SPOTLIGHT ON NEW 17TH CENTURY EPIC TV SERIES 'JAMESTOWN' WITH STUART MARTIN, MATT STOKOE, MAX BEESLEY, NIAMH WALSH, SOPHIE RUNDLE

  'JAMESTOWN' EPIC SERIES

NEW PHOTOS AND TRAILER

Entering the fray with BBC and ITV for a prime time period set series hit, British Sky One has just announced May 5th as the airing time for their new epic saga JAMESTOWN! A new, longer, trailer and images have also been released for the eight part series with the three lead female cast members and male settlers played by our dear Medici star Stuart Martin, Max Beesley, Dean Lennox Kelly,  and our beloved Village star Matt Stokoe. The cast also includes Jason Flemyng, Shaun Dooley, Steven Waddington and Burn Gorman.

NEW SAGA FROM THE MAKERS OF 'DOWNTON ABBEY'
1619, Virginia: on what feels like the edge of the world sits the first British colony of JAMESTOWN. For 12 years, it has been populated only by men, but the settlement is shaken up when the first women, including Alice (Sophie Rundle), Verity (Niamh Walsh) and Jocelyn (Naomi Battrick), land in this breathtaking wilderness. Twisting story lines follow the disruptive new arrivals as they make an immediate impact and are thrust into a new world of love, desire, power and survival. While love triangles, bitter rivalries and fierce competition cause conflict for the residents, ultimately they are bound together by their resolute will to survive and thrive in their new lives.

GORGEOUS 'THE BOOK OF HENRY' MOVIE POSTER WITH LEE PACE, NAOMI WATTS! RUTH WARE'S SEA MYSTERY 'THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10' GETS MOVIE ADAPTATION

'THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10'

TO GET MOVIE ADAPTATION!

Not much to report, today, people! CBS Films will adapt Ruth Ware's mystery novel THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 which follows a journalist given an irresistible travel magazine assignment, a week on a boutique ultra luxury cruise ship with only a handful of unimaginably wealthy travellers. A dream assignment turns nightmarish when she watches a passenger get thrown overboard after a violent act and all of the passengers seem to be accounted for the following morning as the ship sails on like nothing happened.

'THE BOOK OF HENRY' POSTER

 LEE PACE AND NAOMI WATTS

A really gorgeous new poster has been released for Colin Trevorrow's drama THE BOOK OF HENRY which should open up in cinemas this June starring Lee Pace and Naomi Watts in the lead roles! I will post the trailer here as soon as one is released!

THE BOOK OF HENRY is the story of a single mother raising two boys, one of whom is a genius. After she discovers a book written by her son containing a plan to right a terrible wrong happening next door, she attempts to execute the plan, and in the process discovers new strength as a parent.

GORGEOUS 'FERDINAND' THE PEACEFUL BULL ANIMATED TRAILER IS HERE! FIRST PHOTOS OF ALICIA VIKANDER AS LARA CROFT IN 'TOMB RAIDER' REBOOT

'TOMB RAIDER' REBOOT

 FIRST ALICIA VIKANDER PHOTOS

Warner Bros. has revealed today the first photos of Alicia Vikander as new Lara Croft in the reboot of TOMB RAIDER out March 2018!

Seven years after the disappearance of her father (Dominic West), 21-year-old Lara has refused to take the reins of his global business empire, instead working as a bike courier in London while taking college classes. Eventually she becomes inspired to investigate her father's disappearance and travels to his last known location: a tomb on an island somewhere off the coast of Japan. Suddenly, the stakes couldn't be higher for Lara, who, against the odds and armed with only her sharp mind, blind faith and inherently stubborn spirit, must learn to push herself beyond her limits as she journeys into the unknown. If she survives this perilous adventure, it could be the making of her, earning her the name tomb raider!

'FERDINAND' TRAILER

THE PEACE LOVING BULL!

It is here, people, the first utterly gorgeous and lovely trailer for the latest big screen adaptation of beloved FERDINAND which will bring us the peaceful bull to cinemas as soon as this December. Coming from the ICE AGE and RIO team, with the voices from Donald Sutherland and Adam DeVine, it will follow the little bull which prefers sitting quietly under a tree just smelling the flowers instead of butting heads with other bulls. As Ferdinand grows big and strong, his temperament remains mellow, but one day five men come to choose the "biggest, fastest, roughest bull" for the bullfights in Madrid and Ferdinand is mistakenly chosen. The movie will feature hits from Adam Lambert, Shakira, Rihanna.

