Control Your Fear, because its Halloween tomorrow!
The only thing I have to share with you this Monday is a rather strange looking science fiction movie with Iwan Rheon (and under strange I don't mean just his looks in the film) titled ALIEN INVASION: SUM 1 out this December in USA and Germany!
An aggressive race of aliens took over Planet Earth and humanity's at
its end, living in giant bunkers below ground. Young Military rookie
S.U.M.1 (Iwan Rheon) is sent to the surface to save a group of
unprotected survivors. He seems to be almost the only cast member in this
movie. His Inhumans series isn't scoring a huge success over at ABC
currently in its first season.
A whole bunch of pilots for possible new multi camera sitcoms has been ordered this week! ABC will develop MAN OF THE HOUSE from Baby Daddy's Frank Pines which, inspired by his real life, follows a teenage star quarterback who ends up as the only male in a house full of females when
A new Fox sitcom will have a dad and a son owning a bar
his recently divorced mother moves in with her recently divorced sister and their daughters. ABC is also working on an untitled multicam sitcom written by and starring Taylor Tomlinson about a modern young woman who attempts to stay close to her very religious parents while trying to figure out how she wants to live her own life which might involve touching someone else’s body, no matter what they told her at Bible Camp!
Fox has ordered scripts for untitled multicam sitcom from Two Broke
Girls'Morgan Murphy set in the world’s most colourful bar in Mexico.
When a man moves back to his hometown and opens his dream business, he
is dismayed when his rudderless adult son follows him and he realizes
his parenting days aren’t over. Fox is also developing a live multicam
sitcom THE GREAT UNKNOWN from Gail Berman (who is also doing Man of the
House). It will follow a brother and a sister, whose parents force them
to grow up and find their own place to live, as well as real careers and
relationships.
After Paul Rudd became Ant Man, another of our beloved geeks is becoming a superhero! The news of the days is that Zachary Levi has been
Zachary Levi already played Fandral in Thor
cast by DC (whose Justice League is looking to score a massive $120 million and plus first weekend later this year according to first trackings) as the lead in their SHAZAM over at Warner Bros! He will now play Earth's mightiest mortal hero after already playing Thor's Fandral for rival Marvel.
SHAZAM follows a boy who can turn into an adult super hero whenever
he says SHAZAM which is made from the first letters of the names of
famous epic heroes and gods Solomon, Hercules, Achilles, Zeus, Atlas
and Mercury as he embodies all of their divine powers. After he utters
the magic word he gets super human strength, speed and other powers.
David F. Sandberg is directing the movie which starts shooting next
February to be
He was 1st Captain Marvel but became Shazam due to DC's rivalry with Marvel
released April 2019. Dwayne Johnson was originally
supposed to play his nemesis Black Adam, but he will get a stand alone
movie for that character.
KARL URBAN
TO TOPLINE 'SNOWBLIND'
Karl Urban becomes a ranger in the new film
Meanwhile, 'Deadline' reports that Karl Urban will take over the lead role in psychological thriller SNOWBLIND in which he will play a U.S. Ranger haunted by painful memories of a family tragedy who becomes stranded with his platoon in a remote chalet in the woods. As they fight for survival and against their own inner demons, they find a box filled with $5 million and a dark, disturbing secret. Ashley Green will play the female lead in the movie directed by Marcus Alqueres who previously worked on the visual effects in massive hits such as 300, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and The Adventures of Tintin!
ALEX KINGSTON, LINDSAY DUNCAN JOIN FANTASY TV SERIES
Sky One keeps on casting for the TV series adaptation of Deborah Harkness' A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES novel which sees Teresa Palmer playing Diana Bishop, historian and witch, who comes upon a secret world of vampires and witches. She is offered help in solving the mystery by the enigmatic Matthew Clairmont (Matthew Goode), but he's a vampire and witches should never trust vampires. The two of them join forces to decode a text that could bring peace between the species! Alex Kingston has joined the cast as her mother, a very powerful witch, while Lindsay Duncan will play Ysabeau de Clermont, the vampire mother of Matthew Clairmont who hates all witches.
'THE KINGKILLER CHRONICLE'
BECOMES A SHOWTIME SHOW
The saga has been translated into 35 languages
Speaking of fantasy series, Showtime is turning popular fantasy saga
THE KINGKILLER CHRONICLE by Patrick Rothfuss into television drama.
Lionsgate is at the same time also developing a major movie and video
games based on it. Set in the world of the popular fantasy series THE
KINGKILLER CHRONICLE will follow a pair of wandering performers on their
adventures through the unique and startling world of Temerant,
immersing audiences in a universe of unexpected heroes, mystical places,
and terrifying dark forces! It will be an origin story, set a
generation before The Name of the Wind, the first book in the trilogy.
