1ST TRAILER FOR MARVEL'S 'INHUMANS' TV SERIES IS CRAZY GOOD! SUPER FUN 'JUMANJI WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE' TRAILER WITH DWAYNE JOHNSON!

'JUMANJI' SEQUEL TRAILER

WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE!

All kinds of exciting stuff rule in the first trailer for the sequel of JUMANJI titled WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE which lands in cinemas this Christmas starring Dwayne Johnson, Nick Jonas

The adventure starts this Christmas

 and Karen Gillan.

JUMANJI, WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE, directed by Jake Kasdan, sees four high school kids discover an old video game console and get drawn into the game's jungle setting, literally becoming the adult avatars they chose. What they discover is that you don't just play Jumanji - you must survive it. To beat the game and return to the real world, they'll have to go on the most dangerous adventure of their lives, discover what Alan Parrish left 20 years ago, and change the way they think about themselves - or they'll be stuck in the game forever. Their avatars are Dr Smolder Bravestone (Dwayne Johnson), Moose Finbarr (Kevin Hart), Professor Shelly

The movie will also pay tribute to Robin Williams!

Oberon (Jack Black) and Ruby Roundhouse (Karen Gillan)! The movie will pay tribute to Robin Williams who starred in the original hit movie.

'INHUMANS' SF SERIES

FIRST TRAILER IS HERE!

With September 29th scheduled at ABC for the premiere of their new Marvel series INHUMANS (with two episodes the same evening after

Trailer is possibly arriving this Thursday?

they finish playing in IMAX cinemas from September 1st) the first trailer has been released today as promised!

INHUMANS  explores epic adventure of a royal family lead by Black Bolt (Anson Mount) the enigmatic, commanding King of the Inhumans, with a voice so powerful that the slightest whisper can destroy a city. After the Royal Family of Inhumans is splintered by a military coup, they barely escape to Hawaii where they are greeted with surprising interactions with the lush world and humanity around them. Now they must find a way to reunite with each other and return to their home before their way of life is destroyed

The first two episodes are so massive they'll first air in Imax cinemas

forever. Also starring are Iwan Rheon as evil Maximus, Serinda Swan as Medusa, Eme Ikwuakor as Gorgon, Isabelle Cornish as Crystal, Ken Leung as Karnak, Sonya Balmores as Auran and Mike Moh as Triton.

AIDAN TURNER IS 'THE MAN WHO KILLED HITLER AND THEN THE BIGFOOT'! 'GREATEST SHOWMAN ON EARTH' TRAILER WITH HUGH JACKMAN, ZAC EFRON! OLIVIA COOKE TO LEAD ITV'S 'VANITY FAIR' EPIC TV SERIES FROM PRODUCERS OF 'POLDARK' & 'VICTORIA'!

'VANITY FAIR' EPIC TV SERIES

OLIVIA COOKE TO LEAD THE CAST

The series will air sometime in 2018

I've reported earlier on this, but now British ITV is finally moving on with it: they have found the lead for their ultra lavish television series adaptation of Thackeray's Victorian saga VANITY FAIR! The seven episode epic series will also stream on Amazon. Mammoth Screen who is producing Poldark and Victoria will be doing this one as well!

Olivia Cooke (who recently went Victorian in Limehouse Golem) will take the lead role of Becky Sharp in the series that follows her stoic and unscrupulous attempts to make her way in English society in the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars and the rule of King George IV! The shooting starts this September in London and Budapest, so expect other casting updates this summer!

AIDAN TURNER

IS 'THE MAN WHO KILLED HITLER AND THEN THE BIGFOOT'

You remember Aidan from Hobbit films

Speaking of Poldark, its shining superstar is moving onto the big screens again: Aidan Turner will play the lead role together with Sam Elliott in THE MAN WHO KILLED HITLER AND THEN THE BIGFOOT movie from  Robert D. Krzykowski! As 'Deadline' reports today, the film tells the story of American soldier Calvin Barr (Aidan Turner), who leaves his true love behind to infiltrate enemy lines and kill Adolph Hitler in the heart of World War II. Decades later, Barr (now Elliott) is needed again, this time to hunt the legendary Bigfoot — carrier of a deadly plague hidden deep in the Canadian wilderness. The third season of Poldark is currently airing in UK and in  USA from October.

