRS HENDERSON PRESENTS) brings true story of an Irish woman whose son was sold for adoption in America, and their attempts to reunite with each other. It's a movie adaptation of Martin Sixsmith's book "The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son and a 50 Year Search", which describes how PHILOMENA was forced by nuns to give up her son Anthony when he was 3. Anthony was sold for adoption in America, where he grew up to be a successful lawyer and politician. In the 1980s, after he contracted AIDS, he visited Ireland in an attempt to find his mother.

  DROWNED WORLD FILM

  ON J.G. BALLARD'S NOVEL

Warner Bros. has apparently bought the movie adaptation rights for J.G. Ballard's novel THE DROWNED WORLD with HARRY PLOPPER producers set to produce. Written fifty years ago the story was set in 2145 imagining a terrifying world in which solar radiation has melted the ice caps. Jungles have overrun continental Europe, and London is for the most part left submerged under water. The protagonist is a biologist who lives on the 35th floor of a high-rise, where only two floors sit above the water line. He battles a savage environment, and primordial creatures that prowl the undergrowth and also some evil anarchists who rule the city and terrorize its inhabitants. Steven Spielberg previously adapted Ballard's EMPIRE OF THE SUN into an award winning drama.

  WE'RE THE MILLERS TRAILER

 JASON SUDEIKIS & JENNIFER ANISTON COMEDY

Here are two adorable people - Jason Sudeikis and Jennifer Aniston - in a very strange movie - WE'RE THE MILLERS! A new trailer has just been released for this comedy which will premiere in cinemas this August with always delightful Sudeikis playing a veteran pot dealer who creates a fake family as part of his plan to move a huge shipment of weed into the U.S. from Mexico. Jennifer Aniston plays his fake wife while Emma Roberts and Will Poulter play their fake teenage children who all go on this hilarious gig together. My boys should know that the trailer contains a hot stripping scene with Aniston :)

AMY ADAMS, OLIVIA WILDE, SCARLET JOHANSSON, CHRIS PRATT, JOAQUIN PHOENIX IN "HER"! "SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL" & "RED QUEEN" FANTASY ADAPTATIONS! SANDRA BULLOCK & MELISSA MCCARTHY "HEAT" 2ND TRAILER

  SF FILM 'HER' WITH

SCARLETT JOHANSSON, OLIVIA WILDE, AMY ADAMS, JOAQUIN PHOENIX

Now, this is certainly a star studded cast: ready to premiere this Autumn in Europe is new comedy movie HER  from Spike Jonze which also has science fiction elements! Joaquin Phoenix takes the lead role of a lonely writer, from a not so distant future, who develops an unlikely relationship with his newly purchased operating system that's designed to meet his every need. He apparently falls in love with HER voice. The cast has just added Scarlett Johansson and Chris Pratt, and it already included Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Samantha Morton, Olivia Wilde...  Speaking of Scarlett Johansson she is to appear in both CAPTAIN AMERICA 2 WINTER SOLDIER and AVENGERS 2 as the Black Widow and later this year she should star in UNDER THE SKIN as an extremely sexy alien in curvaceous human form who is having sexy adventures in Scotland. Yes, you read it right.

  FANTASY ADAPTATION OF

THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL
In today's fantasy news, first "Deadline" reports that upcoming fantasy saga THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL by Soman Chainani has been sold for movie adaptation! To be published this month by Harper Collins it tells the story of ordinary boys and girls who are kidnapped from their homes and sent to The School for Good and Evil, where they are trained to be fairy tale heroes and villains, princesses and witches. The protagonist is Sophie, a beauty who is dumped into the School for Evil while her homely best friend Agatha is taken to the School for Good. Both girls find their fortunes reversed and are forced to confront the truth about their unexpected destinies.

  VICTORIA AVEYARD'S

RED QUEEN
Meanwhile, Universal has grabbed the movie rights for Victoria Aveyard's fantasy novel RED QUEEN  set in a fantasy world where society is divided by the color of blood. It features a 17 year old girl who, to save her family, must assume the role of a long-lost princess while secretly aiding a revolution; her actions put into motion a deadly and violent dance, pitting prince against prince and her against her own heart. 22 year old Aveyard recently got a shocking mid six figure deal from Harper Collins for the book scheduled for 2015!

  SECOND 'THE HEAT' TRAILER

 SANDRA BULLOCK & MELISSA MCCARTHY

Your trailer for today is the second one for this summer's comedy THE HEAT which puts together Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy as two unlikely police partners! Hitting cinemas this July, the hilarious comedy will see Sandra Bullock playing uptight FBI special agent Sarah Ashburn who is paired with testy Boston cop Shannon Mullins, played by McCarthy, in order to take down a ruthless drug lord. The hitch: neither woman has ever had a partner - or a friend for that matter. The cast also includes Marlon Wayans, Michael Rapaport and Demian Bichir.