NEW 'PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES' TRAILER AND POSTERS WITH JOHNNY DEPP, GEOFFREY RUSH, JAVIER BARDEM, ORLANDO BLOOM, BRENTON THWAITES

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 5

  NEW TRAILER AND POSTERS!

The only thing I have for you today is the new TV trailer and posters that Disney has released for PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES! The fifth movie in the adventure saga is to set sail May 26th this year with Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush and Orlando Bloom returning to their roles, and the addition of Brenton Thwaites and Javier Bardem!

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES will follow Captain Jack Sparrow once again in a tough spot when he encounters deadly ghost pirates led by his old nemesis, the terrifying Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem). The ghosts and Salazar have escaped from the Devil's Triangle, determined to kill every pirate at sea, including Jack. Sparrow's only hope of survival lies in seeking out the legendary Trident of Poseidon, a powerful artefact that will give its possessor total control over the seas. Geoffrey Rush returns as one legged pirate Barbossa, Orlando Bloom as Will Turner after being absent from previous instalments, Kevin McNally is Joshamee Gibbs and Stephen Graham is Scrum, David Wenham is Scarfield. Young actress Kaya Scodelario takes the female lead as an astronomer. Paul McCartney will have a cameo in the movie as well.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON THE SECOND SEASON OF LAVISH EPIC RUSSIAN TV SERIES 'CATHERINE: THE RISE' ON EMPRESS CATHERINE THE GREAT

'CATHERINE: THE RISE' 

2ND SEASON OF LAVISH SERIES ON THE RUSSIAN EMPRESS

I still remember how a few years ago, back in 2014, many of you were enchanted when I presented you with the lavish Russian period set television series Catherine the Great and now, three years later, Russian National Broadcaster has finally started airing the long awaited second season titled CATHERINE THE RISE depicting, - after she got married to Grand Duke Peter whom she threw down in a coup in order to take over the crown herself after the death of his grandmother Empress Elisabeth - her rise and the beginnings of her legendary and very long imperial rule! Marina Aleksandrova is again playing the Matushka of all Russia after gaining ten kilos for the role in order to look older portraying the monarch in her mature years.

SHE ROSE TO BECOME GREAT!
It is the 18th century, the era of luxury and beauty, adventurers and dreamers, great exploits and progress ... Catherine reigns for the sixth year already. Once the frail German princess Fike then turned into the Grand Duchess Ekaterina Alekseevna. She is not yet forty years old, and she has not lost the hope of marrying and giving birth to a new heir to the throne - prince Paul is too similar to his late father, and this causes the Empress to worry.

She is surrounded by intrigues and palace secrets, but she obstinately conducts a huge ship of the Russian state by its course. Catherine ascended to the throne to become Great, and nothing will stop her on this path. The only woman on the throne of Russia, whose glory survived her century. No one has had so many tales and myths written about her, there have been so many rumours - but she was always a faithful Russian if not by blood, then by her own will! The second season CATHERINE: THE RISE opens the most exciting page of the life of a loving woman and a great empress.
Catherine leads a brutal struggle for power, declares wars, suppresses insurrections ... On her shoulders - a heavy burden of power. In her hands - the fate of Russia. But a woman always remains a woman. Love - passionate, painful, dangerous - lives in her heart and pushes her to take risky steps. What price will the empress pay for her happiness, how will she deal with the fate of the Russian throne? The future of a great country depends on her decisions.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON 'JUSTICE LEAGUE' WITH MAJESTIC NEW TRAILER & POSTERS FEATURING WONDER WOMAN, THE FLASH, AQUAMAN, CYBORG AND BATMAN

'JUSTICE LEAGUE' TRAILER

IS ALL KINDS OF MAJESTIC!

It is here, people, it is here and it is all kinds of magnificent and majestic (if you ignore the fact that Ben Affleck is in it, naturally) - Warner Bros. and DC have released a stunning new trailer for this year's biggest superhero flick JUSTICE LEAGUE and you can also enjoy lovely character posters for the movie that will assemble DC's biggest superheroes in cinemas this November directed by Zack Snyder.

 HEROES UNITE!
Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to find and recruit a team of meta humans to stand against this newly awakened threat. But despite the formation of this unprecedented league of heroes, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and The Flash, it may already be too late to save the planet from an assault of catastrophic proportions. Henry Cavill will reprise his role of Superman, with Amy Adams, Jeremy Irons, Amber Heard, Diane Lane, J.K. Simmons, Willem Dafoe and Ciaran Hinds also in the supporting cast.

THE PRINCESS OF THEMYSCIRA

Wonder Woman is played by Gal Gadot who portrays the young princess Diana of the Amazonian kingdom of Themyscira. She is the first to join Batman's new team and help him recruit the others. Her own movie is arriving this summer, June 2nd!