NEW TRAILER WITH DAN STEVENS AND CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER
The magic arrives November 22nd!
And a marvellous trailer for you today: the second one for period set drama THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS in which Dan Stevens plays a young Dickens, Christopher Plummer the grumpy Ebenezer Scrooge, Miriam Margolyes the housekeeper Mrs. Fisk and Jonathan Pryce Dickens’ father.
Out at the end of November
it tells of the magical journey that led
to the creation of Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim and other classic
characters from "A Christmas Carol." The film shows how Charles Dickens
mixed real life inspirations with his vivid imagination to
conjure up
Bharat Nalluri is directing the festive cinematic delight
unforgettable characters and a timeless tale, forever
changing the holiday season into the celebration we know today.
Casting news today, beginning with the latest cast addition to the ultra stellar cast of BERLIN, I LOVE YOU! Young top model and actor Nolan Gerald Funk is joining the massive ensemble cast that includes Helen Mirren, Jim Sturgess, Mickey Rourke, Diego Luna, Orlando Bloom, Jenna Dewan Tatum, Sophie Turner, Jack Huston, Patrick Dempsey and Renee Zellweger. Just like all the previous movies from this movie series, this one will also feature a bunch of romantic short stories set in the capital of Germany. Each story has a different director among them some actors such as Til Schweigger and Diana Agron. The films already visited Paris, Rio and NY!
'TREMORS' SF SERIES
HUNTER PARRISH, SHILOH FERNANDEZ JOIN KEVIN BACON
Hunter Parrish is ready for some ground worms
Over on the telly, SyFy keeps on casting actors for their small screen adaptation of sf classic TREMORS which originally starred Kevin Bacon. The killer Graboid worms that nearly destroyed the town of Perfection 25 years ago are back, and the town’s only hope for survival is Valentine McKee (Kevin Bacon), who beat them once. But to do it again he’ll have to overcome age, alcohol and a delusional hero complex. P.J. Byrne will be a survivor of the original Graboid attack obsessed with reinventing Perfection! Hunter Parrish will play a magnetic leader of the Millenials who’ve moved to Perfection to soak in its unique spiritual energy. The cast will also include Ebonée Noel, Brandon Jay McLaren, Haley Tju, Emily Tremaine as Valentine's daughter, Megan Ketch as a doctor and Shiloh Fernandez!
Two period set drama trailers today, the first one for JOURNEY'S END starring Sam Claflin, Paul Bettany, Tom Sturridge, Asa Butterfield and Toby Jones, set in March 1918 as C Company, led by a war weary
Journey's End is based on the play of the same name
Captain Stanhope (Sam Claflin), arrives in northern France to take its turn in the front line trenches. Told that a German offensive is imminent, Stanhope drowns his fears in whisky while the officers (Paul Bettany, Stephen Graham and Tom Sturridge) and their cook (Toby Jones) try distracting
The movie directed by Saul Dibb is out next February
themselves in their dugout with talk of food and life before the war.
They are joined by Raleigh (Asa Butterfield), a young new officer fresh out of training, excited about his first real posting and the chance to serve under Stanhope.
'WINCHESTER' TRAILER
HELEN MIRREN AGAINST GHOSTS
Ghosts are moving in next February!
The second trailer for today comes for Helen Mirren's period set drama WINCHESTER which is out next February with her portraying the eccentric firearm heiress Sarah Winchester who believes she is haunted by the souls of people killed by the Winchester repeating rifle. So she starts building a monstrous160 room Gothic mansion and she is building a prison, an asylum for hundreds of vengeful ghosts, and the most terrifying among them have a score to settle with the family. The construction of the 24.000 square foot house apparently took almost 40 years as a monstrous monument to a disturbed woman’s madness. The house also
This crazy story is actually based on a real one
has her niece (Sarah Snook) living in it, and also the brilliant Dr. Eric Price (Jason Clarke) whom she has summoned to the house!
A trailer and poster to launch the new working week come from PHANTOM THREAD, Daniel Day Lewis' final movie (at least he says so) which
Day Lewis announced his retirement earlier this year
should walk into cinemas next February in UK, December in USA, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
PHANTOM THREAD is set in 1950s postwar London and follows Woodcock
(Daniel Day Lewis), who with his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) is at
the centre of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses,
socialites, débutantes and dames. Women come and go through Woodcock’s
life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and
companionship, until he comes across Alma (Vicky Krieps), who soon
becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Once controlled and
planned, he finds his carefully tailored life disrupted by love.