'GREATEST SHOWMAN ON EARTH'

UTTERLY GORGEOUS TRAILER WITH HUGH JACKMAN!

The first trailer has been released for this Christmas' THE GREATEST SHOWMAN ON EARTH in which Hugh Jackman plays P. T. Barnum, the father of Modern Circus, a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation. The

The stunning show starts this Christmas in cinemas

cast also includes Zac Efron and Michelle Williams and Rebecca Ferguson and they all sing original songs in it. The real circus has given its final performance earlier this spring after 146 years of work. 

MARVEL'S 'INHUMANS' SERIES GETS AIR DATE! ASIMOV'S 'FOUNDATION' SF CLASSIC TO BECOME SF TV SERIES! SYFY ORDERS 'TREMORS' SEQUEL SF PILOT WITH KEVIN BACON VS SAND WORMS!

'INHUMANS' SF SERIES

GETS SEPTEMBER AIR DATE

We're starting our sf Tuesday with the news coming from ABC where they've set September 29th for the premiere of their new Marvel series INHUMANS with two episodes the same evening after they finish

Trailer is possibly arriving this Thursday?

playing in IMAX cinemas from September 1st! I hear the trailer might come this week.

INHUMANS  explores epic adventure of a royal family lead by Black Bolt (Anson Mount) the enigmatic, commanding King of the Inhumans, with a voice so powerful that the slightest whisper can destroy a city. After the Royal Family of Inhumans is splintered by a military coup, they barely escape to Hawaii where they are greeted with surprising interactions with the lush world and humanity around them. Now they must find a way to reunite with each other and return to their home before their way of life is destroyed forever.

ASIMOV'S 'FOUNDATION'

TO BECOME DAVID S. GOYER PRODUCED SF TV SERIES

A trilogy that influenced whole sf world

Deadline revealed today that a television series is going to be made out of Isaac Asimov's sf classic FOUNDATION and it will be done by David S. Goyer who gave us Da Vinci's Demons. Skydance Television will produce the complex saga of humans scattered on planets throughout the galaxy, all living under the rule of the Galactic Empire. The protagonist is a psycho-historian who has an ability to read the future and foresees the empire’s imminent collapse. He sets out to save the knowledge of mankind from being wiped out. Most of the famous sf films have been heavily influenced by this trilogy.

'TREMORS' SF CLASSIC

TO RETURN WITH KEVIN BACON!

Another sf classic to return again, this time over at SyFy where they ordered a new pilot, is TREMORS, a cult sf flm from the 90's with Kevin Bacon who is returning to the story about the city infested with massive sand worms. As 'Deadline' reports, the killer Graboid worms

The 1990. movie became a cult sf classic!

that nearly destroyed Perfection, NV, 25 years ago are back, and the town’s only hope for survival is Valentine McKee (Bacon), who beat them once. But to do it again he’ll have to overcome age, alcohol and a delusional hero complex.

THE FIRST TRAILER FOR 'THE NEMANYICHS: BIRTH OF A KINGDOM' EPIC TV SERIES ON SERBIAN MEDIAEVAL DYNASTY IS HERE! 'PRINCE RASTKO OF SERBIA' MEDIAEVAL DRAMA ALSO IN WORKS

'THE NEMANYICHS'

BIRTH OF A KINGDOM EPIC SERIES

It's a very slow beginning of the week, so we are going to stay in the middle ages, but after yesterday's Spanish 16th century, today we're heading further down in history all the way to the end of the 12th century when a kingdom was born at the Balkan Peninsula. Serbian national broadcaster has released a trailer for their biggest series ever THE NEMANYICHS: BIRTH OF A KINGDOM which will air in Serbia towards the end of the year marking the 800 years from the coronation of King Stefan the First Crowned that started the Golden Era of Serbian mediaeval state and the Nemanyich dynasty.

