CATE BLANCHETT TO STAR IN 'HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS'! TOM HOLLAND TO LEAD 'BENEATH A SCARLET SKY' WW2 BOOK ADAPTATION! DAPHNE DU MAURIER'S 'THE BIRDS' TO BECOME BBC DRAMA SET IN CORNWALL!

CATE BLANCHETT TO STAR IN

Cate is next seen in Thor:Ragnarok

HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS

She's been known for her outstanding dramatic roles so far, but it seems Cate Blanchett is ready to fulfil her kids' wishes and venture more into the field of commercial movies. After taking just about everybody's breath away with her Hela in Thor: Ragnarok, at least in what we've seen in the trailers, she will also star in THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS which will be a movie adaptation of 1973 fantasy horror novel by John Bellair directed by Eli Roth! The story follows a recently orphaned 10 year old boy who discovers a world of hidden passageways, magic and danger in his uncle’s old house. As you already know, we shall Blanchett comedy side as well in Lucille Ball biopic Lucy and Desi

BBC TO TURN 'THE BIRDS'

INTO A NEW TV DRAMA!
This has not been officially confirmed yet, but, as 'Digital Spy' reports today, BBC is planning on turning famous THE BIRDS novel by

Heyday Television is producing!

 Daphne du Maurier into a TV movie. Unlike the famous Hitchcock's classic movie, this one will be true to the novel with the action being set in British Cornwall! The new television adaptation will be set in picturesque rural Cornwall, where a farmhand and his community is being terrorised by flocks of birds and seagulls shortly after the end of the Second World War. This 1952. novel by Maurier isn't the only one to get a recent adaptation, since earlier this year My Cousin Rachel scored love of moviegoers in cinemas around world with Rachel Weisz and Sam Claflin! Speaking of British series, second season of Victoria has been given August 27 airing date on ITV and January 14th on PBS in US.

TOM HOLLAND TO LEAD

 'BENEATH A SCARLET SKY' WORLD WAR 2 BOOK ADAPTATION

Speaking of adaptations, current bestselling hit by Mark Sullivan WW2 novel BENEATH A SCARLET SKY will be made into a movie with Tom Holland who will be Pino Lella a normal Italian teenager

The book is current US N1 bestseller

living an idyllic life in Italy, until bombs begin falling on Milan and word of Nazi atrocities begin to circulate. While waiting to join the fight, Lello joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, guiding hundreds of Jews to safety in a year. On his 18th birthday, Lello is forced to enlist with the German Army, and is immediately assigned as a personal driver to Adolf Hitler’s left hand, General Hans Leyers. This fly on the wall in the upper echelons of the Third Reich positions him to be recruited by the Allies as a spy. Known to Allied Intelligence only as “Observer,” Lella endures the horrors of WWII and the Nazi occupation by secretly feeding intel to the Allies that was strategically important enough to turn the tides of the war. When Lella’s courage falters, he is bolstered by his love for a young woman named Anna, and for the life he dreams they will one day share.