The series was produced by Russian, Ukrane, Portugal
This one has already aired in motherland Russian earlier this year, and is currently airing over in Ukraine, but I'm guessing it has been airing around the world as well since I remember it was a huge hit among the buyers at last year's Mipcom. MATA HARI is a 12 episode period set drama with an international cast that includes Vahina Giocante, Oisin Stack, Rutger Hauer, Gerard Depardieu, John Corbett, Rade Serbedzija, Christopher Lambert, Pasha Sol, Alexey Guskov and Svetlana Hodchenkova!
Vahina Giocante plays the lead role of Mata Hari
LOVE AND SURVIVAL
Margaret McLeod is penniless and out on the streets after her husband
leaves her and gains custody of her only daughter. With no other means
of making a living, she decides to become an exotic dancer. Under the
stage
The series features Mata Hari's steamy choreographies!
name of MATA HARI, Margaret soon wins fame and notoriety, becoming
extremely popular with the European elite. She becomes a regular guest
of luxury villas and magnificent mansions, her every performance
creating a real
The name Matahari means 'eye of the day' in Indonesian and Malay
sensation. But the year is 1913 and the world is on the
verge of a war that will change the entire course of history. MATA HARI
cannot even imagine what fateful role she is to play in these coming
events.
'ROAD TO CALVARY'
SERIES CELEBRATING 100 YEARS FROM RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
The series is an epic adaptation of Alexey Tolstoy novel
Another of the Russian television series has, meanwhile, been a hit at this year's Mipcom, which was held last year in Cannes. ROAD TO CALVARY is an epic TV series adaptation of Alexey Tolstoy's novel to be broadcast on the 100 year anniversary of the Russian Revolution of 1917.
St. Petersburg, 1914. The capital city lives as if in anxious
expectation of some fatal day. Russia strives for changes. The central
characters in the story are the Bulavin sisters. The young Dasha (Anna Chipovskaya) is stern and
The series is set in the six years that have changed the course of Russian history
idealistic, while the married Katya (Yulia Snigir)
is careless and unhappy in her marriage. Both girls fall in love with a
Decadent poet Alexey Bessonov, the
Road to Calvary follows the lives of two different sisters
master of minds, who is hopelessly
disappointed in life.
The love drama turns into a tragedy as World War I begins. The whole
country is bestirred, a flow of fateful events carries the sisters away,
separates them, destroys their families
Road to Calvary features battle scenes depicting tragedy of war
and puts them on the different
sides of the barricades. The characters’ paths often cross and diverge
again. But out there, at the end of this continuous walk of pain, the
light of hope and of a new and never-before-seen world is shining.
We are launching our Russian weekend today with the ultra dramatic and deeply atmospheric teaser trailer for new Russian World War II movie SOBIBOR which stars Christopher Lambert, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Phillippe Reinhardt, Wolfgang Cerny and Maximilian Dirr.
SOBIBOR is based on the history of the Sobibór extermination camp
uprising during WWII and Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky. When he was
a POW in Sobibor, he managed to do the impossible - to organize a
revolt and mass escape of the prisoners. Part of the escapees
Rutger Hauer starred in the 1987 movie on Sobibor
were later
caught and died - the rest led by Pechersky managed to escape and
joined the partisans.
DEZZY'S HISTORY LESSON
At least 250,000 Russians and Jews were murdered in gas chambers in SOBIBOR by the Nazis. This number makes it the fourth worst extermination camp from World War II. Out of 600 prisoners who tried to escape in the revolt, only about 50 succeeded. Shortly after the revolt, the Germans closed the camp, bulldozed the earth, and planted it over with pine trees to conceal its location.
Prisoners were killed using gas from the exhaust pipes of a tank engine
Today, the site is occupied by the SOBIBOR Museum, which displays a pyramid of ashes and crushed bones of the victims, collected from the cremation pits.
She was added to this project a few years ago but it seems it is now finally moving with the production, as soon as they find a director: Kate Winslet will star in World War II biopic on war photojournalist Lee Miller.
As 'Deadline' reports the film will tell the story of the brave
photojournalist who made sure the suffering victims inside the Nazi
concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald were shown to the world,
prompting an outcry across the globe. As a journalist, she covered the
London Blitz and the liberation of Paris, had a torrid love affair with
photographer Man Ray before venturing out on her own to establish herself as a
photographer and correspondent to be reckoned with. She covered the
first use of napalm and its effects on children and battles throughout
Europe. The movie will be based on her biography The Lives of Lee
Miller, written by her son, Antony Penrose! Kate Winslet got an Oscar
for her role in Reader, another movie about Nazi regime.