 RISE OF A DYNASTY 
With more than 200 actors, 3000 extras and 300 locations) 12 part epic TV series THE NEMANYICHS: BIRTH OF A KINGDOM , filled with political drama, family wars, romance and turbulences, will follow the rise of The Nemanyichs, one of the most powerful mediaeval royal dynasties in Europe which ruled the vast Serbian Kingdom from the 12th to the 14th century. The first season will follow King Stefan the First Crowned (played by Voyin Chetkovich) and will cover 80 years of time. The series will also cover his marriages with Byzantine princess Eudokia Angelina, the niece of the Byzantine Emperor, and with Anna Dandolo, a granddaughter of the Venetian doge who gave him his heir King Stefan Urosh!  

 DEZZY'S HISTORY LESSON

The royal house which produced 11 Serbian kings, despots and emperors, from 1166 till 1371, reached its zenith during the legendary reign of Dushan,       Tsar of all Serbs and Greeks, who ruled a massive empire occupying today's Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro and Albania. It was the most developed country and culture in Europe of that time. The mediaeval kingdom of Serbia fell apart with the Ottoman invasion and the lack of strong       heirs to the royal crown of Serbia which resulted with Serbia becoming a part of Turkish empire for long, and very bloody, 500 years.

'PRINCE RASTKO OF SERBIA'

ANOTHER PROJECT FROM THE ERA OF THE NEMANYICHS
It is interesting that at the same time the production is under way for another project on this era. This one will be a big screen movie PRINCE RASTKO OF SERBIA, which will depict the life of his youngest brother Rastko, who after establishing Serbian Church, became known as Saint Sava. Young Filip Hajdukovich plays the lead role in the film based on a Milovan Vitezovic book which depicts his teenage years at Serbian court and his later enlightenment and religious life. As the youngest prince of the Serbian dynasty he negotiated with the Pope and won the crown for the Serbian kingdom and his brother Stefan the First Crowned. He was a man of faith and as such he became a monk and worked on spreading Christianity and education throughout his brother's kingdom.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON MAGNIFICENTLY OPULENT 16TH CENTURY TV SAGA 'CARLOS, KING EMPEROR' ON THE RULER OF SPAIN AND HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE

'CARLOS, KING EMPEROR'

LAVISH SPANISH EPIC TV SAGA

I'm really late with this one, as it was aired last year in Spain, but as they say - better late than never, right? I'm sure you can still download this one from around the web or find it on DVD. Carlos, Rey Emperador or CARLOS, KING EMPEROR is an exquisitely opulent historical saga from Spanish television, which is actually a continuation of Isabel, another of their luxurious period set series which followed the rule of Isabella of Castile, and of the movie La Corona Partida, which you both remember from our reports from years ago. CARLOS, KING EMPEROR follows the reign of Carlos I or Charles I in 17 stunning one hour episodes. With the end of Magnificent Century series next week when Kosem Sultana ends forever after six years of running, those of you who are addicted to costume drama, might find some solace in this one! The sets and the costumes in this one are beyond stunning!

THE KING AND THE EMPEROR
The series tells the story of Charles I (Alvaro Cervantes) or Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, one of the most powerful men Europe has met, the ruler of an empire as great in size as in diversity. As the life of Charles of Hapsburg is told since his arrival to Spain, it can be seen how the heir to the crowns of Germany, Burgundy, the Netherlands, the Free County, Artois, Nevers and Rethel, of the territories of the Crown of Aragon and its related Italian territories, and of the territories of the Catholic Monarchs in Castile, North Africa and the Americas, matures as a statesman and gets stronger in face of menaces around him and good and bad advice from his counsellors. Bianca Suarez plays Isabella of Portugal, Laia Marull is Joanna of Castile, Eric Balabas is Ferdinand of Hapsburg dynasty, and dozens and dozens of other actors play a whole mass of European royals.