KATE HUDSON JOINS ZACH BRAFF IN "WISH I WAS HERE" COMEDY! MIA MAESTRO & COREY STOLL IN GUILERMO DEL TORO'S "THE STRAIN" SF SHOW! "AS COOL AS I AM" TRAILER WITH JAMES MARSDEN, SARAH BOLGER, CLAIRE DANES

  KATE HUDSON JOINS

WISH I WAS HERE 

Here's an interesting couple: Kate Hudson has joined Zach Braff in his WISH I WAS HERE project for which he is trying to collect enough money at Kickstarter! The two of them will play a married couple in a story about Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor who can't quite provide for his family. When his father (Mandy Patinkin) becomes ill, he reluctantly agrees to home-school his father's young children, which forces him to learn a lot about himself in the process. Jim Parsons, Anna Kendrick and Donald Faison are also in the cast.

  GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S

THE STRAIN SF SHOW 

Deadline reports that FX has found lead actors for their new high concept action thriller science fiction 13 episode show THE STRAIN. Mia Maestro and Corey Stoll will star in Guillermo del Toro's story  about Dr. Ephraim Goodweather (Stoll), the head of the Centres for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. He and his team are called upon to investigate a mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of an ancient and evil strain of vampirism. Mia Maestro plays Dr. Nora Martinez, who works so closely with Ephraim, they finish each other’s sentences and stumble into an affair. A brilliant biochemist, Martinez cares more about people than the diseases that threaten them, but she will soon be forced to embrace a new identity as a ruthless warrior.

  'AS COOL AS I AM' TRAILER

 JAMES MARSDEN, SARAH BOLGER, CLAIRE DANES

It's been a poor day in movie business, so the only trailer I have for you today is for indie drama AS COOL AS I AM with the cast which includes brilliant James Marsden, gorgeous Sarah Bolger from THE TUDORS and ONCE UPON A TIME, and Claire Danes. Ready to start its theatre life this June, the drama follows a  smart teenage girl (Bolger) who comes of age in a small town with her self-centred parents who had her when they were teenagers. So, as you can see from the trailer it's a typical drama about bad parents who are raised by their own kids.

ANTONIO BANDERAS & RODRIGO SANTORO ARE CHILEAN MINERS IN "THE 33"! DEV PATEL IN "THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY"! SAM CLAFLIN, DOUGLAS BOOTH IN "POSH"! "TOMORROW PEOPLE" SF SHOW TRAILER! "ALI & NINO" EXOTIC EPIC

  BANDERAS & SANTORO

ARE CHILEAN MINERS IN "THE 33"

According to "Deadline" Antonio Banderas is ready to take the lead role in THE 33, a movie dramatization of the tragic events in 2010 when the miners in Chile got caved in. Rescuers were working hard to save them during 69 days that the miners spent entrapped! The cast also includes Rodrigo Santoro, whom we shall watch again as Persian emperor Xerxes in 300 RISE OF AN EMPIRE, and Martin Sheen! Banderas will play the leader of the miners.

  DEV PATEL IN

THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY 

When it comes to period pieces, according to "The Hollywood Reporter", everybody's fave Indian actor Dev Patel, who delighted us in THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL and in SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, will play the lead role in THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY, about the life of Indian genius Ramanujan, famed mathematician who worked in isolation in Edwardian India before joining the wider mathematics community in Cambridge.

  SAM CLAFLIN & DOUGLAS BOOTH

ARE 'POSH'   
In a less serious movie, three young superhunks Sam Claflin, Douglas Booth and Max Irons will star together in the movie adaptation of theatre play POSH which follows two first-year students at Oxford University who join the infamous Riot Club  of privileged students, where reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of a single evening.

  ALI AND NINO

  EXOTIC WW1 EPIC

In epic news today: Deadline reports that ATONEMENT scribe Christopher Hampton is adapting epic WW1 love story based on Kurban Said's classic novel ALI AND NINO. The story is set in Azerbaijan where Ali Khan Shirvanshir, the male descendant of a royal Muslim family, falls in love with Nino Kipiani, a beautiful, Christian, Georgian princess.

  THE TOMORROW PEOPLE

 NEW SF SHOW TRAILER

After yesterday's trailers for new sf shows THE 100 and STAR CROSSED, here's a trailer for third new sf show to air at CW this Autumn: TOMORROW PEOPLE - the next evolutionary leap of mankind, a generation of humans born with paranormal abilities. Stephen Jameson stands at the crossroads between the world we  know and the shifting world of the future. Up until a year ago, Stephen was a “normal” teenager — until he began hearing voices and teleporting in his sleep, never knowing where he might wake up. Now, Stephen’s issues have gone far beyond the usual teenage angst, and he is beginning   to question his sanity. In desperation, Stephen decides to listen to one of the voices in his head, and it leads him to his first encounter with the Tomorrow People — John, Cara and Russell — a genetically advanced race with the abilities of telekinesis, teleportation and telepathic communication.