Damian Hardung will star in the eight episode series
News from the epic TV series front today as well, starting with the ones coming from Italy, where their national broadcaster RAI will, after scoring major success with Medici saga, venture into adapting Umberto Eco's novel THE NAME OF THE ROSE into TV series. John Turturro and Rupert Everett have already been cast as leads!
The story which was already turned into a Jean Jacques Annaud movie
with Sean Connery, follows William of Baskerville, a 14th century
Franciscan monk, as he investigates a series of unusual deaths at a
remote monastery. John Turturro will take the role of William of
Baskerville, Rupert Everett will be Inquisitor Gui and Damian Hardung
will be William's apprentice, Benedictine novice Adso.
LIV TYLER JOINS
'HARLOTS' EPIC SEASON 2
Hulu is preparing the production of the second season of their historical drama HARLOTS and Liv Tyler, whom we will watch this Saturday
Liv Tyler will play Lady Isabella in the second season
on BBC next to Kit Harington in Gunpowderepic drama, has been added to the cast. Set in the 18th century Georgian London, HARLOTS follows the Wells family, led by matriarch Margaret (Samantha Morton). When her daughter Charlotte (Jessica Brown Findlay) places herself in the home of arch rival bawd Lydia Quigley (Lesley Manville), their toxic and deep set rivalry is taken to a dangerous new level. Liv Tyler will be Lady Isabella Fitzwilliam. Long-held secrets keep her in the thrall of Lydia Quigley, and she is an increasingly desperate victim of Lydia’s blackmail. Trapped in a loveless marriage, Lady Fitz will find an unexpected friend and ally in courtesan Charlotte Wells.
Just as I promised you a few days ago when I posted you first photos of Daniel Sharman from MEDICI: MASTERS OF FLORENCE: THE MAGNIFICENT series, today we have the first cast photo from the second season of the ultra popular Rai and Netflix epic saga showing not just
The series is currently being sold in Cannes at Mipcom
Sharman as the new protagonist Lorenzo de Medici, but also Bradley James as his brother Gulianno and Sarah Parish as their mother. The second season will follow their rise in the new era of political freedom and creative
Bradley James as Guliano Medici at the set in Italy
expression which puts them on a collision course with the head of Florence’s other powerful banking family, Jacopo Pazzi, played by Sean Bean! The new season will be shooting in Italy till December.
JAMES D'ARCY'S 'MADE IN ITALY'
BILL NIGHY AND JACK LOWDEN
Jack is shooting Mary Queen of Scots right now
LEAD THE CAST Just a few days ago I informed you that always lovely James D'Arcy
will be leading the cast of new War War II series Das Boot, and now he
is also moving behind the camera! He will both write and direct comedy
movie MADE IN ITALY and he already has a brilliant duo to lead the cast:
comedy legend Bill Nighy and our dearest Jack Lowden have signed to
star. To be shot next year in Tuscany and London, it will follow a
bohemian London artist Robert (Nighy), who returns to Italy with his
estranged son Jack (Lowden) to make a quick sale of the house they
inherited from his late wife.
I know I did not like it at all, but I also know my lady readers loved it! You all know MAMMA MIA is getting a sequel titled HERE WE GO AGAIN, which is already shooting, and it has been revealed that Cher will be joining the cast in an unspecified role. The sequel to the film in which Amanda Seyfried's character invited three men (Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard), not knowing which of them is her father, to her Greek island wedding without her mother (Meryl Streep) knowing, will return to the past to explain how her mother met them all in the first place. Lily James will play young Meryl, Jeremy Irvine will be young Pierce. The new movie will again feature Abba songs. Julie Walters, Dominic Cooper, Andy Garcia and Christine Baranski also star.
'THE ALIENIST' TV SERIES
NEW TRAILER WITH LUKE EVANS
TNT has, meanwhile, released a new trailer for their period set detective series THE ALIENIST which will start airing January 22nd! It is set in 1896, when a series of haunting, gruesome murders of boy prostitutes grips New
The novel adaptation starts airing next January on TNT
York City. Newly appointed police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt (Brian Geraghty) calls upon criminal psychologist, aka alienist, Dr. Laszlo Kreizler
Luke Evans is newspaper illustrator John Moore
(Daniel Brühl) and newspaper illustrator John Moore (Luke Evans) to conduct the investigation in secret. They are joined by Sara Howard (Dakota
Dakota Fanning is secretary Sara Howard
Fanning), a headstrong secretary determined to become the city’s first female police detective. Using the emerging disciplines of psychology and early
Daniel Bruhl is the Alienist from the title of the series
forensic investigation techniques, this band of social outsiders set out to find and apprehend one of Gotham’s first serial killers.