DEZZY'S HISTORY LESSON

Charles, who lived in the 16th century, was the ruler both of the Spanish and the Holy Roman Empire! As back in those times they ruled through inheritance (he himself was the heir of Hapsburg, the Valois Burgundy and Trastamara dynasties) and marriage, he had so many territories under his rule in different parts of the world that  his domains spanned nearly four million square kilometres and were the first to be described as "the empire on which the sun never sets". Earlier this year I reported on the German epic series on Maximilian I, who was actually his grandfather! Charles was also remembered as the man who sanctioned the conquest by Castillian conquistadors of the Aztec and Inca empires.

SF SATURDAY: BRAD PITT TO GO 'AD ASTRA' SEARCHING FOR TOMMY LEE JONES IN DEEP SPACE! GEORGE R.R. MARTIN'S 'NIGHTFLYERS' SF SERIES ORDERED AT SYFY

BRAD PITT TO TRAVEL 

 THE SPACE SEARCHING FOR TOMMY LEE JONES IN 'AD ASTRA'

The film starts shooting September

Science fiction Saturday, today: as 'Deadline' is reporting, director James Gray is looking to cast Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones in AD ASTRA sf deep space epic movie in which Brad Pitt would play the slightly autistic space engineer Roy McBride. Twenty years after his father left on a one-way mission to Neptune in order to find signs of extra terrestrial intelligence, McBride travels through the solar system to find him and understand why his mission failed. Tommy Lee Jones would play the missing father. Brad Pitt was previously supposed to star in James Gray's movie The Lost City of Z but he ended up just producing it.

'NIGHTFLYERS' SF SERIES

GETS PILOT ORDER AT SYFY

There's also another sf project that I announced earlier but it has now been greenlit by SyFy! They have officially ordered a pilot for sf series NIGHTFLYERS based on a super natural novella by George R.R.

The writer won't be working on the series

 Martin! SyFy has also picked up Krypton to series. The writer won't be working on the project as he is tied to HBO.

NIGHTFLYERS has the story set in the future on the eve of Earth’s destruction. In the hope of making contact with alien life, eight maverick scientists and a powerful telepath embark on an expedition to the edge of our solar system aboard the Nightflyer, a ship with a small, tight-knit crew and a reclusive captain. But when terrifying and violent events begin to take place, they start to question one another — and surviving the journey proves harder than anyone thought.

ASIAN FRIDAY: BREATHTAKING POSTERS AND TRAILER FOR FANTASY EPIC ROMANCE ADVENTURE 'ONCE UPON A TIME'

'ONCE UPON A TIME'

NEW 3D EPIC FANTASY ROMANCE

It is a very slow end of the week, people, so I just have one thing to show to you today, one but stunning! A series of mind blowing posters and a trailer for Chinese epic fantasy ONCE UPON A TIME (San Sheng San Shi Shi Li Tao Hua) which should open in motherland China cinemas next month and has also been sold for a US release in August both in theatres and on digital and home video market.

A THOUSAND YEAR LOVE
This 3D fantasy romance adventure, co-directed by Anthony Molinara and House Of Flying Daggers’ cinematographer Zhao Xiaoding, has the story which spans a thousand years of tangled lives. Bai Qian, a goddess and monarch from the Heavenly Realms, is sent to the mortal world to undergo a trial to become a High Goddess. There, she meets Ye Hua, with whom she falls in love and marries. However, when an old enemy reappears in her life, everything she holds dear becomes threatened.

10 MILES OF PEACH BLOSSOMS

This breathtaking movie is actually a big screen adaptation of Tang Qi’s popular novel Three Lives Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms, which was also turned into very popular Chinese television fantasy series Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms earlier this year. The movie version itself stars popular Chinese big screen actors and actresses Yang Yang, Yifei Liu, Yikuan Yan, Jin Luo, and Chun Li. 

