HUGH JACKMAN IS
GREATEST SHOWMAN ON EARTH
You have already heard him sing in LES MISERABLES but I'm fully sure you won't mind hearing Hugh Jackman's heavenly voice again! According to 'Deadline' 20th Century Fox is finally moving on with the production on THE GREATEST SHOWMAN ON EARTH which is supposed to be the first original live action movie musical in last two decades! To start shooting next summer, the movie will see Hugh Jackman playing P.T. Barnum, as he literally invents show business and the three-ring circus. The showman had a penchant for pulling elaborate hoaxes on the gullible public before the three-ring circus took off. As you know, Hugh will, next year, play Captain Blackbeard in live action Peter PAN movie, and will star next to a good-natured robot in CHAPPIE sf movie.
HBO ORDERS 'WESTWORLD'
TV SERIES WITH ANTHONY HOPKINS, JAMES MARSDEN, ED HARRIS, RODRIGO SANTORO
In TV news, HBO has officially ordered WESTWORLD into TV series!
Inspired by Michael Crichton’s 1973 sci-fi movie this science fiction
series will have a starstudded cast lead by Anthony Hopkins (as the
director of WESTWORLD), Ed Harris (as a mysterious villain), Evan Rachel
Wood (as an Westworld inhabitant who discovers she is actually an
android), James Marsden (as a gunslinger), Thandie Newton (as a madame),
Rodrigo Santoro and Miranda Otto! Described as a dark odyssey about the
dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin, the 
series
tells the story of a futuristic amusement park called Westworld where
beautiful androids serve for the pleasure of human guests.
In TV news, HBO has officially ordered WESTWORLD into TV series!
Inspired by Michael Crichton’s 1973 sci-fi movie this science fiction
series will have a starstudded cast lead by Anthony Hopkins (as the
director of WESTWORLD), Ed Harris (as a mysterious villain), Evan Rachel
Wood (as an Westworld inhabitant who discovers she is actually an
android), James Marsden (as a gunslinger), Thandie Newton (as a madame),
Rodrigo Santoro and Miranda Otto! Described as a dark odyssey about the
dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin, the series
tells the story of a futuristic amusement park called Westworld where
beautiful androids serve for the pleasure of human guests.
'SEVENTH SON' NEW TRAILER
BEN BARNES & JULIANNE MOORE
Before I present you with the first CINDERELLA movie trailer tomorrow, you can check out a new international trailer for THE SEVENTH SON epic 
fantasy which opens next February following Master Gregory (Jeff Bridges), a knight who had imprisoned the malevolently powerful witch, Mother Malkin (Julianne Moore), centuries ago. But now she has escaped and is seeking vengeance. Summoning her followers of every incarnation, Mother Malkin is preparing to unleash her terrible wrath on an unsuspecting world. Only one thing stands in her way: Master Gregory. In a deadly reunion, Gregory comes face to face with the evil he always feared would someday return. He has only until the next full moon to do 
what usually takes years: train his new apprentice, Tom Ward (Ben Barnes) to fight a dark magic unlike any other. Man's only hope lies in the seventh son of a seventh son. Kit Harington also stars!
fantasy which opens next February following Master Gregory (Jeff Bridges), a knight who had imprisoned the malevolently powerful witch, Mother Malkin (Julianne Moore), centuries ago. But now she has escaped and is seeking vengeance. Summoning her followers of every incarnation, Mother Malkin is preparing to unleash her terrible wrath on an unsuspecting world. Only one thing stands in her way: Master Gregory. In a deadly reunion, Gregory comes face to face with the evil he always feared would someday return. He has only until the next full moon to do what usually takes years: train his new apprentice, Tom Ward (Ben Barnes) to fight a dark magic unlike any other. Man's only hope lies in the seventh son of a seventh son. Kit Harington also stars!
The Seventh Son looks like it might have some potential, especially with that cast. We need more epic fantasy on the big screen, so let's hope it pans out.
ReplyDeleteI hear you, epic fantasy and historical movies are usually the only ones I watch throughout the year, but sadly they usually flop at the boxoffice :( This year had tones of epic movies, but the next one will have a much weaker offer in that genre
DeleteHe's a talented man that Hugh Jackman. And rather handsom ...
ReplyDeleteWESTWORLD sounds interesting. I like Thandie Newton.
That he is, and also a great actor, and a great man! Hope he wins his battle with the skin cancer!
DeleteAnd hope that quake yesterday wasn't felt in your palace!
No. We're quite safe where we live. Thanks for asking Dezzy :)
Deletequakes usually strike south, yes?
DeleteI'll be here for the Cinderella trailer timorrow. Oh i can't wait. The Greatest Showman on Earth will do good with Hugh. The Seventh Son has a great trailer and hopefully is also a great movie.
ReplyDeleteIt should air in Good Morning America, which means we shall have it here during the day :)
DeleteSaw it on Good Morning America yesterday!
Deletethere you go
DeleteThandie Newton... is gorgeous, everything else is a blur!
ReplyDeleteshe's a princess... for realz...
DeleteEvan Rachel Wood was on a TV show I watched back in the 90s--she was the young daughter. It was SO weird to see that sweet little girl grow up and almost marry Marilyn Manson!
ReplyDeleteanybody marrying Manson is uber creepy :) Evan was always rather strange herself, I've never much liked her, she always plays evil people... I especially hated her in MILDRED PIERCE
DeleteHugh Jackman is a great actor...
ReplyDeleteHope he fights the cancer too.....very sad...
How u doing Dez?
We are freezing cold here....
Huge snowstorm in NY state....6feet of snow!
No kidding....
Cheers!
Linda :o)
I've just seen the snow over at your place on TV, some cars stuck in piles of snow! Whenever I see such images I always pray that we will never have so much of it since nobody cleans the streets here unless they're the central ones..
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ReplyDeleteWESTWORLD has a lot of big names in it. Makes me wonder if it will be any good. Seems like when they overload on star power, the movie usually sucks.
what I myself wonder is whether it will be a futuristic show set in the wild west? I mean wild west themed park?
DeleteJeff Bridges is getting old
ReplyDeleteit ain't easy getting younger while the time goes by :)
DeleteHugh Jackman is clearly gearing up for a post-Wolverine career.
ReplyDeleteI think it is time for him to get an Oscar....
DeleteI'm such a sap - I love musicals!
ReplyDeleteme too, my fave is MOULIN ROUGE!
DeleteOh Yes!!!
Deletebut it had already used songs so it doesn't count as an original musical
DeleteSeventh Son looks good. I noticed it's produced by the makers of Godzilla. Some of those monsters have a Godzilla-like quality.
ReplyDeleteso many epic wonders in that one!
DeleteI tease Hugh Jackman fans, but he really is multi talented.
ReplyDeletehe sure is a gifted man... not that we've checked :)
DeleteSeventh Son! Yes, that one is on the watchlist!
ReplyDeleteGreetings
Peter
it will be the most epic one
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