TONI COLLETTE JOINS
HARVEY KEITEL IN 'MADAME'
Two dinner set movies today, for you, spylings, starting with Parisian comedy MADAME which has just cast our most beloved Australian actress Toni Collette and her Australian colleague Harvey Keitel to play wealthy American couple Anne and Bob living in Paris who decide to give a high class dinner for a dozen distinguished diners.
The last minute arrival of Bob’s son from his first marriage suddenly takes the number of guests to 13. The superstitious Anne asks housemaid Maria (Rossy de Palma) to change her uniform and pretend to be a wealthy Spanish friend.
In this guise, she is seated beside David, an art expert and British aristocrat. He falls for her charms and asks to see her again. Continuing the masquerade, Maria embarks on a romance.
Anne’s world is thrown into a spin as Maria’s new found happiness exposes her own loveless marriage and shakes the foundations of her elitist social beliefs. She sets out to destroy the budding love affair.
'BEATRIZ AT DINNER' GETS
SALMA HAYEK, CHLOE SEVIGNY
Meanwhile, as 'Deadline' reports today, there will be fancy dindins
over the ocean too in BEATRIZ AT DINNER indie drama which has just
added a few famous names to its cast: Salma Hayek, Chloe Sevigny and Jay
Duplass are joining John Lithgow and Connie Britton! The story of the
movie follows a holistic medicine practitioner who finds herself a fish
out of water when her car breaks down at a wealthy client’s house and
she joins a celebratory dinner party.
Meanwhile, as 'Deadline' reports today, there will be fancy dindins
over the ocean too in BEATRIZ AT DINNER indie drama which has just
added a few famous names to its cast: Salma Hayek, Chloe Sevigny and Jay
Duplass are joining John Lithgow and Connie Britton! The story of the
movie follows a holistic medicine practitioner who finds herself a fish
out of water when her car breaks down at a wealthy client’s house and
she joins a celebratory dinner party.
'VAN HELSING' SF SERIES
UNLEASHES FIRST TRAILER
SyFy has finally revealed the first trailer and also first cast photos from their new science fiction series VAN HELSING and I'm not
sure what to think. It seems that SyFy has again gone the very cheap way.
sure what to think. It seems that SyFy has again gone the very cheap way.
VAMPIRE HUNTER
Premièring on September 23rd (with the pilot episode being aired this weekend to wet your appetite or turn you away, depends), the 13 episode series, from Neil LaBute, will focus on Vanessa Helsing (Kelly Overton, whose acting seems beyond painful in the first clips), the latest in a long line of famed monster hunters. The series will feature an intriguing twist on the Dracula story, with Vanessa being resurrected in a future in which vampires
rule the world. Discovering
that she holds a mysterious power over them Vanessa must lead what’s
left of humanity against the vampires in a post-Rising world.
Premièring on September 23rd (with the pilot episode being aired this weekend to wet your appetite or turn you away, depends), the 13 episode series, from Neil LaBute, will focus on Vanessa Helsing (Kelly Overton, whose acting seems beyond painful in the first clips), the latest in a long line of famed monster hunters. The series will feature an intriguing twist on the Dracula story, with Vanessa being resurrected in a future in which vampires
rule the world. Discovering
that she holds a mysterious power over them Vanessa must lead what’s
left of humanity against the vampires in a post-Rising world.
That is one spooky trailer! Of course, anything vampire is spooky.
ReplyDeletenot as spooky as some pop stars, though... not to mention presidential candidates....
DeleteWhat? No fancy dinner party in Van Helsing? Vampires have no class.
ReplyDeleteyes, and no ballroom dancing :(
DeleteI like the sound of Van Helsing!
ReplyDeletedon't miss it this September
DeleteI don't think Salma will ever drown with those flotation devices on her chest huh?
ReplyDeleteshe could save both herself and her husband
DeleteThat trailer is spooky/creepy for Van Helsing. Interesting that there are two dinner party movies coming out.
ReplyDelete~Jess
there could be even more than two
DeleteHmm, I had hoped for better from Van Helsing storyline.
ReplyDeleteI hate it when they say sf and put it like five years in the future
DeleteMadame sounds like a film I would enjoy.
ReplyDeleteJason will like Beatriz only because he thinks Salma is the bomb-diggity!
isn't she not? :)
DeleteOf course she is ;) I'll even agree with Jason on that one!
Deletehow could you not
Delete"I'm nothing special." You bet damn right you're not with that wooden acting. My drama teacher would have kicked her out the club for that terrible performance. Did she come free with the props or something? WTH SYFY? Say what you want about Tara Reid but at least she can emote. Love her in the Sharnado movies (mindless fun, Van Shit-Thing just looks mindless).
ReplyDeleteOh and Anne in that Madame comedy is a bitch. Let Maria find happiness and fix your own damn life lady!
you should see this missy in the two or three clips from the show that SyFy has released, she is painful to watch even in fight scenes
DeleteA Van Helsing series?! OMG! No way! Gosh, this is exciting news.
ReplyDeleteSelma Hayek looks like she never aged.
indeed she has not
DeleteMadame sounds light hearted and fun! Besides, I'd love to see the back drops of Paris. :)
ReplyDeletewe do like Paris
DeleteMADAME sounds like the one to watch.
ReplyDeletecould be quite fun!
DeleteI like the creepy stuff. I'm not familiar with all TV actors, but those two movies seem to have amazing casts.
ReplyDeleteWe do love a lil bit of zombie fright
DeleteI will definitely check out the latest Van Helsing. Thanks for the titillating photo of Salma Hayek.
ReplyDeletebe welcome, Pat :)
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