 THE SPY'S 6 MILLION VISITS 
In other news, your Hollywood Spy had its 6 MILLIONTH VISITOR last night! Thank you for your daily visits, your comments, especially thanks to all the members of our Twitter and Facebook Angel Flying Squads which spread the word of our posts each day tirelessly! Thanks to celebrities who retweet us too! In recent months we've been experiencing a sort of a Renaissance with often quadrupled daily visits and last month we had a single day with mindblowing 300.000 visits that left us dizzy! Thanks for loving us, we're loving you back! 

MARTIN COMPSTON CAST AS 'MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS' 3RD HUSBAND NEXT TO SAOIRSE RONAN, JACK LAWDEN, MARGOT ROBBIE! EDGAR RAMIREZ, PENELOPE CRUZ, RICKY MARTIN IN 'ASSASSINATION OF VERSACE' PICS

'MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS'

MARTIN COMPSTON IS BOTHWELL

Just a week ago she got one husband and now she's got another one: after Jack Lawden was cast as Lord Darnley in MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, in which Saoirse Ronan plays the title role, British actor Martin Compston has been cast as her third husband Earl of Bothwell! She was first married to king of France, then moved over to Scotland after his death where she had to fight for her throne marrying nobles in the process and also trying to take away the throne of England from Queen Elizabeth who in the end had her royal head chopped off, although Mary did win in the way that her son James I became Elizabeth's heir and managed to unite England and Scotland under his royal rule. Margot Robbie plays the English monarch.

'ASSASSINATION OF VERSACE'

FIRST PHOTOS REVEALED!

Meanwhile, FX and Entertainment Weekly have uncovered the first glamorous photos of the lead stars of the second season of AMERICAN

The series will air early next year

 CRIME STORY titled THE ASSASSI- NATION OF GIANNI  VERSACE. Exploring the shocking murder of famous fashion designer Gianni Versace by serial killer Andrew Cunanan, its ten episodes will be based on Maureen Orth's book Vulgar Favors: Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace, and the Largest Failed Manhunt in U.S. History! With Edgar Ramirez starring as Gianni Versace, Penelope Cruz will put a platinum wig to portray his sister Donatella, with pop star Ricky

Penelope Cruz as Donatella Versace

 Martin as his long time lover Antonio D'Amico and Max Greenfield (as their brother Santo Versace) and Darren Criss also in the cast.

 THE FINAL MURDER VICTIM
To air sometime early next year, with parts of it shot in Versace's former villa, THE ASSASSINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE will chronicle the 1997 murder of Versace which shook the world. Serial killer Andrew Cunanan shot Versace dead on the steps of his luxurious

Edgar Ramirez is shockingly similar to Versace

Miami Beach home after committing several other murders. He committed suicide eight days later. A violent psychopath, Cunanan’s lifestyle was promiscuous and drug fueled, and he became notorious for

Ricky Martin as Antonio D'Amico, Versace's lover

picking up rich men in bars by making claims about a lifestyle he never lived. He claimed Versace as his fifth and final murder victim.

ELEANOR TOMLINSON JOINS DOMINIC WEST IN 'COLETTE' PERIOD SET BIOPIC ON THE AUTHOR OF FAMOUS 'GIGI'

ELEANOR TOMLINSON JOINS

'COLETTE' FILM ON 'GIGI' AUTHOR

While you are watching her for the third time as Poldark's trusted Demelza in BBC's popular period set drama on Sunday evenings, fear not, lovely Eleanor Tomlinson, who before that starred in White Queen as well, will now appear on the big screens too!

As 'Deadline' reports today, she has joined the cast of COLETTE, a period set movie which follows Gabrielle Sidonie Colette (sadly, played by Keira Knightley), whose husband, the charismatic ego maniacal writer Willy (Dominic West), permits Colette to write her novels using his name. The phenomenal success of her Claudine novel series makes Willy a famous writer and the lack of recognition for her work begins to gnaw on Colette and their marriage starts to fall apart.