GERARD BUTLER IN SF ACTION "THE RAVEN"! TRAILERS FOR NEW SF SHOWS "THE 100" WITH ELIZA TAYLOR, ELI GOREE AND "STAR CROSSED" WITH MATT LANTER & AIMEE TEEGARDEN!

  GERARD BUTLER

IN 'THE RAVEN' SF MOVIE

Did you notice that robotic cops are currently trendy in Tinseltown? Beside ROBOCOP remake coming soon with Joel Kinnaman and the new J.J.Abrams sf show ALMOST HUMAN with Karl Urban, we shall also see futuristic cops in THE RAVEN! Universal is apparently negotiating with Scottish hunkster Gerard Butler to take the lead role, which was previously meant for Liam Hemsworth, in this story which revolves around a man with incredible super-human talents, who is on the run from robotic cop drones in downtown Los Angeles, while a police ship hovers the skies, coordinating the chase. Wait, didn't Butler did something similar in GAME? Gerard also has HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON sequel in the future!

  'THE 100' SF SHOW

 APOCALYPTIC TEENS

When it comes to clips, HOLLYWOOD SPY is bringing you trailers for two new science fiction shows coming to CW this Autumn. The first one is for THE 100! Set 97 years after a nuclear war has destroyed civi- lization, the show follows a spaceship housing the lone human survivors which sends 100 juvenile delinquents back to Earth to investigate the possibility of re-colonizing the planet. Eliza Taylor, Eli Goree, Kelly Hu, Christopher Larkin, Isaiah Washington lead the cast! 

  STAR CROSSED SF SHOW

 ALIEN & HUMAN LOVE STORY

The second trailer is for a more romantic type of sf show! Previously called OXYGEN and now retitled into STAR CROSSED,  it will be a kind of a futuristic Romeo and Juliet with Matt Lanter and Aimee Teegarden portraying a pair of "star-crossed" lovers - one human, one alien - who go to a high school together. Ten years after aliens Atrians had crashed on Earth and warred with humans they've acclimatized themselves to Earth and now some of the young aliens are sent to a human high school to test the feasibility of their integration. The eyes of the nation and the whole world are fixed on this historical social experiment, an endeavour fraught with suspicion and fear.

EMILY BLUNT TO JOIN MERYL STREEP, JOHNNY DEPP IN "INTO THE WOODS"? PIERCE BROSNAN IN "NOVEMBER MAN" WITH OLGA KURYLENKO & "HOW TO MAKE LOVE LIKE AN ENGLISHMAN" WITH JESSICA ALBA! "YOUNG AND PRODIGIOUS SPIVET" TRAILER WITH HELENA BONHAM CARTER

  INTO THE WOODS

EMILY BLUNT JOINS MERYL STREEP & JOHNNY DEPP?

Oooh, we certainly do like how the cast for new musical film INTO THE WOODS, which is to be directed by Rob Marshall, is shaping up: only a few days ago I informed you that Chris Pine and Jake Gyllenhaal are to join Meryl Streep (a witch) and Johnny Depp (a wolf) in the cast as Cinderella's and Rapunzel's princes, and now divine British rose Emily Blunt is negotiating to take the role of baker's wife. The plot follows a baker who, together with his wife, ventures into a forest in order to lift a curse that an evil witch has  put upon him, and there in the woods they meet all kinds of fairy tale characters. The lead male role is yet to be cast, but Christine Baranski is also in as Cinderella's mean-spirited stepmother.

 PIERCE BROSNAN

  WITH OLGA KURYLENKO IN "NOVEMBER MAN" 
Ready to shoot soon over in Belgrade, Serbia, is new action film NOVEMBER MAN which will be based on a Bill Granger novel, and will see Pierce Brosnan playing an ex-CIA agent who goes up against his former protege (Luke Bracey) in a race against time to find a woman (Olga Kurylenko) who holds the key to a vast conspiracy. According to rumours Dominic Cooper might join them as well!
IN "HOW TO MAKE LOVE LIKE AN ENGLISH MAN"
Speaking of Pierce Brosnan he will also star in HOW TO MAKE LOVE LIKE AN ENGLISHMAN playing a Cambridge University professor who is forced to reexamine his hedonistic lifestyle after meeting a great gal (Kristin Scott Thomas). Things get complicated when he impregnates her grad student stepsister (Jessica Alba).

  YOUNG AND PRODIGIOUS SPIVET

TRAILER WITH HELENA BONHAM CARTER & KYLE CATLETT

You know how your trusted HOLLYWOOD SPY has a soft spot in his heart for delightful and heart warming flicks? Here is one of that kind: THE YOUNG AND PRODIGIOUS SPIVET a charming new movie from the brilliant directer Jean Pierre Jeunet (AMELIE, DELICATESSEN, THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN) in which the story revolves around a 12-year-old cartographer who secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute. Adorable little Kyle Catlett leads the cast which also includes Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Robert Maillet and Niamh Wilson! The $33 million movie is scheduled to open in European cinemas this Autumn!