THE KING OF ATLANTIS
Aquaman is played by Jason Momoa. The king of the mythical kingdom of Atlantis will also have his wife queen Mera, played by Amber Heard, appear in this movie before they get their own one at Christmas 2018 which will also star Patrick Wilson and Nicole Kidman as his mother Atlanna!

THE KING OF SPEED

The Flash is played by young Ezra Miller as the youngest member of the Justice League team, the shy kid with the power of superspeed! He has already appeared shortly in Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice and will get  his own film in a few years.

THE SONIC KING
Cyborg, probably the least known and the least popular of this team of metahumans is played by Ray Fisher. He plays Victor Stone, a quarterback who becomes Cyborg, a cybernetic hero with a sonic canon for a weapon! He will also appear in The Flash movie in 2018 before he gets his own movie in 2020.

COMEDY FRIDAY: EVA LONGORIA TO LEAD 'TYPE-A' SITCOM! 'MARLON' WAYANS SITCOM CAST PHOTOS AND TRAILER! LEAH REMINI REUNITES WITH KEVIN JAMES IN 'KEVIN CAN WAIT' SEASON FINALE

EVA LONGORIA TO LEAD

NEW 'TYPE-A' SITCOM AT FOX

Comedy Friday, people, to brighten up your weekend! After her Televnovela sitcom was cancelled it seems Eva Longoria is returning to the world of television comedies since she will lead new, single camera, comedy at Fox titled TYPE-A! It will be an office comedy about a group of consultants hand picked to do the dirty work most professionals can’t handle: lay-offs, downsizing, generally delivering horrible news. To everyone else, they’re the enemy – to one another, they’re family.

LEAH REMINI REUNITES WITH KEVIN JAMES

Meanwhile, another comedy TV star is about to reunite with her old small screen husband! Leah Remini will join Kevin James in his new sitcom KEVIN CAN WAIT at CBS, which has just been renewed for a second season together with brilliant new comedy Superior Donuts, in the final episode of the first season as a guest star. In the two part season ending (May 1st and May 8th) Kevin agrees to come out of retirement briefly to reprise his undercover assignment in an ongoing police investigation where he and fellow cop Vanessa Cellucci (Remini) will, once again, pose as husband and wife.

NEW 'MARLON' SITCOM

STARRING MARLON WAYANS!

A sitcom that has already been ordered for a whole season and will start airing at NBC this summer August 16th is hilarious family multi camera sitcom MARLON in which beloved comedian Marlon Wayans plays a father to whom family always comes first - even if he's the biggest kid of all! Today you can check out first cast photos for the new comedy and a trailer as well! 

RAISING TWO KIDS AND MARLON
Loosely inspired by the real life of star Marlon Wayans this update to the classic family comedy centres on a loving (but immature) father committed to co-parenting his two kids with his very together ex-wife. While his misguided fatherly advice, unstoppable larger than life personality and unpredictable Internet super stardom might get in the way sometimes, for MARLON, family really always does come first - even if he's the biggest kid of all. The cast includes Marlon Wayans, Essence Atkins (as the ex wife, a type-A interior designer by trade and something of a control freak who did one reckless and spontaneous thing in her life: fell in love with Marlon), Notlim Taylor, Amir O'Neil, Bresha Webb (as his biggest enemy, his ex wife's best friend) and Diallo Riddle.

AMAZON'S 'OASIS' NEW SF SERIES PILOT WITH RICHARD MADDEN REVIEW AND TRAILER! GREG KINNEAR TO LEAD BEAUTIFUL ROMANTIC DRAMA 'PIANO LESSONS'

GREG KINNEAR 

TO TAKE 'PIANO LESSONS'

Now, here's a plot that sounds very nice: as 'Deadline' reports today Greg Kinnear will take the lead role of a husband whose marriage is on the rocks so he goes to great lengths without his wife’s knowledge to demonstrate how much he loves her in PIANO LESSONS.

Based on a true story, it will see him playing a lawyer who after 20 years of marriage realizes his relationship with his wife is failing. The wife, passionate about music, is ready for a new life after their 19 year old daughter leaves the nest. To win her back and prove his love to her, he decides to take piano lessons to learn her favourite song, Robert Schumann’s “Traumerei,” a delicate song to master. He goes to a free spirited, sexy female piano teacher to take lessons behind his wife’s back and slowly progresses from all thumbs to pianist.