DID YOU KNOW?

Once nominated for a Nobel prize for literature, French novelist Colette (1873-1954) was also known as actress and a journalist. Her most famous work is probably Gigi which was made into the famous movie classic. Although many considered her a limited if talented novelist, she was a member of Belgian Royal Academy, and was ordained with French Legion of Honour.

BLAKE LIVELY TO STAR IN 'THE HUSBAND'S SECRET' AND 'A SIMPLE FAVOUR'! 'THE ONLY LIVING BOY IN NEW YORK' TRAILER WITH CALLUM TURNER, KATE BECKINSALE, PIERCE BROSNAN

 BLAKE LIVELY TO STAR

IN 'THE HUSBAND'S SECRET' AND 'A SIMPLE FAVOUR' MYSTERIES

It seems it is all about hidden secrets in Blake Lively's new movie projects. She's already signed up to star in THE HUSBAND'S SECRET, the big screen adaptation of a Liane Moriarty novel, about a busy wife, mother and chronic perfectionist who inadvertently discovers that her husband has been keeping a secret from her for years... A secret that leads her to realize that her life is built on a foundation of lies and murder! Now, as 'Variety' reports, she is also to star in A SIMPLE FAVOUR, based on a Darcey Bell novel, as a perfect mother with a dazzling career working for a famous fashion designer in Manhattan, who asks her friend Stephanie (to be played by Anna Kendrick), a widow with a son in kindergarten, lonely in their Connecticut suburb, and a mom blogger, to pick her son up from school, but Stephanie then suddenly discovers that her friend has disappeared without a trace, leaving her son and husband with no warning.

 'THE ONLY LIVING BOY IN NEW YORK' MOVIE TRAILER

WITH CALLUM TURNER, PIERCE BROSNAN AND KATE BECKINSALE

The first trailer has been released for a rather star studded drama THE ONLY LIVING BOY IN NEW YORK in which Callum Turner stars next to Jeff Bridges, Kate Beckinsale, Pierce Brosnan, Debi

Callum will play Eddie Redmayne's brother in new Fantastic Beasts

Mazar and Cynthia Nixon. The Marc Webb directed movie is out in cinemas around you this August.

DADDY'S GOT A NEW MISTRESS
Always lovely War and Peace star Callum Turner stars as Thomas, a recent college graduate adrift in the big city. When an eccentric new neighbour (Jeff Bridges) moves into his building, the kid seeks his

The title of the movie is taken from a Paul Simon song

guidance on girl problems and more as his life is upended by the mistress (Kate Beckinsale) of his father (Pierce Brosnan).

NEW POSTERS FOR 'THE MOUNTAIN BETWEEN US' WITH KATE WINSLET, IDRIS ELBA AND 'HAMPSTEAD' WITH DIANE KEATON, BRENDAN GLEESON, JAMES NORTON

 'THE MOUNTAIN BETWEEN US'

GETS FIRST POSTER WITH KATE WINSLET AND IDRIS ELBA

The movie hits cinemas this October

Just two new posters for you today, beginning with the first one for THE MOUNTAIN BETWEEN US which crashes into cinemas this November starring Kate Winslet, Idris Elba and Dermot Mulroney in the adaptation of a Charles Martin book.

The two of them play two strangers who, stranded after a tragic plane crash,  must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across hundreds of miles of wilderness, pushing one another to endure and discovering strength they never knew possible.

 'HAMPSTEAD' POSTER

WITH DIANE KEATON, BRENDAN GLEESON AND JAMES NORTON

 There's also the first poster for new comedy drama which is out this summer in European cinemas (currently playing in UK) HAMPSTEAD starring Diane Keaton and Brendan Gleeson with

Hampstead will be playing in European cinemas this summer

James Norton as her son. She plays an American widow who finds unexpected love with a man living wild on Hampstead Heath when they take on the developers who want to destroy his home.