Marvel has released the second trailer for February 2018 adventure BLACK PANTHER along with a new poster! Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Martin Freeman and Andy Serkis lead the cast. Check out the new trailer below, it looks better than the ridiculously kitschy first one we've seen earlier this year.
BLACK PANTHER follows T'Challa who, after the death of his father,
the King of Wakanda, returns home to the isolated, technologically
advanced African nation to succeed to the throne and take his rightful
place as king. But when a powerful old enemy reappears, T'Challa's
mettle as king, and as Black Panther, is tested when he is
Walking Dead's Danai Gurira plays the king's bodyguard Okoye
drawn into a
formidable conflict that puts the fate of Wakanda and the entire world
at risk. Faced with treachery and danger, the young king must rally his
allies and release the full power of Black Panther to defeat his foes
and secure the safety of his people and their way of life.
Here's a mini series that has already aired over in Great Britain at BBC but has also just been bought by Showtime to be aired in the United States. American cable channel will air the six episodes of ILL BEHAVIOUR, starring our dear Da Vinci's Demons' star Tom Riley, for the audience across the pond starting Monday November 13th!
Brilliantly written drama ILL BEHAVIOUR revolves around Joel (Chris
Geere) who uses any methods, conventional or otherwise, to save his
friend Charlie (Tom Riley) when Charlie is diagnosed with Hodgkin's
lymphoma and decides to spurn chemotherapy (scared by the
BBC has taken down all trailers of the series from the web
memory of his
mother's experience with it) in favour of a more natural, alternative
treatment (smoothies and acupuncture). The recently divorced Joel moves
in with Charlie, who sets him up on a date with Nadia (Lizzy
Tom Riley and Lizzy Caplan are married in real life
Caplan), a
doctor who also happens to be a raging alcoholic. Their connection is
complicated by the newest revelation about Charlie’s condition, sending
the trio and mutual friend Tess (Jessica Regan) down a reckless path.
Oui, oui, we're having a French movie Saturday today! Opening in French cinemas this December is epic romance LA PROMESSE DE L'AUBE with Pierre Niney playing famous novelist Romain Gary and Charlotte Gainsbourg also starring.
From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years
as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War
II, this tragicomedy tells the romantic story of Romain Gary, one of
the most famous French novelists and sole writer to have won the
Goncourt Prize for French literature two times.
'THE GUARDIANS' TRAILER
WOMEN IN THE GREAT WAR
The movie aired last weekend at London Film Festival
Also opening on the very same day as the above mentioned saga on Romain Gary, December 6th over in France, is movingly epic First World War drama THE GUARDIANS (Les Gardiennes) which follows the touching story of women that were left behind to work a family farm during the Great War while their men were dying for their country. While their men were guarding the country, the women were left to be the guardians of their homes and farms.
While we're waiting for some new photos from the second season of MEDICI: MASTERS OF FLORENCE: THE MAGNI- FICENT
Matteo is also a male super model
(which should be released next week at MIPCOM, and we might also get something new from Britannia, The Miniaturist series as well) a new face has joined the cast: Matteo Martari will play Francesco Pazzi and will be the villain of the series alongside Sean Bean as his power thirsty father. As you know the second season, which is currently shooting in Italy, will follow Lorenzo (Daniel Sharman) and Gulianno Medici (Bradley James), the grandsons of Cosimo who was played by Richard Madden in the first season which you can still catch on Netflix.
WW2 'DAS BOOT' SERIES
JAMES D'ARCY, TOM WLASCHIHA, VINCENT KARTHEISER CAST
James D'Arcy will be a part of the cast
Speaking of European epic series, a rather stellar cast has been rounded up for DAS BOOT from Bavaria Fernsehproduktion, Sky Deutschland and Sonar Entertainment! International cast will include Game of Thrones' Tom Wlaschiha, Mad Men's Vincent Kartheiser, James D’Arcy and Thierry Frémont alongside Lizzy Caplan! Inspired by the Oscar nominated film of the same name from Wolfgang Petersen, the eight part series has the story set on a submarine in autumn 1942, as U-boat warfare becomes increasingly brutal. While a very young crew put out to sea on a dangerous combat patrol, the Résistance rises in the U-boat port of La Rochelle. Sky will air the series in most of Europe.