AMAZON'S 'OASIS' SF SERIES

 RICHARD MADDEN SHINES AS THE CHARISMATIC LEAD

I also wanted to remind you that Amazon has started airing a magnificent pilot for possible new sf series OASIS with our most beloved Scot Richard Madden. It is in a group of five new pilots and the votes from viewers will decide which one will be ordered for a whole series. You can check out the pilots trailer below with the OASIS part starting around the first minute. I've watched the pilot and I can tell you that it is intriguing, atmospheric and proves Madden's magnetic charisma with which he carries the role of the show's lead with great ease. With a quick pace and tense atmosphere, the pilot leaves you wanting for more after the opening episode ends up with a scene of mysterious and stunning revelation. 

A TEST OF FAITH   
Based on The Book of Strange New Things by Michael Faber, it is set some 20 years into the future and sees brilliantly talented Richard Madden playing a chaplain who is sent into space to help scientists and workers there to establish a colony on a faraway planet, though what he discovers there tests his faith and life itself. This is  the fourth series the outstanding young star is leading, and the cast also includes Mark Addy and Hayley Joel Osment!

MATTHEW GOODE, MICHIEL HUISMAN, GLEN POWELL, JESSICA BROWN FINDLAY JOIN 'GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY'! 'BLACK BUTTERFLY' TRAILER WITH JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS, ANTONIO BANDERAS

'THE GUERNSEY' ADAPTATION

CASTS MATTHEW GOODE, GLEN POWELL, MICHIEL HUISMAN

Now if this isn't a superhunky series of cast additions to a movie I don't know what is: as 'Deadline' reports, three of our favourite Hollywood hunks have joined the long postponed big screen adaptation of THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY and those are Glen Powell, whom you've recently seen in Hidden Figures, our beloved Dutchman Michiel Huisman, whom you adored in The Age of Adeline, alongside Matthew Goode, and two British ladies Penelope Wilton and Jessica Brown Findlay, who now join Lily James and Tom Courtenay in the adaptation of Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows international best selling epistolary novel which has been sold in millions of copies in almost 40 countries around the world!

A WW2 STORY  
The lead role originally meant for Kate Winslet, back when Kenneth Branagh was supposed to direct, now goes to Lily James portraying a journalist Juliet Ashton who forms a bond with a secret book society formed during German occupation of the Channel Islands during WWII. The free spirited Ashton forms a life changing bond with the eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write a book about the club. Mike Newell (Prince of Persia, Love in the time of Cholera, Four Weddings and a Funeral) is directing!

'BLACK BUTTERFLY' TRAILER

JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS VS ANTONIO BANDERAS  

Only a week ago I showed you a poster for the remake of French thriller Papillon Noir by Herve Korian now titled BLACK BUTTERFLY and now we have the first, very thrilling, trailer as well. Antonio Banderas plays Paul, a down on his luck screenwriter who picks up a drifter (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and offers him a place to stay. However, when the deranged stranger takes Paul hostage and forces him to write, their unhinged relationship brings buried secrets to light. Piper Perabo and Abel Ferrara also star in the movie which is out sometime later this year.

GORGEOUS NEW TRAILERS FOR 'MY COUSIN RACHEL' VICTORIAN THRILLER WITH SAM CLAFLIN, RACHEL WEISZ, 'THE WARRIORS GATE' EPIC FANTASY ADVENTURE FROM LUC BESSON

'MY COUSIN RACHEL' TRAILER

SAM CLAFLIN & RACHEL WEISZ

Our most anticipated movie this year by far, the big screen adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier dark Victorian novel MY COUSIN RACHEL, has a brand new trailer and it is all kinds of gorgeous!

Starring Sam Claflin, Rachel Weisz, Holliday Grainger, Iain Glen, this dark romance, tells the story of a young Englishman who plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian in order to inherit his estate. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms.

'THE WARRIORS GATE'

EPIC ADVEN- TURE MOVIE

Meanwhile, in our most beloved genre of epic fantasy and action adventure a rather lovely and fun trailer has been released, alongside some really pretty posters, for THE WARRIORS GATE a movie which already played in Chinese cinemas last winter in November, but will hit certain parts of Europe this month. Written by French moviemaker Luc Besson it was directed by Matthias Hoene and has the cast led by young Uriah Shelton in the main role alongside Dave Bautista, Sienna Guillory and gorgeous Asian superstar Ni Ni!

SAVE THE WORLD FROM EVIL
This $30 million epic fantasy extravaganza movie sees Uriah Shelton portraying a teenager, a game wizard and a computer genius, who gets transported into the very game he loves to play and ends up all the way over in ancient China in a magical way where he gets a mission to accomplish by saving the princess from danger. He transforms himself into a Kung Fu warrior to battle the evil villains by converting his video game skills.